Warming up for this years Make Lewes Festival, we are hosting a series of pop up workshops this Saturday at the Turkish Baths. Bring your children, come as a family, or just bring yourself.
Saturday 17th September – 10.30 – 16.30 pm, Turkish Baths, Friars Walk, Lewes. BN7 2LZ (map)
FREE EVENT (donations welcome)
Carolyn Trant – Print Workshop – 10.30 – 13.30 pm
Zuky Serper – Wonky Toys Workshop – 14.30 – 16.30 pm
Making Digital Craft Symposium and related exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops and events.
29th – 2nd October, 10.00 – 17.00 – Foundry Gallery, North Street Lewes, BN7 2PH (map)
Featuring: MakingGround, an explorative collaboration between ceramicist Elaine Bolt and basket-maker Anne Marie O’ Sullivan, Charles Stern’s experiments with his self built 3d printer, the results of this years Collaborative Collisions workshop, Guillaume Lyon’s laser printed lampshades, Off Cuts experimental objects created by The Colour of Hair, and RCA design students pechakucha.
With a micro-symposium on Saturday 1st October – 14.00 – 17.15 pm
Tickets – £6.50 Concessions – £4.50
Featuring:
Guan Lee, founder of Grymsdyke Farm workshop, Buckinghamshire, on his architectural, design and crafts workshop hub focused on ceramics, timber and land based materials.
Isabelle Risner, Westminster University – on the current emergence of Digital Making and the Digital DIY project. (Isabelle Risner will also be running a Digital DIY workshop from 11.00 to 13.00)
The Colour of Hair (Fabio Hendry and Martijn Rigters) – on their Off Cuts project, turning hair collected from Lewes’s hairdresser’s and barbers into a series of designed objects.
RCA Students Pecha Kucha – students from the RCA design department will present their work.
Guillaume Lyons, lighting designer using laser printers for his beautiful Kaigami designs.
Making Digital Craft is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org
Cover Image – Other Room I by Guan Lee
Tejlgaard is a Danish architect who has been transforming Geodesic dome architecture into the new twenty-first century context.
25th September – 19.30 – 21.30 Venue – Turkish Baths, Friars Walk, Lewes, BN7 2LE (map)
FREE EVENT (donations welcome)
For more info email: info@makinglewes.org
The 21st Century Geodesics is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
Make Lewes Festival’s third Kinship workshop is again co-led by William Hardie of Studio Hardie and Sally Daniels of tangentfield. With 21st century Geodesics pioneer Kristoffer Tejlgaard from Denmark.
25th – 28th September, 10.00 – 18.00
Venue -Turkish Baths Lewes and Studio Hardie Workshop
Tickets* £95, Students £75.
Up to thirty five participants will focus on transforming Lewes’s historic Turkish Baths, integrating found and recycled materials to create bespoke, site specific furniture and installations.
Full brief available on the Hands on Bristol Site here. Or download the pdf – making-lewes-brief-kinship-iii.
Kristoffer Tejlgaard will lead a geodesics model-making workshop during the main workshop. He will also be giving a public talk on the 25th September – 19.30 – 21.30 at the Turkish Baths. Details here.
For more information and to reserve a place email: info@makinglewes.org
If you are travelling from further afield, please see our list of accommodation options for staying in Lewes.
Kinship III Design & Make Workshop is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
Improvisations with recycled fishing nets, plastics, timber and other found materials.
24 – 25th September 10.00 – 17.00, The Foundry Gallery, North Street, Lewes, BN7 2PH (map)
Public participatory day – Sunday 25th 12.00 – 17.00
Following the success of MLF’s Collaborative Collisions last year, this year’s improvisational workshop will draw together a diverse group of makers, crafts people, and designers to meet a design challenge integrating plastics, paper and other found materials from the Turkish Baths.
Expect the unexpected.
This years Collaborative Colliders include:
Peter Cole – Artist and maker based in Lewes, crafting small scale plastic models.
Walter Bailey – Sussex based sculptor who works predominantly in wood. His work is held in many public and private collections nationally and internationally.
