Crafty Pint Workshops in June…
In June we have two extra dates for our popular Upcycled Jewellery Workshop with Jeni in Tooting and Clapham / Battersea. And a very special evening planned with the Craftivist’s and Save the Children’s #imapiece project which will be dropping into Streatham on their tour of the UK.
Upcycled Jewellery with Jeni
The workshops cost £20 and all materials and tutors are included. We will provide tons of materials to choose from as well as lots of one-to-one help and demonstrations. Places will be limited to ensure lots of one to one help is on hand. Suitable for beginners, no experience needed! Please email Gillian at Crafty Pint to reserve a place.
Saturday 1st June 2pm – 5pm
29 London Road, Tooting SW17 9HW
Next to Tooting rail station or 44, 77, 264, 270, 280, 355 buses from Tooting Broadway.
Monday 3rd June 7pm – 10pm
140 St John’s Hill
London SW11 1SL
Map.
Places can be booked via email to Gillian at Crafty Pint.
Wednesday 12th June – Craftivist Collective’s I’m A Piece Project
We are very pleased and excited to be part of the I’m a Piece tour and will be hosting the installation with a special evening of Craftivist projects and a short talk about the project and craft activism. People from all around have contributed over 700 hand stitched jigsaw pieces (including our own Flaming Nora!). This evening will be a chance for your to add your own piece of the jigsaw to the project.
This amazing collaboration between the Craftivist Collective, Save the Children and the craft community is touring the UK to support Save the Children’s Race Against Hunger Campaign. This is what they say about the project..
“Life is like a puzzle, it all seems a mess but when it gets finished it looks brilliant. This project aims to show that we are all connected and our actions make a difference. There is no one solution to the problem of injustice but we can all play a part in a movement for change. We are supporting Save the Children because, as well as being a conscious consumer, this is a vital time to effect long-term change through campaigning and meeting your MP. We can’t miss this opportunity.”
You can read more about the unveiling of I’m a Piece here and here.
This will be a very special evening and we hope you can join us for an inspiring evening of Craftivism. Instead of this month’s workshop fee, you are free to make a donation to Save the Children.
I’m a Piece comes to Streatham
Wednesday 12th June from 7.30pm.
The Railway Pub
2 Greyhound Lane, Streatham, London SW16 5SD,
opposite Streatham Common Station.
We will be knitting this Monday!
Join the lovely, talented Alex and knit your own phone cover at Ben’s Canteen in Clapham this Monday (13th May). These cute knitted cases are perfect projects for beginners, or for knitters with a bit more experience to learn new stitches. Find out what you can do with simple variations of knit and purl stitches! The finished items are versatile enough to be used as phone or camera covers or anything else you need to keep snug in your bag.
First of all, pick your fave colours….
Then choose one of our designs, from a simple knit stitch to more fancy rib and moss stitches. All of these are suitable for beginners, and for more experienced knitters, we can experiment with stitches needing more skill.
Then embellish with vintage buttons and pom poms!
Our tutors will demonstrate how to cast on and the basic stitches for your phone case. We will be on hand to help you trouble shoot any problems, and you get to knit while enjoying a glass or two of Ben’s finest wines, yummy food, and meet your crafty neighbours. Alex is a very talented fine artist who we met during Lambeth Open Studios. When she is not painting, she loves to knit, so we are very pleased to have her join us.
These three-hour workshops costs just £20 and include tuition, examples, inspiration and lots of materials to choose from. All materials are supplied, and knitting needles will be available to buy if you want to take them home. We go out of our way to make sure you have lots of choice so you can play and experiment with a range of materials that you may not have access to at home. We ensure our groups don’t get to big, and always have enough tutors to provide one-to-one help as well as group demonstrations.
Please email Gillian at Crafty Pint if you want to reserve a place, or just drop in and join us on the day.
140 St John’s Hill
London SW11 1SL
Map.
It’s a Wandleful Life, Sat 11th May Southside 2-5pm
++STOP PRESS++
Due to bad weather, our Wandle themed printing workshop will now take place inside the Southside Shopping Centre, opposite TKMax. We will be there from 2pm until 5pm. Huge thanks to Southside, Wandsworth Arts and Brick Box for making it all happen!
WAFF Launch, Photo by Teddave
We are so excited about our next printing workshop tomorrow! This is the last in our series of special workshops commissioned for Wandsworth Arts Festival, so do come down and have a go at screen printing and discover the secrets of the Wandle River!
WAFF Launch, photo Teddave
WAFF Launch, photo Teddave
WAFF Launch, photo Teddave
Crafty Pint workshops for May!
We have some fabulous workshops lined up for May, including knitting phone covers with Alex and upcycled jewellery with Jeni and our Wandsworth Festival workshops.
Upcycled jewellery with Jeni – 8th May at The Railway
The workshops cost £20 and all materials and tutors are included. We will provide tons of materials to choose from as well as lots of one-to-one help and demonstrations. Places will be limited to ensure lots of one to one help is on hand. Suitable for beginners, no experience needed! Please email Gillian at Crafty Pint to reserve a place.
Upcycled Jewellery Workshop
Wednesday 8th May, from 7.30pm.
