A list of all of the fantastic FREE workshops lined up for this year’s Made In Roath weekend…
The Big Draw…
of Roath Park
St Andrews URC
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 4pm (drop-in)
Taking Roath Park and recreation grounds as a platform for these inspirational drawing workshops, four local artists (Polly Aplin, Edel Cronin, Lauren Foulkes and Emily Stevens) bring you a varied approach to drawing and making marks. Grasp the opportunity to get involved in reinventing junk mail, drawing with sound and learning digital drawing skills. A rich display of local artists work and a plethora of inspirational history, imagery and text will accompany the workshops. Participants are welcome to bring their own materials to work with.
www.campaignfordrawing,org/bigdraw
Download the poster here
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Creative Writing
with Shelagh Weeks and Liz Porter
Penylan Library
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 12pm
Writer Shelagh Weeks and Liz Porter (Cardiff University) will be running a creative writing workshop (beginners welcome) in the library. Using the park as stimulus, writers will be encourages to conjure evocations of the park/s and draw on memory.
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Snapshot Roath 2010
with Katrina Kirkwood
The Gate Arts Centre – Cafe Bar
Information pick-up: Saturday 16th October, 10am – 12pm
Image collation: Sunday 17th October, 10am – 12pm
Film screenings: Sunday 17th October, 6pm
Snapshot Roath is an exciting 24 hour digital photography challenge where YOU provide the pictures for a film of Roath that will be screened on Sunday evening at The Gate. It’s the same as Snapshot Roath 2009, but with new features so the film will be put together in a new way and come out quite differently…but you’ll have to join in to find out how!
www.katrinakirkwood.org
Jamie Hui’s photograph from last year’s Snapshot Roath
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CAN DO School Mural
with People Around Here
Roath Park Primary School
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 4pm
CAN DO is an initiative from Roath-based community arts charity People Around Here to ‘paint it positive’ across the schools, subways, parks and council estates of Cardiff. This is an intergenerational initiative, mobilising everyone to work together to recreate their living environment through murals and other creative activities. As part of the Made in Roath festival, People Around Here will be designing a mural for the playground of Roath Park Primary School. Everyone is welcome to come along and help paint the mural, whatever your age or ability. All equipment will be provided but please come wearing old clothes for painting.
www.peoplearoundhere.com
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Cafe Junior’s
BIG ART DAY
Cafe Junior
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 5pm
(Parental supervision required)
Cafe Junior are hosting an all-day drop-in art and craft workshop for toddlers. Get your little ones involved in making mini works of art for Made in Roath festival too!
www.cafejunior.com
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Memories are made of this
Cardiff Council Libraries Stacks and Stock Support
Stacks are the books that are “behind the scenes” in any
library. Here you’ll find over five miles of books that are just in less frequent use, OR are in some way rare or special. Here
are your chances to explore them during the weekend…
Friday 15th October, 2.30pm -4pm
Coffee Afternoon and Memories talk
Saturday 16th October, 10.30am-12pm
Do you remember when…? A fun event for families (with a quiz sheet and craft activities for children) looking at events
that trigger memories, design and style that evoke an era, and how memories are recorded.
Saturday 16th October, 1.30pm-3pm
When Grandma was a girl… Another crafty activity for families looking specifically at the 19th Century, and what life
was like in Victorian times.
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Knitting lessons
with Yarn and Yarn
Big Knitters
Saturday 16th October, 10am (half-hour slots)
Local knitters will be available to help new knitters learn the ropes, surrounded by shelves of yarny loveliness in Big Knitters.
They will also be displaying some of their own finished products, and works-in-progress. All abilities welcome.
Max 3 per slot, booking advised, call 02920464399
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Interactive Musical Sculptures
with anomalousarts
Roath Park Primary / Roath Park Bowls Pavilion
Saturday 16th October, 12pm – 4pm, Roath Park Primary
Sunday 17th October, 12pm – 4pm, Roath Park Bowls Pavilion
anolmalousarts create unique structures that demand interaction to make some noise. Its art- please touch!
www.anomalousarts.com
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Camp on the Rec!
with Cardiff East and South Scouts
Roath Rec
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 4pm
The scouts will be setting up camp on the Rec, cooking a basic backwoods meal over an open fire…
www.catvog.org
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Bird Feeder Making
and Bird Sketching
with RSPB Wildlife Explorers Group
Roath Park Bowls Pavilion
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 1pm
The Wildlife Explorers Group provide an opportunity for young people to get outdoors, share their interest in wildlife and
learn more about nature and the environment.
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Sketching Session
with Mary Traynor
Waterloo and Roath Mill Gardens
Saturday 16th October, 12am – 4pm
Sketching with Mary Traynor and members of the Cardiff Drawing Group in Waterloo and Roath Mill Gardens. Wonderful mature trees, attractive period houses, St Margaret’s Church, Roath Church House, St Edward’s Church and people doing park-things. Based at the Waterloo Gardens Teahouse, well-known for the best teas and coffees around. Bring your own sketching things, and a chair/stool to give more confort and choice of subject.
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Circus Workshop
with NoFit State Circus
Kings Monkton’s School
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 1pm (drop-in)
Come along and see demonstrations from performers with NoFit State Circus.Why not try your hand at Hula Hooping,
Juggling, Diabolo, or even Unicycling in our circus workshop in the school’s main hall?
