28-31 May 2015 www.ifg.org.uk INTRIGUE INNOVATE INSPIRE Welcome to the 6th International Festival of . Since its inception in 2004, the Festival’s aim has been to celebrate and showcase the work and innovation of the glass industry and makers; inspiring visitors to learn more about the area’s heritage and the skilled work of glass artists. This year, the Festival programme includes an exciting mix of lectures, workshops, exhibitions and family activities, as well as fantastic food and drink - making it an event not to be missed.

With makers and visitors from all over the world, the Festival embraces the international glass world, as well as having a focus on the proud local heritage of Stourbridge.

The 2015 British Glass Biennale includes dynamic and compelling work from over 70 glass artists living and working in Britain. Be inspired by their craftsmanship and imagination. Try your hand at and other glass crafts through the taster sessions.

Come along and help us celebrate one of the most fascinating and diverse art forms around. We are certain that there is something to interest and entertain all ages.

Elisabeth Johnson Festival Project Manager

www.ifg.org.uk @FestivalofGlass International Festival of Glass

Cover photo: Ayse Simsek & Heike Brachlow, Emma Baker Idiosyncrasies 2 WEB - image, Ester Segarra Photo: David Williams CONTENTS Exhibitions 4 Celebrity Doodles 10 Demonstrations & Open Studios 11 Retail Opportunities 13 Workshops & Taster Sessions 14 How to Book 17 Community Breath 18 Events 20 Family Fun 23 Ruskin Lecture Programme 27 Heritage Programme 32 Artist Programme 34 Walks & Tours 36 Festival Venues 37 Getting Around 38

Emma Baker Idiosyncrasies Photo: David Williams EXHIBITIONS The Festival exhibition programme BRITISH GLASS BIENNALE 2015 CUTTING EDGE: MODERN is an eclectic and inspiring mix of The British Glass Biennale is HUNGARIAN GLASS contemporary , created by the flagship exhibition of the Showcasing the work of 17 both established artists International Festival of Glass. It contemporary artists and students is the UK’s most comprehensive from Hungary. A combination of selling exhibition of contemporary stunning visual appeal and All exhibitions are free and open glass and features 122 pieces by technical mastery. 10am – 5pm daily throughout 77 artists. From small the Public Festival (28 - 31 May). Venue to large-scale installations, the Exhibition opening times outside Broadfield House Glass Museum Biennale is a unique opportunity the Festival will vary, so please to experience the creativity and Date check with the venue. During the diversity of some of the UK’s top 9 - 31 May 2015 Festival, exhibitions at Ruskin glass artists. Glass Centre are free with a Festival Pass – passes can be www.biennale.org.uk purchased online at www.ifg.co.uk/ Venue visit/buy-tickets. Day Passes cost The Glasshouse Arts Centre at £5/adult, £1/child (under 15) and a Ruskin Glass Centre four day Pass is £14.50/adult. Date 28 May - 28 June 2015

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21st CENTURY GRAVUR ON TOUR CONTEMPORARY GLASS SOCIETY Exhibition Of Contemporary Modern European Glass OPEN EXHIBITION Engraved Glass This small touring exhibition of 31 Wish You Were Here; A Wall Of Glass A selected exhibition of work by pieces of engraved by Postcards members of the Guild of Glass some 31 EU artists, represents the Postcards have a long and Engravers, including Alison Kinnaird diversity of contemporary glass fascinating history and are more MBE, Chris Ainslie, Christian engraving both artistically and than just words and pictures; Schmidt, Nancy Sutcliffe, Katharine technically; with work ranging from offering a glimpse of another life, Coleman MBE, Jimmy Denison- experimental to traditional, classic a renewed friendship, a shared Pender, Sandra Snaddon, Tricia glass engraving. joke… The Contemporary Glass Hilton-Robinson, Jan Studerus Society has created a wall of over Venue and Dominic Fondé. 150 glass postcards and they are Red House Glass Cone all for sale. With thanks to sponsors Venue Date Mark Holford and Craft & Design Red House Glass Cone 18 May - 26 June 2015 Magazine, and supporters Kilncare, Date Alan J Poole (People’s Prize) and 18 May - 26 June 2015 John Agnew (First Prize) Venue Ruskin Glass Centre Date 29 May - 28 June 2015

5 Evy Cohen Wish You Were Here EXHIBITIONS

BRUNTNELL ASTLEY GLASSHOUSE COLLEGE THE GLASS CREW CIRCA 2015: CONTEMPORARY GLASS STUDENT EXHIBITION A PINHOLE REVELATION An exhibition by some of the finest A mixed media exhibition of work in Timeless images of glassmaking names in contemporary glass art, glass, wood and textiles created by recreated by Glasshouse College with works from the Bruntnell Astley the students of Glasshouse College, students using a pin-hole camera. online gallery site and new unseen which operates alongside the Inspired by images from the Dudley works in this ‘Pop Up’ gallery. Ruskin Glass Centre, giving young Archives and Local History Service adults the opportunity to work with Venue Venue experienced craftspeople. This year, Wordsley Methodist Church Ruskin Glass Centre students have developed a range of Date Date craft products to sell at the Festival. 25 - 31 May 2015 28 - 31 May 2015 Venue

