Call for Designer Makers

Designer Crafts Exhibition Submission
Information Sheet
Number 8, Number 8 Community Arts Centre
8 High Street, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 1BG

The exhibition space consists of 4 display cabinets in the balcony and foyer area:
- 2 x 99cm (w) x 184cm (h) x 55cm (d)
- 2 x 100cm (w) x 100cm (h) x 23cm (d)

Submission
5 (minimum) – 10 (maximum) items that will feature in your proposed exhibition or are reflective of your work as a whole in either of the following formats:-
Photos, Postcards or Digital Pictures on a CD Rom

An artist history or CV detailing your contact details, interests, hobbies, training, past exhibitions etc as appropriate.

A Cover Letter/Email including:- Details of your proposed exhibition theme
Whether the items submitted will be part of the exhibition
The price range of your work (approximately)
Work submitted must not contain copyrighted material, infringe intellectual property rights or plagiarise another artist’s work.

Timescales & Finance
The artist will be charged a fee of £60 for using the exhibition cabinets for a six week exhibition. Any sales will be subject to a 20% commission plus VAT.

Marketing & Sales
Number 8 will market the exhibition through its seasonal brochure and website. The designer crafts person will need to provide Number 8 with a JPEG image and brochure copy within a specific deadline. The artist will also be asked to supply an A3 poster for displays in the front of house area. Any further marketing or printing will be at the designer crafts person’s time and cost.

Number 8 will handle all sales and the artist will receive any payments due within 7 days of the end of the exhibition (minus the commission charges). Items will not be released to the purchaser until the end of the exhibition. The designer crafts person will be asked to securely pack all sold items ready for collection.

Deadline for applications: Ongoing

Friendship Walk returns to beat breast cancer

It’s back! The Broadway Ring Friendship Walk will return to the Cotswolds next month and Breast Cancer Campaign wants you to step forward for the event and help fund breast cancer research.

Last year over 50 locals took part in the five-mile walk and raised £2,200 to help Campaign continue funding research into breast cancer. This year, the charity is hoping more walkers will lace up their walking boots for the countryside stroll starting at Farncombe Estate in Broadway on Sunday 4 October.

Local Walk Champ, Mary Franklin, from Witney, Oxfordshire has organised walks for Breast Cancer Campaign since 2006 and has so far raised over £7,500 She said: “Each year we’ve had a really great turnout with lots of people raising much needed funds for research into this disease. The walk takes place during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month so it’s an ideal time for men, women and children to come together, wear pink and support the charity, while taking in the beautiful sights of the Cotswolds.”

Sarah England, Events Executive for Breast Cancer Campaign, added: “Sadly this October, 3,800 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed. Although 80 per cent of women diagnosed today will be alive in five years time, Campaign is committed to improving these statistics by funding innovative world-class research, so please help us get a step closer to beating breast cancer by taking part in this walk.”

Registration for the walk, which starts at 10.00am, is £5 and all walkers will receive a medal at the end. Everyone is encouraged to dress in pink and to raise sponsorship for taking part.

To sign up or for more information, please contact the Events team on 020 7749 3700 or visit www.friendshipwalks.co.uk

Vale Arts Trail October 2009

Only a few weeks left until the launch of Vale Arts Trail! Vena (Vale of Evesham Network of Artists) with the support of Wychavon District Council are organising Vale Arts Trail, which is a month long visual arts festival in and around Pershore, Evesham and Broadway from 3rd-31st October 09. It is the first of its kind in the area, to purely focus on the visual arts and crafts. The Vale Arts Trail will be showing exhibitions in galleries, open studios, libraries, gardens, parks, shops, cafes, churches and community centres around the vale. They are from a range of local artists and arts groups, both amateur and professional in painting, photography, crafts and sculpture. The work will also be for sale.

