Photo Nola comes to the Print Shop!

We’ll be participating in Photonola 2012!

 

Our Opening Reception will take place on December 2nd, from 6-9 PM, at our shop (in our gallery) at 1201 Mazant street in New Orleans.

There you’ll see an entanglement of traditional and non-traditional photography, the possibilities of which are endless at our print shop and darkroom.

Join us for our show: Printed Here, which will be on display From Dec 2nd until Dec 31st.

(Gallery hours to be officially posted soon.)

Membership Orientation!

Are you ready to become a new member?  Do you want or have an application and are ready to fill it out, hand it in?

Come to our first New Member Orientation at our space: on Thursday, November 15th, 1201 Mazant street, from 7-10 PM!

Please try to be on-time, but if you have issues do email us and we can see if there is a solution or tell you when the next orientation is likely to be.

What to bring:  You’re application, a pen, and your excitement.

At the orientation we will acquaint  you with the space and what it means to be a member.  Here you will submit your applications (which will always be accepted at our shop) and ask questions.

For more information on membership, check out our Membership section of this blog or email us at communityprintshop@gmail.com.

See you Thursday!

One Day Until Grand Reopening!

The New Orleans Community Printshop Opens Tomorrow, November 10th!

We can’t wait to see all of you there.

The entire event is packed with great things, here’s some of what you can look forward to:

•  Free Rice and Beans
• Live Silk Screening
• DJ Yamin!
• Treme Brass Band
• Our glorious raffle of prizes (raffle tickets sold until 7:45pm)
• The Hot 8 Brass Band!’

The event starts at 5:00 pm and we close it up strictly at 9:30.  We hope you come to all of it and have the best time!

-The New Orleans Community Printshop

Our Grand Re-Opening: The Some-Times Picayune with Dirty Coast!

On November 10th, 2012 The New Orleans Community Printshop and Darkroom is having our Grand Re-Opening event at our new space, 1201 Mazant street!

Festivities Begin at 5pm, full night’s schedule coming soon.

The Some-Times Picayune: brought to you by Dirty Coast and the Jazz Foundation!

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As we are dedicated to traditional printing methods, it was hard to ignore that The Times Picayune is cutting their staff and frequency of their publication.  Many have taken this as a sign that print is dying fast.

 Well, the New Orleans Community Printshop and Dirty Coast have other plans!  We believe that hand silk screened images and text, and other forms of traditional publishing and printing are not lost, and it’s our pleasure to keep them very much alive.

On November 10th, 2012 we will be hosting the greatest tribute to printing the city has ever seen, with

• A raffle of prizes donated by local businesses
• Live silk screening
• A special performance by the Hot 8 Brass Band and the Treme Brass Band!

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Participants are encouraged to print their own headlines into our version of the newspaper on the spot and celebrate the rise of individual press in the shadow of our no longer daily paper.

The prints will come from the winning articles from our article contest (see below!) that you wish you could see in our local paper.

Dirty Coast will be there selling T shirts as partial proceeds to benefit the community through the New Orleans Community Printshop.

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Article Contest:

 Do you have an article that you wish you could see on the front page? Send your 500 words or less article and headline to communityprintshop@gmail.com with the subject: “Some-Times Picayune” and you could be seeing your article on the night of our party, printed for all to see! You will get a free ticket to our raffle and 4 free copies of your article if yours is chosen.

We hope to see you, your submissions, and your friends soon!

Submissions for articles will be accepted until November 7st, 2012.

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If you would like to participate as a sponsor of The Some-Times Picayune please contact us at   communityprintshop@gmail.com.

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Brought to you by the New Orleans Community Printshop, Dirty Coast and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation

http://jazzfoundation.org/

http://www.dirtycoast.com/

& Event Link:

http://www.facebook.com/events/482302208460274/

Update: Workdays!

Come to the New Orleans Community Printshop and put in some elbow grease!  There are many ways you can volunteer – gardening with Vanessa on Sunday afternoons, working inside the shop (which is turning out to be a beautiful space!) painting, cleaning, drywalling, or organizing – wherever your talents lie you can help!

And, of course, pizza and snacks will be there, too.

