MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Concourse



Handset Printing at the Beaver Press Print Shop

Jeffrey Ravel, Professor and Head of History, Anne McCants, Professor of History and Director of Concourse

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 01:30PM-05:30PM 10-801 (Barker), Bring a text of 150 characters, including spaces.

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 3 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

Have you ever wanted to set type the way Johannes Gutenberg and Benjamin Franklin did?  Print your own political pamphlets and broadsides?  Design greeting cards and announcements?  Now you can do these things and more at The Beaver Press Print Shop, MIT's own handset printing press, located on the eighth floor of Barker Library, Room 10-801.  The press was built in 21H.343 during Spring 2016; learn more here and here.  We will be holding open printing hours from 1:30 to 5:30 on the days listed below.  Space is limited, so please sign up here.

Sponsor(s): Concourse, History
Contact: Jeffrey Ravel, E51-255C, 617 253-4451, RAVEL@MIT.EDU