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    If your organisation is holding an event, you can advertise it on this site, free of charge.   Please send copy or a poster (A4 maximum) to the Webmaster:
     
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    Stall booking for Festival Jesmond Action Group   Elders Council  Save Gosforth Wildlife 
     Jesmond Community Festival The Terxtile Hub     
     

    Bookings open for Festival Fair

    Rebecca Stewart is now taking bookings for stalls at the Jesmond Community Festival Fair, which will be taking place in West Jesmond School Playground after the Festival Parade on Saturday 28 April, from 12 mid-day to about 3:30pm.

    Rebecca can be contacted on beccyfluff@hotmail.co.uk or 07739462673.

    Jesmond Local, the Festival’s Media Sponsor, has already booked its space, and it is expected that there will be a wide range of food stalls, arts and crafts, and local community organisations. “The Fair is a great opportunity for local organisations to tell people what they do, recruit new members, and publicise forthcoming Festival events” says Rebecca.

    There will also be a full programme of music and entertainment to keep everyone happy.

    Last year’s Festival Fair attracted 33 stalls and over 500 people, and fair organisers Jesmond Community Forum are hoping to do even better this year.
     
    Residents living in the immediate vicinity of the La Sagesse sites have set up the Jesmond Action Group.  Their website can be accessed at     
    http://www.jesmondactiongroup.co.uk

    They are organising a protest walk through the Jesmond Dene Conservation Area. This is scheduled to take place on Saturday 3rd March 2012. The timing is such that the walk will take place prior to the Planning Committee Meeting which is likely to take place towards the end of March. They intend this to be a family event. The venue and timing will be announced shortly.
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    Elders Council:
    The latest Newsletter has just been published; receiving this on-line saves £1 per issue so please consider contacting the relevant e-mail address in their Newsletter to arrange.
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    Jesmond Community Festival

    The 2012 Jesmond Community Festival is being planned to take place from Friday 27 April to Sunday 13 May.

    Follow them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/JesmondCommunityForum

    The Forum is meeting at 7pm on 12th January at St Hilda's Church Hall, Thornleigh Rd. (For new members, Thornleigh Rd runs off St George's Terrace beside Starbucks and St Hilda's is at the top, adjacent to the British Legion).

    Read the draft program...
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    The Textile Hub

    Is anyone interested in preserving and promoting traditional textile crafts?  
    A group of local professional artists; Mandy Pattullo, Ali Rhind, Cia Bosanquet, Fiona Rutherford and Jane Frazer, each working with different textile techniques, would like to share their love and passion for textiles with you.
    The courses will cover Tapestry weaving, Scandinavian weaving, felting, hooky and proggy techniques, knitting and crochet, print and collage.   Most of the courses will involve the use of recycled materials, such as old clothing, woolen blankets, buttons and jewellery, transforming them into contemporary and innovative and desirable items.
    The artists, who have a vast experience of delivering high quality workshops, think that it would be good to reduce their carbon foot print and work locally, in doing so they can present a series of exciting courses to enrich the community life in Jesmond.  
    Come along to learn a new skill or develop an existing one in relaxed and friendly surroundings above Café 1901 on St George’s Terrace. More information and a booking form is available on the web site     www.thetextilehub.co.uk    
    Ali Rhind, a hooky and proggy expert, who will be teaching at The Textile Hub, was instrumental in the resurgence of the craft in the area in the 1980’s. A large piece of her work ‘Sustenance’ can be seen in Newcastle Central Library. Ali uses used recycled materials and traditional hooky and proggy techniques to present the craft in innovative and contemporary ways.
    Jane Frazer, formerly a specialist tutor in weave, trained in Norway and has been promoting weave for many years using traditional methods often with modern materials. Her work frequently combines weave with photography, light or video projections. Jane will be working with Scandinavian, Cia Bosanquet to teach weave here in Jesmond.
    You can learn the ancient Gobelin technique from Fiona Rutherford, Fiona is also from Jesmond and is a very accomplished tapestry weaver who has taught and exhibited in places as far away as Japan, America and Australia. Mandy Pattullo, formerly Head of Textiles at Newcastle College, works with print, collage and quilt and has exhibited extensively in the UK Mandy’s textile art combines recycled materials, print and stitch to form garments, art installations and framed collages.

    The Textile Hub now have

    A blog - http://www.thetextilehub.co.uk/blog.html

    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Textile-Hub/145358075578084

    and Twitter - @thetextilehub 
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