August Craft Month 2010
Craft NI invites you to slow down this summer and join us for the best August Craft Month yet. In this, the 4th year of August Craft Month, take time out to enjoy and experience craft – see the work of international craft makers and designers, join a workshop and explore the skills behind the craft and, if you’re tempted, buy something that’s different, original and locally-made.
We’ve taken ‘Slow’ as our theme for August Craft Month 2010, connecting with the need we feel to slow down, adjust our work-life balance and consider what we buy and how it’s produced. Slow is about quality, authenticity, creative expression and taking time over things that matter. View the complete events listings below or download the August Craft Month 2010 Guide in PDF format (3MB). We hope you will join us this August Craft Month and Slow Down with Craft!
Each event listed below is promoted by individuals or organisations working in the craft industry in Northern Ireland. Before attending an event you should contact them directly to confirm dates and times.
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Highlights This Year
We’ve selected a number of events we think could be the highlights of this year’s August Craft Month.
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Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2010
Exhibitions4th August 2010
Exploring new perspectives in making. Morphing basket weave, a self-contained laundry and an oversized charm bracelet are just some of the works from the third and final Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition.
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Taking Time: Craft & The Slow Revolution
Exhibitions4th August 2010
A touring exhibition from Craftspace curated by Helen Carnac. Taking Time takes as its starting point the issues emerging from the Slow Movement, which developed as a response to our increasingly fast lifestyles and our unsustainable consumer culture.
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Ceramic Patchwork Installation
Fairs16th August 2010
Relating craft to the ethos of the Slow Movement - a reconnection to self, materials and its positive impact for our quality of life - ceramicist Gail Mahon invites members of the public to contribute and engage with the sculptural works that will be developed during a week installation at the Tower Museum.
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Jack Doherty Ceramics Exhibition
Exhibitions30th July 2010
Chair of the Craft Potters’ Association and lead potter at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall, Jack Doherty is an energetic and key figure in British ceramics.
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Little Bohemian Festival
6th August 2010
With workshops, performances, demonstrations and more, come and enjoy a relaxing day out in the countryside.
Full Events Listing
| Ceramic Patchwork Installation | 16th August 2010 | Fairs | The Tower Museum |
| August Craft Month at North Down Museum | Fairs | North Down Museum | |
| Art Feast | 6th August 2010 | Fairs | Benburb & The Mill |
