Make Lewes Festival is back with its most ambitious Festival, expanding and extending our first two festivals, focusing on the crossovers between architecture, sustainability, design and making.
Once again we are hosting a lively schedule of Exhibitions, Symposia, Experiments, Workshops and more…
24th September – 2nd October
Full schedule of events available here
EVENTS INCLUDE:
29th September – 2nd October, 10.00 – 17.00 – Foundry Gallery, Lewes. (map)
Symposium and related exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops and events.
29th September – 2nd October, 10.00 – 17.00, Turkish Baths, Lewes (map)
Exhibition & Symposium Including: Adam Richards, architect of the Ditchling Arts + Crafts Museum
25th – 28th September
MLF’s design & make workshop returns with an ambitious new challenge co-led by Studio Hardie’s William Hardie and tangentfield’s Sally Daniels
25th September 19.30 – 21.30, Turkish Baths, Lewes. (map)
As part of the Kinship III workshop architect Kristoffer Tejlgaard will be giving a public talk on his use of geodesics in the 21st century context.
24 – 25th September 10.00 – 17.00, The Foundry, Lewes. (map)
MLF’s second Collaborative Collisions will mix up a new set of makers and materials.
Friday 30th 19.30 – 21.30, Studio Hardie 1, Lewes. (map)
Hosting locally and nationally recognised makers & crafts people, including Ewan Clayton, one of the country’s best known calligrapher’s.
Friday 30th September, 12:00 – 17:00, Studio Hardie 1, Lewes (map)
A regional crafts symposium organised in partnership with CraftNet and the Crafts Council.
1st October, 19.30 – 22.00, Turkish Baths, Lewes (map)
Humanitarian and Emergency architecture projects from Kigali to Calais. With Julian Belart French student architect working in the Calais Jungle and Nerea Eloyduy co-founder of Active Social Architecture.
1st October 11am, Foundry Gallery, Lewes. (map)
This workshop is for anyone involved in making or creativity using traditional or digital tools, creative software for making music or graphics, websites for learning skills or sharing projects, such as Etsy, Youtube, or Instructables.
29th September – 2nd October, Foundry Gallery, North Street, Lewes (map)
Making Ground is an Arts Council funded collaborative interdisciplinary project exploring site-specific making at a disused brickworks in Sussex.
29th – 2nd October, 10.00 – 17.00 – Foundry Gallery, North Street, Lewes. (map)
This exhibition highlights the results of second and third year architecture students from South Bank University whose 2015/16 project used Lewes as it’s context.
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Thursday 29th September
10.00 – 15.00 – *Shelter Build at the Lewes New School with architect Ursula McGeoch.
* Children ages 7 and above welcome if accompanied by an adult. Contact the New School for further details T. 01273 477074
10.00 – 17.00 – New Vernaculars for a New Century at the Turkish Baths
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Digital Craft exhibitions at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Off Cuts by The Colour of Hair at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Ground exhibition at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – London Southbank Architecture student exhibitionLewes at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Hands On Books – Book Binders and Book Artists exhibition at Lewes library.
Friday 30th September
10.00 – 17.00 – New Vernaculars for a New Century at the Turkish Baths
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Digital Craft exhibitions at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Off Cuts by The Colour of Hair at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Ground exhibition at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – London Southbank Architecture student exhibition Lewes at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Hands On Books – Book Binders and Book Artists exhibition at Lewes library.
12.00 – 17.00 – Collaborative Conversations at Studio Hardie
19.30 – 22.00 – Makers Talks Evening at Studio Hardie
Saturday 1st October
10.00 – 16.00 – Star Brewery Open Workshops at the Star Brewery
10.00 – 17.00 – New Vernaculars for a New Century at the Turkish Baths
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Digital Craft exhibitions at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Off Cuts by The Colour of Hair at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Ground exhibition at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – London Southbank Architecture student exhibition Lewes at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Hands On Books – Book Binders and Book Artists exhibition at Lewes library.
11.00 – 13.00 – Digital DIY Workshop, research workshop into what makes makers tick
14.00 – 17.30 – Making Digital Craft symposium at the Foundry 
19.30 – 22.00 – World on the Move, Emergency and Humanitarian Architecture from Calais to Rwanda at the Turkish Baths
Sunday October 2nd
10.00 – 17.00 – New Vernaculars for a New Century at the Turkish Baths
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Digital Craft exhibitions at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Off Cuts by The Colour of Hair at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – Making Ground exhibition at the Foundry
10.00 – 17.00 – London Southbank Architecture student exhibition Lewes at the Foundry
14.00 – 17.30 – New Vernaculars for a New Century Symposium at the Turkish Baths 
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org
Cover Image: Clem Blakemore’s Project Lacey Green. Photo: Guan Lee
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