Arts Alive: Creative Opportunities for All Ages

Following the popular sessions last year we will be having fun making lanterns and exploring local wildlife again this February half term, a licence for imaginative thinking and colourful creation. Followed by a celebration lantern evening at Talgarth Mill on Friday 23rd March.

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/…

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…

Ecology of Place

Drawing threads of connection 

A weekend workshop with Pip Woolf and Lin Charlston. Pip and Lin will explore interconnections in the natural world and uncover the relationships of things to one another and to ourselves. Join them for a challenging and thoughtful interlude observing, walking, drawing, stitching and creating art at Cae’r Hendre Studio in the beautiful Brecon Beacons.

29^th and 39^th October 2011, 10am – 4.30pm

£115, lunch and materials included

Details and booking:

Email: gilpip@googlemail.com / lincharlston@btinternet.com

Telephone: 01874 730995 / 01584 878337

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…

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!

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…

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.

Greenfire Talgarth

Arts Alive has been working for the first time in Talgarth, using new collaborations between artists, wildlife educators and craftspeople to bring the different parts of the community together and to build stronger awareness of its unique and precious natural resources.

• Tree Dressing
• Lanterns Procession
• Stone Carving

Talgarth has been highlighted in the local and national nation news this year with the renovation of the Talgarth Mill Project as an innovative model for community enterprise and a springboard for local regeneration.

Arts Alive has been supporting the Mill Project…

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 will…

The Trail is an annual celebration of art and craft in and around the Crickhowell area with 22 artists opening their studios and workshops during the spring bank holiday weekend. Details of the event can be found by clicking on the CRiC link or calling 01873 811970.

As part of the Trail, Arts Alive are pleased to present a special Studio Weekend. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in painting and drawing under the supportive direction of our two established tutors, Michael and Thomasin Toohie. Follow the Studio Weekend link for more info.

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…

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…

The Arts Alive Market Hall decorations are a focal point of the Abergavenny Food Festival and each year the new theme is eagerly awaited. Last year’s sheep decorations have now been put out to pasture and there’s a real buzz in the air.

Bettina Reeves’ vision for this year’s decorations is Honey Bees and ‘A flying carpet of flowers’ (Ted Hughes). Bees and honey also feature in the opening event of the festival – a poetry reading to be given by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke on Thursday 16 September.

The swarm will be lovingly brought to life by…

Arts Alive are pleased to announce that we are supporting Adult Learners Week from 15th – 21st May 2010 and we’d like to invite you to come along and take part in the diverse programme of free taster sessions being offered including Introduction to Art classes in Landscape, Life Drawing, Clay, Stone Carving & Print Making. We are also offering free taster sessions of Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, Street Dance, Singing, Music for Parents and Tots & a Recycled FashionWorkshop.

For more information and to book your places call 01873 811579 or email info@artsalivewales.org.uk