Event
Workshop | "Learning Your Ps and Qs": Printing with Movable Type
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 16:00to18:00
McLennan Library Building
3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Join the McGillBook Arts Printing Lab in their inaugural letterpress workshop!
Curious about letterpress printing? In this hands-on workshop, participants will have a chance to explore the rich holdings of the William Colgate Printing Collection; “play” with moveable type; and print a keepsake on McGill’s 1821 iron Columbian hand-press using period techniques.
Given space constraints, limited to 20 participants. Please RSVP to reserve a spot,webform to come.
With special thanks to Ron Harvie (Ph.D. McGill Arts History, 1999) and Doug Bagguley