[Blackpool] Saturday 8th July 2017

[Mike Hull]

Hi All


This Saturday can we please discuss suitable projects for the Craft Council open day at the end of October.


Below is an extract from an email I have received from the Craft Council which outlines the objects of the open day. Hopefully this will promote ideas for suitable projects. Don't forget, they would like to give us funds for our club to buy tools and equipment if we can come up with some good ideas for a project.


A celebration of craft innovation, Make:Shift:Do offers families, children, and young people hands-on experiences of emerging craft technologies, new materials and digital making including 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC milling, open-source making, electronic textiles, smart materials, digital printing, digital embroidery, robot building, creative coding, and bio design.



Bursaries are available to help makerspaces, fab labs, science centres, galleries and other venues offer free workshops and open days to introduce families and young people to cutting-edge approaches to making, changing perceptions of the meaning of ‘craft’ and revealing its real world potential.



Make:Shift:Do 2017 also poses a craft wellbeing challenge: What craft interventions can make the world a healthier, happier place? How can craft innovation help us understand the relationship between body and mind, improve how we communicate with each other, consider what we eat and drink, understand our mental health, or accommodate specific physical and mental needs?


So, lets have some ideas so we can prepare our application to hold an event again this year


See you all Saturday


Mike2