The Chip Shop (2)

The last appearance of 'The Chip Shop' at the London Word Festival will be tomorrow night (Keep Printing & Carry On). The first set will kick off at 7.20pm with Murray Macaulay doing an introduction to Sister Corita, the fantastic Screenprinting Nun (followed by a printing demostration in the Chip Shop).

The organisers have announced that the first 60 villagers through the door will be given a free ration book - this entitles you to a special print-themed cake from the Great Cake Escape! Also there will be some Universettee events starting before the first set, not to mention the "Dig for Printery" potato-printing allotment.

Later on, there'll also be some music from Darren Hayman and comedy from Jo Neary, each set accompanied with its own live print in the Chip Shop.

Doors 6pm, tickets £8, venue is Stoke Newington International Airport. As the London Word Festival writes on their website: "...times are hard and the cake is rationed – arrive early to avoid disappointment."

An article about the Henningham Family Press and the Chip Shop appeared today in the Independent; here's a link to the article.

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Darren Hayman - Rain All Summertime.

The Chip Shop

The Henningham Family Press have created a new show called Chip Shop, featuring a fully functioning mobile screenprinting workshop. "Built from chip-board and replicating a full-size chippy, The Chip Shop is a fully functioning temporary screen printing workshop, serving up words printed on wooden board." All you need to do is to add your favourite word to their catch of the day menu!

A silkscreen print, on chipboard - yours for the price of a bag of chips! Is it really possible? Yes! The Chip Shop will be appearing at least 3 times in March as part of the London Word Festival:

• March 7th Toynbee Arts Bar & Cafe, a FREE event where they will be frying solo.
• March 20th 'Keep Printing and Carry On', Stoke Newington International Airport - an eclectic night of music, mini-lectures, cake, featuring Murray Macaulay doing a Universettee reprise on Sister Corita (the screenprinting nun), Darren Hayman, and more from their good friends, the Universettee.
• March 31st, 'The Art of Storytelling', St. Leonard's Church, where they will be tying up all the loose words printed throughout the festival into another live print with the help of a very special guest poet.

February Festival - in the next couple of weeks they will also be out in public in the form of a stall at the following event: Finsbury Art Festival, Saturday February 27th, 11am - 4pm, St Luke’s Centre, 90 Central Street EC1V 8AJ. Tel: 020 7549 8181.

Their contribution to the Finsbury Art Festival Art Zone will be showing off the pamphlet stitch. For those who like reading as much as fiddling with bits of paper and string, they will be binding some of the contributions from their guest bloggers, David Barnes, Eddie Farrell and Julie Rafalski. Plus one of the stories by David Henningham from Erroneous Disposition of the People. All this and much more, absolutely free! It will be a very child-friendly, as well as adult-friendly event. A fine way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon.

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