Help Print Collective keep Riso accessible for all

Print Collective is organizing this fundraiser.

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SOUTH LONDON NEEDS A COMMUNITY RISO PRESS

We've been running open access community print workshops for the last 5 years+, sadly our Risograph machines have become too unreliable to function in the way people need them to.

We've been offered a new machine at a good price and have started to fundraise, all the funds will go towards purchasing the new machine and its start up costs (delivery, running some free test and training workshops)

By supporting, you will enable us to provide two low cost inductions and open access sessions a month, cheap printing to community and activist groups in Croydon and wider South London, continuing to make Risograph printing and creativity accessible.

"Print Collective welcome anyone who wants to start using riso, whether they're professional artists or complete newcomers, making it into a social artform rather than a rarefied one."*

Over the last 5 years we've collaborated with The Feminist Library, The Outside Project, TOMA, Save Latin Village, SWARM, SOAS Detainee Support, Decriminalised Futures, and Arts Press as well as running open access and intro workshops for the general public at our home of TURF Projects.

"It’s important to me that there are diy or art communities that are easily accessible to random people with no connection to the art world (me). I like learning from other people and being in a space where people are being creative."*

"It’s a very welcoming space and everyone running it is lovely, in its structure as an affordable community space removes some of the barriers I have encountered in printmaking workshops/studios previously. It’s good to see creative spaces flourishing in Croydon, too."*

Please donate what you can, every contribution is valued no matter the amount, if each of our previous participants and collaborators donated a couple of quid we would easily be half way to our goal!

Keep your eyes on our instagram account at PrintCollective1, we will be sharing donation based prizes/workshops to fundraise along side this over the next few weeks, please share wide with your community!