Events
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
York Festival of Ideas 2025 & Thin Ice Press
Visit Thin Ice Press during the Festival of Ideas 2025 to explore the fascinating history and vibrant future of traditional printing and print a souvenir.
Play, Place and Print
Join us for an interactive role-playing game session set in Renaissance York, featuring women printers operating in the city. This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.
Harland Miller Gallery Late
Join us for drop-in creative workshops and thought-provoking activities celebrating the incredible ‘Harland Miller: XXX’ exhibition at York Art Gallery.
Past, Present and Future: Printing in York
Join Helen Smith, Director of Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, to learn about Europe's earliest wallpaper, how a book can be a magpie, entrepreneurial widows, printing on ice, type made of Viking wood and much more. This event is presented in collaboration with York Festival of Ideas 2025.
Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?
We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any discipline, and at any career stage (including graduate students), to apply to our 2025 summer school: Print Matters. Supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Print Matters Summer School will offer participants a unique opportunity to advance their research, develop new skills in letterpress printing, and engage with questions of matter, materials or things and their affordances in theory and practice.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Colour & Light 2025: Collaborative Poster
Visit Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print during Colour & Light 2025 to get hands-on with traditional printing and contribute to an editioned art print.
Try your hand at printing using our powered proofing presses, experiment with overprinting, and contribute to a poster that shows combinations of the colours of the rainbow.
Colour & Light 2025: Collaborative Poster
Visit Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print during Colour & Light 2025 to get hands-on with traditional printing and contribute to an editioned art print.
Try your hand at printing using our powered proofing presses, experiment with overprinting, and contribute to a poster that shows combinations of the colours of the rainbow.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Why Making Books Means Reading Differently
Do you prefer to read novels on Kindles or curl up with a paperback? Have you ever discarded a dustjacket to the waste-paper basket, or decided you preferred the original front cover to a new edition? In this talk Georgina Wilson, who teaches and researches English Literature, will think about books as objects, and how their physicality changes how we read their stories.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Colour & Light 2025: Collaborative Poster
Visit Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print during Colour & Light 2025 to get hands-on with traditional printing and contribute to an editioned art print.
Try your hand at printing using our powered proofing presses, experiment with overprinting, and contribute to a poster that shows combinations of the colours of the rainbow.
Colour & Light 2025: Collaborative Poster
Visit Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print during Colour & Light 2025 to get hands-on with traditional printing and contribute to an editioned art print.
Try your hand at printing using our powered proofing presses, experiment with overprinting, and contribute to a poster that shows combinations of the colours of the rainbow.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.
Riso Club
Everybody welcome, from beginners to seasoned riso pros - come along and explore everything riso! Tea and biscuits provided!
An Ice Old Walk Round York by York's Hidden History
During the York Ice Trail 2025 weekend, we’re teaming up with our friends at York's Hidden History for An Ice Old Walk round York. As we stroll through the city’s hidden history, we’ll encounter ice-skating Vikings, pioneering Earth scientists, and polar confectioners.
An Ice Age Tour of York by York's Hidden History
During the York Ice Trail 2025 weekend, we’re teaming up with our friends at York's Hidden History for An Ice Age Tour of York. Hunt Ice Age creatures on the streets of York, discover Yorkshire’s Ice Age history, and make a frosty souvenir print with Thin Ice Press!
Workshop & Talk: Sucking on Words & Folding the Page
Join Professor Simon Morris for this two part event: a talk exploring some extreme possibilities for language and a delightful Japanese origami folding book workshop.
Lino Club
Join Izzy for weekly lino club! More of a social than a workshop, we’ll be carving, talking about our work and drinking cups of tea.