You are invited to
Arcade in collaboration with Eden Arts
an Exhibition #Town2Town
5th – 20th March 2010
A dual sited exhibition of arts in empty shops in both Carlisle & Penrith
Launching Fri 5th March at 8pm Lowther Arcade Carlisle
with Arts throughout, live music & Mini Food Fest from The Circle Cafe Bar.
Launching Sat 6th March at 12 [...]
Arcade …in collaboration with Eden Arts
arcade is an artist-led initiative which aims to encourage the bringing together of artists and creative practitioners working in broad ranging art forms, and to organise openly accessible events in public ‘non-gallery’ spaces.
Projects to date have been organised specific to a Victorian built walkway Lowther Arcade in Carlisle city centre, [...]
Marmalade fans can enjoy some extra events in the days leading up to the World’s Original Marmalade Festival, held on February 13 & 14 at Dalemain, near Penrith.
Join the Marmalade Workshop on 3 February – it’s a unique opportunity to enjoy the day in front of Dalemain’s Aga, watching Annette Gibbons OBE at work, [...]
‘The National Sculpture Prize 2010’ is the second installment of the Art Prize created by the Bluecoat Display Centre to hunt out innovative new artists and makers. Following the success of our competition in 2008, and with the support of Malthouse & Co Chartered Accountants, the 2010 edition of the competition seeks to find six [...]
Music and memories, thrift and thread for the Highlights Spring season
The new Spring season brochure is out from the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme for Cumbria and Durham. It includes details of fifteen exciting shows covering the whole range of performing arts and also has information about this year’s Contemporary Craft Tour, Thrift & Thread.
Performances for [...]
Christmas Craft Fair 4-6 December, Alston Town Hall
The Craft Fair has been a major event in Alston Town’s calendar since 1992. Held in the Town Hall on the first weekend in December the craft fair is the ideal place to find Christmas gifts with a difference.
The event has a lively, vibrant atmosphere, full of colour [...]
Traditionally in sport, competitors exchange pennants as a sign of friendship. To continue this tradition, and as a memento of their participation in this event, Quilts 4 London is undertaking a project to make a pennant (or ‘mini’ quilt) for each athlete. The project gives quilters, felt makers, embroiderers, textile artists, in fact anyone who [...]
Exploring new creative interfaces connecting traditional woodland crafts, digital media, technology, architecture and high-end urban design.
Seminar: 3.00 – 5.00pm, Wed. 19th August. Cylinders Estate, Elterwater
Presentations by: Charlie Whinney www.charliewhinney.com about a recently completed steam-bent wood sculpture commission for Harvey Nichol’s main store in London. And members of the Owl [...]
Over 100 exhibitors from all over Europe and beyond….all with very distinctive individual styles ….all passionate about working with clay.
This year 24 potters from outside the UK will be showing their work – many for the first time in the UK. A special feature will be six guests from Hohr-Grenzhausen, an old pottery town in [...]
Situated in an elegant purpose-built pavilion in the Spinningfields business district, just off Deansgate in the heart of Manchester, The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair provides a unique shopping experience where original contemporary craft can be purchased and commissioned directly from the UK’s leading designer-makers.
Now in its second year, the Fair features over 130 exhibitors [...]