Join us for an interactive workshop with local photography tutor Lucy Kayne.
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Art, Weaving, Woodwork and Textiles made in the workshops at Thornage Hall are on show from 6th to 29th April, during our opening hours Thursday to Saturday 10am-5pm.
Dynamic, creative workshops for adults with supported needs have enabled this exemplary exhibition of skilled handwork and imaginative flair.
The artists and makers are delighted to exhibit this range of original work and welcome all visitors to see their products for sale, and to find out more about Thornage Hall independent Living.
Join us for a fantastic evening of music and dancing, and help celebrate designermakers21’s ’10th Birthday’
Venue – The Corn Hall, Diss
7-9pm Fairgreen Ceilidh Band
9.30-11.30pm Solana Aartwork
Fairgreen Ceilidh Band
An excellent, lively, local band guaranteed to get you on your feet, whether a novice or seasoned ceilidh goer.
Aartwork
Aartwork play upbeat fiery, liquid, trad style original tunes on fiddle and recorder with old school live beats, jazzy guitar, bass synths and haunting, ethereal vocals. This is where folk meets drum and bass, reggae and jungle. The result is hard not to dance to.
The mix has been described as Psychedelic Celtic Folk Fusion.
www.thefestivals.uk quote 25th Sep 2022: “Aartwork putting on a fantastically danceable neo-folk set on Friday, dropping some absolutely fire new material at the end.”
The Corn Hall have, generously, given us this opportunity to celebrate our ‘10th Birthday’ , and to raise funds for the ‘Save Our Story’ appeal, to purchase 21 St Nicholas Street, so that we can continue to enrich the local community through education and appreciation of traditional and contemporary crafts. . There will also be a raffle with a sumptuous selection of prizes. Come and help us celebrate, bring your family, bring your friends, bring your Mum!
Tickets for this event can be purchased from the Corn Hall Box Office on 01379 652241, or online.
If you have any access needs please call the Corn Hall Box Office on 01379 652241 to discuss these before booking to ensure they can best accommodate your requirements.
The next Showcase will run throughout February, March and April. We are excited to welcome three local artists to the showcase exhibition space, which is located on the first floor at designermakers21.
Pyrography, paintings & needle felted animals by Becky Whatley, Ceramic Sculpture by Rob Rutterford, and photography, embroidery & detailed dioramas in glass domes by ‘Nockles’.
Visit the Showcase from the 2nd February during our opening hours Thursday to Saturday 10am-5pm.
‘The Big Sell’ designermakersCIO are fortunate to have Jacqui Petrie as one of our Trustees. Jacqui has donated her entire back catalogue of work to our ‘Save Our Story’ fundraising campaign. She has taken over the windows of designermakers21 with a striking display of her monochromatic work – charcoal, graphite and print – all of which is for sale. All the proceeds from her sales will go to designermakersCIO and into our fundraising campaign.
The Work Jacqui works in a wide range of media from drawing and painting to various printmaking processes. She takes inspiration from wherever she finds herself and has always been interested in landscape; the broad vistas and by contrast the pattern of things seen intimately closer. Recently extremes in weather caused by climate change and the beauty of floods, ice and snow transforming familiar landscapes have stimulated her imagination.
During very cold winters the deep puddles along the track that ran by her house froze into spirals which inspired a series of paintings, photographic prints and drawings. Large, bold charcoal and graphite drawings of local views down well-travelled lanes and textures of fallen leaves and foliage form a large body of work.
Join Becky Whatley, and learn the skills to create your very own seal.
The workshop will be held in The Gallery Upstairs at designermakers21, on Saturday 18th February, 10am-1pm.
£32 per participant (this includes all materials, tea/coffee and biscuits)
Becky is donating all profits from this workshop to our ‘Save our Story’ fundraising appeal.
Only ten places available, early booking is advisable. Workshop places can be booked in person at designermakers21 Thursdays to Saturdays, or by calling 01379 640764.