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Creative Music Making
with Paula Gardiner and the RWCMD
Kings Monkton’s School
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 1pm (drop-in)
Paula Gardiner (Head of Jazz, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and musical director for MzansiCymru) together
with students from RWCMD, will be running a creative musicmaking workshop. Instrumentalists and singers of all generations
and experience are welcome. Alternatively you will be able to simply take a break from it all with some light refreshments
accompanied by performances from school choristers.
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Art and Design Technology: Workshops by Kings Monkton’s School Depts
Kings Monkton’s School
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 1pm (drop-in)
Over the course of the morning, the Art and DT departments are running short workshops, including 2D Glass Painting for
Beginners, open to the public. Under instruction, you will able to create your own unique artwork to take home.
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‘Have-a-go’ Textiles
with Kiran Williams
Oriel Makers – Upstairs Gallery
Saturday 16th October, 12am – 5pm (drop in)
Sunday 17th October, 12pm – 3pm (drop-in)
Textile artist Kiran Williams, whose work is showing at the gallery, will be running drop-in sessions to make bunting, rosettes and corsages from recycled scrap materials.
www.orielmakers.co.uk
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Carving technique
with Kate Evans
Oriel Makers
Saturday 16th October, 12am – 4pm (drop in)
A ceramic artist who graduated from cardiff School of Art and Design will be demonstrating her carving technique on thrown porcelain vessels.
www.orielmakers.co.uk
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Introducing Dramatherapy…
Dramatherapy Wales- workshop and info session
The Gate Arts Centre – Upstairs Studio
Saturday 16th October, 1.30pm – 3pm
Come and experience dramatherapy as a way to explore creativity, imagination and unlock your potential.
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Hot Textiles
including Shibori and Plastic bag-art
with James Ison
The Gate Arts Centre – Dance Studio
Saturday 16th October, 1.30pm – 3.30pm
The shibori technique of manipulating fabric through heat dates back to the 8th Century. During this workshop participants will learn about the history of Shibori, as well as its contmporary uses, then put them to the technique into practise. Participants are welcome to bring along any synthetic materials they wish. Alongside this, learn other hot textiles processes, including how to transform plastic bags into contemporary textile art. Bring as many carrier bags as you can along with you!
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Nosy Parkers
with Hack/Flash
The Gate – Dance Studio
Saturday 16th October, 6pm-
Sunday 17th October, all day (drop-in)
hack/flash wants to get everyday people involved with fun and collaborative art projects. They might want you to answer questions, or take photos, or write, or paint. You don’t need any ‘artistic ability’ at all – just an inquiring mind and a desire to have fun. Sometimes, they might just want you to make a mess…For their newest project hack/flash have teamed up with Made in Roath to celebrate the beautiful green lushness of Roath Park. What connects you to Roath’s famous green space? Maybe you had your first kiss there, or broke up, or made up – whatever your story, we want to hear it. And we want you to plot your memories and dreams onto our great big map!
www.hackflash.co.uk
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Animation
with Tom Edgar
Roath Park Primary – School Hall
Saturday 16th October, 2.30pm – 4.30pm
This is your chance to meet award winning animation director
Tom Edgar, whose work can be seen on CBeebies, and make some animated movies with him!
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Book Illustration
with Vicky Say
Penylan Library, Room 2
Saturday 16th October, 1pm – 2.30pm
Following a discussion about the principles behind book cover illustration and why its so important to understand how to
make you cover designs stand out from the crowd, participants will be given the chance to design their own covers
under the guidence of professional illustrators.
www.vickysay.co.uk
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Roath Photobook Project
with Lisa Edgar and Helen Warburton
86 Roath Court Road, CF24 3SE
Sunday 17th October, 11.30am – 4.30pm
Make your own professional photo-story about Roath using this fool-proof shooting script! Make a mini-book at home using the template (see seperate flyers), or come along to the workshop with your photos on a camera (with the cable), USB stick or disk, and make your book with us. Submit your home or workshop-made books for an exhibition at Milkwood Gallery the following week!
‘Download your Roath Photobook Project HERE’
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Jewellery-making
with ABCD Cymru
The Gate Arts Centre – Upstairs Studio
Sunday 17th October, 2pm – 3.30pm
ABCD aims to support and empower BME disabled children, young people and families in Wales. This workshop will be an inclusive and fun jewellery-making workshop for all children and young people. Make your own bracelets, necklaces, brooches and ring with materials provided. An enjoyable session for all.
www.abcdcymru.org.uk
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The Ukulele Invitation
with Uke Nights
Deli Rouge
Sunday 17th October, 2pm -4pm
The Ukulele Nights offer a workshop opportunity for everyone. As a prelude to their gig at the Gate, some of the seasoned players from Uke Nights will lead a workshop for aspiring ukulele players. Their novel approach will inspire people who have never even picked up a ukulele before to give it a try and under their guidance, lean the basics of playng, how to accompany songs and some of the special ukulele techniques. Some ukuleles will be available for use at the workshop, or bring your own if you have one.
www.ukenights.org.uk
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Argentine Tango
The Gate – Theatre
Sunday 17th October
Introductory Lesson- for absolute beginners, 6.30pm -7.30pm
Social Dancing- for regular tango Dancers, 7.30pm onwards
