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SUMMARY:Stories of Breath
DESCRIPTION:Step into a multi-sensory world where stories unfold through imagery\, sound and hands-on making. \nStories of Breath weaves together art\, craft\, science and storytelling to explore the invisible inequalities in the air and how we breathe. This powerful immersive experience brings stories to life through textile sculptures\, sound installations and hands-on making.\n\nStories of Breath was created by the participants and collaborators of Women and Asthma\, a public engagement project involving artists\, scientists and women from Birmingham\, Skelmersdale and Tower Hamlets.\nWe have been working with Imperial College London exploring how women experience asthma.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/world-asthma-day/
LOCATION:Library of Birmingham\, Centenary Square\, Broad Street\, Birmingham\, B1 2ND
CATEGORIES:Connecting Communities,Consultancy,Craftspace Curates,get involved
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SUMMARY:Shelanu Keyring Workshop for World Refugee Week
DESCRIPTION:Join Shelanu at The Exchange for a special evening hosted by the University of Birmingham and other city-based organisations supporting refugees. Through stories\, music and art\, we’ll be celebrating the contributions of refugees\, standing together in advocating for their rights and protection worldwide. \nCome along and decorate a key ring to take home. \nRefugee Week’s theme this year is “Community is our Superpower”. Shelanu have been exploring this theme by thinking about community activities and peoples’ hobbies as a superpower\, because they support mental health\, well-being and combat loneliness by creating friendships. \nShelanu members will share a drawing technique to help you to draw your own idea of Community as a Superpower on a polymer clay shape\, which you can then make into a keyring. \nWe will also be selling our jewellery ranges. \nThe evening will also include: \n\nLive conversations\nLive music\nMembers of Stories of Hope and Home will share their lived experiences
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/keyring-and-badge-workshop-for-world-refugee-day/
LOCATION:Birmingham Exchange\, 3 Centenary Square\, Birmingham\, B1 2DR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Connecting Communities,Craftspace Curates,get involved,Making Together,Shelanu
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SUMMARY:Shelanu Keyring and Badge Workshop for Celebrating Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION:Join Shelanu for a free drop-in fabric keyring and badge workshop at the Midlands Art Centre.  \nChoose off-cuts of a Birmingham map from 1835 symbolising a new home and welcome\, and/or fabric with colours that represent your country of origin. \nRefugee Week theme this year is “Our Home”. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home\, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them. \nCelebrating Sanctuary  \nThis year’s festival will bring music and arts from around the world\, showcasing the work of highly acclaimed refugee and migrant artists\, plus refugee and community groups. With live music\, information stalls\, arts and crafts and workshops we promise you will leave happier and more inspired than when you arrived.  \nBringing people together to celebrate and experience the culture\, arts and stories of refugees and migrant communities through a universal appreciation of music\, joy and life.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/shelanu-keyring-and-badge-workshop-for-celebrating-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Connecting Communities,Craftspace Curates,get involved,Shelanu
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SUMMARY:Brum Buzzcut
DESCRIPTION:Artist Blacksmith Annie Higgins will lead a stitch repair activity and talk about queer ecology\, as part of Buzzcut Festival\, Birmingham’s queer & LGBTQIA+ festival for words and conversation.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/brum-buzzcut/
LOCATION:Back to Backs\, Birmingham\, 55-63 Hurst Street/50-54 Inge Street\, Birmingham\, B5 4TE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Connecting Communities,Craftspace Curates,get involved
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SUMMARY:YARNING
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing development of Yarning is supported by Craftspace with more to come in 2022.\nRead more about Yarning in our archive.\n\n\n\nTrevor Pitt presents a live streaming of his play YARNING: four women spin tales of life\, survival and knitting for Christmas\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn association with Yardley Great Trust Group\, Trevor Pitt presents his play YARNING as a live streamed event. In response to Covid restrictions the play has been adapted so that it can be experienced by people at home\, and in particular older people in residential care settings. Trevor has been working with Yardley Great Trust Group and their residents to create a heartwarming and life affirming event. \nBooking\nBook you free place online via Eventbrite. \n5 days before the performance you will be sent a link to watch the performance that will be streamed live via Youtube. You will also be sent a Zoom link to join an after performance discussion with the writer Trevor Pitt\, director Jake Oldershaw and actors Debra Baker\, Norma Cohen\, Kitty Martin and Jenny Earl. \nAbout the play\nPremiered in 2016 it played to ‘sold out’ audiences at Midlands Arts Centre. Four women spin yarns of their lives and how they grew up with knitting. Performed as a series of interweaving monologues\, each story is life affirming\, telling of survival against the odds to achieve a dream. \nTrevor’s first play draws on 10 years working with knitters\, spinners and sheep farmers from across the country. Using recordings he made with the remarkable women he met along the way\, Yarning tells four women’s life stories:\nAt the age of 9 Greta went to live at the Doctor’s house with her Aunty who was an amazing knitter.\nBetty moved her family from Manchester to Cumbria to become a sheep farmer.\nGloria was born in Oxford Workhouse and raised by relatives who all knitted.\nMarion’s house is full to the rafters with wool and crafting paraphernalia and she loves it. \nYARNING is supported using public funding by Arts Council England .
