Make Lewes Festival 2015 features a number of making and crafts focused events. These include:

COLLABORATIVE COLLISIONS

MAKERS TALKS EVENING

COOKED, BAKED & FIRED EXHIBITION

MAKERS OPEN STUDIOS

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COLLABORATIVE COLLISIONS.

12-13th September

Lewes Phoenix Foundry

An improvisation over two days with cogs, wheels and hay.

For this years Festival we’ve invited local crafts people and makers to create a collaborative collision and come up with a joint completed work over the course of the first festival weekend.

Conversation, cogs, wheels, hay, ropewalks, wimbles with two rope making workshops for the public.

Public participation is happening Sunday 13th between 12.00 and 4.00pm, with all and everyone welcome. 
The open activities will include rope-making workshops and there will also be a cafe for refreshments.

Makers and Crafts people participating in Collaborative Collisions include the following:

Anne Marie ‘O Sullivan – Basket Maker

Jonathan Swan – Jeweler

Mike Pattison – Bicycle inventor

Tom McWalter – Designer & Maker

Photo credit: Alun Callender

Thanks to Diana at The Seamstress and Abigail from Abigail’s Drapery for supplying materials!

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MAKERS TALKS EVENING

Friday 18th 19.30 – 21.30 Studio Hardie 1, (map)

Makers Talks evening with locally and nationally recognised makers & crafts people. Including The Collaborative Collisions team talking about their experience of improvising together over the previous weekend. Plus MakingLewes team member William Hardie of StudioHardie will be speaking!

Further speakers include:

Mary Butcher – Mary Butcher is one the country’s foremost Basket-Makers, and has exhibited both in Britain and internationally. She has conducted research into East Anglian basket making and was made an OBE

Charley Brentnall – Charley Brentnall has been at the forefront of the resurgence of oak and timber frame building carpentry during the last forty years. He was a founder of one of the earliest British new carpentry companies, Carpenter Oak & Woodland.