At the end of October it’s time to honour lost loved ones again, with one of our favourite festivals. Decorate sugar skulls or lantern shrine jars, screen print tote bags with skull and flower designs, cut colourful papel picado hanging banners, make a skull mask or choose other creative activities in this day inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead. Continue reading
Our much loved Mexican Day Of The Dead themed festival for all ages returns this year on Sunday 3 November with lots of your favourite art and craft activities. Honour lost loved ones with a decorated shrine or sugar skull, print a tote bag, cut colourful papel picado hanging banners, decorate a skull mask, make jewellery, enter the drawing competition, and get your face painted… Continue reading
Festival time is coming soon and for us it really kicks off in June with the annual Medway Print Festival, now in its fourth year. Exhibitions and workshops with a printmaking theme will be springing up across Rochester, Chatham and Upnor over two weeks from Friday 7th to Sunday 23rd June. Continue reading
Are you a magpie, or perhaps a new convert to the Marie Kondo method? Either way we need you! We’re holding another big Jumble Sale on Easter Sunday 21st April and if you’re having a big clear out of things that aren’t sparking joy, we want them please so that we can match them up with someone who feels differently about them. Continue reading
On Sat 8th December, we’ll have a big roomful of original gift ideas for art lovers, a chance to meet the printmakers who work at INTRA, to join in on some printing fun and have a go on the famous tombola. For 20p you might win a printmaking class, or perhaps a tin of potatoes! Continue reading
Xtina’s popular ‘Print Your Own…’ workshop returns to INTRA on Sun 6th May – with a Rochester Sweeps and May Day theme. Create your own souvenir of the festival by mix and matching designs including green men, leaves and flowers etc. and screen printing them onto your choice of textiles: a flag, bag, t-shirt or … Continue reading
For Medway Print Festival this year we have several new classes, a lovely exhibition, and a new Zine & DIY publishing fair. Continue reading
The printmakers at INTRA have been busy carving linocuts, running the Risograph, rolling plates through the etching press, and pulling prints of all kinds in preparation for the winter Wayzgoose Print Fair, a feast of inky goodness on Saturday 9th December. You can pick up original art prints for as little as £10, and there will … Continue reading
Following a recent successful exhibition and arts project in Medway, the Sick! Living With Invisible Illness team is running a further series of free creative workshops to support local people. Four sessions are on offer at INTRA, looking at different ways to create DIY publications and explore self-expression. The workshops will include combinations of therapeutic … Continue reading
June sees the launch of the first ever Medway Print Festival, an exciting new event featuring some of the key art institutions in the Medway area. Across two weeks, 9th to 26 June, there will be exhibitions, a print fair, courses, and printmaking activities for all ages. This year’s participating venues are: Rochester Art Gallery Sun Pier House … Continue reading
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