Announcing the inaugural York Wayzgoose…

…featuring superb guest speakers, a suppliers’ fair, workshops and excursions, demonstrations, a print-your-own-beermat pub crawl, a drinks reception, a print auction, our first Wayzgoose dinner and, this being York, plenty of actual geese – one of them more than 500 years old!

Speaker Proposals

The Call for Papers officially closed on Thursday 30th April, and we have now finalised most of our programme. However, if you were hoping to submit a paper or demonstration proposal, we’d still love to hear from you so please do get in touch.

Call for Papers

We welcome proposals for short talks (15-20 minutes), panels and roundtables. Topics might include:

• an insight into your practice, whether as a printer, printmaker, designer, calligrapher or researcher

• an aspect of the history of printing and printmaking, relating to any geographical region

• a celebration of a small or fine press, type manufacturer, printmaker, typographer or designer

• the politics of print / art as praxis

• a discussion of how you have translated a particular inspiration into a finished design or print

• details of a specialist process or technical problem

• tools and materials

• the realities, challenges and rewards of running a press, makerspace, community workshop or studio

• working with printing and printmaking as a creative writer or artist in another medium

• reinvigorating traditional and heritage printing techniques for the twenty-first century

• the funding landscape and commercial opportunities as they relate to traditional forms of printing and printmaking, and their intersections with graphic design and/or typography

Please send a proposal of c. 350 words and a brief biography (c. 150 words) to thinicepress@york.ac.uk. Submissions are welcome from printers and printmakers, academics and students, and anyone with a keen interest in printing past, present and future. Please be aware that speakers will be asked to pay the registration fee.