Taking place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd December at Print Workers Barcelona, the Give Print A Chance market is back for 2024 with its 9th edition. The market is host to more than 25 international and local screen print artists, and is a must for lovers of illustration, design, and 100% handmade gifts. The Open Call for this year’s event is now open until October 31st, and the team at Print Workers Barcelona are looking for both international and local screen printers to take part.
Thanks to the collaboration of Casa Jam Barcelona, a local hostel, Print Workers offers free accommodation to long distance artists that participate in the market. Give Print a Chance is a Christmas Market dedicated exclusively to illustration and limited edition handmade design. If you are a screen printing artist there’s still plenty of time to participate in the 9th edition of Give Print a Chance and travel to the wonderful city of Barcelona.
For the past 10 years, Print Workers Barcelona have been promoting screen printing through courses and an extensive catalogue of artists with its art gallery. Give Print a Chance is the ultimate expression of this commitment to bring screen printing to the general public as an art as democratic and accessible as it is dazzling.
Located on Pl. John Lennon in Barcelona’s charismatic Gràcia neighbourhood, the name of this annual screen printing event in Barcelona came about easily and almost naturally. What better name than Give Print a Chance in homage to the song Give Peace a Chance by the legendary Liverpool musician?
Give Print a Chance is an awesome small-format marketplace. The market, like the Print Workers Barcelona project, has always had an international vocation. And just as the prints in the Print Workers gallery catalogue are sent all over the world, the market participants are local and international artists in equal parts. Over the course of 8 editions, international screen printing artists such as Elisa Talentino (Italy), Antighost (Germany), Tind (Greece), Mirjam Dijkema (Netherlands), Mandy Doubt (United Kingdom), Julie Legrand (France), Ofycina Peryferie (Poland), Ileana Rovetta (Portugal), Rat Trap (Colombia) or The Fingersmith Letterpress (Singapore) have shared space with local artists such as Miguel Bustos, Error Design, Serigrafia Monoestereo or Ramón París, among many others.
Non local artists that participate are able to stay for free at at Casa Jam Barcelona, an emblematic slow tourism hostel in the Gràcia neighbourhood. And in exchange, through the Print Workers commission, provide graphic artworks for Casa Jam to decorate their walls.
So get involved in this wonderful celebration of screen printing this Christmas! Immerse yourself in a new creative community, share and sell your artwork, and there’s even free accommodation! Apply to take part here.
Want to know more about our membership? Give us an email at members@peopleofprint.com.
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