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/yarning2021/
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates,Yarning
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SUMMARY:Yarning @ Yarningham 2019
DESCRIPTION:Trevor Pitt will be screening Yarning\, a play created during the Craftspace Curates season which was in partnership with MAC Birmingham. The play tells the lives of five women and how they grew up with knitting. \nThe play will be screened as part of Yarningham\, a festival created by Stitches and Ho’s celebrating all things knitting\, based at the Uffculme Centre\, Birmingham. Yarningham 2019 will feature workshops\, demonstrations and a marketplace. \nThere will be three screenings of Yarning throughout the day at 12pm\, 1pm and 2pm taking place on Sunday 14th July. Trevor Pitt will also be introducing each screening and will be available after the screenings to answer any questions. \nFurther information and ticket prices for Yarningham can be found through the Stitches and Ho’s website.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/yarning-at-yarningham-2019/
LOCATION:Uffculme Centre\, 52 Queensbridge Road\, Birmingham\, B13 8QY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates,Yarning
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160903T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160903T193000
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SUMMARY:Carrie Fertig: Torcher Chamber Arkestra (followed by Q&A)
DESCRIPTION:Book tickets on the mac birmingham website… \nTickets £12 (Concessions & matinee £9)\, Foyle Studio\, All ages \nAfter this performance there is an informal question and answer session with the artist. \nA spellbinding performance with fire\, live and electronic music and glass blowing. \nA unique performance seen live for the first time in England with glass artist Carrie Fertig\, composer Alistair MacDonald and percussionist Stu Brown. \nIn this unusual collaboration Carrie Fertig makes instruments using a process of flameworking with fire. Together with premade instruments these are played by her and the musicians combined with electronic and digitally manipulated sound. \nThe performance is one hour long and is not seated\, audiences may move around and experience the performance from different angles. After each performance the audience will have the opportunity to handle and play the instruments. On Saturday evening there will also be an informal question and answer session with the artists after the performance . \nAudiences experiencing the performance have described it as “mesmerizing”\, “tribal”\, “trance-inducing”\, “spiritual”\, “mystical”. \nWatch a video and read more about the project here… \nAll dates:\nFriday 2nd September 7.30pm\nSaturday 3rd September 2pm (This is a relaxed family performance. All tickets £9)\nSaturday 3rd September 7.30pm (Followed by an informal question and answer session with the artists.) \nImage courtesy Mike Turzanski
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/carrie-fertig-torcher-chamber-arkestra-followed-by-qa/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160903T140000
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SUMMARY:Carrie Fertig: Torcher Chamber Arkestra (relaxed performance)
DESCRIPTION:Book tickets on the mac birmingham website… \nTickets  £9\, Foyle Studio\, All ages \nThis Saturday Matinee  is a relaxed performance. We particularly welcome families or anyone who would benefit from this type of environment. You can watch a video of Carrie’s performance on the project page if you would like to know more about what to expect or contact us for more details. \nA spellbinding performance with fire\, live and electronic music and glass blowing. \nA unique performance seen live for the first time in England with glass artist Carrie Fertig\, composer Alistair MacDonald and percussionist Stu Brown. \nIn this unusual collaboration Carrie Fertig makes instruments using a process of flameworking with fire. Together with premade instruments these are played by her and the musicians combined with electronic and digitally manipulated sound. \nThe performance is one hour long and is not seated\, audiences may move around and experience the performance from different angles. After each performance the audience will have the opportunity to handle and play the instruments. On Saturday evening there will also be an informal question and answer session with the artists after the performance . \nAudiences experiencing the performance have described it as “mesmerizing”\, “tribal”\, “trance-inducing”\, “spiritual”\, “mystical”. \nWatch a video and read more about the project here… \nAll dates:\nFriday 2nd September 7.30pm\nSaturday 3rd September 2pm (This is a relaxed family performance.)\nSaturday 3rd September 7.30pm (Followed by an informal question and answer session with the artists.) \nImage courtesy Mike Turzanski
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/carrie-fertig-torcher-chamber-arkestra-relaxed-performance/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160902T193000
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SUMMARY:Carrie Fertig: Torcher Chamber Arkestra
DESCRIPTION:Book tickets on the mac birmingham website… \nTickets £12 (Concessions & matinee £9)\, Foyle Studio\, All ages \nA spellbinding performance with fire\, live and electronic music and glass blowing. \nA unique performance seen live for the first time in England with glass artist Carrie Fertig\, composer Alistair MacDonald and percussionist Stu Brown. \nIn this unusual collaboration Carrie Fertig makes instruments using a process of flameworking with fire. Together with premade instruments these are played by her and the musicians combined with electronic and digitally manipulated sound. \nThe performance is one hour long and is not seated\, audiences may move around and experience the performance from different angles. After each performance the audience will have the opportunity to handle and play the instruments. On Saturday evening there will also be an informal question and answer session with the artists after the performance . \nAudiences experiencing the performance have described it as “mesmerizing”\, “tribal”\, “trance-inducing”\, “spiritual”\, “mystical”. \nWatch a video and read more about the project here… \nAll dates:\nFriday 2nd September 7.30pm\nSaturday 3rd September 2pm (This is a relaxed family performance. All tickets £9)\nSaturday 3rd September 7.30pm (Followed by an informal question and answer session with the artists.) \nImage courtesy Mike Turzanski
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/carrie-fertig-torcher-chamber-arkestra/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160407T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160407T210000
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SUMMARY:Yarning
DESCRIPTION:Yarning: A new play by Trevor Pitt \nJoin the conversation on twitter #craftspacecurates and #yarning2016 \nTaking a road trip across the UK\, Trevor Pitt collected remarkable stories from women about their lifelong relationship with wool – knitting\, spinning\, felting and weaving. Through spoken word\, music\, image and sound\, their fascinating yarns will be told on a flock of knitted benches made by groups in different parts of the country. \nYarning will be performed in the round on knitted benches and you are encouraged to bring along your knitting!  \n£7 (£5 concs) \nBook tickets through the mac birmingham website. \nMore information on the project here.
URL:https://craftspace.co.uk/event/yarning/
LOCATION:Midlands Arts Centre\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, B12 9QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Craftspace Curates,Yarning
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