When to show:

                                                                                         Sundays 2pm-6pm

                                                                                          Thursdays 6pm-9pm

Last to chance to pledge and we were featured in Paste Magazine!

Because of the amazing help of everyone out there, we have exceeded our goal of $8,000 and with 23 hours to go have reached $10,483!  

Paste Magazine has featured our kickstarter here as one of the coolest projects to donate to. 

This is the last chance to donate to our kickstarter with just 23 hours to go! Any excess money will go to enhancing our facilities for the public, programming for further community outreach, and continuing to ensure that we are steady in our new location.

 

Thank you so much for your generosity, anything further you give will allow us to give more to everyone else!

Print shop workday!

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    Join us at our print shop workday! 

    - Sunday (July 8th) -
    - 11:00am until 6:00pm -
    - 1201 mazant st – our new location! -

    The New Orleans Community Printshop is coming along!! We have the walls of the dark room and the emulsion room built and floored!!!

    Now we need your helping hands to help paint, store and finish! Come see what we have built and lend a hand.

    Of course, there will be pizza and snacks for us to enjoy.
    There are tasks for all abilities so whatever your skill level (from moving and cleaning and painting to harder stuff) come in clothes that can get dirty!

    Hope to see you there!

Kickstarter video here!

 

 

Printshop Crisis: We need your help!

Dear Volunteers, Friends, Neighbors and Supporters,

 

We have always appreciated every bit of your time, from attending Open Shop to volunteering for gallery shows and events.  It is because of your help that we have been able to provide printmaking supplies at cheap prices, teach the community how to screen print for free, and display wonderful  prints from artists around the city. 

 

Now, more than ever, the New Orleans Community Printshop needs your help! 

 

We have just been informed that our lease is running out prematurely due to new ownership of our building.  We need to be out of our location by July 1st, 2012. – That’s only a few months away.  We want to stay open and continue to serve the community, but we have limited time, and have to act fast!

 

Here’s how you can help:

 

Donate.

 

Any donation of money will help.  In the new space we find, we will have to spend money to build out the new space while maintaining our current Open Shop before the lease runs out.  Our expenses will include skilled labor (such as plumbing and contracting), building materials, insurance for the new space and more, so whether you can give $5 or $5,000 any aid you  give us will help! 

We will have a paypal donation button on our wordpress account page shortly to make it easy, but if you have cash or check you can contact us or visit the shop’s current location at 831 Elysian Fields to donate to our cause!

We will also likely be doing a kickstarter soon.  Once that begins, those of you who have donated to the New Orleans Community Printshop will receive the same incentives and prizes that we will post on the kickstarter website. We will post more on our wordpress site, blog, or through email about this soon. 

 

 

Advise.

Do you know of a new space? Have you seen a “For Rent” sign on a promising commercial building?

Here is the sort of space we are looking for: 

 

     1) A lease for two years or longer: landlord must be OK with this being a print shop, used as a public space for all ages, and with us having 24 hour access to the building.  

     2) Ability to create necessary structures (walls, if needed, for example) and with floors that are not important, so that spilled ink will not cause issues. 

     3) A commercially zoned building 1500 square feet or larger, In the ball park of $1600 (or negotiable).

In short, a large space that could be used as a print shop much like what we have right now, but in a more permanent location. 

 

 

Refer

 

Do you know a reliable lawyer (to advise on future lease situations),  contractor, plumber, person with a truck for moving purposes, or anyone else who would help us at reasonable rates?  

 

Are you one of these people?  When we build out our new space, we’ll need all the advisement and help we can get!

 

 

Volunteer

 

Of course, we will need help moving, and building out new space.  If you feel you’ll have time in the next few months to get involved, please respond to let us know that you’d be willing to help!  As with all volunteering, a single free use of ink and screen voucher is provided to those who lend a hand!

 

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In short, we can’t let all of our (and your) past work slip through our fingers.  We are committed to having a community print shop again for the community to work, learn and create.  If you have any resources to help (or know someone who does), send us a line, let us know, get involved! 

 

 

Thank you all for reading this, and please, spread the word!

-The New Orleans Community Printshop

 

Check Out Open Shop!!

Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-10 pm and Sundays 1-5 pm 831 elysian Fields We now have T-shirts, fabric ink, and tons of paper so come silk screen