Open House Festival

Rabbits Road Press (Guided Tour)

art studio

Andrew Carnegie, 1904

835, Romford Road, NW5 4QA

Rabbits Road Press is a colourful and welcoming community-focussed Risograph studio in Manor Park providing affordable print education and an alternative art space for all. Based in Old Manor Park Library, a beautiful grade II listed Carnegie library, visitors are welcome to tour the Risograph studio and take part in a recycled Riso activity.

Getting there

Train

Manor Park, Woodgrange Park

Bus

25, 425, 86

Additional travel info

The tour of Rabbits Road Press will take place inside the studio once everyone has arrived

Access

Facilities

What you can expect

Visitors can expect a one-room tour of Rabbits Road Press' Risograph studio, a quiet event with limited spaces.

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Activities

Thu 18 Sep

Guided tour

12:00–14:30

Rabbits Road Press (Studio tour)

Tour our studio, learn about Risograph printing, browse our poster archive and local zine collection, and make your own Riso scrap badge

How to book

Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.

About

What is Risograph?

Designed to be a high-volume, speedy and low cost photocopier, Riso machines use a stencil-based printing process and colourful inks to produce a result somewhere between silkscreen and offset lithography. Originally manufactured by the Japanese RISO Kagaku Corporation in 1986, Risos were popularly used by schools, prisons, churches, political and activist groups to mass produce posters, flyers, pamphlets and small books. The machine’s unique effects are great for both text and illustration, and with soy-based inks and masters made from banana paper great for the environment too.

A community-focussed Risograph studio

Rabbits Road Press is a community-focussed Risograph studio and publishing press founded and run by OOMK Zine.

Founded in 2017 with the aim of providing an affordable space for alternative art and print education under austerity, the press runs workshops, schools, residencies and zine fairs for artists, activists and community groups in Newham and beyond.

Based in Old Manor Park Library, it aims to keep the public spirit of the old library alive through print.

Online presence

www.rabbitsroadpress.com

www.instagram.com/rabbitsroadpress/?hl=en

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