Events
Events are listed in descending date order. Both Events and Classes are also listed by date on the Calendar.
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‘Useful and Beautiful’ Art for the Home – Exhibition and Fundraiser
An exhibition and fund-raising sale of Art and Craft at Porthmawr Country House, Crickhowell, NP8 1DE
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March 2012
2pm to 5pm
Featuring a retrospective of the work of
CATHARINE MARR-JOHNSON
And the work by contemporary artists including Hannah Firmin, Tom Hallifax, Annika Neumuller, Roy Powell, Kumar Saraff, Sarah Thwaites, Mary Zammitt and others
Entry £3 Adults, accompanied children free
All proceeds from the exhibition and sale to support Arts Alive Wales’ Community Programme
In collaboration with Five-Ways Art – www.five-ways.net
Patrons: Lady Bingham, Susannah Fiennes, Sir Robert & Lady Hayman-Joyce, John and Sally Leighton Williams…
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Celebrate Spring! Half-Term Workshops
Category: Arts Alive Classes, Events
What can you see outside? Animals, rivers, hills and trees are full of life after the winter. Have fun with recycled materials as you make your own Springtime scene!
Artist, Kathy Young, will inspire children to work together to create a collective artwork for display at a fundraising exhibition for Arts Alive Wales in March at Porthmawr Country House.
All ages welcome – spaces are limited. Children aged 7 and under must be accompanied by an adult
Monday 13th & Tuesday 14th February
10am – 1pm & 2pm – 5pm
£6 for a morning session / £10 all day / …
Interpreting the Landscape
Category: Arts Alive Classes, Events
As part of the Crickhowell Walking Festival
Join artist Valerie Coffin Price for an inspirational walk along the lanes, meadows and waterways of Crickhowell and Llangattock. Responding to the diverse landscape you’ll create new drawings, photography or writing, depending on your personal interests. You’ll return to the Arts Alive studio in the afternoon to develop your ideas.
Distance: Approximately 3 miles. A gentle walk with a couple of steeper climbs and fields. Please wear suitable outdoor clothes and walking boots. Please bring your own art materials/equipment and a packed lunch.
Saturday 3rd March
10am – 3pm, meeting at Arts …
Winter Gathering
Celebrate the festive season with Arts Alive Wales at our annual Winter Gathering on Friday 9th December, 3-9pm. The free event will host a craft fayre and art sale including original framed art work, printed cards and handmade crafts, as well as festive cakes and refreshments.
The event features local artists and makers selling a wide range of affordable pieces, from ceramics and watercolours to natural textiles and willow baskets. Enjoy a glass of mulled wine, soak up the atmosphere and discover unique gifts for friends and family.
Tessa Waite http://www.tessawaite.co.uk/
Pip Woolf http://woollenline.wordpress.com/
Llynfi Textiles http://www.llynfitextiles.co.uk/
Kay Leverton …
Blanced Hiraeth at Made by Hand
The completed Blanced Hiraeth, a beautiful, organic Welsh Wool blanket, designed and hand-knitted by Arts Alive volunteers with the support of yarn expert Ginevra Croft is going to be displayed at Made by Hand at Tredegar House, Newport. This is another opportunity to see the stunning blanket and also to buy a raffle ticket to be in with a chance of winning it! The blanket is absolutely unique, each individual square has a story to tell and will surely be treasured for many years to come. Warm cwtches in winter are guaranteed!
Made by Hand is a contemporary craft fair …
Powys Arts Month 2011
This October Arts Alive Wales is pleased to be taking part in Powys Arts Month!
The county of Powys is not only a treasure-house of natural beauty, it is equally rich in the arts. Painters, poets and performers, sculptors and silversmiths, musicians and media artists, and many more and varied arts practitioners, all live and work here, and the Arts Month brings them together in a celebration of what the arts in Powys have to offer. http://www.powysartsmonth.org.uk
Join Arts Alive Wales for a new performance of:
MEETING MR ELIOT
Join Sue Harries, trustee of Arts Alive and former secretary to T.S. …
The Big Draw – Fantastic Creatures
Category: Events
We’re welcoming our furry and feathered friends into the studio! If you’ve never been to Arts Alive before come and have a go at drawing animals of all shapes, colours and sizes! But we can’t promise they’ll pose for you.
Materials will be provided.
Saturday 8th October
10am – 3pm. Drop in anytime.
FREE!
Why not bring your own pet? The more the merrier!…
Abergavenny Food Festival – call for volunteers!
Help create Abergavenny’s biggest art installation!
The Abergavenny Food Festival’s market hall decorations are always a huge hit. They are eagerly anticipated and give real pleasure to thousands of people – visitors and locals alike – for a whole year. Here’s your chance to get your creative work centre-stage at one of the UK’s top foodie events.
Last year’s ‘bees and flowers’ are fading fast, and now it’s all systems go as Arts Alive Wales gears up to produce the 2011 food-themed offering. Volunteers are needed. If you like turning great ideas into a visual feast then you’ll definitely want …
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Blanced Hiraeth – prize draw!
Yes, this is your chance to win the completed Blanced Hiraeth, a beautiful, organic Welsh Wool blanket, designed and hand-knitted by Arts Alive volunteers with the support of yarn expert Ginevra Croft.
Crickhowell Summer Fayre 2011
This year’s event follows a very successful inaugural Summer Fayre at Porthmawr Country House in 2010, where over 1,000 people attended, in addition to the many stall-holders and participants.
Join Arts Alive at Porthmawr on Sunday 24th July from 12pm – 6pm. Geoff and Linda Powell, the organisers of the fayre and owners of Porthmawr, are kindly donating funds raised to Arts Alive. Like so many voluntary organsiations, we can not survive on love alone and financial support is needed to continue the provision of vibrant arts acticivties for all ages and abilities in our local area.
This year the event …
Growing Woollen lines 2011
Category: Events
It takes 1000 years for a metre of peat to form. On Pen Trumau, above Pengenfford, 7 hectares to that depth have vanished since the mountain caught fire in 1976. The unhealed scar has lost 6,125 tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere along with equivalent carbon storage capacity.
In 2010, 500 people took part in ‘Woollen line’, beginning repair of the eroded mountain by making a 300m long line in heather-seeded felted wool crossed with wool ‘sausages’ pegged into erosion channels.
The wool is helping to stabilise the surface of the scar and allow vegetation to re-grow. However at last …
Arts Alive Auction 2011
Category: Events
Works now available to view online – please see below. Click on a thumbnail to view a larger version.
The Ballroom, The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, Friday 11 March
Paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery by leading contemporary artists
Auction Patron: William Gibbs
The works may be viewed at the Ballroom, Angel Hotel, Abergavenny prior to the Auction between 11am and 4pm on Friday 11th March 2011.
For those unable to attend the Auction commission bids may be made using the Arts Alive Auction 2011 bid form. Please note that bids submitted by post or email must reach us by …
Events
- ‘Useful and Beautiful’ Art for the Home – Exhibition and Fundraiser
- Celebrate Spring! Half-Term Workshops
- Interpreting the Landscape
- Winter Gathering
- Blanced Hiraeth at Made by Hand
- Powys Arts Month 2011
- The Big Draw – Fantastic Creatures
- Abergavenny Food Festival – call for volunteers!
- Blanced Hiraeth – prize draw!
- Crickhowell Summer Fayre 2011
- Growing Woollen lines 2011
- Arts Alive Auction 2011