Ruskin Glass Centre Date 28 - 31 May 2015

6 Ruth Shelley Indian Photo: Haydn Denman

RUSKIN COLLECTIVE COALBOURN HILL TIME From glass blowing, painting, fusing CAPSULE: FINDS FROM THE and to glass repairs, ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG creative woodwork, stone carving, The treasures of the 2012 Nexus publishing and natural soap to Heritage archaeological digs reveal enameling and textile workshops; the fascinating 300 year glass the artists and tenants of Ruskin history of the Ruskin Glass Centre Glass Centre each share a piece of site; with glass finds from glass their work to create the manufacturers Coalbourn Hill, Ruskin Collective. British Lens and Glass Co, Webb Corbett and Royal Doulton Crystal. Venue Ruskin Glass Centre Venue Date Webb Corbett Visitor Centre 18 May - 29 June 2015 (Ruskin Glass Centre) Date Photo: R Morton 28 - 31 May 2015 Alison KinnairdPhoto: BedJohn of Plant Roses II EXHIBITIONS A CONSERVATION PIECE AMBLECOTE ECHOES SHADOWS AND DUST Working with acrylic paint on An exhibition of contemporary An audio-visual installation canvas, John Ramsell incorporates glass, continuing the legacy of an exploring ‘spirit of place’ of dormant natural and abstract images in innovative glassmaking centre. buildings. Created by multi award- juxtaposition, to create a snapshot Venue winning singer, composer and of a missed environment. His most Holy Trinity Church, Amblecote visual artist Andy Garbi, the piece recent work has explored tensions uses photographs taken of the between symbolism, religion, and Date 28 - 31 May 2015 patina developed over decades on nationality. During the Festival hundreds of panes of glass at the visitors will be able to watch John NEW BEGINNINGS Coffin Works ( Quarter, using enamels to paint on glass - a A look back at the life of “To leave Birmingham) prior to renovation. chance to explore the qualities a is to enter” - the glass mirrored Venue change of medium can bring to an gates created by artist Robyn Red House Glass Cone artist’s work. Smith for the British Glass Biennale 2012 - together with new works Date Venue 28 May - 6 June 2015 Ruskin Glass Centre created through upcycling, recycling and reconstructing.There will be Date FUSION OF AND GLASS opportunities to join in various Up 28 - 31 May 2015 Cycling Workshops both before A small, but eclectic and and during the Festival weekend imaginative show of collaborative alongside the exhibition. works by contemporary lacemakers working with glassmakers. Venue St John’s Church, Stourbridge Venue The Lace Guild Date 28 - 31 May 2015 Date & Time 28 - 31 May 2015

8 EXPLORE YOUR ARCHIVES: DESIGNS, DRAWINGS & DOCUMENTS A rare opportunity to view the glass documents and design books held by the Glass Museum and Dudley Archives & Local History Service; including the unique pattern books of engraver Joseph Keller and Modernist designer Keith Murray, as well as printed catalogues from the major firms of Thomas Webb, Stuart & Sons, and Stevens & Williams. VOLUNTEER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF GLASS Venue Broadfield House Glass Museum Like what you see? Want to be at the centre of things? Well you can be! Date The Festival would not be possible 25 – 30 May 2015 without our lovely volunteers and we are always looking for people to join the team. From stewarding to taking tickets, helping to spread the word about the Festival to catering assistance, there are all sorts of ways you can get involved. In return you can meet some of the world’s greatest glassmakers, make new friends and have a fantastic time. To Volunteer for the Festival, visit www.ifg.org.uk or email [email protected]

Robyn Smith New Beginnings CELEBRITY DOODLES The British Glass Foundation (BGF) is bringing celebrity doodles to glass! A team of talented glassmakers will be creating glass art from celebrity doodles throughout the Festival and all pieces will be auctioned later in the year to raise funds for the work of the BGF. Nancy Sutcliffe will be working on a piece inspired by a doodle by Raymond Blanc at Broadfield House Glass Museum, 28, 29, 31 May. The Glass Bandits (Tim Boswell and Elliot Walker) will creating a piece inspired by Maggie Philbin in the morning of 29 May in the Hot Glass Studio at Broadfield, whilst Lynn Baker will be there in the afternoon inspired by Emma Thompson’s doodle. Terri Colledge will be working on a piece inspired by Tony Hadley in her studio at Ruskin Glass Centre throughout the Festival. Georgia Redpath will be turning Wolves’ legend Steve Bull’s doodle into glass, whilst Jo Newman is taking on comedy legend Lenny Henry. Keeping it local, Steve Piper will be demonstrating the fine art of copper wheel engraving in the Cameo room at Broadfield on 30 May to realise Robert Plant’s doodle, followed by Vic Bamforth and Darren Weed who will be bringing Dave Hill’s (Slade) doodle to life on 31 May. Teresa Belmont and Terri Malcolm are collaborating on a piece based on a doodle from singing star Beverley Knight. Local schools have also caught the doodle bug with Broadfield House Glass Museum’s Doodle competition. Allister Malcolm and Melissa Nicholls will be transforming the winning doodle into glass for the Festival.

10 Robert Plant’s doodle DEMONSTRATIONS & OPEN STUDIOS

A unique opportunity to see the most talented glass artists, from the UK and overseas, demonstrate their skills in a variety of techniques. Demonstrations will take place across all Festival venues over the four days of the Festival. A full schedule will be available to download from www.ifg.org.uk The Stourbridge area has been a major glassmaking centre for 400 years and there is still a thriving industry in Stourbridge today. During the Festival, the glass and craft artists based across the quarter will be opening their studio doors: the award winning Broadfield House Glass Museum, one of the major glass museums in the world with its hot glass studio and selling exhibitions; Ruskin Glass Centre and Webb Corbett Visitor Centre home to 18 studios and craft businesses with retail units to browse and an organic café; and Red House Glass Cone, one of only four cones left in the UK, with 12 craft studios, a hot glass studio and the Red Cone Coffee House.

