Wednesday 30 June '10
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Craft Salon at The Mechanics Institute

Charlie bends wood

Adam makes pots

Adam throws pots

We ran a Craft Salon to run alongside the Coniston Arts and Crafts Annual Exhibition held in the village hall. The salon took place in the library where we tucked away the unsightly book carousels and Romance novels and displayed instead bits of pottery, glass, metal work and books from our collection and library. We had artists, craft people, and historians talking and showing. Charlie Whinney and his demonstration of how to steam-bend wood got the biggest round of applause though Adam's history of the Arts and Crafts Movement demonstrated by the throwing of pots came a very close second.

Posted by Maria Benjamin on 30/06/10 at 20:06 0 Comments

Topics: 'Arts and Crafts' 'craft' 'Arts and Crafts' 'craft'

Wednesday 30 June '10
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Recent visitors

Tidy Architecture Students

Extra Special People

We have been busy over the last couple of weeks with a group of German Architecture students and tutors who stayed at Lawson Park and Low Parkamoor and thought about issues of land use, commons law and access rules while helping tidy our messy wood pile. The left and another group of Extra Special People from Birmingham's Eastside Projects arrived. The weekend consisted of hard toil in the fields for some, and for the others, a social couple of days at the Craft Salon at The Mechanics Institute where we organised lectures and demonstrations in the library as part of the Coniston Arts and Crafts Society Annual Exhibition.

Posted by Maria Benjamin on 30/06/10 at 19:37 0 Comments

Topics: 'craft' 'Eastside Projects' 'craft' 'Eastside Projects'

Thursday 24 June '10
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Late at Tate - You Tube can Double Dip

Yes for you folks who missed our spectacular at Tate Britain on June 4th, Jesse Rae has kindly youtubed his whole set with the Thistles and Skip Macdonald. Watch out for the Double Dip now.....

Posted by Alistair Hudson on 24/06/10 at 10:38 0 Comments

Topics: 'funk' 'Jesse Rae' 'Tate' 'funk' 'Jesse Rae' 'Tate'

Thursday 24 June '10
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Hide and Horn Online

Long time Grizedale collaborator Peter Hodgson now has his own online shop. Do pay it a visit for finely crafted luxury goods in leather, horn, wood, ceramic and a variety of pet food supplies.

Posted by Alistair Hudson on 24/06/10 at 10:31 0 Comments

Thursday 17 June '10
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Coniston Arts and Crafts Society Annual Exhibition

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 17/06/10 at 08:39 1 Comment

Topics: 'Arts and Crafts' 'Charlie Gere' 'John Byrne' 'Mechanics Insitute' 'Arts and Crafts' 'Charlie Gere' 'John Byrne' 'Mechanics Insitute'

Thursday 3 June '10
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Cumbria Tragedy

Our deepest sympathies go out to all those affected by this devastating event.

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 03/06/10 at 05:54 0 Comments