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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery are running a series of family events over half term.
Family Feltmaking Workshop at BMAG
26th October 2009
Join artist Benny Semp and create a colourful felted patch or ball, using colourful hand-dyed merino sheep’s wool and maybe even transform it into a keyring or charm bracelet! 11am till 4pm in the Waterhall seminar Room. Free, drop-in and suitable for all ages.
Fantastical Family feltmaking Workshop at BMAG
28th October 2009
Join artist Kirsty E Smith and create a wonderful textural felted masterpiece! Using merino wool fibres, warm water, soap and some gentle rubbing, create your own piece of felt, then use some recycled fabrics to add sheen and sparkle! 11am till 4pm in the Waterhall Seminar Room. Free, drop-in and suitable for all ages
Make Do and Mend – Family Textile Workshop at BMAG
30th October 2009
Join artist Shane Waltener for this fun textile workshop; Unravel a treasure chest of colourful knitted and stitched garments and use the recycled yarn to create a stitched and knotted masterpiece which can be added to Shane’s work in the exhibition ‘Taking Time:Craft and the Slow Revolution’. 11 till 4pm in the Waterhall Seminar Room. Free, drop-in and suitable for all ages.
A performance at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Craftspace are looking for dancers to volunteer to take part in a live performance at the launch of the exhibition Taking Time:Craft and the Slow Revolution.
You will be working with Artist Shane Waltener and dancer choreographer Cheryl McChesney Jones.
Rehearsal Thursday 22nd October late afternoon (time to be arranged with participants).
Performance Friday 23rd October evening (approx 7.30pm)
Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, with a short rehearsal beforehand.
Gestures and movements associated with stitching and dancing will be developed into a sequence of movements by the artists, to be interpreted by dancers and stitchers in a performance in the gallery space. The performance will last around 15/20 minutes. Each dancer will hold a length of yarn, and through the interaction with other performers and the space itself, will create a woven structure in the gallery space that will be added to over the course of the exhibition.
Previous experience in dancing or stitching is not essential. A broad range of ages would be welcome.
Dance style: contemporary.
Contact Craftspace 0121 608 6668 or info@craftspace.co.uk to take part.
from http://www.shanewaltener.com/interactive/index.html
Have just found out via twitter about a walk Nikki Pugh is doing around Digbeth, Birmingham next weekend which links really well with the slow theme and coincides with the opening of the exhibiton at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
From http://www.npugh.co.uk/:
On Sunday the 18th of October I’m going to do a different type of walk, and I’d like you to join me.
Weather permitting, we will meet at the Old Crown pub (Corner of Heath Mill Lane and Deritend, Digbeth) from 2pm for a 2.30 start. We will then walk once around the perimeter of the regeneration area taking great care to stop, investigate, prod, document, tell stories about and explore things along the way. A no-frills walk takes about 90 minutes, so be prepared for this one to last 2 or more hours. No route march though – this will be very stop-start.
The exhibition will launch at the Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on the 17th October 2009. www.birmingham.gov.uk
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