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Portland Letterpress Printers’ Fair – Aug 14th

Join us for this years’ 3rd annual Portland Letterpress Printers Fair! All are welcome for this fun outdoor event celebrating letterpress, printers and appreciators. Read below for more info about the event.

Saturday, August 14th, 2010
11am-5pm
323 SE Division Place
Portland Oregon, 97202
Admission: 11am-2pm – $2 and from 2-5pm – Free

Demos, Print Shops, Suppliers, Resources
Type, Equipment, Cards, Broadsides, Ephemera
Overstocks, Seconds, Deals, Rarities and More!

Come one, come all.

also,

SCREENING OF “FAREWELL: ETAOIN SHRDLU”
CC Stern Type Foundry will be screening “Farewell: Etaoin Shrdlu,” a documentary about the last issue of the New York Times to be composed in the hot metal printing process. Discussion to follow. All are welcome.

Friday, August 13th, 2010
7:30-9:00pm
Em Space Book Arts Center
407 SE Ivon Street
Portland, OR 97202
Suggested Donation: $5

LETTERPRESS IN PORTLAND

Em Space Book Arts Center and key members of the Portland letterpress community have come together to present the 3rd annual Portland Letterpress Printers’ Fair. Last year, the event, organized by Cayre Bye of Red Bat Press and Ivan D. Snyder of the AAPA, was a huge success drawing hundreds of people interested in finding old type, a table-top letterpress, or a beautifully printed keepsake. This year’s event will be held outdoors, just down the road from Em Space Book Arts Center and near the start of the Spring Water Corridor Trail.

In conjunction with the Portland Letterpress Printers’ Fair, CC Stern Type Foundry will be screening “Farewell: Etaoin Shrdlu,” a documentary about the last issue of the New York Times to be composed in the hot metal printing process. This event will be held at Em Space Book Arts Center.

Portland has a huge number of letterpress printers and many schools and organizations that offer letterpress workshops. The fine art of printing by hand is highly appreciated in the form of band posters, wedding invites, zine covers, cd packaging, stationery, fine art prints and so much more. You just can’t get the same look from a computer, and in the case of the table-top variety, you don’t even need a cord to plug in! The scene in Portland is growing In the last couple of years, Em Space Book Arts Center has set their roots in the community by offering artists access to rare equipment, Portland publishing staple, the IPRC, continues to offer low-cost letterpress, Oregon College of Art and Craft is expanding their campus and improving their facilities, and C.C. Stern Type Foundry, the new operative letterpress museum is well underway.

Participants Include:

23 Sandy Gallery, Alisa Walton, American Amateur Press Association, Atelier Meridian Autumn Attic Press, Bartleby’s Letterpress Emporium/Letterary Press, Bedouin Books, Buzzworm Studios, Container Corps, CC Stern Type Foundry, Crack Press, Ecanto Press, Cathemeral Press, Em Space Book Arts Center, Gann Printing Co., Green Grass Press, Ilfant Press, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Ink in Tubes, Keeganmeegan Press & Bindery, Liber Apertus Press, May Day Press, Ms. Starry Art, Notta Pixie Press, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Painted Tongue Studios, Power and Light Press, Print Arts Northwest, Reading Local, Red Bat Press, Rendij Studio, Scantron Press, Stumptown Printers, Tiger Food Press, Twin Raven Press, Weldon Teetz, Zebra Print, and more.

Also printers and suppliers from around the US and abroad who cannot attend our event are sending us brochures and printed keepsakes.

Questions? Email info@em-space.org

Located at the start of the Springwater Corridor in SE Portland, Em Space Book Arts Center offers artists and interested community members access to rare equipment and beautiful, bright studio space. Studio Memberships are currently available. (info@em-space.org)