Eight giant murals of letters spelling TOGETHER pasted to tall white wooden boxes in the roof-space of Salts Mill in Saltaire

TOGETHER
2023

A collaboration with groups from eight different wards of Bradford

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

TOGETHER was created for the BD:Festival in collaboration with groups from eight different wards of Bradford:

Age of Wonder (Born in Bradford)
Beckfoot Thornton School
High Park School
Ilkley Young Writers (Ilkley Literature Festival)
Informal Busing Society of Bradford
Keighley Story Explorers (Ilkley Literature Festival)
Manningham in Focus
Why Don’t We (Pyramid of Arts)

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Giant letterpress murals featuring the letters G and E pasted to large white wooden boxes and installed in Bradford's Kirkgate Shopping Centre

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

Participants wrote poems in workshops exploring what it means to be together – with each other, with their families and friends, with fellow citizens of Bradford, or with the whole population of the globe.

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The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

— Poet Ian McMillan on printing on the PPP

The groups were invited to help print a letter each – the largest yet printed on the People Powered Press – for a ten-month exhibition in the Kirkgate Shopping Centre in Bradford from July 2023.

The installation was later moved to the People Powered Press’ major exhibition in Salts Mill in 2024.

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Shoppers taking part in a pop-up letterpress printing workshop in front of the giant TOGETHER mural in Bradford's Kirkgate Shopping Centre.
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The People Powered Press CIC exists thanks to the support and hard work of many. Our special thanks will always go to Ian Plant and all the team at JKN Oiltools, Batley, who designed and built the press.