Events

Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November

What
: Open Studios and Under-The-Bed sale at Hot Bed Press

Where:Hot Bed Press
1st Floor, The Casket Works, Cow Lane Salford M5 4NB

Hours
Opening Night: Friday 25 November 6-9pm 
Exhibition launch, workshop tours. Wine, refreshments and general all round good atmosphere.
Open: Saturday 26 November & Sunday 27 November 11am – 4pm
Under-The-Bed Sale. Our annual clear-out of members’ artists’ proofs, and end of editions. Bargain prints from £3 to £30.

More Info:

We will also be showing over 230 prints by artists from other  print studios across the UK and Ireland who have taken part in our 20:20 Print Exchange which this year involves 19 print studios.

 

Printmaking demonstrations also throughout the weekend, plus 15 artists’ studios on the 1st & 2nd floor open to talk to the artists, see new work and buy direct.

 

This event is part of the Casket Works Open Weekend. You can also visit Cow Lane Studios and Suite Studio, so with 42 studios open across the building there will be lots to see and do.

 

For more details visit www.hotbedpress.org


Saturday 26
 & Sunday 27 November

What
Open Studios at Suite Studios

Where: Suite Studios
Ground Floor, The Casket Works, Cow Lane Salford M5 4NB

Hours
Opening Night: Friday 25 November 6-9pm
Open: Saturday 26 November & Sunday 27 November 11am – 4pm


Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November

What
Open Studios at Cow Lane Studios

Where: Cow Lane Studios
Cow Lane, Salford M5 4NB

Hours
Opening Night: Friday 25 November 6-9pm
Open: Saturday 26 November & Sunday 27 November 11am – 4pm
           


Saturday 26 November - Friday 2 December (closed 27th)

What
Open Studios at Slaughterhouse Studios Ltd
Slaughterhouse Studios Ltd is a commercial photographic studio hire company, open and available for all professional and avid amateur. 

Where54-56 Oldfield Road, Salford, M5 4LZ (near the junction of Liverpool St & Oldfield Rd, look for the green door with 54 on it, walk in and ring the top bell)

Hours
Opening Night: Friday 25 November 6-9pm
Open: Saturday 26 November 10am - 4pm. Closed Sun 27th. Monday 28th - Friday 2nd December 10am until 2pm
           
Special Event: Thursday 1st December 11am - 5pm
I am collaborating with Hasselblad, Eizo and Broncolor to showcase their new equipment. This is a free, no obligation play day, just bring a card to shoot onto and the promise that you will not publish or profit from the images shot on the new H4D-60 Hasselblad camera. It will be a great opportunity to network and speak to the staff of these companies, see the studio set up and discuss any future benefits my studio may offer.



Wednesday 30th November

What
Beep Industries presents An Evening with Aaron Draplin

of Draplin Design Company


Where
: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 5HW

Hours7pm

More InfoA special evening event featuring Aaron Draplin – founder of Portland’s Draplin Design Company, co-creator of Field Notes, world renowned graphic designer and occasional co-conspirator with Beep Industries.

Speak After The Beep is a new series of informal evening talks based in Manchester featuring friends and heroes of Beep Industries, the makers of MoviePeg – the super simple stand for Smartphone and POPA – the big red button for your iPhone camera.

Draplin will be bringing his hilarious ‘Tall Tales from a Large Man’ presentation to the UK for the first time this winter: hear his story, see his work and shoot the shit with one of the coolest guys that Beep has ever worked with.

Limited edition Draplin screenprints will also be available at the show.

Tickets are £12.50 each + booking fee and available from www.speakafterthebeep.eventbrite.com

For more information please contact Brendan Dawes

bren@beephq.com / 0161 236 8085 / @beephq



Thursday 1st December

What
Christmas at the Mill

Where
: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 5HW

Hours: 4pm-9pm

More Info: Designer-maker and artists' fair. Come and drink mulled wine, listen to members of the BBC Philharmonic play, and start your Christmas shopping in style.


Thursday 1st December

What
Stratum

Where
: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 5HW

Hours4pm-9pm

More InfoSusie MacMurray’s installation Stratum will be open on the evening of Christmas at the Mill.

As part of Islington Mill’s 10-year anniversary artist Susie MacMurray has reinstalling her seminal work Stratum. Developed while she was in residence at Islington Mill as a graduate student in 2001, Stratum transformed the attic spaces of the building in a cloud of white duck down. The large-scale work subsequently became a central piece within Susie’s portfolio. Following her installation at the Mill, Susie has recently exhibited at the Museum of Art & Design, New York, the Arsenale in Venice for Spazio Thetis, and at the Royal Academy - GSK Contemporary, London.


Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th December

What
the modernist pop-up

Where
: the modernist, 142 chapel street, salford, M3 6AF

When
Launch: Friday 2nd December 6-8pm
Open: Saturday 3rd December 12-5pm; then Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-5pm until 23rd Dec.

More Info: *manchester modernist society, publishers of the modernist magazine will launch a modernist ‘pop up’ shop at 142 Chapel Street, Salford.
The shop will feature artist/designer made products with a ‘modernist’ flavour or reference to the modernist design ethos.
artists prints, magazines, graphics, posters, artist books, art, illustrations, maps, stationary, ceramics


Saturday 3rd December

What
: Printomania 

Where
:  Chapel Street and Hope United Reformed Church Gallery

Hours: Saturday 3rd December 11 - 5pm

More Info: Brought to you by Salford Zine Fair. DIY / zine / self-publishing/ print poster event organised by Salford University Illustration and Good Grief. See www.salfordzinefair.blogspot.com for more info
Also the Christmas Cafe welcomes you for cups of tea and seasonal treats.


All events are free to attend, unless otherwise stated.