Volume II — Number 78
June 2015
Monthly Newsletter
Newsletter
Lewis Olson British Festival.
M. A. Carretero.
The program of activities of the four days which has made the Festival has been very extensive and intense, with lectures, This area of the center of artist demonstrations, family activities, guided the UK has always tours to other Festival enjoyed a great glassmaking tradition, as visits collaborating centers, exhibition of works, sale witnessed by some old production centers in the articles, etc. It should be noted that all area. The Festival was held at the artists who have participated in the Festival the Glasshouse Arts had to be British or foreign Centre, a sprawling that llevasen more than complex where are located several buildings two years living in the UK. The last week of last May were attending the International Festival of Glass in the British town of Stourbridge.
to develop various activities related to the art glass. This exhibition also features the Glasshouse College, where training on the various techniques for the use of glass is taught.
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This complex is the Ruskin Glass Centre, main building where they have developed a good part of the events of the Festival. The workshops are in this room are equipped with a lot of elements to make the work with glass, both using techniques cold as hot techniques.
The organization of the Festival can be classified as perfect and has been supported by numerous volunteers, members of the CGS, who collaborated in the realization of this important event in the glass art worldwide. Of all the events in which we have been present we have taken a lot of graphic images and a number of them include them in our Facebook page.
Taking advantage we have been located at a hotel in The events that have the nearby city of interested us were the Birmingham, we visited its demonstrations by some most famous landmarks artists such as Dante such as the Museum & Art Marioni, Janusz Pozniac, Gallery, the Library, the James Devereux, Chris Bullring Shopping Centre, Maas and Allister Malcolm. the neighborhood of In one of the rooms of the jewelers and we have also taken some walks in the complex they have been exposed all jobs that have margins channels through participated in the contest this major British city. for the best work of the We were lucky with the Festival, an honor that has weather occurred during fallen this year in a piece our stay, since it only of Ashraf Hanna, an rained one morning. The Egyptian artist who lives in temperature has not risen the UK since Many years in the 17th but, apparently, is a summer temperature ago. The winning work can be for the inhabitants of this area, many of whom wore seen in the photographs attached to the end of this short-sleeved clothes and sandals, while we do not Bulletin. prescindíamos of our Among the collaborating outerwear. centers of this Festival, We regret the profound and also we visited, ignorance of the Spanish highlight the Broadfield language that have these House Glass Museum, latitudes, a fact which is Holy Trinity Church Wordsley, the Red House mitigated by the large Glass Cone and St. John's presence of citizens of our country who have come to Church, whose images these shores in search of a can be seen in the photo albums We included in our brighter future. Facebook page.