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SUMMARY:Glassmaking Experience - Glass Making From Nature\, Colours Of The Causeway Coast
DESCRIPTION:Benefield Spencer Glass\, the North Antrim Coast’s only glassblowing studio\, is inviting you behind the doors of their private studio to experience the magic of molten glass. \nHands on glassmaking experience at Benefield Spencer Glass studio\, located just a few miles inland from  Ballintoy village. \nThe experience includes demonstrations by professional glassmaker Andrea Spencer and takes a step by step approach\, showing you how to heat and shape glass rods in the flame. Under Andrea’s expert guidance\, you will create your own unique hanging suncatcher design\, inspired by the unique flora and fauna native to the Causeway coastline. \nPlease note you will need to follow link and enquire about booking at andreaspencerglass@gmail.com. Participants must be 16yrs or older. Available days are Thursday – Saturday\, 10am – 12.30 pm. \nCost: \nPersonal Experience 1 person half day £115 full day £230 \nDuo Experience half day £75 full day £150 per person \nA Group Experience half day £75 full day £150 per person \n 
URL:https://craftni.org/event/glassmaking-experience-glass-making-from-nature-colours-of-the-causeway-coast/
LOCATION:Andrea Spencer Glass\, 35 Lagavara Road\, Ballintoy\, BT54 6NG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Folk Art Embroidery Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join tutor Linda O’Kane and learn various stitches\, then combine them into a story cloth of your own. The workshop was  inspired by the colourful embroidered story cloths of the Hmong people of Laos\, richly portraying their lives. \nAll materials will be provided but please bring your own scissors to sessions. \n\nAbout the tutor: Linda has worked in the Antiques/Interior Decoration trade for over 30 years. As a self taught Decorative Artist she has worked in homes throughout the UK\, including some superior hotels. A life long love of sewing\, patchwork and cross stitch has enabled her to gain excellent experience over the years. She really enjoys teaching\, sharing her knowledge and hopefully inspiring others to get creative. \n\n\n\nAge Range16+ years
URL:https://craftni.org/event/folk-art-embroidery-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Crescent Art Centre\, 2-4 University Rd\, Belfast\, BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Awe & Alchemy
DESCRIPTION:The Association for Contemporary Jewellery and Silversmiths Northern Ireland exhibit Awe & Alchemy\, celebrating the diverse approaches towards values\, material possibility\, sustainability\, and social connections\, through the art of jewellery and adornment. \nShowcasing the work of over 20 ACJ members from across the UK\, Ireland and further afield\, the exhibition opens on September 15th at Armagh Market Place Theatre Gallery\, 7 – 9pm. \nACJSNI have partnered with Goldsmith’s Centre to bring some further projects to NI to coincide with this exhibition.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/awe-alchemy/
LOCATION:The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre\, Armagh\, 9 Market Street\, Armagh\, BT61 7BW
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:5-Week Hand-Building Course for Beginners & Improvers (Series 1)
DESCRIPTION:In this five-week course Fiona Shannon will teach participants the basics of hand-building including slab building\, coiling\, pinch pots and using press moulds to create a variety of different pots such as vases and bowls. In the last session\, they will add colour to your pots using a variety of slips. \nShould participants have any previous experience\, Fiona will be able to assist them in developing their skills and improving their techniques. Items that will be fired and glazed in a clear glaze by the tutor to be collected at a later date. \nPlease bring apron and wear clothes that you won’t mind getting a little messy. It is advisable to cut your nails short for this class.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/5-week-hand-building-course-for-beginners-improvers/
LOCATION:Flowerfield Arts Centre\, 185 Coleraine Road\, Portstewart\, BT55 7HU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flowerfield Arts Centre":MAILTO:info@flowerfield.org
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SUMMARY:Pottery beginners/intermediate workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join tutor Andrea McCullough-Alderdice and explore the potter’s wheel and full range of hand-building techniques from pinch pots to coil and slab building\, whilst experimenting with slips\, velvet underglazes and a full range of glazes. \nThe cost includes all materials & firings; the course runs every Wednesday for six weeks.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/pottery-beginners-intermediate-workshop/