Matilda Grover – 3D design & craft student at the University of Brighton and MakingLewes team member.
George Sinclair – Part II architecture student at The Cass, London Met and originating member of MakingLewes.
Public participation is happening Sunday 25th between 12.00 and 4.00pm, with all and everyone welcome.
Collaborative Collisions II is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org
Humanitarian and Emergency architecture projects from Kigali to Calais.
1st October – 19.30 – 22.00 Venue – Turkish Baths, Friars Walk, Lewes, BN7 2LE (map)
Julian Belart is a French student architect working in the Calais Jungle, supported by ‘Lewes Action for Refugees‘, on emergency shelter and other projects in the encampment. He will be talking about his work in Calais for the first time in Lewes.
Nerea Eloyduy is co-founder of Kigali based Active Social Architecture, who has been working on health and education projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Europe with emphasis on community participation and post conflict environments. Eloyduy is currently developing a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture studying the influence of the built environment of long-term refugee camps in East Africa on young children’s development.
World on the Move is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org
Makers Talks evening again hosts locally and nationally recognised makers & crafts people.
Friday 30th 19.30 – 21.30 Studio Hardie 1, Lewes, BN7 2PE (map)
FREE EVENT (donations welcome)
The Makers Talks Evening follows Collaborative Conversations, a regional crafts symposium organised in partnership with CraftNet and the Crafts Council.
Ewan Clayton is one of the country’s best known calligraphers and author of The Golden Thread: A History of Writing. Born in Ditchling, Clayton ran the last academic calligraphy course in the country and is about to launch a new calligraphy studio in Brighton.
Rachel Ward-Sale of Bookbinders of Lewes. Rachel Ward-Sale has been a long time Lewes book binder from her workshop in the Star Gallery. (To co-incide with the evening the Star Gallery will be holding an open day on the 1st October.)
Making Ground – Ceramicist Elaine Bolt and basket maker Anne Marie ‘O Sullivan on their experimental crafts collaboration.
Makers Talks is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org
Cover image: Practising Contentment exhibition, image © Ewan Clayton and the Crafts Study Centre.
Make Lewes Festival 2016 is co-hosting this years CraftNet regional event – Collaborative Conversations.
Friday 30th September 2016, 12:00 – 17:00.
Venue – Studio Hardie 1, Lewes (map)
Tickets and further information available here
Collaborative Conversations is a regional crafts symposium organised in partnership with CraftNet and the Crafts Council.
Speakers include:
Annabelle Campbell, Head of Exhibitions & Collections, Crafts Council
Atomik Architecture, London based Architecture practice with a focus on collaboration
Textile artist and designer Ptolemy Mann
Chair: Frances Lord, CraftNet South East rep.
Collaborative Conversations will be followed by the Makers Talks Evening.
Collaborative Conversations is part of Make Lewes Festival 2016 in partnership with Craftnet & the Crafts Council.
Cover image – Makers Talks Evening MLF 2015.
Our latest series of talks focuses on Maker Spaces and Fab Labs. Introducing a spectrum of speakers connected with contrasting open workshop models in Britain and Europe.
18th March – 7.30 – Elephant & Castle (map)
Diana Wildschut and Harman Zijp are the co-founders of Fablab Amersfoort, a bottom up grassroots and Open Source Fablab in Holland. Amersfoort was the first FabLab funded and operated entirely by those who needed it. The FabLab space is viewed as a knowledge sharing space, primarily using recycled materials and working with self-built and open source machines.
1st April – 7.30 – Elephant & Castle (map)
Liz Corbin is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Making, University College London. Corbin co-founded the Open Workshop Network and Maker Assembly and her research explores the UK’s emergent maker culture. The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for all those interested in the made world; whether molecules, spacecraft, soup, or cities. It’s a hub for celebrating UK making and helping shape the maker space and maker culture debate in Britain.
