Upcoming Type-Ins, Pop-ups and Print Fairs
Related to Typewriters, Writing and Letterpress Printing
Now that Octoberfest is over and more events are moving inside, let the celebration of type-ins, pop-ups and fairs galore begin. Only one is in Milwaukee, others are nation-wide, so open your calendar on your laptop or your phone and put these happenings in your calendar. Book your Amtrak and plane trips if necessary.
Sunday, October 13 at 9 am at Little Bear Coffee (2632 Pennsylvania NE, Alburqueque, New Mexico. This will be hosted by ABQwerty Type Writer Society Member Joe Van Cleave (along with Matthew, who I don’t know). I hope to go to at least one of the group’s 2025 type-ins.
Also on the 13th in Oviedo, Florida there is a Type Quest workshop with a creative-writing slant. I’m hopeful that Hurricane Milton won’t affect this event because frankly, everyone needs to be typing if only to deal with all the stress and anxiety that Milton has created for everyone across the fruited plain. Fingers crossed, but mostly I just want everyone to be safe.
For something a little print-related that’s in Milwaukee, make time for Ink Curds 2024 at the Enlightened Brewing Company on Saturday, Oct. 19 from noon to 6 p.m. There must be cheese curds for an event with the words curds in it. But in any case, there’s beer and ink. I’m all in and I’ve sent my RSVP.
In San Francisco on the 19th? Good. Man, oh man, I wish I could be at opening day at Fort Mason, 2-5 p.m. Arion Press is the one of the go-to places recommended by the Wall Street Journal recently. You can get to see type casting (type made from hot metal), letterpress printing and bookbinding. Since I’m a type junkie (I bought a case of 48-point Cooper metal type that will break a floor one day), Arion Press is on on my wish list of letterpress-related places to go soon.
In Carson, California, there’s the Los Angeles Printers Fair at the print museum, also on the 19th (and 20th). I’ve not gone, but I know people, well because I went to the Hamilton Wayzgoose and met the West Coast print museum volunteers. They’re good people and I suspect if you look for typewriters at this museum, you will find at least one machine.
If you’re really invested in letterpress emotionally or financially or both, you’ll want to attend the Wayzgoose at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum the weekend of November 9-10 in Two Rivers, Wisc. I won’t be there this year, but if you like to talk type (and typewriters because there was a presentation on the Hammond at last year’s confab), you’ll want to go. Stay at the Lighthouse Inn if you can get a room. Now that I’m not going, I will probably cancel my reservation at the Inn and YOU can have it. If you’re reading this, talk to me and let me know if you want my room at the Inn (I like the Biblical sound of that phrase).
If you can’t make any of these events and you live near Shrewsbury, Penn., you’re in luck! Every Saturday there’s the Epic Typewriter Initiative at Paul Smith Library. Check out the library’s web site for the exact time.
Now, for the gratuitous typewriter photo for this week’s Substack.
