News
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Bank Holiday Opening Hours
02-May-2018Read this article →
Opening Hours for Bank Holidays in May 2018
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Deborah Toner selected to make award pieces for Voluntary Arts Epic Awards
25-Apr-2018Read this article →.jpg?Action=thumbnail&Width=104&Height=104&algorithm=fill_proportional)
Belfast based artist, Deborah Toner has been selected to create award pieces for the Voluntary Arts Epic Awards, due to be held in Dublin on 3 May 2018.
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Help Fund Ulster University Students for New Designers
17-Apr-2018Read this article →
Ulster University - New Designers 2018.
Fourteen final-year students from Ulster University are fund raising to attend this year’s New Designers Show.
Find out how you can support this group of upcoming designer/makers and receive some lovely rewards in return.
Opportunities for Makers
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A Good Age: Change in my Time – 5 craft commissions
13-Jun-2018 - CommissionsView this opportunity →
A Good Age: Change in my Time – 5 Craft
Devon Guild of Craftsmen and Libraries Unlimited are seeking to commission five UK based, professional older artists (born before 1948) to make new contemporary craft work responding to a theme of age and change within the artist’s lifetime. The commissioned works will be shown alongside craftwork made in local community workshops, in a celebratory exhibition ‘A Good Age’ at Devon Guild of Craftsmen in the autumn 2019.
Deadline: 3 September 2018, 9am
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Call for Makers: GROW South Antrim
11-Jun-2018 - Calls for MakersView this opportunity →
Following the successful initial meeting in April and a busy Partners meeting in May in Finland, GROW South Antrim would like to invite makers to a further craft meeting on Thursday 28th June at 7pm in Antrim Civic Centre.
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Open Call: Exhibitions at Ards Arts Centre 2018/19
12-Jun-2018 - Calls for MakersView this opportunity →
Ards and North Down Borough Council invite professional practicing artists (solo artists as well as group shows), recent graduates, arts organisations and community groups to apply to exhibit their artwork at Ards Arts Centre.
Deadline: 9 July 2018, 12 noon
Events
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Interactive panel discussion for young male creatives
- TalksView this event →
The Time is Now – Creating a Space
Creating A Space & Blick Shared Studios have teamed up to create an event that will be an interactive panel discussion.
Date & TIme: 26 June 2018, 6:00-8:30pm
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The Maker’s Hand: 50 years of the RDS Craft Awards
- ExhibitionsView this event →
For fifty years the RDS Craft Awards have sought to promote the handmade by encouraging and rewarding Irish makers. This exhibition explores that history and in so doing, it celebrates Ireland’s rich history of making.
Dates & Times: 21 June - 17 August 2018, 10am to 5pm.
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Robyn Galway 10 week Jewellery skills course
- WorkshopsView this event →
Join ethical jeweller Robyn Galway for a 10 week Jewellery course running from Sugary Studios on Castlereagh Street, Belfast this Summer.
Programmes
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August Craft Month 2018 – Call for Event Registration
08-Jun-2018View this programme →
Craft NI invites you to register a craft-related event for August Craft Month 2018.
August Craft Month is ‘An Annual Celebration of Craft in Northern Ireland’.
For the past 11 years Craft Northern Ireland invited artist/designer/makers, craft organisations, craft retail outlets, galleries, museums, local councils, arts centres, cultural venues, further education colleges, universities, heritage organisations, amongst others, to consider putting on craft-related events and activities, during August Craft Month, which support and promote themselves and/or artist/designer/makers and of course Craft.
Deadline: 5pm, Friday 30 March 2018
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NI Assembly Gift Shop
08-Jun-2018View this programme →
Call for Applications Northern Ireland Assembly Gift and Coffee Shop - Retail Opportunity
Continuing the successful collaboration between Craft NI and the Northern Ireland Assembly Gift and Coffee Shop at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, the initiative now invites applications from Northern Ireland based Artist/Designer/Makers for the period 1 June 2018 to 1 December 2018.
This is an opportunity not only for sales but to raise the profile of selected Artist/Designer/Makers and Craft in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Assembly Gift and Coffee Shop is located in Parliament Buildings, Stormont. It is open to members of the public from Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm.
Deadline - Tuesday 8 May 2018, 5pm
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Craft NI: The Art of Presenting Craft
23-Sep-2016View this programme →
The Art of Presenting Craft is a bespoke workshop programme aimed at mid-career designer-makers. It consists of four workshops focusing on personal and
professional development as well as business development issues pertinent to more established craftspeople. The workshops will take place fortnightly in
February and March 2017. Book in now.