15th April – 7.30 – Studio Hardie (map)
Tomas Diez is a Venezuela-born Urbanist, and director of Fab Lab Barcelona, one of the leading laboratories in the worldwide FabLab network located in and around Barcelona. The network is partially focused on a new generation of FabLabs, including Vallidaura, the world’s first Green FabLab. Diez is also co-founder of the Smart Citizen project and StudioP52.n.
12th – 20th September 2015
After a successful first year, Making Lewes are hosting a second Make Lewes Festival.
The festival follows a similar structure as last year and will include Exhibitions, Symposia, Workshops and more…
For the full schedule of events click here.
Events Include:
REMAKE / REMODEL EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM
RETHINKING HOUSING EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM
KINSHIP II DESIGN & MAKE WORKSHOP
Post Festival Events:
POST LOCAL – LEWES DISTRICT 2030
Saturday 12th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Collaborative Collisions @ The Foundry Gallery
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
11.00 – 12.00 | Phoenix Estate Visit meet @ the Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria), Bus Station (opposite Waitrose)
Sunday 13th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
12.00 – 17.00 | Collaborative Collisions @ The Foundry Gallery
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
Monday 14th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
15:30 – 16:30 | Phoenix Estate Visit meet @ the Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria), Bus Station (opposite Waitrose)
Tuesday 15th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Guiliaume Lyons @ Open Studio (map)
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
Wednesday 16th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Guiliaume Lyons @ Open Studio (map)
10.00 – 17.00 | Kinship II – Design & Make Workshop @ Studio Hardie Workshop
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
15.30 – 17.30 | Mo Hamid Pottery @ Open Studio (map)
15:30 – 16:30 | Phoenix Estate Visit meet @ the Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria), Bus Station (opposite Waitrose)
16.00 – 18.00 | Inglis-Hall Furniture Design @ Open Studio (map)
Thursday 17th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Kinship II – Design & Make Workshop @ Studio Hardie Workshop
10.00 – 17.00 | Guiliaume Lyons @ Open Studio (map)
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
15.30 – 17.30 | Mo Hamid Pottery @ Open Studio (map)
16.00 – 18.00 | Inglis-Hall Furniture Design @ Open Studio (map)
Friday 18th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Kinship II – Design & Make Workshop @ Studio Hardie Workshop
10.00 – 17.00 | Guiliaume Lyons @ Open Studio (map)
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
15.00 – 17.00 | Robin van Creveld Open Kitchen @ Lewes Community Kitchen (map)
15.00 – 18.00 | Nic Johnson Wood Sculpting Open @ Studio Studio 1, Vipers Wharf, railway Lane, Lewes BN7 2AQ
15:30 – 16:30 | Phoenix Estate Visit meet @ the Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria), Bus Station (opposite Waitrose)
15.30 – 17.30 | Mo Hamid Pottery Open Studio (map)
17.30 – 18.30 | Robin van Creveld Making Music @ Lewes Community Kitchen (map)
19.30 – 21.30 | Makers Talks Evening @ Studio Hardie 1 (map)
Saturday 19th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.00 | Guiliaume Lyons @ Open Studio (map)
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
10.00 – 18.30 | Rethinking Housing Exhibition @ Lewes House School
11.00 – 12.00 | Phoenix Estate Visit meet @ the Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria), Bus Station (opposite Waitrose)
13.30 – 18.30 | ReMake, ReModel Symposium @ Studio Hardie Workshop
14.00 – 18.00 | Nic Johnson Wood Sculpting Open Studio @ Studio 1, Vipers Wharf, railway Lane, Lewes BN7 2AQ
15.30 – 17.30 | Mo Hamid Pottery Open Studio @ (map)
Sunday 20th September
All day* | Cooked, Baked & Fired Exhibition @ Pleasant Stores & Hearth (Bakery and Pizzeria)
*open to the public during the venues opening hours
10.00 – 17.30 | ReMake, ReModel Exhibition @ Studio Hardie Workshop
10.00 – 18.30 | Rethinking Housing Exhibition @ Lewes House School
13.30 – 18.30 | Rethinking Housing Symposium @ Lewes House School
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