Event type: Workshop

In this one day workshop, you will be guided through three creative ways of making and binding your own books – Japanese Stab Stitch, Blizzard Binding and Concertina Binding.

You’ll learn binding, paper folding, tearing and creating concertina pages for your books. You’ll end the session with a set of handmade, hand-bound books to take home with you.

Handmade books are perfect for using up any paper, printmaking or crafting offcuts and the finished books make beautiful gifts!

£70 (all materials included)

Curtis Watt is an established local Liverpool multidisciplinary artist. His practice is in sketch, mixed media and surrealist dream translations in pencil, pastels and ink. His work has also included rap, music production, theatre development and performance coaching. 

The Visual Arts Workshop explores creative writing, storytelling, poetry and spoken word, followed by sketching your own creative response.

Learn the basics of etching, one of the oldest & most unique printmaking processes, at the historical Bluecoat Print Studios.

During this one day course you will learn the basics of copper sulphate etching, including learning about the history, tools & materials of etching and the chemical processes involved in creating a copper sulphate etched plate, as well as inking and printing your design on our fabulous century old Hughes & Kimber Etching Press.

On this course for beginners you will be guided through every step of the etching process from start to finish, leaving with having created a finished edition of prints. All materials are provided on the day as well as a booklet to take away detailing the processes learnt.

Tickets: £80 (all materials included)

Join us to create block print postcards using pre-made designs, meet fellow artists, and learn more about Bluecoat’s growing print community. Whether you’re a seasoned printmaker or simply looking to get involved, this session is for everyone. No experience necessary—come solo or with friends, have a go, and take home your own printed postcard.It’s also a great chance to chat with our Print Studio Manager and find out more about our open-access studio, courses, and workshops.

Free, booking required

Collagraph is an experimental, painterly printing technique that uses in-expensive materials to allow a very direct, hands-on approach to print-making. The term ‘Collagraph’ combines the Greek word ‘Colla’ (glue) and graph (drawing) referencing this process’s use of collage-like methods.

During this one day course participants will create unique collagraph plates using a variety of techniques and materials, which will then be inked and printed on our century old etching press to reveal rich textural prints. You will finish the workshop with both your collagraph plate and a small edition of collagraph prints.

£70 (all materials included)

Broken spades? Blunt secateurs? Rake without a handle? Save your old garden tools from landfill by developing the skills (and confidence) to mend broken tools at this Repair Cafe.

This is a practical workshop facilitated by members of the Liverpool Repair Cafe, a worldwide initiative which invites people of all levels to come together and collectively learn how to fix old, worn-out stuff from one another. 

For this workshop, we are focussing solely on manual garden tools like spades, trowels, rakes, forks – to name a few. You can bring your own tools for repair and we will supply all the materials and parts you need to fix them – we kindly ask for a donation of £5 to cover costs. 

Alternatively, we have a number of tools onsite which are in need of a new lease of life. By restoring our old tools, you’re helping us to minimise waste, conserve energy and extend the life of raw materials therefore helping us work towards a more environmentally sustainable way of farming. 

This is a drop-in session; you are welcome to attend anytime between 2-4.30pm. You must register to come to this event as facilities and parking are limited.

Visit our website for more information and to book your place. 

What will train travel look like 200 years from now? Who will run the railways? How will new connections shrink the time and space between different communities and how can we travel greener and cleaner?   Join us for a fun, hands-on creative workshop where we’ll imagine the future of rail travel.   Working with St. Helens based artist Claire Weetman, we will explore the historic setting of Edge Hill Station through guided drawing activities and story sharing — to imagine how the changing railways will connect communities enriching the places that we call home.   Whether you’re a train lover, a daydreamer, or simply curious — all are welcome. No experience needed, just bring your imagination!