OOMK / RRP Workshop Tour

We’ve got lots of free workshops around London coming up in the next few months! Read below and sign up if you’d like to attend any.

Shoreditch Print Workshop

As part of PEER in the Library, One of My Kind (OOMK) are initiating a public programme of artist-led workshops that invite Shoreditch Library users to come together and create THE SHOREDITCH LIBRARY PRINT WORKSHOP (SLPW), a collaborative environment dedicated to experimental print production for all that takes inspiration from Augusta Savage's community workshops at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library, Harlem and Sister Corita Kent's approach to art education in the 60s. Join the SLPW and learn how to use your local library to make handmade publications, posters, badges, postcards, calendars and more. By the end of the workshop participants will be exhibiting authors and artists.

THE SHOREDITCH LIBRARY PRINT WORKSHOP proposes the library as a site of art production and its users as artists in residence. Using affordable everyday materials and office supplies to create challenging and creative art, the library is reiterated as a community space free for all in which art instruction is made accessible and can act as a catalyst for creative expression, protest, respite and joy.

OOMK will work with participants to transform the project space downstairs at Shoreditch Library into a functional workshop and open studio in which work will grow over the weeks, drawing on the library and local area for inspiration.

At the end of the three-month project, there will be a closing event to which all participants of the SLPW will be invited to come together to celebrate their work and launch a limited series Risograph zine documenting the workshops.

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Saturday 15 February 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE WRAPPING PAPER. Learn how to use the library to build a word, type and image bank across a variety of themes. Work together to experiment with techniques for distorting and layering images using the light box and photocopier to create a bank of abstract textures and shapes. Create a motif and learn how to turn it into patterned wrapping paper that you can take away with you at the end of the workshop.

Saturday 22 February 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A BADGE. Pack a punch in a small space or create great decorative button badges. Using templates, found imagery and Letraset lettering create themed badges that are an ode to THE LIBRARY. Learn how to use a badge machine and take away your own set of badges at the end of the day.

Saturday 7 March 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A ZINE. Have you ever wanted to make a zine? Using the SLPW image bank and a template of your choice learn how to make a zine using just a single sheet of paper and a single cut. Next, learn how to make a collaged 8-page zine focusing on found text and imagery. Find out how to duplicate your zine ready to distribute it near and far.

Saturday 21 March 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A POSTER. Pick a wild prompt in a lucky dip and make a poster for an event close to the library (Disco at the Post Office? Or maybe a wedding at the nail salon?) Learn how to make a strong wheat paste glue from everyday kitchen ingredients and paste your poster for all to see.

Saturday 4 April 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A POSTCARD. The Photocopier, The Librarian...The Automatic Doors. Inspired by the iconography of card decks, use collage material to turn an aspect of the library into a symbolic image. Learn how to duplicate sets of postcards on the photocopier and to cut and create stacks of evenly shaped cards with a wraparound.

Saturday 18 April 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A CALENDAR. Learn how to produce a theme and create imagery for each month of the year. Learn how to duplicate your calendars on the photocopier and choose from different binding options to create your own calendars to take away with you and share with family and friends.

Saturday 2 May 2020, 12:00–14:00
MAKE A BAG. Learn how to make your own stencils and use colourful inks to build up patterns, scenes and slogans to make wearable art in the form of a cotton tote bag.

Saturday 16 May 2020, 12:00–14:00
JOIN THE PRODUCTION LINE. Come and learn how to put together a handmade publication. Take part in the production line and commandeer a workstation to get 50 publications made in 2 hours.

To book a place for any of these workshops please email local@peeruk.org
ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

Thursday 28 May 2020, 18:00–20:00FINAL EVENTThe final closing event will mark the end of the 3-month project and invite all members or “alumni” of the SLPW to come together in the space to celebrate their work and the sharing of a limited series Risograph zine documenting the workshops. Work from across the 3 months will be displayed for all to see.

Level Press: OOMK x Bethlem Gallery

We’ll be co-hosting We're running 3 Risograph workshops at Maudsley Hospital/Ortus as part of Bethlem Gallery’s Mental Health and Justice project. Sign up via the eventbrite links.

Workshop: Communal Care Zine- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-communal-care-zine-tickets-94148250953

Workshop: Getting Help- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-getting-help-tickets-94148678231

Workshop: Scent of Healing- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-scent-of-healing-tickets-94149548835

Breathing Room: OOMK x Freeword Centre

How can we spread knowledge without recreating systems of power?

Explore DIY collaborative publishing practice OOMK’s dynamic, collectively curated reading room housing a collection of zines and small press publications that challenge, document and offer quietly radical solutions to established power structures.

Breathing Room is a place to read, rest (exhale), meet and plot, share, recover and transform (together) – with zines as a source of communal knowledge, a self-sustaining model of publishing and an alternative form of collaboration.

 Curated by Heiba Lamara. Zine partners and co-curators include daikon* zine, Leila Kassir, Jacob V Joyce and more. https://freeword.org/breathing-room/