Learn/ CraftNet: How to plan the town of craft/ 30 March 2011
General Information
Is it possible to replicate Hay-on-Wye’s success as a national centre for books by accentuating the role of crafts at the heart of a town’s cultural offer? What are the elements that would be required to transform civic space in this way? These issues are debated by curators, craft practitioners and cultural planners, hosted by Joanna Foster, Chair, Crafts Council and Professor Simon Olding, Director, Crafts Study Centre.
Speakers include:
Simon Olding, Director, Crafts Study Centre
Gavin Stride, Director, Farnham Maltings
Alice Kettle, Textile artist
Ruth Potts Campaign Manager, The Great Transition, New Economics Foundation
2-5pm, Wednesday 30 March 2011
Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Places are limited, please RSVP by 25 March to:
rsvp@craftscouncil.org.uk or call +44 (0) 20 7806 2559
