Christmas Dinner

A small but select group enjoyed the ERTF Christmas Dinner at Tewinbury Farm restaurant last night.

Wonderful food and excellent company!

Thank you Marian (hiding behind the decorations!) for organising it!

If you subscribe to Workshop on the Web... a reminder to check out the latest edition which has an article by your Cambridgeshire rep!

Word to the wise

IMO Two nice things happened this week.
Workshop on the Web [http://www.workshopontheweb.com/ £15 annual fee I think, edited by Maggie Grey] produced a particularly interesting edition this month
and
FiberArts magazine [Jan/Feb edition] to which I also subscribe [ http://www.fiberarts.com/ for info] has some equally interesting stuff, including a section on Felt maker Lisa Klakulak.
We need something to sustain us in this festive month.

Autumn Newsletter!

Glenda has put together another really good and informative newsletter! So please don't miss out log onto the members ERTF web site and take a look!

A Great Evening in Norwich

Good news, Stephanie Potts has agreed to be our rep in Norfolk, she is Manager of Dragons Hall in Norwich and is completing her MA in Textile Culture at Norwich. She will shortly be putting details of the next meeting meeting on the web site and you can contact her via the Committee Members section of the web site. It is Monday 18th January in the evening so put in your diary now.

We had a fantastic networking evening in Norwich at the splendid medieval Dragons Hall, so our venue for November 2010 conference is spectacular and a very apt setting for Concepts and Meanings.

We had a lot of interest in ERTF with representatives from Norwich Cathedral, amazing ecclesiastical textiles of course, and the Costume and Textile Society based at Carrow House. Several students on the MA course at Norwich have joined as members and I feel that Norfolk is going to be a very vibrant and active group. They have already arranged their next meeting, January 18th, to start taking things forward.

I forgot to take my camera, as ever, so no nice pics but I would like to say a big thank you to the Norfolk members that drove long distances on a wet November evening and to Stephanie for volunteering and providing the wonderful setting for the meeting and to Caroline McNarama for organising the evening.

CONFIRMED DATE FOR OWEN JONES VISIT TO V&A

There is now a confirmed date in December for another OWEN JONES study day with ERTF at the V&A. For more information check out the members pages on the website, you'll find all the information under Committee organised events. This is a great opportunity to get up close to original work and to become involved in what promises to be a very exciting project!!!!

REMINDER OF NETWORKING EVENT IN NORWICH

We have arranged a free ERTF networking event for Wednesday 25th November between 6 and 8pm at Dragons Hall, King Street, Norwich. We are very pleased that Dragons Hall is keen to offer its services and facilities to ERTF and to provide us with an Area Rep for Norfolk. This is fantastic news as we can now begin to make ERTF in Norfolk an active and vibrant group.

So please come along and meet members of the ERTF committee, including myself, hear what Dragons Hall can offer us and help plan for the future events that you want. You are we encouraged!, to bring as many friends as possible so that we can being to grow the Norfolk membership.
I appreciate that you are a large county and it might involve a bit of traveling for some of you but can I please encourage you to do your best to attend this event as you will not get activities started in your own areas unless you all meet up and begin talking. We are also bringing the November 2010 conference to Norwich, which is going to be a very special event looking at Concepts and Meanings within various art disciplines and own work and this will be the launching pad for our juried 2011 exhibition.

It would be helpful if you could let us know how many people you will be bringing with you on 25th.

So come and join us for a glass (or cup) or something and a mince pie and let's see what we can generate in Norfolk...........

Information and booking to chairman1@ertf.org.uk

EXHIBITION OF CITY AND GUILDS STITCHED TEXTILES