LOCATION:Island Arts Centre\, The Island\, Lisburn\, BT27 4RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Re-connecting
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Fitzpatrick is a designer and maker working at the interfaces of art\, design and social practice. Re-Connecting explores the artist’s reconnection with making and colour while learning to reframe her creativity living with acquired brain injury. Re-Connecting spans the gallery spaces exploring visual elements of Rachel’s rediscovery of her creativity. Her work initially began with making but with an absence of confidence in colour. The pieces explore reconnection with colour through making\, place and storytelling with pieces taking inspiration from stories depicted in native folk songs.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/re-connecting/
LOCATION:Down Arts Centre\, 2 - 6 Irish Street\, Downpatrick\, Down\, BT30 6BP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:What was seen\, what was found there
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Cairns’ solo exhibition ‘What was seen\, what was found there’ takes place at Island Arts Centre\, October 7 – October 28. \nStuart graduated with a Bachelors degree In Silversmithing & Jewellery from Ulster University in 2000\, returning to complete a Masters degree in 2006. He is also a member of the British Designer Silversmiths and a part-time lecturer at Ulster University. \nDescribing his work\, Stuart says: “My studio practice is not just about the landscape\, but the experience of being within it\, of being part of it. The walking\, the collecting and even the swimming is about immersion\, of feeling fully connected as part of the ecosystem relating to the tides\, the seasons and the swoop of seagull equally. This is what I explore through the richness of materiality planted within the forms of domestic objects of silversmithing to reference the daily experience of being human”. \nAbout the exhibition: \nThings speak\, through form\, through raw materiality. A language that tells you\, you know this\, you’ve seen this before – in wanderings\, in dreams\, in all those other places sitting at the fringes of memories you’ve almost forgotten. \nThis is a collection of objects\, the made and the found\, alongside images\, drawn and recorded\, exploring the landscape as an imagined space. Objects and paintings set out showing you what you might have seen or what might be waiting out there\, ready to be remembered.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/what-was-seen-what-was-found-there/
LOCATION:Island Arts Centre\, The Island\, Lisburn\, BT27 4RL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Alchemy of Print
DESCRIPTION:‘The Alchemy of Print’ presents an exceptional body of work by Trish Belford\, encompassing new processes as well as designs created for famous fashion UK fashion designers. \nThis exhibition is the culmination of a research and design project by Belford\, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Many of the techniques utilized during the time at Belford Prints (1986-2004) have been revisited to develop the work for ‘The Alchemy of Print’. Samples from the Belford archive sit alongside a range of new samples\, exposing the value of technical craft\, dyeing and printing expertise. \nTrish Belford is a designer\, in 1996 she was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Art\, in 2009 The Society of Dyers and Colorists awarded the silver medal for services to the textile industry. From 2004 – 2022 Trish was Senior Research Fellow at the Ulster University and has just completed a research post with the University of The Arts London as project lead for the Business of Fashion and Textiles and Technology\, working with William Clark and Sons to deliver a more sustainable beetled linen. She has exhibited locally and internationally\, including at the Bangkok International design Festival. She was co-founder and director of Belford Prints (1986-2004)\, Macclesfield\, a creative textile print company working for British fashion designers\, such as Vivienne Westwood\, Georgina von Etzdort\, Neisha Crosland\, Jasper Conran\, English Eccentrics and Zandra Rhodes. \nThis exhibition is supported by an Artist Talk on October 28th\, 2pm. Please note\, the exhibition is open 11am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.
URL:https://craftni.org/event/the-alchemy-of-print/
LOCATION:R-Space Gallery\, 32 Castle Street\, Lisburn\, BT27 4XE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Talks
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