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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Paris Exhibition
Paris exhibition – we need members to offer a piece of work to exhibit in Paris at the Calligraphie group annual exhibition. This reciprocates after they exhibited in our exhibition last October. Work has to be NOT bigger than A3 mounted not framed. It would be nice if some people managed to do some pieces that will be in our autumn exhibition on the “London’s Waterways, yesterday and today” but older pieces will be fine. If we get too many…
Find out more »SLLA tent at Medieval Midsummer Festival, Streatham
At The Rookery (top of Streatham Common), Covington Way, Streatham, SW16 3BX lots of fun for families various crafts, jugglers minstrels traders etc We need members to be in our gazebo: write names for people; sell items and run a have a go table. 3rd year we will have done this. Offers to help to p.comparini748@gmail.com
Find out more »Rob Dunn: Walking Tour of Clerkenwell
Rob Dunn, a professional London guide will lead a walk around Clerkenwell, talking about the history of places of interest. Meet 7 pm. Places are limited to 20, if you would like to join this walk, please would you email Ann Caro on caro.business@tiscali.co.uk Members free Non-members £3. More information will be available in June.
Find out more »Studying The Cnut Hand with Viva Lloyd
We shall be studying the script of an 11th century scribe Eadui Basan. This takes basic Foundational (English Carolingian) and makes it sophisticated and elegant. After mastering the script students can experiment with changes in weight Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members We welcome everyone to join our workshops, but offer priority booking for our members until 8 weeks prior to the event. If you are a non-member, you can register your interest for the workshop and your place…
Find out more »Quick, Fun Backgrounds and Decorative Techniques with Nicola Dunn
A summer holiday workshop, with no stress where we will cover a range of background techniques and a few paper folding/embossing projects too - time permitting.We will start with paste painting and paper marbling using shaving foam as a base, then a bit of printing using fun foam sheets. In the afternoon we will do the 'cleaner' techniques of paper embossing and make Lotus folded cards and flip lop cards using some of the decorated papers from the morning session.…
Find out more »Japanese Inspired Brush Lettering with Keiko Shimoda
Details to follow. Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members We welcome everyone to join our workshops, but offer priority booking for our members until 8 weeks prior to the event. If you are a non-member, you can register your interest for the workshop and your place will be confirmed once priority booking closes. If you’d like to join SLLA and receive priority benefits, please visit our Become a Member webpage. How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events…
Find out more »The St. John’s Bible
Unfortunately, Sally-Mae Joseph, our speaker, is unable to be with us but we shall go ahead with a DVD about Donald Jackson and his work in producing the St. John Bible. We shall have printed copies of some of the books that make up the Bible as well as some books on the production of the Bible to look at as well. Please bring along any items you have about the Bible. Cost: Free – members £3 – non-members
Find out more »Monoline Lettering and Design with Mark L’Argent
Taking compressed roman inscriptional capitals as our first reference point, and also looking at many later historical variations and derivations, this workshop explores bringing these and other associated forms up to date, refining (or redesigning) them to either compliment formal calligraphic compositions or to use on their own. Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members We welcome everyone to join our workshops, but offer priority booking for our members until 8 weeks prior to the event. If you are…
Find out more »Toni Watts: “Art and Illumination – medieval techniques and modern applications”
Toni is an artist and illuminator, currently working with Lincoln Cathedral. Cost Free – members £3 – non-members
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