Events
Book tickets for clubs, talks, and collaborations.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?
We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any discipline, and at any career stage (including graduate students), to apply to our 2025 summer school: Print Matters. Supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Print Matters Summer School will offer participants a unique opportunity to advance their research, develop new skills in letterpress printing, and engage with questions of matter, materials or things and their affordances in theory and practice.
Lino Club
Join Izzy & Nic for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy & Nic for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy & Nic for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Lino Club
Join Izzy & Nic for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Pop-up Book Fair!
We’re delighted to be part of a pop-up Book Fair taking part in the Huntingdon Room, King’s Manor, on Saturday 5th July. This exciting event brings together major publishers with small presses, little magazines, and letterpress printers. Come along to browse books, prints and resources from Adam Matthew Digital, Bloomsbury Academic, The English Association, Fly on the Wall Poetry, Little Apple Bookshop, Liverpool University Press, Manchester University Press, NATE (The National Association for the Teaching of English), Red Plate Press, Routledge, Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print and Wasafiri.
This event forms part of the English: Shared Futures public programme. Entrance is free, and there is no need to book.
Print, Place and Community
Join us at The Guildhall, in the beautiful Riverside Lounge, for a lively panel event discussing the links between place, print and community. The conversation brings together David Armes, of Red Plate Press, Kathy Davies of the British Library, Nick Hand of the Department of Small Works, Helen Smith, of the University of York and Thin Ice Press, and Helen Williams, of Northumbria University. The group will talk about these ideas in theory and practice, with lots of time for audience discussion, questions and reflection.
Entrance is free and there is no need to book. This event forms part of the public programme for the English: Shared Futures conference.
Lino Club - cancelled
Join Izzy & Nic for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Past, Present and Future: Printing in York (sold out)
Join Helen Smith, Director of Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, to learn about Europe's earliest wallpaper, how a book can be a magpie, entrepreneurial widows, printing on ice, type made of Viking wood and much more. This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Harland Miller Gallery Late
Join us for drop-in creative workshops and thought-provoking activities celebrating the incredible ‘Harland Miller: XXX’ exhibition at York Art Gallery.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Cobweb’
This year marks Michael’s eighth York Festival of Ideas appearance – and his first as Patron. If you are a teacher or home educator, we very much hope you’ll join us with your students as we celebrate the renowned author’s amazing power as a writer, communicator and advocate of the arts. This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.
Play, Place and Print (sold out)
Join us for an interactive role-playing game session set in Renaissance York, featuring women printers operating in the city. This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.
York Festival of Ideas 2025 & Thin Ice Press
Visit Thin Ice Press during the Festival of Ideas 2025 to explore the fascinating history and vibrant future of traditional printing and print a souvenir.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
One Year in North Yorkshire (One Day in May)
An afternoon of map-based art-activism highlighting the ongoing need to support victims of sexual violence. Inspired by the iconic work of Suzanne Lacy which brought about great changes in the 1970s, visitors are invited to place a stamp on a map of North Yorkshire to acknowledge the 1,436 reported incidents over the past year.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.