Stephen & Kate Gillies Jones Landscape Study Blue & Grey Photo: Peter Chambers 11 RUSKIN GLASS CENTRE DEMONSTRATION HIGHLIGHTS GLASS BLOWING BOTTLES TO GLASS TESSERAE THE GUILD OF ENAMELLERS • Dante Marioni (USA) a new perspective on recycling AND THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF • Janusz Pozniak (UK/USA) • JanHein van Stiphout (Netherlands) ENAMELLERS • Neil Wilkin (UK) Visit the display of enamelling • James Devereux (UK) ALFRESCO GLASSBLOWING techniques and find out about the • Ian Bamforth (UK) A rolling programme of hot glass opportunities available to you, • Vic Bamforth (UK) demonstrations under canvas whether beginner or • Stephen Foster (UK) from a variety of contemporary experienced enameller. • Pete Fricker (UK) makers, as selected by The Glass Venue Ruskin Glass Centre • Malcolm Andrews (UK) Hub. Merlyn Farwell will also be Date and Time 28-31 May, display • Christiaan (Chris) D. Maas demonstrating his energy efficient 10am-5pm with demonstrations at (Netherlands) mobile furnace. • Ondrej Novotny 11am and 2.30pm (Czech Republic) Price Free with Festival Pass • Blowing the Churchill mould (also at Dial Glass Works during GUILD OF GLASS ENGRAVERS Factory Tours. See p33.) Have a go sessions PIElectronics MURRINI MAKING Venue Red House Glass Cone • Penny Rakov (USA) Date and Times 29 - 31 May The Contemporary Glass Society, Price £4.50 per person. A max of Worshipful Company of Glass PAINTING ON GLASS 8 per session and children must be Sellers, British Glass Foundation, • Cappy Thompson (USA) over 8 years of age. and Friends of Broadfield House • John Ramsell (UK) are all bodies who strive to promote Advance booking required, call • Vic Bamforth (UK) glass, glass heritage and further (01384) 812756 or call into FREEHAND GLASS ENGRAVING the interests of glassmakers in the the Cone. UK. They are also valued partners • Christian Schmidt (Germany) and supporters of the Festival. , & CASTING Information about their work will be available throughout the Festival. • Lisa Pettibone (UK) • Georgia Redpath (UK) 12 RETAIL OPPORTUNITIES THE JOURNEYMAN Venue Ruskin Glass Centre and THE GLASS BARGE Visit ‘The Journeyman’, featuring a Glasshouse College A newly converted 70’ narrowboat, range of beautiful craft pieces for Date and Times 28 - 31 May, housing a workshop and gallery of sale, hand made by the students 10am - 5pm fused glass jewellery, which will be of Glasshouse College during their Price Free with Festival Pass moored at the Ruskin Glass Centre Contemporary Apprenticeship. for the Festival. PAPERWEIGHT DAY Venue Ruskin Glass Centre and Venue Ruskin Glass Centre and Glasshouse College Paperweights take the spotlight Glasshouse College (mooring) Date and Times 28 - 31 May, on Sunday, with paperweights for Date and Times 28 - 31 May, 10am - 5pm sale by specialist dealers, a special 10am - 5pm Price Free with Festival Pass exhibition of American weights Price Free with Festival Pass by members of the Paperweight BEAD FAIR Collectors circle, and paperweights CHARITY CHILLOUT being made in the hot glass studio A truly unique bead fair with Enjoy a relaxing mini back massage by Darren Weed and Vic Bamforth. handmade beads and other or reviving aromatherapy foot handmade glass items not found on Venue Broadfield House Glass Museum massage at The Natural Soapworks. the high street. Date and Times 31 May, 10am - 5pm Donation of £7.50 for 15 minutes For further details please see Price Free to Prostate Cancer UK. For more www.stourbridgebeadfair.co.uk information and appointments CONFIDENT COLLECTING Venue The Bonded Warehouse please visit www.natroma.co.uk Date and Times 30 & 31 May, Join Matt Durran, Guest Curator Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre (Natural 10am - 4.30pm of the British Glass Biennale 2015, Soapworks) Price Free artist and Trustee of the Crafts Date and Time 28 - 31 May, 10am - 5pm Council, in a tour of the Biennale Price £7.50 donation book through CHROME YELLOW BOOKS exhibition after hours. Gain an www.natroma.co.uk plus Festival Pass insight into ‘artists to watch’ and Specialists in contemporary emerging trends. European art and craft publications, Chrome Yellow Books brings Venue Ruskin Glass Centre a specially selected Festival Date and Time 29 & 30 May, 5pm bookshop to Stourbridge. Price Free with Festival Pass, advance booking required 13 WORKSHOPS & TASTER SESSIONS AT THE RUSKIN GLASS CENTRE Unless otherwise stated, sessions must be booked in advance. See www.ifg.org.uk for booking information.

‘HAVE A GO’ STONE PORTRAIT CARVING BEGINNERS FUSED A GLASSBLOWING TASTER FOR BEGINNERS GLASS WORKSHOP Have you ever wondered whether Using an easy to carve sandstone, Glass designer & maker Paul Floyd glassblowing was for you? If so, Philip Potter ARBSA will cover will teach the basics of fusing, this is your chance to try it out. A the basics of carving in 3d. The cutting glass to a pattern and two hour session designed to show materials are included. Please note, working with coloured sheet glass, you the basics of glassblowing in a stone is resistant, so a full day is frits and powders. small group. Your blown glass will recommended to get the most from Date 29 May & 30 May be available to collect the this workshop. following day. Age Range 15 and upwards Date 28 - 31 May Price £40 plus Festival Pass Date 28 – 31 May 2015 Age Range 12 and upwards Age Range 16 upwards Price £50/£90 half/full day plus Price £24 plus Festival Pass Festival Pass Half day, £90 Full day plus Festival Pass

ENAMEL WORKSHOP Sgraffito on copper Learn how to prepare 1 - 2 copper blanks ready for coating with wet process liquid enamel, create designs (sgraffito) in the dried powder, fire in a kiln, and then add flux or transparent enamels. Suitable for beginners. Date 28 May & 30 May Age Range 16 and upwards; children under 16 can attend with a fee paying adult (lead free enamels available) Price £20 plus Festival Pass

Festival Passes can be purchased online at http://www.ifg.org.uk/visit/buy- tickets-here or through the Festival Office. Day Passes cost £5/adult and £1/child (under 15). The Four Day Festival Pass is £14.50/adult. Photo: John Plant 15 WORKSHOPS & TASTER SESSIONS AT THE RUSKIN GLASS CENTRE Unless otherwise stated, sessions must be booked in advance

ENAMEL WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO PORTRAITS ON GLASS WORKSHOP Stencils & masks on copper GLASSBLOWING WITH Working with Jo Gane, Learn how to prepare up to two MARTIN ANDREWS photographic artist and educator, copper blanks, sift enamel powder, Get hands on experience in the half create an amazing one-off fire in a kiln, and create designs day workshop covering the basics ambrotype image on a glass using stencils/masks & embedding of hot glass making; gathering, plate….featuring you! Historic beads, threads etc. Suitable shaping and forming; developing backdrops supplied. Feel free to for beginners. hand eye co-ordination and dress up or bring props. rhythm to turn, stretch and control Date 29 May & 31 May Date & Time 29 - 31 May, half the molten glass. No prior glass 29 - 31 May, half hour sessions Age Range 16 and upwards; experience necessary. children under 16 can attend with a Age Range All ages but children fee paying adult (lead free enamels Date 28 - 31 May All ages but under 14 must be available) Age Range 16 and upwards accompanied by an adult Price £20 plus Festival Pass Price £135 plus Festival Pass Price £15 per workshop plus Festival Pass

