Henningham Family Press

King James Bible Bash: 23rd April 2011

By - David
Posted on April, 26, 2011December, 19, 2012

What a great night we had. Thank you all for a great turn-out and such a charismatic audience! The spontaneous singing of “for he’s a jolly good Bible” and ‘Happy Birthday’ were definitely a highlight for us. See below the wonderful Bible Cake that provoked it. Also images of the Live Print Production Line accompanied

Time Out particularly recommends KJBB

By - David
Posted on April, 22, 2011December, 19, 2012

Time Out particularly recommends our King James Bible Bash. Hey fact fans, did you know? In three years we have netted four categories in Time Out! Books and Poetry, Music, Art, Fringe Theatre… (apologies, I’m eating too much Petit Filous and their calcium facts are effecting my posts.)

King James Bible Bash in LeCool

By - David
Posted on April, 21, 2011December, 19, 2012

Johanna Derry says (here): spoken word King James Bible Bash It’s the 400th anniversary of the King James translation of the Bible, and, it being Easter weekend and all, perhaps this is the best time of the year to get a bit Biblical, and mark the occasion. Taking inspiration from the stories at the start

King James Bible Bash, STK 23rd April 2011

By - David
Posted on April, 15, 2011December, 19, 2012

This is going to be amazing! HFP and the London Word Festival present a 400th Birthday Party for the King James Bible. The whole story of the Bible re-presented in film, music, performance, and live print! Creation, Fall and Resurrection! It’s in Time Out, twice! On the night: Nathan Jones (Mercy) and Sam Meech present

Henningham Family Press in PrintWeek

By - David
Posted on March, 11, 2011March, 11, 2011

There is a trade magazine that is always there when I visit big print firms called PrintWeek, basically the main industry news. It is filled with pictures of enormous offset-litho presses with six or even ten colour capacity, heidelberg presses that include their own built-in staircases… and we are profiled in the centrefold as part

King James Bible Bash: Call for Artists and Performers

By - David
Posted on March, 9, 2011May, 12, 2011

The Henningham Family Press are live printing again with the fabulous London Word Festival! Our new show for 2011 is the King James Bible Bash, to be held at the sensational Stoke Newington International Airport, the venue that all airports should aspire to be. It will be on April 23rd and tickets are already on

Universettee Lecture on Basho and Sebald: 15th Mar 2011

By - David
Posted on March, 9, 2011March, 9, 2011

A Method for Approaching Bamboo How the world confronts the artist in the poetry of Basho and WG Sebald What is nature and how long can it last? What happens when artists try to examine the world they are a part of? What happened when two poets born exactly 400 years apart passed each other

Chip Shop at the British Library – picture!

By - David
Posted on March, 9, 2011May, 12, 2011

Chip Shop at British Library 5th March 2011

By - David
Posted on February, 25, 2011May, 12, 2011

We have been invited to set out our increasingly battered Chip Shop in the British Library. We will be dipping into the National treasure-trove of language that is the BL, and the even bigger resource buried between the ears of the people of this great literate Nation! Evolving English Discovery Day FREE 11am-5pm The British

Watching a Film Not Yet Seen

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on February, 24, 2011February, 24, 2011

“The future is but the obsolete in reverse,” wrote Nabokov. Both the future and the obsolete are to varying degrees deficient in images representing them. Traces of the obsolete can often be found in attics, archives, junkyards, museums, sunken ships and memories. “Traces” of the future, however, are intangible and images of the future can