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Connecting creativity and upcycling of common household materials. Learn how to create a classic intaglio image on the suitable Tetra Pak carton and how to print it.

Learn how to adapt the traditional engraving print technique on metal plates to the suitable Tetra Pak carton of drinks and foodstuffs. The tutor will guide you throughout the steps from creating an image and its mark making strategies on the plate, finishing with a small limited series of prints. Because of the fact that Tetra Pak is a versatile material recycled, accessible to everyone and practically ready to use, the workshop is a fantastic opportunity to experience the expanded printmaking boundaries about techniques and methods. For beginners or refreshers on printmaking, all are invited to be creative while helping to save the environment. With Ananda Kuhn`s tuition.

Ananda Kuhn is a Brazilian multi-artist, working and living in London. Focused on painting and printmaking she studied Fine Arts in Brazil, graduating in 2012. Since then she has integrated more than 70 exhibitions, including 8 solo shows and 10 international art prizes, and her artwork is part of public collections of the most important museums in South Brazil. While in the UK, in 2022 she opened DIATRIBE Printmakers in Bristol, an art space focused on teaching the variety of printmaking techniques, and supporting the local art community. Since she moved to London she has been sharing her love for art at care homes, supporting residents with dementia, connecting art and wellbeing.

Join artist Bridie Woods and guests for the private view and launch of her show in our gallery space this month, A CELEBRATION OF NATURE. Free.

European Writers Salon (EWS) and Insurgent Press are delighted to jointly invite you to an open-mic night on 24 April 2025 at 7 pm.

If you want to read, please get in touch quickly via contact@saloneurope.org as spots are limited. Readers are invited to read something of around 500 words, in response to or loosely related to one of the following prompts:

• The Cruellest Month
• This 
• This city is my dream
• 
  

This will be a friendly and welcoming evening so feel free to come on your own or with friends, whatever works. 

We look forward to meeting you. 

We want the event to be as inclusive as possible so we've offered a few ticketing options. Please feel free to pick the one that most suits your budget. All money will be used to support the activities of EWS and Insurgent Press - producing literature that fires imagination and sparks debate (Insurgent Press) and organising literary events that bring writers together (EWS).

This month in our gallery: a celebration of the art of William Bashford.

Will studied Philosophy at Kings College and had just been accepted to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw (Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design) when he was diagnosed with leukemia. 

This exhibition marks 20 years since Will's death. He was 25.

FLUX is an exploration into a very unique and imaginative mind. His often surreal and psychedelic works explore themes such as impermanence, consciousness and the nature of reality. Free.

Part of Feminist Book Fortnight 2025. Join poet Erica Hesketh to celebrate the release of her astounding debut collection, In the Lily Room (Nine Arches Press). Erica will read from the book and be in conversation with storyteller and writer Laura Sampson. Free event!

‘Erica Hesketh asks “What if all the world’s mothers / rose up at once…” Perhaps if we did, our conversations would sound like these poems, which look head-on at the frightening, transformative, love-filled days of early motherhood. Medical misogyny, birth trauma, postnatal depression, joy and boredom – all of this and more are held in place in these lyrical, image-drenched poems as Hesketh expands our ideas and perceptions around what it means to be a mother.’ Kim Moore
 

‘In poems of great skill, daring and beauty, Hesketh somehow contains the leaky mess of new parenthood. This is for all the mothers – mother of stone, mother of ice, mother of fire, mother of dark. A stunning debut: intelligent, tender and unwaveringly true.’ Clare Pollard