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Caroline Jariwala

THE WEBB CORBETT HERITAGE – PIECING TOGETHER THE PAST HOW TO BOOK Please book Festival Passes and tickets online at www.ifg.org.uk. Come and help international For queries, please email [email protected] or phone 01384 399410 mosaic artist Caroline Jariwala 10am - 3pm Tuesday to Saturday, answerphone outside of these hours. make a permanent, public, mosaic mural using Victorian glass shards Workshops and taster sessions are very popular, and we may have to limit the unearthed during the archeological number of classes any one person can take in order to give others a chance dig at the historic glass cones at the to participate. Ruskin Glass Centre, with Victorian Suitable clothing and closed toe shoes must be worn for all workshops. glass factory pattern books and Caroline’s Indian heritage as inspiration. Free drop in activity. Date & Time Drop in activity, 28 & 29 May Age Range Children 8+ welcome but must be accompanied by adult Price Free with Festival Pass COMMUNITY BREATH Linking via Aurea Caroli in the Czech Republic and the Glasshouse College in Stourbridge, England

Via Aurea Caroli means the ‘golden Community Breath is a collaborative founding of the first Goetheanum, road of Caroli’ and it stretches glass blowing project linking the particularly in the areas of from Nuremburg to Prague. In the initiative with ancestors of the glass . fourteenth century it was of great Bohemian glass communities and Venue Webb Corbett Visitor Centre, economic and cultural importance the Glasshouse College. The silica Hotshop 2 for Bohemian glass makers and for Community Breath is from the it is along this road that German Via Aurea Caroli farm and is mixed Date There will be Community pioneer, Wolfgang Gutberlet, is with limestone from Dudley; fusing Breath Sessions on Thursday, converting 5,000 hectares of newly the two communities together. This Saturday and Sunday plus an acquired land for conversion to cultural exchange of knowledge, exhibition at the Webb Corbett Biodynamic methods, as part of the skills and spiritual vision of renewal Visitor Centre throughout Via Aurea Caroli Biodynamic in agriculture and practical arts, the Festival farm initiative. will feature a number of skills and Price Free with Festival Pass techniques developed during the 18 www.warm-glass.co.uk Largest Art Glass Distributor in UK Main UK Dealer for Kilncare Kilns Bullseye Glass Preferred Partner

Official Sponsor Sponsors of the The People’s Prize EVENTS OPENING OF WISH YOU WERE HERE SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW by site visits to the Glass Quarter, Join members of the CGS and ABOUT GLASS… by glassmakers past and present and, of course, by glass in all its artists for the opening of the IFG Glass Quiz Night Contemporary Glass Society Open forms. Their brief is simply to write If you can tell your frit from your Exhibition; Wish You Were Here. ‘on glass’. frigger and your marver from your A stunning collection of over 150 carver then this is the night to show Venue glass postcards; all for sale at £50, the world your glassy talents. Food, Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre £100 or £150. real ale, traditional pub games and Date Date and Time Thursday 28 May, all topped off with a fiendish quiz 31 May, 2.30pm 5.30 - 7.30pm to test your knowledge of all things Price Start/End Ruskin Glass Centre glass. Be sure to book tickets early Free with Festival Pass to avoid disappointment. FILM NIGHT AT SCARYCANARY Venue HAGLEY HALL; Our friends at ScaryCanary will Ruskin Glass Centre A LANDSCAPE UNPICKED be screening the 1954 Hitchcock Date “I wore out my eyes with gazing, classic Rear Window at their lovely Saturday 30 May 2015, 8pm my feet with climbing, and my upstairs cine-bar in Stourbridge tongue and vocabulary with Price town centre. Doors open at 7pm, commending” so said 18th Century £12 (including meal), advance film starts at 8.30pm. Admission is historian and critic Horace Walpole booking required free but seats (especially the sofas) when visiting the park at Hagley are limited so arrive early and enjoy Hall. In its day, the 18th century a drink while you wait for the film WRITING ON GLASS: A PERFORMANCE OF NEWLY Park was considered amongst the Venue COMMISSIONED WORK greatest of all English landscape Scarycanary Bar, Stourbridge gardens, inspiring the century’s West Midlands writers Liam Brown, Date most enlightened poets, writers Roz Goddard and Anna Lawrence Thursday 28 May 2015, 8.30pm and painters. Today, after almost have created new writing informed (doors open at 7pm) a century and a half of neglect, a

20 major restoration is well underway. In the process, Head of Landscape, Joe Hawkins, has uncovered fascinating evidence of forest glassmaking in the park dating back to the late 16th/early 17th century - perhaps the earliest yet evidenced in the locality. Join Joe on a tour of the landscape, as he discusses his recent discoveries and explains the way in which the Park was originally conceived to affect the senses, provoke different moods and inspire the imagination. After the tour, retire to the sumptuous Rococo interior of the Hall and enjoy an evening of food, music and words. Venue Hagley Hall and Park Date Friday 29 May 2015, 7pm Price £29.95 per person (advance booking required)

Hagley Hall EVENTS

FUN AUCTION WITH WILL FARMER four days of the Festival to a close FESTIVAL CHOIRS AT RUSKIN A firm favourite with Festival visitors with an exciting event where artists GLASS CENTRE - a great spectacle and a chance can sell work and bidders can bag The Got 2 Sing Community Choir to bid for your own heirloom of themselves a bargain. will be performing uplifting, toe- the future. Will Farmer, Director Venue Ruskin Glass Centre tapping songs on Saturday 30 May, of Fieldings Auctioneers (and our followed on Sunday 31 May by Date Sunday 31 May 2015, 3.30pm favourite expert on BBC Antiques Stream of Sound, a community of Roadshow), will once again take to Price Free - Festival Pass not young a Capella singers who revel the gavel, bringing plenty of fun and required for those arriving after in the variety of haunting harmonies expertise to the occasion. Raising 3.30pm and energetic rhythms from around vital funds, the auction brings the the world. All performances are free with Festival Pass

22 FAMILY FUN DAYS Children of all ages are mesmerised by the magical process of hot glass making. The Glass Festival not only has plenty of opportunities to watch glass makers in action, but there are lots of great hands-on activities to have a go at too. Here is just a brief roundup of family events and activities over the Festival weekend in the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.

