Featured Events in Ruthin in July 2025 (August Updated)

Jewellery from recycled materials with Hannah Coates Saturday 12 July 2025 10.00am - 4.00pm £60 (Includes all materials and tea and coffee) Age group – Adults Location: Education Room Using a variety of recycled plastics, including bottles, bags and wrappings, you will be given the opportunity to explore and experiment with shapes and colours, to design and make your own exciting, unique jewellery. Materials will be provided, but please bring a colourful object or garment that inspires you. And, if you have it, coloured plastic bags, cellophane wrappings, synthetic yarn, lace scraps and any unwanted Christmas tinsels or sequins. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gemwaith o ddeunyddiau wedi'u hailgylchu gyda Hannah CoatesDydd Sadwrn 12 Gorffennaf2025 10.00am - 4pm £60 yn cynnwys yr holl ddefnyddiau, te a choffi. Grŵp Oedran - Oedolion Lleoliad:Ystafell Addysg Gan ddefnyddio amrywiaeth o blastigau wedi'u hailgylchu, gan gynnwys poteli, bagiau a deunydd lapio, byddwch yn cael y cyfle i archwilio ac arbrofi gyda siapiau a lliwiau, i ddylunio a gwneud eich gemwaith cyffrous ac unigryw eich hun. Darperir deunyddiau, ond dewch â gwrthrych neu ddilledyn lliwgar sy'n eich ysbrydoli. Ac, os oes gennych chi rai, bagiau plastig lliw, deunydd lapio seloffen, edafedd synthetig, sbarion les ac unrhyw dunsel neu secwinau Nadolig diangen. Information Source: Ruthin Craft Centre | eventbrite

Monoprinting with John White Sunday 13 July 2025 10.30am - 4.00pm £60 (Includes all materials and tea and coffee) Age group – Adults Location: Education Room John White worked for Curwen Studio early on in his career and has made lithographs for many well-known artists, including David Hockney, Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Michael Landy and Sonia Boyce. He taught printmaking at Chelsea School of Art and Maidstone College of Art where he introduced Tracey Emin to monoprinting. John is also an artist in his own right and regularly exhibits his prints, inspired by music and nature, at the French House in London. Ruthin Craft Centre has received the generous gift of two printing presses from the family of Stanley Jones who established the Curwen in the 1950s. During this day we’ll be using these presses and be considering how different printmaking processes are used to produce different effects. We’ll look at examples of work by some of the artists John has worked with before going on to make our own monoprints and experiment with creating different linear effects. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monoprinting gyda John White Dydd Sul 13 Gorffennaf2025 10.30am - 4pm £60 yn cynnwys yr holl ddefnyddiau, te a choffi. Grŵp Oedran - Oedolyn Lleoliad:Ystafell Addysg Bu John White yn gweithio i Stiwdio Curwen yn gynnar yn ei yrfa ac mae wedi gwneud lithograffau ar gyfer nifer o artistiaid adnabyddus, gan gynnwys David Hockney, Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Michael Landy a Sonia Boyce. Dysgodd wneud printiau yn Ysgol Gelf Chelsea a Choleg Celf Maidstone lle cyflwynodd Tracey Emin i fonoprintio. Mae John hefyd yn artist yn ei rinwedd ei hun ac yn arddangos ei brintiau yn rheolaidd, wedi’u hysbrydoli gan gerddoriaeth a byd natur, yn y French House yn Llundain. Mae Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun wedi derbyn yr anrheg hael o ddwy wasg argraffu gan deulu Stanley Jones a sefydlodd y Curwen yn y 1950au. Yn ystod y diwrnod hwn byddwn yn defnyddio’r gweisg hyn ac yn ystyried sut mae gwahanol brosesau gwneud printiau’n cael eu defnyddio i gynhyrchu effeithiau gwahanol. Byddwn yn edrych ar enghreifftiau o waith gan rai o’r artistiaid y mae John wedi gweithio gyda nhw cyn mynd ymlaen i wneud ein monoprints ein hunain ac arbrofi gyda chreu effeithiau llinol gwahanol. Information Source: Ruthin Craft Centre | eventbrite