There will also be a fantastic community programme along side it for children, young people, adults and older people. Workshops include sessions on John Sargeant, Halloween themed crafts, how to get the best out of your digitial camera, make your own portraits and using collage to create stories. Also, there will be a talk from Ian Gibson in connection with his exhibition at Number 8. There will also be two free ‘Walk and Talks’, a guided tour of Evesham and Pershore’s exhibitions. Two free ‘Big Draw’ events will also be a feature, which is the national initiative to get people drawing. One of these will be at the launch event on Sat 3rd October to start the month off at Pershore High School and the other to close the trail on 31st October at Evesham Town Hall. And for a sneak preview of the exhibitions, Pershore Library are holding a sample of most of the exhibitions for the whole month. There is a free public preview on Friday 2nd October at Pershore Library from 6-7.30pm so do drop in for a drink and some nibbles and meet the artists! (A full workshop programme is attached)


This has been made possible with funding from Wychavon District Council, Worcestershire County Council, Pershore Market Town Partnerships and Evesham Market Town Partnerships.

A full programme is available in various locations around, including Tourist Information Centres, Libraries and Wychavon’s contact centres. If you would like to be sent one please contact Jenny Davis or check out the website http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/ (see the arts section).

Contact Jenny Davis 01386 565396 or e-mail jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk for more information.

Carducci Quartet - fund raising concert

The Carducci Quartet are pleased to invite you to a Carducci Music Trust, fund raising concert in London!1st October
7.00pm for 7.30pm
Tickets: £40 to include wine, canapés and dinner.
49 Queens Gate Terrace, Kensington, London
Haydn: String Quartet Op 33 No 2 ‘The Joke’Dvorak: String Quartet Op 96 No 1 ‘The American’
For tickets please email:
carduccitrust@gmail.com
Please support the educational work of the Carducci Quartet!

Wigmore Hall - October 9th
On the 9th October we will be performing an exciting programme at the Wigmore Hall alongside the Brodowski Quartet, Simon Rowland-Jones and Huw Watkins. The programme will include Mendelssohn’s magical octet and the London premiere of Simon Rowland-Jones’ brand new octet. For tickets and more info go to:Wigmore Hall website

Bromsgrove - Artrix Arts Centre
8pm, 2 Oct
Beethoven op.59 no.3, Finzi - Bagatelles, Brahms - Clarinet Quintet
with Sarah Williams (clarinet)

Parish Music 2009/2010 - Classical Music in Country Churches

www.ashtonunderhill.org.uk/organisations/music

Parish Music, now in its 15th year, provides concerts
of classical music in the five country churches of
Ashton under Hill, Beckford, Overbury, Alstone and
Teddington. Concerts start at 8pm and conclude with
an opportunity to meet the performers and enjoy a
drink of wine or fruit juice in the church.
Admission £10; students free

Cello Recital

Wednesday 7th October
Chipping Norton Theatre, Oxfordshire
7.30pm

Programme includes my cello piece Kachina for cello and piano as well as works by Debussy, Beethoven, Rachmaninov

James Barralet ( cello) Alexander Beatson (piano)

www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk

Congratulations to our Open Day winners

Open Day prize draw
The signed Christine Barnett print went to H Low
The £100 Farncombe voucher went to O Amphlett
The £50 Farncombe voucher went to D B Cox
The Wilson Vale hamper went to B Rewhorn
The Dormy House meal for 2 went to J & K Smith
The bottle of wine from Bennetts Fine Wines went to S Butler
£25 Farncombe voucher went to Liz Cooper
The £45 voucher for Moto's Mobile Massagewent to J Read
The Real Ale from Cotswold Conference Centrewent to M Merzyn
The craft books from Hothouse Textiles went to H Jeffries
The Campden New History Book donated by CADHAS went to M Saunders
The signed copy of Drawing with coloured pencils book by tutor Jonathan Newey went to J Goom
A membership of CADHAS went to J Cope
Dan Evans CD Margaret Williams
Ecover goodie bags were won by A Johnson, R J Wilson & V F Cope