BROADFIELD HOUSE GLASS MUSEUM THURSDAY 28, FRIDAY 29 AND SUNDAY 31 MAY Talented engraver Nancy Sutcliffe will be demonstrating the modern art of drill engraving from 10.30am – 1pm.

FRIDAY 29 MAY: FAMILY FUN DAY Have fun and frolics on the lawn at Broadfield House with our family friendly event. Youngsters can enjoy donkey rides, falconry displays, crafty workshops and story-telling – they can even clamber aboard a real fire engine! There will be entertainment, charity stalls, ice-cream and hot pork sandwiches, as well as amazing hot-glass demonstrations by The Glass Bandits and Lynn Baker. Admission is free but charges apply to some activities.

SATURDAY 30 MAY: MAKE YOUR MARK Flint-knapper Karl Lee, will demonstrate how to make primitive tools from modern materials such as glass bottles and glass blocks. Arrowheads, cutting blades and scrapers are some of the tools used by indigenous peoples, which would originally have been made from stone, such as flint.

FAMILY EVENTS AT RUSKIN There will be all sorts of opportunities for children to design and make themselves - from sandblasting a piece of glass with your name or design with Kevin Barry Crystal (from £3.50 a piece) to trying out sandblasting or glass painting on tea lights, hanging discs or coasters with Stourbridge Glass Engravers (£4.50), to designing your own with Andy Cope (£2 per glass). Why not do a drop-in workshop in leather, or willow at the Zodiac Courtyard Children’s Crafts (£1 per half hour session). Don’t forget your Festival Pass.

THE FETCH THEATRE COMPANY poemcetamols and other poetic Dates 28, 29, 30 & 31 May Banraku Puppet Workshops pills and treatments from the Cold Age range 12 upwards Comfort Pharmacy. There are skulls, Try your hand at being a puppeteer Price £3 per person plus in this interactive Banraku puppets jars of eyeballs and other body parts inside the ambulance too. Festival Pass workshop, based on characters from the city of Lahore. Dates 28, 29 & 30 May FESTIVAL POET Times 10am - 5pm each day Dates 29 & 30 May, 12noon - 1pm Emma Purshouse, performance Age range All and 3 - 4pm poet, writer and comedienne will be Price Free with Festival Pass our first ever Festival Poet. Look Age range 7 years and over Emergency Poet kindly sponsored out for her random acts of poetry Price £2 per person plus Festival Pass by Pridewater Estates Ltd and help her write the definitive 2015 Festival Poem. TWEETABUBBLE Your chance to try blowing a glass

bubble with the help of Merlyn EMERGENCY POET Farwell (and his team); the prolific, A mix of the serious, the therapeutic eccentric, pioneering inventor and and the theatrical, the Emergency his amazing portable glass studio. Poet offers free consultations inside Tweet a picture of you with your her ambulance and prescribes bubble and the most retweets poems as cures. In the waiting by the end of the Festival will be room Nurse Verse dispenses awarded a magnificent prize! STILT PRINCESSES 24 Effortlessly comedic and unpretentious, Nutkhut’s stilt walking characters resonate with audiences of all ages by injecting an iconic twist into the everyday and familiar. The Princesses may be draped in stunning jewels and silks, but don’t expect these down-to-earth divas not to have an eye for high street bargains and cute boys amongst charmed and chuckling crowds. Venue Ruskin Glass Centre and Glasshouse Arts Centre Dates 30 May Price Free with Festival Pass DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE CONE RED HOUSE 28 May: Charlotte Hughes Martin GLASS CONE and Caroline Scully 29 May: Ian MacDonald FAMILY DAYS AT THE CONE 30, 31 May: The Bandits of Glass Knights in Armour An eclectic mix of glass technicians, SATURDAY 30 - SUNDAY 31 MAY students, former factory workers 10AM - 5PM and glass maestros - will share the techniques of glassmaking from The cone is stepping back in Roman times through to the present time this Festival. We’re going day, with demonstrators from all medieval with the Guild of Elliot Walker, Tim Boswell, Nicky the Blessed St Edmund and Steel, students from Canterbury discovering knights in armour and Stained Glass Department, the chance to learn all about the Layne Rowe, Malcolm Andrews, medieval life, together with family Stephen Foster and students from friendly medieval themed crafts Wolverhampton University. All glass from Juniors at Museums. made throughout the weekend will be donated to the British Glass Foundation and auctioned at a later date. There will be an exhibition of work by all those involved in the Bandits of Glass demonstrations on 30 and 31 May in the Map Room Gallery during the Festival. RUSKIN LECTURE PROGRAMME All lectures are held at the Ruskin Glass Centre and Glasshouse Arts Centre and are free with your Festival Pass (except where otherwise indicated) – just turn up and enjoy. Times and dates are published in good faith, however are subject to change.

