Events
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Practitioner Network
Category: Events
Informative and sociable meetings for local artist and makers.
Join Arts Alive Wales for our bi-monthly networking meetings at our studio in Crickhowell. These supportive meetings enable local artists and students of all disciplines to come together in a relaxed setting, with plenty of tea and cake, to discuss their own creative practice, share experiences, news and opportunities.
Each meeting features one of our network artists who introduces their work to the group and a guest speaker to facilitate discussion about various aspects of professional development.
FREE to attend – but please let us know if you’re coming.
Refreshments provided.…
Summer Day Trip: London Exhibitions
Category: Events
Don’t miss out on Lucien Freud at The National Portrait Gallery, Picasso at Tate Britatin and Gillian Wearing at The Whitechapel.
Tuesday 22nd May
7am from Crickhowell car park (behind the CRiC centre), picking up at 7:15am from Abergavenny Bus Station.
Dropping off and picking up outside the V&A, Cromwell Road, South Kensington.
5pm, return journey from London
£29 travel only.
Places are limited! Book early.…
Summer Open Day
Category: Events
As part of the Crickhowell and Area Open Studios and Galleries Art Trail.
Summer Open Day: Craft Sale, Creative Workshops and Demonstrations.
Saturday 2nd June
10am – 3pm
Arts Alive Wales, Crickhowell
FREE to attend.
Featuring Pottery by Martin Craddock, Knitting by Melissa Warren, Felt Jewellery by Mandy Nash, Prints by Kay Leverton and much more…
35% of all craft sales on the day will support Arts Alive’s community programme.
Refreshments and Homemade Cakes
Parking is available in the grounds of Crickhowell Primary School.
The Crickhowell and Area Open Studios and Galleries Art Trail is in its 4…
Arts Alive Photo Race!
Category: Events
Snap away in historic Crickhowell and the stunning Black Mountains.
Saturday 7th July
Open from 10am – 3pm
£6 for adults, £3 for children (under 16 years)
Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Refreshments and homemade cakes will be on sale during the day.
Register at Arts Alive Wales:
- Bring your own digital camera and memory card. Make sure both are cleared of any images before you start.
- You’ll be given a secret itinerary of 8 themes, designed to spark your creativity! The weirder the better.
- You can only take one photograph for
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Art Installations for Abergavenny Food Festival 2012
Category: Events
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.
Arts Alive Wales is gearing up to produce the 2012 food-themed offering and volunteers are needed. If you like turning great ideas into a visual feast then you’ll definitely want to get involved with this exciting annual project. Theatre Designer, Bettina Reeves …
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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
For …
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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 …