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Category: Live Shows

The Erroneous Disposition Live!

We launched our latest book ‘The Erroneous Disposition of the People’ last night with a live music and art performance at Wilderthorn Presents… a monthly music and art night held at a community cafe in Brick Lane. This wonderful book of poetry and prose is by James Wilkes, Eddie Farrell, Julie Rafalski, David Barnes and

Erroneous Disposition of the People Show & Gig at Kahalia on Brick Lane

We have a gig to announce, happening in just two weeks time! Henningham Family Press have teamed up again with the golden voiced Jon Bilbrough (Wilderthorn), to compose a collaborative piece of art and music. We will be playing from an oversized book; a bestiary depicting twelve animals in pigment and melody. For inspiration we

Monday School print with Half-handed Cloud

Half-handed Cloud & Henningham Family Press London, 2012 Edition 70 screenprint 400 x 500 mm Free with the show (sold out) This layers of this print were done as stages in a processional show with Half-handed Cloud, as part of the Monday School project. The waves of the Red Sea pulled back for a red

Archive: Broadsheet Ballad

23rd April 2011, 7pm Stoke Newington International Airport Unit F, 1-15 Leswin Place London, N16 7NJ Commissioned by London Word Festival Time Out Recommended It comes as no surprise this is the brainchild of live screenprinters the Henningham Family Press Bella Todd, Time Out     The broadsheet (or broadside) ballad was a 16th century

Archive: InterInterInter

Performances: 2009 Ultima Festival, Oslo2009 Borealis Festival, Bergen2008 De Bijloke, Gent2008 Rational Rec, London (Bethnal Green) A Rational Rec Commission We were asked by Rational Rec to come up with an idea for a night of interdisiplinary art and music at their Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club base. We decided to try and make a

Archive: Chip Shop

A London Word Festival commissionsupported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation Performances 2013 There Will Be New Rules Next Week (Sister Corita Kent), Dundee Contemporary Arts2012 You Say French Fiberboard…, Rowhill Books, Charlottesville VA2011 Evolving English, British Library2011 Printmaking Today, Black Rat Gallery, Shoreditch2010 Multiplied, Christie’s Auction House2010 The Verb, BBC Radio Theatre (BBC Radio 3)

Archive: King James Bible Bash

23rd April 2011, 7pm Stoke Newington International AirportUnit F, 1-15 Leswin PlaceLondon, N16 7NJ www.stkinternational.co.uk Commissioned by London Word Festival Time Out Particularly RecommendedLe Cool Recommended 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

Archive: Monday School with Half-handed Cloud

Thursday 19th January 2012, 8.00pm St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Row, Dalston, London, E8 2EA We asked Oakland based Indie musician and artist John Ringhofer (aka Half-handed Cloud of Asthmatic Kitty Records) to join us in making a show as part of the Monday School Project. He brought with him several unreleased songs and his extensive

An Unknown Soldier at Poetry Library 11am – 6pm 18th Nov

An Unknown Soldier and other recent acquisitions will be on show at the Saison Poetry Library as part of their 4th annual Open Day Poetic Censorship 11am – 6pm FREE Poetry Library Level 5 Royal Festival Hall London SE1 8XX

“You Say Chip, I Say Fibreboard…” HFP in USA!

A stripped down Chip Shop  session took place in Random Row Bookshop in Charlottesville VA last week.  What a great reception we had from the good people of Virginia! Every seat was taken as we did a quick presentation about our work before requesting words to be printed. The Virginians chose ‘y’all’ and ‘Kudzu’, giving