Thursday 28 May 2015 COMMUNITY BREATH THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PRETTY DEADLY Aonghus Gordon, Founder and GLASS SELLERS LECTURE Michael Brennand-Wood is a Executive Chair, Ruskin Mill Trust Colin Reid, winner of the 2012 major creative force in the world and Paul Gawden, Principal Worshipful Company of Glass of contemporary international Glasshouse College, open the Sellers Art and Craft Award at the art textiles, with a reputation Festival with a presentation about British Glass Biennale, will present for innovative and imaginative Community Breath, a collaborative on past winners and discuss their combinations of ideas and media. glassblowing project which links work and his own. Time 3pm the Via Aurea Caroli in the Czech Time 1pm Republic and Glasshouse College. REFLECTIONS ON PRACTICE Time: 10am I WAS DREAMING OF SPIRIT Keith Cummings has been one Community Breath event in ANIMALS: 40 YEARS OF PAINTING of the most influential figures in Hotshop 2 at 10.45am ON GLASS the development of kiln forming Cappy Thompson from Seattle, within the British Studio Glass THE SPANISH CONTEXT AND THE Washington has been described movement. His books, teaching and WORK OF MAVA as ‘the major practitioner of the art a considerable body of personal Maria Luisa Martinez, Director of of transparent enamelling in the glass works have inspired the Museo de Arte en Vidrio de American Studio Glass Movement’. students worldwide Alcorcon (also known as MAVA) She is known for her reverse- Time 4pm talks about MAVA, its collections painted vessels, which have been and projects, within the context of shown and collected worldwide. the Spanish glass scene. Time 2pm Time 11.15am 27 RUSKIN LECTURE PROGRAMME Friday 29 May 2015 Saturday 30 May 2015 THE BOHEMIAN CONNECTION CGS LECTURE: GLASS IN PUBLIC “I SEE YOUR ONE CONE Charles Hajdamach is one of ART; CRAFT OR FINE ART? AND RAISE YOU FOUR”: the top authorities on glass from Architectural Art Glass has had a ARCHAEOLOGICAL antique to contemporary in the UK. very long tradition. Barbara Derix INVESTIGATIONS AT GLASSHOUSE Charles will explain the importance explores examples of public art and COLLEGE, AMBLECOTE. of key Bohemian artists and the integration into architectural Kate Churchill of Nexus Heritage craftspeople and the contribution contexts. will describe the fascinating process they made to the crystal industry Time 2pm of uncovering the 300 year glass in Stourbridge. making history of the Ruskin Glass Time 11am EUROPEAN GLASS EXPERIENCE: Centre site. OPTIONS AND ECONOMY IN Time 10am AN AMERICAN APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY GLASS STUDIO ART GLASS An informative and entertaining THE JOHN SANDERS Dante Marioni’s flawlessly talk from Cornelia Lauf, Scientific MEMORIAL LECTURE executed blown glass forms are Director of the European Glass Benjamin Richardson “The Father Of intensely individual and instantly Experience (EGE), including the The Glass Trade” And The Wordsley recognisable; combining a deep process of curating an exhibition in Flint Glassworks. reverence for the history and four countries and bringing together Jason Ellis, author of “Glassmakers tradition of glassmaking, with a artists from around the EU with of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612- masterful and distinctly modern glass masters on Murano. 2002”, gives an illustrated talk sense of design. Time 3pm about Benjamin Richardson. Time 12noon Time 11am

CGS LECTURE: GLASS IN PUBLIC THE BOHEMIAN CONNECTION: founded the Dominik Biman School cleverly engineered with stainless JIŘÍ HARCUBA A LIFE in the Czech Republic. steel to form his beautiful glass art Ronald Pennell explores the life Time 12noon sculptures and chandeliers, Neil and works of the late Czech artist uses both lamp worked, furnace and teacher, Jiří Harcuba. Well- THE SUM OF ALL THESE PARTS and pickup styles of hot glass. known for his mastery in cutting Neil Wilkin believes that Time 1pm and engraving, Jiří Harcuba was glassmaking skills are paramount ALTERNATIVES an instructor for many years at to the design and concept of any the Academy of Applied Arts and glass work. Using components, JanHein van Stiphout has taken part in international glass festivals and exhibitions across Europe. In this lecture, he talks about his eclectic and experimental practice. Time 2pm

GUILD OF GLASS ENGRAVERS SPRING LECTURE: KATHERINE COLEMAN - A FUTURE FOR GLASS ENGRAVING Katharine Coleman MBE will be giving the Guild of Glass Engravers’ annual Spring Lecture. Further information and tickets from www.gge.org.uk Time 2.30pm (Please note the venue for this lecture is the Red House Glass Cone) Kate Churchill 29 RUSKIN LECTURE PROGRAMME Saturday 30 May 2015 (cont.) Sunday 31 May 2015 FURNACE ADVENTURE WHISKERS ON KITTENS: LECTURE FALLING “Between the attitude of Morris AND BOOK LAUNCH Lisa Pettibone’s sculptures examine and the altitude of Tagliapietra, Certain to be entertaining and man’s complex relationship with and probably taking the measure informative Graham Fisher MBE, nature and reveals elemental forces of both, is the witty commentary of author, canal and glass enthusiast such as gravity, growth and optical Janusz Pozniak”. and friend of the Festival, will take illusion through manipulating Time 3pm us on a canter through some of kiln-formed glass. his favourite (glass) things, before Time 12noon MURRINI - AN ART OF PAST revealing an unorthodox twist in AND PRESENT support of the Stourbridge SLIDE SHOW Glass industry. Penelope Rakov, a professor at Christian Schmidt studied the craft Tyler School of Art, fell in love with Time 10am of engraving at the State Glass the techniques of creating Murrini. School in Zwiesel, Bavaria and has She regularly teaches classes at Hot ENGRAVED IN GLASS; run his own engraving workshop Soup Glass studio and The Goggle GLASSMAKERS AND since 1986. He is also an illustrator, Works and continues to develop THEIR GRAVESTONES painter, musician, singer and actor her technique. “The English do gloom very well; and has exhibited and collected Time 4pm and there is nothing gloomier than a worldwide. good old English Churchyard”. Nick Time 1pm Baker draws together the research of a number of local experts and presents illustrations of the grave monuments to Stourbridge glassmakers. Time 11am

30 THE CHURCHILL SCREEN AND THE WORK OF EDWARD BAINBRIDGE COPNALL Steve Field and David Lewis give a fascinating insight into the works of Edward Bainbridge Copnall, and in particular the 40 x 10 foot glass screen installed to commemorate the death of Winston Churchill. This lecture will be followed at 2.30pm by a demonstration of mould blowing in Hotshop 1, using an original Webb Corbett mould of Churchill’s head. These limited edition glass busts will be auctioned by Will Farmer at the Fun Auction at 3.30pm. Time 1.30pm

Installation of Churchill Screen c 1969. Photograph courtesy of David Lewis HERITAGE PROGRAMME FILM SCREENINGS: Kids in the Cone and Kids on the Cut - Two Young Roots Productions The premiere of ‘Kids in the Cone’; a film based on historical accounts from the 1860s of the brutal working conditions of Victorian children, who laboured in glassworks in the Stourbridge area and acted by students of Glasshouse College, which now stands on the site of the Coalbourn Hill works. The film is a companion piece to ‘Kids on the Cut’, a Young Roots’ film about children living and working on the canals in the 19th century. Venue Ruskin Glass Centre and Glasshouse College Date 28 May 2015, 12-1pm Price Free with Festival Pass