The Railway, 2 Greyhound Lane SW16 5SD, opposite Streatham Common Station.
These workshops are very popular, so we have added some extra June dates at our other venues as well! So if you can’t make Wednesday’s workshop, you came along to Crafty Pint at the Gorringe Park in Tooting or Ben’s Canteen in Clapham / Battersea.
EXTRA DATES!!
Upcycled Jewellery Workshops in JUNE
Saturday 1st June 2pm – 5pm
29 London Road, Tooting SW17 9HW
Next to Tooting rail station or 44, 77, 264, 270, 280, 355 buses from Tooting Broadway.
Monday 3rd June 7pm – 10pm
140 St John’s Hill
London SW11 1SL
Map.
Places can be booked via email to Gillian at Crafty Pint.
Monday 13th May 7pm – Knit a phone cover – Ben’s Canteen
Join talented south London artist Alex who will share her love of knitting with you. Alex has devised some simple yet effective knitting patterns so you can knit a cute cover for your phone. Learn to knit and protect your phone from bumps and knocks with a super cool, but snug knitted cover. This workshop is suitable for all abilities. Alex will show you the basics of knitting and provide one-to-one trouble shooting.
Monday 13th May 7pm – 10pm
140 St John’s Hill
London SW11 1SL
Map.
Places are £20 and include all materials and can be booked via email to Gillian at Crafty Pint.
And the last in our series of Wandsworth Arts printing workshops is on saturday 11th May.
Print a souvenir of Tooting – TODAY!
Join us TODAY at Tooting Tram and Social for our super duper FREE printing workshop, funded by Wandsworth Arts Festival! As well as printing, we will have the I’m A Piece Installation and workshop from the Craftivist Collective jigsaw project.
I’m a Piece with Save the Children and Craftivists
Meet the Craftivists and discover craft-activism and how we can support I’m a Piece project. People from all around have contributed over 600 hand stitched jigsaw pieces (including our own Flaming Nora!). You can read more about the unveiling of I’m a Piece here and here.
Saturday May 4th 12noon – 6pm
Tooting Tram & Social
46-48 Mitcham Road
London SW17 9NA
Nearest Tube – Tooting Broadway on the Northern Line - Map.
Wandsworth Festival Launch TODAY!
Join Crafty Pint TODAY at Wandsworth Arts Festival hub for the launch of the Wandsworth Arts Festival!
We will be providing a taster of our festival workshops, printing images from the amazing and curious objects found in the river Wandle by the Wandle Trust river clean-up volunteers.
Discover how many shopping trolleys, lamp posts and goddesses lurk in our local river. Pick you favourite curiosities from our readymade silk screens, design your bag, learn to screen print and print your own tote bag with wandleful images.
Free! Suitable for all ages. Drop-in workshop.
Old clothes advised as printing can be messy!
Friday 3rd May, 4pm to 6pm
The Wandle Triangle, Wandsworth High Street,
(opposite Southside Shopping Centre),
London SW18 4LB
This Crafty Pint workshop is funded by Wandsworth Arts, and is part of the Festival launch, which features…
*Mosi Conde, “an extraordinarily talented artist firmly rooted in tradition with a global sonic awareness … beautiful music from the heart that nourishes the spirit and makes for a good party sound as well!”
*Comedy from Rosie Wilby of Femmes on the Thames fame
*Live music from the jazz-classical duo Fuzion
www.cellopianoduo.co.uk
*Performances from 3′s A Crowd and Blackshaw Theatre Company
* A Fringe highlights Showreel projected in our fantastical hub and put together lovingly by Blackshaw Theatre Company- get a taste of the amazing Fringe activities in store!
* THE OBJECTS!!!!
Our Cabinet of Curiosity will be displaying all manner of wandleful wonders pulled from the river Wandle during clean ups.
And….. in homage to one of the first objects we pulled from the river, a mangled cassette tape, which turned out to be the Greek legend himself, at 9.00pm we will….
*RAISE THE ROUSSOSOFF! A Tribute to Demis, Forever and Ever, Amen. Beards and kaftans supplied.
We will be repeating this workshop here on 11th May from 12noon – 4pm.
Crafty Pint Tooting moves to The Gorringe Park Pub
Our big news this month, is a move from Tooting Tram & Social to the gorgeous Gorringe Park Pub from June. We have had a brilliant time at the Tram and are supremely grateful for all their support. In response to requests from lots of you for hot drinks and food, the lovely people at The Gorringe Park Pub have kindly agreed to host our summer programme in Tooting.
The Gorringe Park is a beautiful pub (as can be seen from the photos below) next to Tooting rail station and just a short walk or quick bus ride from Tooting Broadway. They serve a fab menu ranging from British tapas to yummy desserts and have lots of light, space and even a garden and a cinema. Ed and Josh have been super enthusiastic and welcoming and are very keen to make the Gorringe Park community pub with lots of events for Tooting people to enjoy.
Our first outing at the Gorringe Park pub will be our popular upcycled jewellery workshop with Jeni, on Saturday 1st June.
Places can be booked via email to Gillian at Crafty Pint.
29 London Road, Tooting SW17 9HW
Next to Tooting rail station or 44, 77, 264, 270, 280, 355 buses from Tooting Broadway.
