Wednesday 18th February
2 Printing Workshops with Catherine Jones
All of Catherine’s workshops include all materials but please wear old clothes, bring an apron and a pack of wet wipes. Catherine loves sharing ways of creating art, often using simple materials, and encouraging everyone to tap into their creative side.
www.catherinejonesart.co.uk & www.catherinejonesart.co.uk/art-outside
Gelli Printing for young people
maximum 15 people plus any adult carers
Time 10.30am to 12.00
Gelli printing is a colourful and fun way of creating monoprints (that is, one off prints) using a rubbery base which we roll acrylic paint onto, and then using stencils, plant matter and other objects, create textures, patterns and images. It’s always experimental, there are really no strict rules, only good ideas, and it’s suitable for all ages. Children under the age of 10 will need to be accompanied by an adult to supervise their child. It’s also essential to wear old clothes and bring an apron as acrylic paints stain!
The images you create will be great for making greetings cards, use as collage materials or as pictures in their own right! And they will be fascinating, beautiful and originals!
Children Free – FULLY BOOKED
Gelli Printing for adults
maximum 15 people
Time 1pm & 3.15pm
Gelli printing is a colourful and fun way of creating monoprints (that is, one off prints) using a rubbery base which we roll acrylic paint onto, and then using stencils, plant matter and other objects, create textures, patterns and images. It’s always experimental, there are really no strict rules, only good ideas, and it’s suitable for all ages. It’s also essential to wear old clothes and bring an apron as acrylic paints stain!
The images you create will be great for making greetings cards, use as collage materials or as pictures in their own right! And they will be fascinating, beautiful and originals!
Cost £14 – online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
Wednesday 18th February
Painting with a Straw with Sue Percy
Time – from 2pm (Drop-in)
Paint by blowing through a straw. Create weird and wonderful shapes, designs and imaginary creatures.
Admission FREE for youngsters
Thursday 19th February
Colourful Calligraphy workshop with Alice Savery
Time 10.30am – 12.30pm
Are you interested in learning how to create lovely hand lettering? Join Alice Savery of Alice Draws the Line to work with watercolours and a paintbrush to create colourful modern calligraphy. Designed for beginners, in this two hour workshop we will explore how we can create modern calligraphy using a paintbrush and play with colours and designs. All kit is included.
Cost – £40 Limited to 12 people – booking online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
Thursday 19th February
Linocut printing workshop with Catherine Jones
Time 2.00pm to 3.45pm
maximum 15 adults
Lino cut printing is a method of relief printing, so it’s the opposite of tetrapak printing. You carve into lino, your design and everything you carve will be white, everything you leave will be inked up. The benefit of lino printing is you can reuse the block many many times. You use special carving tools that have different cutters so you can make fine and wider lines and cut larger areas away. The carving is a little bit dangerous in that you can really hurt yourself if you don’t use the tools correctly so I will only offer this at the festival for adults and it will just be a small group so I can help and supervise carefully. You’ll have the opportunity to print at least 3 of 4 images and take home your block so you can print some more in the future. If there’s time you may be able to create a second design.
£35 per person – booking online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
Friday 20th February
Sterling Silver Earrings workshop with Kathy Taylor of Katie Flutie Jewellery
Time : 10.30am to 12.30pm
Sterling Silver Pendant Workshop
Time : 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Make a simple pair of earrings/pendant using Sterling silver. You’ll use professional equipment and use traditional techniques including soldering to make halo earrings (stud or dangly)/a halo pendant. After the workshop these will be polished in the tutor’s studio and will be available to collect at the town hall a few days later; alternatively they can be posted to you at cost.
£18 – includes all materials.
Booking via the Town Hall or online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH
Saturday 21st February
Needle Felting Workshop with Clare Linford
Time 10.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Clare will demonstrate and then guide you through making a lovely dog, the breed is up to you. All materials are supplied
Sold Out
Saturday 21st February
Textile Hunting in Southwest China – talk by Diane Gaffney
Time 5.30pm
“A few years back (pre-pandemic) we finally got to Southwest China. I had long wanted to see for myself how many amazing textiles I’d seen and read about were still being made by minority groups. From the mountainous land border in the far west down to the tropical southern border, we pursued hints and rumours of groups of women still indigo dyeing, making traditional pleated skirts, embroidering, hemp and batik making which led to out-of-the-way villages, workshops and festivals.
There were textile triumphs and disappointments, but always memorable encounters”
Admission – £3.50
book online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH or at BC Town Hall
Tuesday 3rd March
Bishop’s Castle Going Wild – Talk
Friday 13th March
Aleister Crowley – talk by Gary Nottingham
Time 7.30pm
This talk will explore the world of Aleister Crowley, his esoteric adventures & practices, his published works and poetry, his promotion of yoga and sadly his heroin addiction caused by a Harley st doctor who advised accordingly in an endeavour to treat his asthma…..
We will consider his creation of the Abbey of Thelema at Sicily, and his influence after his death in 1947….. Described by the Daily Express in 1926 as ‘The Wickedest Man in the World ‘and that his books were only fit for burning…. Crowley became highly influential in some subcultures…. a point noted by the Beatles who placed him on the cover of their Sgt Pepper…. album nearly sixty years ago.
This is the life story of the man who the Sunday Express referred to as the Wickedest Man in the World…. Yet Aleister Crowley, poet, mountaineer and chess blue was the man who challenged the societal norms of the day as he promoted yoga and various eastern meditation systems in the west.He also with his abbey in Sicily explored many esoteric and mystical approaches to the approach of expanding the consciousness and the raising of awareness of our own divinity….
Struggling with asthma he was proscribed heroin by his Harley st doctor and struggled with the consequences thereof. His literary output was prodigious with a plethora of works on poetry, stories and the mystical approaches to the Great Work… the Union with God. He was an extraordinary man whose legacy lives to day via such groups as the Gnostic Catholic church, and the O.T.O.
Cost £10
Booking is at the Town Hall or online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/BCTH