Filming inside the Shrower at Red House Glass Cone HERITAGE PROGRAMME DIAL GLASS WORKS (TUDOR amazing collection of Webb family GLASS ARCHEOLOGY ROADSHOW CRYSTAL) FACTORY TOUR artefacts on public show for the During the Festival bring along any Home of Tudor Crystal and Plowden first time and on loan from Mrs piece of glass you have uncovered & Thompson, the Dial Glass Works Barbara Webb. Items include a in your garden or allotment for with its canal side location, is the pattern book with hand drawn identification by one of the country’s sketches by Edward Webb c1850, last remaining working factory leading Archaeologists. two gold medals won by Thomas cone in the Stourbridge area. The Kate Churchill, lead Archaeologist Webb at the Paris Exhibition and an during the recent dig at Glasshouse Churchill bust will blown during original illuminated address given College, will be available throughout the tour. to Thomas Webb before leaving the festival to identify your for an Australian visit in 1878, Date and Time 28 May, 10am, treasures. 11am and 12 noon signed by some of the most noted glassworkers of the period. Kate will also give a one hour Start/End Dial Glass Works presentation at 10am on Saturday Also on display is the newly Price Free of Charge (numbers limited) 30 May detailing the schedule of installed Sankey Window, saved Closed toed shoes essential. the dig with its involvement with the from a skip by vigilant Amblecote community volunteers and the team historians and restored to its former from Nexus Heritage. WEBB CORBETT VISITOR CENTRE glory (with the support of Dudley The Webb Corbett Visitor Centre is Council’s community fund) by Venue located in the Bottom Glassworks stained glass artist Paul Floyd. Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre of the Ruskin Glass Centre, known Venue Date as the ‘Caves’. The Centre tells Ruskin Glass Centre and 28-31 May 2015 the story of and Glasshouse College Price the heritage and social history Free with Festival Pass that existed within the factory Date and glassmaking quarter. The 28-31 May 2015 permanent exhibition has been Price enriched for the Festival by an Free with Festival Pass

33 PROFESSIONAL ARTIST PROGRAMME There are some activities that will be of particular interest to professional artists and students - a chance to network with your peers, pick up tools and materials at bargain prices, seek advice from experts, listen to talks by some great artists and practitioners and to learn about international glass projects.

PLOWDEN & THOMPSON Date and Time 29 May, 6 - 8pm MEET THE SCOTTISH GLASS CLEARANCE SALE Venue Ruskin Glass Centre SOCIETY An amazing clearance sale of all Price Free (entry to Ruskin Glass The Scottish Glass Society, Plowden & Thompson coloured Centre after 5pm is free of charge) formed in 1979, was established rods and powders with discounts of to promote the development of up to 90%, plus 25% off selected CGS TABLE TOP SALE the art and craftsmanship of glass stock from the Reichenbach range making in its many variations in of coloured sticks, rods, foils Bring your unwanted materials & Scotland. Members of the Scottish and grain. equipment along, they might be Glass Society will be on hand with just what someone else is looking Date and Time 28 & 29 May, 10am information about their current for and at the same time have a projects, examples of members’ - 5pm; 30 May, 9.30am - 4.30pm rummage yourself. If you would (closed 31 May) work and catalogues from recent like to participate please contact exhibitions. So please come along Venue Dial Glass Works, Factory [email protected] and chat to us. Shop Date and Time 30 May, 10 - 11am www.scottishglasssociety.com CGS FESTIVITY Venue Ruskin Glass Centre Date and Time 30 May, Price Free with Festival Pass 1.30 - 2.30pm CGS Board invites its members to come and celebrate eighteen years Venue Ruskin Glass Centre of the Society. We want to say CGS AGM Price Free with Festival Pass thank you for helping us develop Everyone welcome but a must for into the vibrant organisation we are CGS members today. This is a members’ event but Date and Time 30 May, 11am - we also welcome anyone wanting to 12noon join CGS on the night. Drinks and light refreshments Venue Ruskin Glass Centre available. Price Free with Festival Pass DERIX ARTIST SURGERY Since 1866, Derix Glass Studios (Germany) has been working with art in glass - traditional and contemporary; interior and exterior; ecclesiastic and public buildings; restoration, construction and project management. Derix is working to take Art in Glass to the world of mainstream fine art. Open for artists, architects, restoration specialists, private and corporate clients, the Derix Artist surgery is an opportunity to discuss and seek advice on your own public art glass projects. Barbara Derix and Elke Westen will offer their expertise and know-how, acquired over many years of working with glass, to independent artists working with architectural spaces and light aspects. Date & Time Saturday 30 May, individual sessions of 15 minutes with either Barbara Derix or Elke Western between 3 - 5pm Venue Ruskin Glass Centre Price Free with Festival Pass Book your session online or at the Festival Office on the day. Work in Derix Glasstudios 35 WALKS & TOURS NEW JEWELS ON THE CUT Venue Holy Trinity, Wordsley WORDSLEY: Take a walk along the Crystal Mile Date and Time 28 - 31 May, HOLY TRINITY CHURCHYARD and learn about Stourbridge’s rich 10am - 5pm (apart from 1 - 2pm on Date and Time Thursday 28 May, 2pm glass making heritage from the Saturday and Sunday Service) Start/End Holy Trinity Churchyard, perspective of the life blood of the Price Free Wordsley industry; its canal network. Together Guide John Levett with an overview of plans to GLASSMAKERS AND transform the former Stuart Crystal GRAVEYARDS WALKS OLDSWINFORD: ST. MARY’S glassworks into a new world-class CHURCHYARD glass facility. Join our local experts for a guided tour of local churchyards and Date and Time Friday 29 May, 12noon Date and Time Friday 29 May, cemeteries where famous, and not meet 12.45pm, walk starts 1pm Start/End St Mary’s Churchyard, so famous, glassmakers lie. Oldswinford Start Canal Street by the Bonded All of the walks are free of charge Guide Roy Peacock Warehouse and take approximately 1.5 hours. End Red House Glass Cone Simply turn up at the start of the AMBLECOTE: HOLY TRINITY Guide Graham Fisher walk (but note that numbers are CHURCHYARD limited). More information at Price £3.75 adults/children free www.ifg.org.uk Date and Time: Friday 29 May, 2pm (visit www.ifg.org.uk for booking information) Start/End Holy Trinity Churchyard, KINGSWINFORD: Amblecote ST. MARY’S CHURCHYARD HOLY TRINITY WORDSLEY - Guide Nick Baker OPEN CHURCH Date and Time Thursday 28 May, 12 noon STOURBRIDGE CEMETERY Local expert John Levett will share the fascinating history of the Start/End St Mary’s Churchyard, Date and Time Saturday 30 May, 1pm stained glass at Holy Trinity Church Kingswinford Start/End Outside the in Wordsley and the associated Guide Nick Baker Cemetery Chapel social history of the glassmakers Guide Ian Williams memorialised.

