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Everything must go!
CALL FOR ARTWORK! EVERYTHING MUST GO!
Art Sale at Forest Café, Bristo Place, 11th – 12th December
A5 artworks in any medium: postcards, canvas, photos, screen prints…get creative!
We’ re looking for artists interested in creating and donating A5 works for an art sale as part of the ‘Save the Forest’ campaign . Email rachel_mccrum@hotmail.com for details.
Deadline for submissions: Wed 8th December.
Artwork can be dropped into the Forest Café: please mark ‘Everything Must Go!’ and let the volunteers know what it is. Or post to Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EY. And sign them. We want to know who you are…
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GET A TABLE! There are also opportunities to run a table as part of an Arts & Crafts sale on Saturday 11th December. Contact events@theforest.org.uk, marking your email ‘FAO Stephen’
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WATCH THIS SPACE – ART AUCTION 2011
There will be a high profile auction of contemporary artworks early 2011. Contact auction@theforest.org.uk for further information.
The Forest is… a registered charity, an arts and community project space, an art gallery, a café, a performance space, recording studio, rehearsal room, darkroom, screen printing studio and publishing venue. Powered by the enthusiasm and dedication of hardworking, generous and committed volunteers, it’s been a vivid, vibrant part of Edinburgh’s creative scene for over a decade. It continually offers grassroots support for the arts and creative projects, as well as a place for people to meet, talk, listen, watch, share ideas, make stuff, argue. And eat great burritos.
It is essential that places like the Forest exist in our cities.
EUS (Edinburgh University Settlement), the previous landlord of the current Forest venue was recently declared bankrupt. This led to the immediate and devastating closure of the Roxy Art House. The Forest doesn’t want to go the same way. An awesome fundraising campaign has begun to buy the current building for the Forest, and to continue to run it as an autonomous art space. Supporters of the Forest across the city, the UK and internationally, are mobilising to organise events and ensure that the Forest continues.
For further information and an opportunity to donate to the Forest Fund: http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/
CALL FOR ARTWORK! EVERYTHING MUST GO!
Art Sale at Forest Café, Bristo Place, 11th – 12th December
A5 artworks in any medium: postcards, canvas, photos, screen prints…get creative!
We’ re looking for artists interested in creating and donating A5 works for an art sale as part of the ‘Save the Forest’ campaign . Email rachel_mccrum@hotmail.com for details.
Deadline for submissions: Wed 8th December.
Artwork can be dropped into the Forest Café: please mark ‘Everything Must Go!’ and let the volunteers know what it is. Or post to Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EY. And sign them. We want to know who you are…
***
GET A TABLE! There are also opportunities to run a table as part of an Arts & Crafts sale on Saturday 11th December. Contact events@theforest.org.uk, marking your email ‘FAO Stephen’
***
WATCH THIS SPACE – ART AUCTION 2011
There will be a high profile auction of contemporary artworks early 2011. Contact auction@theforest.org.uk for further information.
The Forest is… a registered charity, an arts and community project space, an art gallery, a café, a performance space, recording studio, rehearsal room, darkroom, screen printing studio and publishing venue. Powered by the enthusiasm and dedication of hardworking, generous and committed volunteers, it’s been a vivid, vibrant part of Edinburgh’s creative scene for over a decade. It continually offers grassroots support for the arts and creative projects, as well as a place for people to meet, talk, listen, watch, share ideas, make stuff, argue. And eat great burritos.
It is essential that places like the Forest exist in our cities.
EUS (Edinburgh University Settlement), the previous landlord of the current Forest venue was recently declared bankrupt. This led to the immediate and devastating closure of the Roxy Art House. The Forest doesn’t want to go the same way. An awesome fundraising campaign has begun to buy the current building for the Forest, and to continue to run it as an autonomous art space. Supporters of the Forest across the city, the UK and internationally, are mobilising to organise events and ensure that the Forest continues.
For further information and an opportunity to donate to the Forest Fund: http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/
Artists, Writers, Artisans and Crafters alike – we need you!
Please help us to make the most awesome collaborative DIY Handbook of arts, crafts and any other unsolicited activities, for the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh.
We are looking for any submissions of ‘how to’ guides and example sheets for whatever art, craft, game, activity or technique you spend your time doing, or know a bit about, and would like to share with others.
All we are asking for is a one sided A4 sheet which describes the method, materials and processes involved in that activity, art or craft – in whatever form you would like. You know, a kind of ‘how to’ or step-by-step guide but with writing, images, cut-outs, games, scratch ‘n’ sniff…whatever is necessary and you can add. On the other side of this sheet will be a basic profile about the chosen activity and a little bit about yourself. This should help to tell people a bit more about it and where to find out more and about yourself.
From all these entries we will be creating an online, downloadable book for people to buy containing all these different activities as a Forest DIY Artisan’s Handbook. Everyone involved will be credited directly through their own profile, and the project will run totally non-for-profit to help with fundraising for The Forest.
Please do help with this; It is something that can last for a long long time – and if successful will not only help support the Forest fundraising but will become an artisan’s craft menu at the Forest Cafe alongside the food menu. Any input is more than welcome – anything from Bookmaking to clay modelling, creative writing techniques, making a woodburner, crochet patterns, kinetic sculpture, hatmaking, homemade instruments, basic illustration, songwriting, origami animals, knot tieing, Lino cutting, drying herbs, fingerknitting, forraging, storytelling games, Qi Gong steps, shadow puppetry, frame-making, eyebrow trickery…etc…you get the idea. It’s as open as you can make it.
What next?:
Choose your art, craft, activity – start making your sheet and hand it in here or send it in to the Forest (3 Bristo Place, EH1 1EY) or to willowords@gmail.com
The Forest Is what you Make it.
Join the Forest and The Big Red Door in their
MAGICAL MEDIEVAL PROCESSION
Leaving from The Forest (3 Bristo Place) and
…The Big Red Door (10 Lady Lawson)
on JULY 31st at 3pm
we shall march towards The Meadows, wearing crazy costumes, singing and dancing. We will then stop in front of the Pavilion to play games, have workshops, fight in box wars, enjoy delicious food, learn new skills, meet magical creatures and see the most amazing costumes…
all in order to raise money for the 2 charities involved!
Bring your costume and the whole family for a great Saturday afternoon outdoors!
Both venues will have an AFTERPARTY so watch this space…
