Rabbits Road Press: Community Art Workshops

Rabbits Road Press is a community and education focussed printing press based at Old Manor Park Library run by artist collective OOMK since 2017.

This project would see Rabbits Road Press re-activated and open to the public on Saturdays fortnightly for 4 months, providing free art workshops and a friendly space for socialising and learning. The proposed programme involves two types of workshops which aim to appeal to a broad range of people, in particular young people, artists and those who would benefit from a friendly social space. A Risograph Induction workshop in the morning would allow participants to learn to make a two-colour art print using the specialist Risograph machine, upon completing this they would become official ‘members’ of Rabbits Road Press and can continue to use the facilities. In the afternoon, Collage Club would provide a more casual session where people can drop in for collage making and socialising. We ran this programme during the summer and both workshops were very popular, we don’t have enough funding to keep them going and having support from the fund would enable us to offer them for free to Newham residents and at a heavily subsidised price for everyone else.