Arts Alive: Creative Opportunities for All Ages

Volunteers needed – Dreamscape Cleaning at Nevill Hall

Sat 21st April 10am to 3pm

Have you ever looked up in Outpatients at Nevill Hall and wondered whether it was a star, or a planet? A moth or a bat? Do you fancy a closer look? Arts Alive Wales and GARTH are having a Spring Clean of the Dreamscape Banners hanging in Main Outpatients at Nevill Hall this Saturday 21st April 10am to 3pm. Come and lend a hand and see the banners up close.

The banners will be brought down from the ceiling and given a good tidy-up, before being …

Arts Alive Wales offers a fully accessible, light and airy studio space; ideal for workshops, parties and meetings. We’re just a ten minute walk from the historic town centre of Crickhowell and its excellent shops bars and cafes.

The studio is available to hire for £12.00 per hour and has access to a kitchen with tea/coffee making facilities, free Wi-Fi, toilets and parking for up to 8 cars.

We also have a wet room with a sink for messy art activities like painting and pottery.

Additionally we can arrange for an artist to host a creative workshop especially for your …

We are looking for a volunteer gardener to help us give the Arts Alive building a seasonal makeover. Whether gardening is your passion or your profession, if you have time to spare we would like to hear from you.

There is a small budget available for materials, and we would welcome creative input and design ideas.

Please call Arts Alive on 01873 811579, or email info@artsalivewales.org.uk if you are interested in helping.…

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.…

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.…

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…

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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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 …

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 …

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.

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…

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 working with families and  Talgarth Youth Club engaging them …

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 last …

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 …