The Bind-Fast 5 is the IPRC’s exciting new bookbinding machine. Using the Bind-Fast 5, you can bind as many as 30 softcover books or zines per hour. Completion of this workshop authorizes IPRC members to use the Bind-Fast during supervised binding hours, so you can take your publishing projects to the next level.

$45 members only

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+You may register for a workshop online at iprc.org, or in person at the IPRC.
+You may cancel your reservation within 7 days of a workshop for a full credit.
+If a workshop is canceled because of lack of enrollment, you’ll receive a 100% refund.
+Members receive first listed price in course descriptions.
+Youth (8-18) receive member-price for any non-youth workshops. Please contact with questions regarding age appropriateness.

Learn historic IRISH HALF-UNCIAL. This lettering was used in Ireland and England from around 600 to 900AD. We will be focusing on the script used in Book of Kells written around 800 AD. Class will also cover Celtic knot decorations used in the manuscripts.

8 Weeks:
Fridays from 6pm to 8pm
April 5 through May 24.

Beginning and continuing students. Good hand skills recommended.

Cost:

$75 returning students

$125 new students

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Learn to set movable lead type and print on a table-top hand press in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historical process. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100-year-old equipment! Successful completion of this one-day class allows IPRC members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing!

$70 members only

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Reading Frenzy presents My Dirty Dumb Eyes a reading and signing with comic artist Lisa Hanawalt! My Dirty Dumb Eyes is the highly anticipated debut collection from award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. The book collects herdrawings, paintings, single-panel gag jokes, funny lists, and anthropomorphized animals, all in the service of satirical, startlingly observant commentary on pop culture, contemporary society, and human idiosyncrasies. In a few short years, Hanawalt has made a name for herself: her intricately detailed, absurdly funny comics have appeared in venues as wide and varied as Lucky Peach, The New York Times, and The Believer, and she was recently nominated for a James Beard 2013 Book, Broadcast and Journalism Award! She currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with a dog and a comedian.

Admission is free with the purchase of a book or a $3 donation to the IPRC, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Signed copies of My Dirty Dumb Eyes are available for pre-order at www.readingfrenzy.com

There is not one right way to write an essay, and in this course, students will bend the genre of nonfiction by playing with an array of essay forms such as lyric and personal. We will discuss and practice taking events from our lives and whittling them into inventive and dynamic nonfiction. Students will be given a box of tools that will be invaluable to their craft leave palpably excited about creating narratives out their lives.

CHLOE CALDWELL is the author of the essay collection, “Legs Get Led Astray“ (Future Tense Books, April 2012) and the e-book “The New Age Camp” (Thought Catalog, 2012).

Her nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, The Rumpus, Thought Catalog, Nylon, The Nervous Breakdown, xoJane, The Frisky, The Sun Magazine, SMITH, Jewcy, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Freerange Nonfiction, The Faster Times, The Fix, Men’s Health, and the anthology: Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC (Seal Press).

She is the founder and curator of the Hudson River Loft Reading Series and has taught Creative Writing workshops at Omega Teen Camp, The Hudson Opera House, and Crow Arts Manor. Chloe lives in Portland, Oregon.

Cost:

$15 members

$25 nonmembers

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Give your life stories literary structure by applying the craft elements of character, plot, setting and pacing. Learn DIY publishing skills at the IPRC. You’ll leave class with a 20-copy print run of your own book. This is an 8-week class and runs from April 14th to June 9th, 2-4pm.

This is a non-credit course taught by A.M. O’Malley through PCC and meets at the IPRC.

Register online at www.pcc.edu/nc

Cost: $109, $15 fee

Learn various techniques for beginning screenprinting. Create your very own screen and begin printing! First timers welcome. This class is geared towards kids aged 10 to 15.

• Cost: $40.
• Instructor: Fiona Avocado

register here for June 2nd Class:

Have you returned from a trip with stories to tell? Are you planning to bring your notebook on your next journey? Taught by Bill Donahue, a journalist who has reported stories in over 20 countries, for magazines ranging from Wired to The Atlantic, this class will help you to turn your travel adventures into cogent narratives. We will look at seminal works of travel journalism and the basics of storytelling character and scene development, and also discuss students’ story ideas and manuscripts.

In 25 years of reporting adventures, Bill Donahue has kayaked through the concrete drainage ditch that is the Los Angeles River, ridden all-terrain-vehicles with hardened criminals through the stripmined hills of West Virginia, biked the streets of Shanghai, and snuck into Manuel Noriega’s abandoned beach house in Panama. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Travel Writing. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award two times, and he won the gold medal in the Adventure Travel division of the 2012 Lowell Thomas Awards. With his daughter, Allie, he is the co-editor of the zine, biff. His website is billdonahue.net.

$15 for members
$25 for nonmembers

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Stop by the IPRC on First Friday to browse the zine library, get a letterpress print and tour the space.

Live music will be provided by Sara Renberg