36 VENUE INFORMATION RUSKIN GLASS CENTRE, BROADFIELD HOUSE GLASS MUSEUM HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, WORDSLEY GLASSHOUSE ARTS CENTRE & Home to one of the best glass Stained glass tours, and graves of GLASSHOUSE COLLEGE collections in the world. Location John Northwood and Daniel Hancox The main Festival site – home to of Cutting Edge; Contemporary Address High Street, Wordsley DY8 an array of glass and craft studios. Hungarian Glass exhibition, archives 5RU Location of the British Glass Biennale. displays and family activities. Address Wollaston Road, Amblecote, Address Compton Drive, Kingswinford, THE LACE GUILD Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4HF West Midlands, DY6 9NS Fusion of Glass and Lace exhibition Tel 01384 399410 Tel 01384 812745 and lace making demonstrations Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Address The Hollies, 53 Audnam, Stourbridge, DY8 4AE RED HOUSE GLASS CONE WORDSLEY METHODIST CHURCH One of the four remaining original Location of Bruntnell Astley ST JOHN’S CHURCH, STOURBRIDGE glass cones in the UK. Exhibitions, Contemporary Glass Exhibition New Beginnings Exhibition and up events, workshops and open studios. Address Stream Road, Kingswinford, cycling workshops Address High Street, Wordsley, DY6 9NP Address St John’s Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 8AZ Stourbridge, DY8 1EH BONDED WAREHOUSE Tel 01384 812750 SCARYCANARY, STOURBRIDGE Email [email protected] Historic canal side building where the bustling Bead Fair takes place, Music venue, bar, art exhibition DIAL GLASS WORKS showcasing work by beadmakers space and film night venue and glass artists and suppliers. Address 108a High Street, A truly fascinating place and one of Address Canal Street, Stourbridge, the last working glass factories in Stourbridge DY8 1EE (upstairs) Stourbridge – home to the Plowden West Midlands, DY8 4LU & Thompson and Tudor Crystal HAGLEY HALL brands. Factory Tours. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, AMBLECOTE Location of Hagley Hall; a Address Tudor Crystal, Dial Amblecote Echoes exhibition and Landscaped Unpicked event Glassworks, Stewkins, Stourbridge, Cake Station Address Hall Lane, Hagley, West Midlands, DY8 4YN Address Corner of High Street & Worcestershire (Sat Nav postcode Vicarage Road, Amblecote DY8 4JA DY9 9LG)

The Festival Office is open from 10am – 5pm daily during the Festival. Admission to the Ruskin Glass Centre and Glasshouse Arts Centre is £5 for a day pass (£1 for children) and £14.50 for an adult four day Festival Pass. Admission to other Festival Venues is free, although some charges may apply for some activities. Photo: John Plant

GETTING AROUND

CAR PARKING BUS SERVICES BEFORE YOU TRAVEL… Car parking is limited at Festival In addition to the Festival Shuttle Visit www.ifg.org.uk for the latest sites. You are advised to park in Bus, National Express West information on venues, programme the surrounding area and then use Midlands services 256 and 257 run updates, changes to schedules and the Festival Shuttle Bus or National from Stourbridge bus station (stand car parking arrangements. Express services between sites. G) past all Festival sites. Day and discounted bus/train passes can be The Festival Office at the Ruskin FESTIVAL SHUTTLE BUS purchased; visit www.nxbus.co.uk/ Glass Centre will be open each west-midlands for more information. day over the Festival if assistance Free Festival Shuttle Bus - is needed to navigate around the 9.30am - 5.30pm. Commencing at Festival sites. Stourbridge Town Centre, services WALKING will operate approximately every Most Festival sites are within ACCOMMODATION 20 minutes and will stop at clearly walking distance of each other, with marked stops at each of the Festival an approximate maximum walk For information about places venues - last shuttle bus service will of 20 minutes from one site to the to stay, leave just after 5pm. next. Stroll along the canal for an visit www.discoverdudley.org.uk alternative to the main road.

38 Supporters Alan J Poole, Merlyn Farwell and PIElectronics, Mark Holford, Glassworks SPONSORS & Services Limited, Peter and Ann Layton & London Glassblowing, craft&design SUPPORTERS Magazine, National Glass Centre Sunderland, Nick Baker, Hagley Hall Partners University of Wolverhampton, British Glass Foundation, Broadfield House This year’s Festival has been a Glass Museum, Red House Glass Cone, Writing West Midlands, Friends of Broadfield collaborative effort and would not have House, Fieldings Auctioneers, Stourbridge Bead Fair, UK Guild of Glass Engravers, happened without the creativity and Plowden & Thompson, The Lace Guild, Holy Trinity Church, Amblecote, Holy Trinity determination of the Festival Team: Church Wordsley, St John’s Church Stourbridge Elisabeth Johnson – Festival Project Manager Thank you to all our contributing photographers. Due to limited space we are unable to Natasha George – Festival Programme acknowledge everyone, so please visit www.ifg.org.uk for full photographer details. Keith Brocklehurst – Masterclasses Matthew Durran – British Glass Biennale Curator Kate Goldenberg – British Glass PIElectronics Biennale Assistant Paula McElearney – Festival Assistant Ian Dury – Glass Heritage Officer Ikhlef Benkalai – Festival Assistant Janine Christley – Fundraising and Sponsorship Pattie Russell – Fundraising and Sponsorship Crowe Clark Jackie Cooley – Masterclasses Whitehill and Sponsorship Miranda Sowden – Marketing Amy Shaw & Jane Williams - PR Geoff Hill Rory Smith – Catering Charitable Trust Andrew Faulkes – Technical Assistance Mark Davis – Volunteer Coordinator Festival Information – [email protected] Masterclasses – [email protected] Marketing – [email protected] Biennale – [email protected]