South London Letter Association regularly hosts events for its members. From social events, exhibitions, and other outings, to workshops and courses our events are a great opportunity to get together and share creative ideas about lettering. Most events are free for members, so join SLLA today.
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Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress
Alan Kitching is one of the world's leading practitioners of letterpress typographical design and printmaking, with a career spanning over 50 years. In 1989 he set up The Typography Workshop, which he now runs from his studio in Kennington. In 2017 his book "A Life in Letterpress", was published by Laurence King. In it he describes his career including his work in design and teaching letterpress. Members free Non-members £3.
Find out more »Designing Multi-Text Panels with Josie Brown
This workshop will investigate the principles and pitfalls, working processes and design elements involved with larger multi-text or complex pieces of work. A series of developmental small group and individual activities will take you through the design process – offering a strategy for successful planning and execution. It’s not necessary to have an idea of subject matter for your own broadsheet for this workshop, but if you do – bring along any material, texts or illustrations you might be intending…
Find out more »AGM followed by a social evening
AGM followed by a social evening Tuesday, February 26th Members free Non-members £3.
Find out more »Abstract Brush with Rachel Yallop
Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator, who will let you know if spaces are available. If so, Nicola will provide you with online banking or cheque details, and, once your payment is received, she will book your place on the workshop.
Find out more »Monochrome Magic & Tantalising Tones with Jan Pickett
An exciting journey, exploring monochromatic colour schemes, starting with a singlecolour, extending it to produce a tantalizing range of tints, shades & tones using penmade and drawn letterforms. Armed with a wealth of ideas, there will be choices of smallprojects, using written or decorated drawn words for the final sparkle. A fun filled tonal treat to keep spice in our calligraphic lives! Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator,…
Find out more »Blackletter with Marion McKenzie
Instantly recognisable, but little practised - we will give life to this important hand. Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator, who will let you know if spaces are available. If so, Nicola will provide you with online banking or cheque details, and, once your payment is received, she will book your place on the workshop.
Find out more »Mount Cutting with Joy Daniels
In this workshop, Joy discusses the processes of choosing the right colour mount card for a piece of work, how to gauge the right amount of space to leave around the artwork and then cut the aperture out. You will learn the basics and then move onto cutting double mounts and multi aperture mounts - great for grouping a collection of small images together. Even the small pieces of 'waste' card are put to good use, making tiny frames to…
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