Thinking Space for Makers with Michael Brennand-Wood Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July 2025 10.00am - 4.00pm both days £30 (Includes tea and coffee) Supported by the Sara Richards Memorial Fund Age group – Adults Location: Education Room Calling all makers - come to Ruthin Craft Centre for a two-day intensive professional development course. Bring examples of your work and a willingness to share. Michael says, ‘What I find endlessly fascinating on any workshop are the personal areas of research that participants bring to the group.’ Speak and be heard. Listen and be informed. This course presents an opportunity to: Share our creativity creativelyShare problem-solving strategiesMentor and be mentoredExplore group sector concerns on making and showing workDiscuss individual work within a wider informed critical and supportive frameworkUp for discussion are issues of scale, media, translation, context, display and presentation. Should a work be framed, suspended, sculptural, wall hung? Is an installation related to a specific locality, space, or museum collection? Is a work permanent, time based, temporary or designed to auto-destruct? What strategies do we employ to promote, record, photograph, market and document our work? What are the differences between group and solo exhibitions? Are international competitions important, desirable aids to find new audiences, or an expensive undertaking? What is the importance of presentation in relation to commissions and exhibitions? What about the role of risk and projects that could be defined as continuous education i.e., research based with no certainty of any tangible outcome - is that an issue or not? Thinking Space will address the above questions and more over a two-day intensive exchange. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gofod Meddwl gyda Michael Brennand-Wood Dydd Sadwrn 19eg a Dydd Sul 20eg Gorffennaf2025 10.00am - 4.00pm y ddau ddiwrnod £30 (Yn cynnwys te a choffi) Cefnogir gan Gronfa Goffa Sara Richards Grŵp Oedran - Oedolion Lleoliad:Ystafell Addysg Yn galw ar bob gwneuthurwr - dewch i Ganolfan Grefft Rhuthun ar gyfer cwrs datblygiad proffesiynol dwys deuddydd. Dewch ag enghreifftiau o'ch gwaith a pharodrwydd i rannu. Dywed Michael, ‘Yr hyn sy’n hynod ddiddorol i mi ar unrhyw weithdy yw’r meysydd ymchwil personol y mae cyfranogwyr yn dod â nhw i’r grŵp.’ Siaradwch a chael eich clywed. Gwrandewch a chael gwybod. Mae’r cwrs hwn yn rhoi cyfle i: Rhannu ein creadigrwydd yn greadigolRhannu strategaethau datrys problemauMentora a chael eich mentoraArchwilio pryderon y sector grŵp ar wneud a dangos GwaithTrafod gwaith unigol o fewn fframwaith beirniadol a chefnogol gwybodus ehangachAr gyfer trafodaeth mae materion maint, cyfryngau, cyfieithu, cyd-destun, arddangosiad a chyflwyniad. A ddylai gwaith gael ei fframio, ei grogi, ei gerfluniol, ei hongian ar y wal? A yw gosodiad yn ymwneud â lleoliad, gofod neu gasgliad amgueddfa penodol? A yw gwaith yn barhaol, yn seiliedig ar amser, dros dro neu wedi'i gynllunio i ddinistrio'n awtomatig? Pa strategaethau ydyn ni'n eu defnyddio i hyrwyddo, cofnodi, tynnu lluniau, marchnata a dogfennu ein gwaith? Beth yw'r gwahaniaethau rhwng arddangosfeydd grŵp, ac unigol? A yw cystadlaethau rhyngwladol yn bwysig, yn gymhorthion dymunol i ddod o hyd i gynulleidfaoedd newydd, neu'n ymgymeriad drud? Beth yw pwysigrwydd cyflwyno mewn perthynas â chomisiynau ac arddangosfeydd? Beth am rôl risg a phrosiectau y gellid eu diffinio fel addysg barhaus h.y., yn seiliedig ar ymchwil heb unrhyw sicrwydd o unrhyw ganlyniad diriaethol - a yw hynny'n broblem ai peidio? Bydd Gofod Meddwl yn mynd i’r afael â’r cwestiynau uchod a mwy dros gyfnod cyfnewid dwys dau ddiwrnod. Information Source: Ruthin Craft Centre | eventbrite

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Rosie Farey - Rush Baskets workshop 26/07/24 10.00am - 1.00pm £60 (Includes all materials and tea and coffee) Age group – Adults Location: Education Room Make a small posey basket using Common Club Rush with Rosie Farey. You will learn all the traditional rush weaving techniques such as check weave, paring and a track border to make a simple little basket with a handle. Rosie harvests all her own materials from the Somerset levels. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rosie Farey - Gweithdy Basgedi Brwyn 26/07/24 10.00am - 4.00pm £60 (gan gynnwys y defnyddiau, te a choffi) Grŵp Oedran - Oedolion Lleoliad:Ystafell Addysg Gwnewch fasged posey bach gan ddefnyddio 'Common Club Rush' gyda Rosie Farey. Byddwch yn dysgu'r holl dechnegau gwehyddu brwyn traddodiadol fel gwehyddu siec, pario ac ymyl trac i wneud basged fach syml gyda handlen. Mae Rosie yn cynaeafu ei holl ddeunyddiau ei hun o lefelau Gwlad yr Haf. Information Source: Ruthin Craft Centre | eventbrite