Date/Time
Date(s) - 20th Jun 2022
13:30-15:15
Location
St Philip & St James Church
Categories
The Cotswolds has drawn dreamers and practitioners in attempts to create utopias for well over a century. This talk explores some of the communities who took up the challenge of living well and creating craft in our local area, such as C.R. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden; the Whiteway community near Stroud; Prinknash Abbey; the Taena Community in the Forest of Dean; and more unexpected experiments, such as Rodmarton Manor near Cirencester. Craft and art were at the heart of these new communities, and Kirsty will explore the personalities, histories and art of our radical area.
Kirsty Hartsiotis is a freelance writer, speaker and curator at The Wilson. Before moving to The Wilson, she was the curator and manager of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. She has been an oral storyteller for over twenty years, and has published several story collections. She is the newsletter editor for the Society of Decorative Art Collections, a regular columnist for Cotswold Life, and writes for other publications on art history and folklore.
Cost per person: £10, to include tea/coffee
If you have any questions please phone Alison on 01242 519413.
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- On-line bookings with a debit or credit card can be made using the form below. Alternatively you may reserve your place, select the ‘off-line’ payment option and pay by bank transfer or cheque.
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Bank transfers should be made to Friends of The Wilson (or as much of that as the bank will accept) Sort Code 30-91-87 Account 00005816. The reference must include your surname plus as much of the event title as will fit, for example SMITH Utopias.
Please make cheques payable to Friends of The Wilson and send with a SAE or clearly written email address to Mrs Alison Pascoe, 77 Naunton Lane, Cheltenham, GL53 7AZ.
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