Heart of Conflict, our exhibition on World War One in Cornwall, is open now at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. It was great to see so many old – and new – friends at the opening. The exhibition will run until the end of June 2017. It is wonderful to have so many stories and objects […]
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Hannah Wright, a photographer based in Truro, Cornwall, has taken a fantastic photogallery of the National Explosives Factory, Hayle, for Heart of Conflict. At its peak in World War One, the factory was one of the largest in the country and employed 1,800 people. Now all that remains are sand dunes, scarred with banks and bunkers. Huts producing […]
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We marked Friday 11 November (Remembrance Day) with a short ceremony at Stithians Church (,ed by Fr Simon Bone) organised by local Duke of Edinburgh volunteer Rhiannon Stevenson. Rhiannon has been helping us with research on our exhibition Heart of Conflict (now open at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro) and found that there was (unusually) a World War […]
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We’ve finished our sewing workshops for the year at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith. We’ve been working on sewing, needlework and fabric for some time now – it’s great to be doing some embroidery again. These workshops have been led by Katrina Williams (who has volunteered for Bridging Arts for nearly ten years now) – she’s done a great job. A few […]
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Great to have been in Brixton as part of Black History Month: we teamed up on Saturday 29 October with the fantastic new “GIDA COLLECTIVE” store on Loughborough Road. This was part of our competition for new designs for Africa’s headwrap which closed at the end of October. We’re now embarking on the judging process: the winner […]
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Our embroidery workshops in Hammersmith – led by Katrina Williams – are the latest stage in Stitch, our work with needlework and stitching to connect people with different cultures and experiences. This gallery by photographer Olivia Arthur documented embroidery brought by Bangladeshi women (and one man!) to a workshop in Tooting. This wonderful embroidery was the starting […]
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