CRAFTY kids and their parents are taking advantage of free textile workshops in Greenock. Classes are continuing at the Broomhill Art Flat in Broomhill Court courtesy of local charity RIG Arts. The textile ‘upcycling’ workshops are designed to teach people of all ages a variety of skills to help breathe new life into tired goods, including furniture and clothes, and create public artworks for the Broomhill Gardens and Community Hub. Artists Steph Davidson and Susan McInnes are on hand to share their expertise and helped participants at a craft fair make a range of cards, gifts and decorations. The textiles and screen-printing workshops return on January 18 and will be on every Thursday from 6-8pm until the end of March. They are part of RIG’s ‘Plastic Fantastic’ project, funded by the Climate Challenge Fund and the European Regional Development Fund. For more information visit www.rigarts.org, the RIG Arts Facebook page or call 649359. … [Read more...] about Broomhill Art Flat workshops are a success
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Alison Rowat’s TV review: McMafia, Spiral, Girlfriends, Great Art, Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good
WELL hello there, the first week of television 2018! How different you look to the first week of television 2017. No escapist dramas to lift the January blues, no attempts at highbrow telly to give a comforting sense of a fresh start, and no how-to-lose-weight shows because you’ve eaten your body weight in Celebrations. Ah, hang on. The first week of television 2018 is exactly the same as every other first week. Let us not be too tough on the TV commissars; there’s a whole year ahead in which to do that. McMafia (BBC One, Sunday/Monday, 9pm) opened in a sun-dappled exotic location, always a good sign. Various characters whom one sensed were not international aid workers were discussing a major deal and smiling villainously. Loading article content Over in London, handsome young City slicker Alex Godman (James Norton) was going about his strictly legitimate business. Alex’s family money may have come from the shadier side of the Moscow street, but he would … [Read more...] about Alison Rowat’s TV review: McMafia, Spiral, Girlfriends, Great Art, Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good
Major retrospective celebrates the art of Percy Kelly
A MAJOR retrospective celebrating artist Percy Kelly’s extraordinary talent still has a few more weeks to run. Curated by Chris Wadsworth, well-known as the former owner of Castlegate House Gallery at Keswick, the exhibition at Carlisle's Tullie House Art Gallery has attracted thousands of visitors since it opened last September. This year is the centenary of Percy Kelly’s birth in Workington in 1918 and the exhibition brings together for the first time many examples of Kelly’s artistic output in a rich display of more than 100 works, many of which have not been on public display before. Percy Kelly - Line Of Beauty: A Retrospective runs until January 28. Telephone 01228-618718. … [Read more...] about Major retrospective celebrates the art of Percy Kelly
Art inspired by dreams featured at town centre gallery
PUBLISHED: 17:00 15 September 2017 Sarah Robinson A Weston-super-Mare artist whose work includes murals and sculptures all over town is now showing his work at a gallery. Aleks Nocny is displaying his dream-inspired art at LT Gallery, in Weston’s Orchard Street. He said: “This exhibition brings together a collection of my dreams transferred onto canvas by brush and paint. “I write in my diary what I remember of my dreams every morning and sketch them so that I will remember them.” Aleks’ work has featured at a number of Weston events, including the Sand Sculpture Festival and at Hazy Days music festival. He has also painted murals on school walls, doing so for free. Aleks’ work will be on display from now until Tuesday. People can also go along to see him at work on Saturday from 10am-4pm. The gallery is open on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday from 10am-4pm and on Thursdays at noon to 4pm. … [Read more...] about Art inspired by dreams featured at town centre gallery
Keith Bruce: How art defied the Nazis
IT may boast one pantomime’s best contemporary scriptwriters and Scotland’s finest 21st century dame, Johnny McKnight, but even in the years when he is not onstage himself, the singular exemplary characteristic of the Christmas show at Stirling’s MacRobert Arts Centre is the top-drawer ensemble work of the theatre’s young performance company. Yet the roots of Macrobert Youth Theatre are some distance from their slick choreography as they belt out Maria Carey’s Yule hit. The youth company was born in 1995 to work with director John Abulafia’s touring Mecklenburg Opera company on one half of a double-bill of works created over 50 years earlier in Terezin concentration camp near Prague, a transit facility for the death camp at Auschwitz built in the fortified garrison town. Terezin, or Theresienstadt, is now remembered not for the part it played in sending so many Jews to their deaths but for the remarkable flowering of artistic creation that took … [Read more...] about Keith Bruce: How art defied the Nazis