September 2026

Saturday 19
- 14:00 - 18:00
Sunday 20
- 14:00 - 18:00

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

Urdla - Centre international estampe & livre

207, rue Francis de Pressensé, 69100 Villeurbanne, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Métropole de Lyon

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Demonstrations by printers

Name: Demonstrations by printers
Start: 2026-09-19T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Urdla - Centre international estampe & livre

Demonstration of the operation of a 100-year-old lithographic press by URDLA’s lithographer.

19 and 20 September

Conditions

Free admission

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

Demonstration of the operation of a 100-year-old lithographic press by URDLA’s lithographer.

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 14:00 - 18:00
Sunday 20
- 14:00 - 18:00

Additionnal information

Manifestation

Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

About the location

Urdla - Centre international estampe & livre

207, rue Francis de Pressensé, 69100 Villeurbanne, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Métropole de Lyon

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

In 1978, on the initiative of Max Schoendorff, some artists joined to save from an imminent destruction a bankrupt and outdated(obsolete) lithographic printing of Lyon. This safeguarded heritage (press, hundred-year-old lithographic stones), it was necessary to define use(custom). It is in the service(department) of creation since lithographic activity came back to life. Today, an old(former) factory of 1000 m ² shelters international Urdla-Centre print and deliver. It is about a Contemporary Arts Centre grouping(including) workshops(studios) of impression(printing) (lithograph, line-engraving, size of savings, typography(typeface)), a gallery and a bookshop. The association connects(binds) so the protection(saving) of a heritage, the support for contemporary creation, and distribution(broadcasting) of its productions to the amateurs, collectors and school. Urdla chooses and invites a dozen of plastic surgeons a year and offers them the possibility of practising the original engraving during residences. The engraving – generic term recovering all results(profits) of a process of impression(printing) — is characterised by the edition(drawing) of a limited number of copies numbered and signed by the artist, intended(designed) for sale. "Original" means that the artists work on the manufacturing of matrices, the technicians themselves making editions(drawings) then.

Conditions

September 2026

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Vorführungen durch die Druckereien

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Demonstrations by printers

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Dimostrazioni da parte degli stampatori

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Démonstrations par les imprimeurs

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Demostraciones por los impresores

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

September 2026