Department of Art & Design and Hullabaloo Press proudly invite you to join us for :

4-6 PM  Letterpress Open House: Come meet the presses, see them run, make your own letterpress print!

We will be running our newest presses including our new Vandercook Universal II (Diana Prints) and our newly up and running 12×18 Chandler & Price New Style Platen Press (Betty – As seen in the Letterpress Film)! The Vandercook Press was purchased in part by the generous donations made on UIndy Day! We wish to thank all those who contributed! THANK YOU!

There will be make-your-own print stations featuring several of our smaller presses! 

Student Printers will be selling their prints to raise funds to attend the Hamilton Wayzgoose (Letterpress Conference) So bring your cash & support the printers! (Cash Only Sale)

6 PM Doors Open to the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall for a FREE Screening of 

PRESSING ON: THE LETTERPRESS FILM 

The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived? Worlds of each character emerge as unusual narratives—joyful, mournful, reflective and visionary—are punctuated with on-screen visual poetry, every shot meticulously composed. Captivating personalities blend with wood, metal and type as young printers strive to save this historic process in a film created for the designer, type nerd, historian and collector in us all.

Trailer:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0lRVEw2zg 

www.letterpressfilm.com

The film will be followed by a Q&A session featuring several of the filmmakers and cast!