The Typewriter Project (2025)

The Typewriter Project (2025)

The Typewriter Project utilizes place, time, typewriters and paper-based materials to encourage intergenerational conversation and positive interaction, and the sharing of wisdom to reveal new perspectives, rediscover old skills, and consider the idea that one-to-one communication without a glowing screen is not only possible, it is essential. In this workshop interdisciplinary artist C.K.Itamura will lead participants to type meaningful messages using typewriters and incorporate the messages into mail art and mixed-media miniature handmade accordion books.

This drop-in activity is free for all ages. Typewriters and all supplies will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring a typewriter if they have one they would like to use and share during this workshop. This workshop is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues 2025, on view in the SFArtsEd gallery from February 8 thru March 22, 2025.

In 2018, C.K.Itamura began The Typewriter Project as a way to provide an opportunity, outside of ageist silos, for multi-generations of participants to learn from and share knowledge with one another, plant seeds of appreciation for each other, and to grow creative support systems that are needed for human survival. Find more information here.

Type

Intergenerational, Interactive, Participatory, Community Engagement

Venue

SFArtsED Gallery at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Date

February 15, 2025

Thank You

SFO Airport Museum, Conrad Praetzel, Diana Jameson, R.C.Wong, Nanette Wylde, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Molly Bondy, Julie Grigoryan, Allison Kuhn, Spring Maxfield, San Francisco Public Library, Holly Friel, Rachel Clouse, SFUSD Libraries