Blairgowrie Wellmeadow

Saturday

8th June 2013 10am—5pm

Over 40 Arts Workshops

Only £1 Each

Performers & Drop-in Activities

www.startfestival.org.uk Festival Office: 01250 871353 Registered Charity No. SC035756

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Activity Booking Form—stART 2013 (& Parental / Guardian Consent Form for under 16yrs) To book a place, participants must phone the Festival Office (01250 871353) to reserve a workshop place(s) and then complete and return this form along with the £1 booking fee per workshop to the address below. Places will be issued on a first come first served basis. Please include an email address to which confirmation of place(s) can be sent. (Please use block capitals. Cheques should be made payable to Strathmore Arts Festival.) stART is a registered charity and all workshops are heavily subsidised: if you would like to make a donation to help towards future arts activities run by stART, please include it with your booking form—thank you.

Contact Address:_________________________________________________________________________________________

Email Address: __________________________________________________________________________________________ Contact Telephone Number (include STD) : ___________________________________________________________________

Medical Data: Is there any medical or other consideration that it would be useful for us to know about? Please give details: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photo/Film Consent: I agree to my child/ myself being photographed/filmed during the activities and I am aware that photos may appear in the local newspapers / on the stART website or on the Perth & Kinross Council website. (please delete as applicable) YES / NO

I agree to my child’s participation in the above workshop(s) Parent/Guardian Signature: _______________________________

Forms can be handed in or sent to the Festival Office, at Alyth Community Wing, St Andrew Street, Alyth, PH11 8AX

Welcome to stART 2013 stART is a community-based Arts Festival organised by volunteers from East Perthshire. stART 2013 aims to offer children, young people and adults opportunities to participate in a great variety of high-quality arts workshops and events. The Festival is supported by officers of Perth & Kinross Council Cultural and Community Services.

stART Festival workshops cost just £1 and can be booked at the Festival Office. Participants must ring the office to reserve a workshop place before completing the attached booking form and returning it to the Festival Office. 01250 871353

STRAWBERRY TEAS Served all day in The Wellmeadow

Exhibitions & Demonstrations Spinning drop-in: take part or watch - Ericht Spinning Group (all day @ No. 36 Leslie Street). Jam Making demonstrations in Strawberry tea tent

One Voice Photo Competition One Voice Office, Upper Mill Street: 10.00 - 4.00 Categories Animals / Birds: 8—10yrs Animals / Birds: 11—14yrs Bridges of Strathmore Valley: 15yrs—Adult 2 entries per person allowed Email entries: ovstartphotocomp@gmail.com Closing date for entries: 31st May 2013 Prizes for winning entries.

Street Performers

Wellmeadow @ 12 noon

Thank you

The stART Committee would like to thank the following local and national sponsors and partners who have made this festival possible:

Visit East Perthshire Angus Hotel The Dome Restaurant Ericht Ale House The Royal Hotel No. 31 One Voice Perth & Kinross Council Fresh and Vintage PKC Arts Development The Robertson Trust Something Special Flowers SCYD Wisecraft—PKAVS Blair in Bloom AFYD Community Tree Cycle Love to Eat The Travelling Gallery No. 37 Leslie Street Scrap Happy

Thanks also go to the following local schools and groups who participated in arts workshops in the lead up to the festival: Blairgowrie High School, Meigle Primary School, Coupar Angus Primary School, Rattray Primary School.

Bookable Workshops 10.00 – 12.00 Magnificent Berry Art with Frances Law, The Wellmeadow, 8—12yrs 10.00 – 12.00 Silk Paper Making with Suzanne Shaw, Fresh and Vintage, Leslie Street, Adults 10.00 – 4.00 Inkle Loom Weaving with Ashleigh Slater, No. 37 Leslie Street, Adults (all day workshop) 10.00 – 12.00 Soap Making with Fern Mellor, No. 37 Leslie Street, 8—13yrs 10.00 – 12.00 The Travelling Gallery Guided Tour & Art Workshop ( 2D & 3D Collage) with Lindsey Hamilton and

Jo Arksey, meet at the Art Bus, Parent & Children (5yrs +) (children must be accompanied) 10.00 – 12.00 Squirrel and Bird Boxes with Val Machalat, Wisecraft, Family Groups or Individuals of 14yrs +

(4 workshop slots: 10.00—10.30, 10.30—11.00, 11.00—11.30, 11.30 – 12.00) 1 box per Family Group 10.00 – 12.00 Water Colour Painting with Paul Mouncey & Lucy Thakery, Wisecraft, 10yrs + (or if younger must be accompanied by an adult) 10.00 – 12.00 DCA Short Film & Art Workshop, Royal Hotel, Pre-school and early Primary (must bring an adult

helper) 10.00 – 12.00 Willow Weaving—Garden Baskets with Sandy Greene, The Wellmeadow, 10yrs—Adult 10.00 – 12.00 Introduction to Clay Sculpture with Alistair Jelks, The Wellmeadow, Teens—Adult 10.30 – 11.30 Wild Withy Puppets with Heather Fraser, Something Special Flowers, 8yrs + 10.30 – 12.00 Singing with Lizzie Lloyd of the Lyric Choir, Angus Hotel, all ages (join the choir for a morning of song) 10.30 – 12.00 Blood & Gore Stage Make-Up with Susan McClymont, SCYD, 9 yrs + 11.00 – 11.45 Trapeze with aethAERIALarts, Wellmeadow, minimum height 175cm (wear long sleeves) 1.00 – 2.00 Squirrel and Bird Boxes with Val Machalat, Wisecraft, Family Groups or Individuals of 14yrs +

(2 workshop slots: 1.00—1.30, 1.30—2.00) 1 box per family group 1.00 – 3.00 Poetry, Pie & a Pint with Mark Thomson, The Ericht Ale House, 14yrs + (under 18s must be

accompanied by an adult) 1.00 – 2.00 Trapeze with aethAERIALarts, Wellmeadow, 20 min tasters: 1.00—1.20 min height 104cm: 4-7yrs,

1.20—1.40 min height 123cm: 7-12yrs, 1.40—2.00 min height 153cm: 12-16yrs (wear long sleeves) 1.30 – 2.30 Wild Withy Puppets with Heather Fraser, Something Special Flowers, 8yrs + 1.30 – 3.30 Water Colour Painting with Paul Mouncey & Lucy Thakery, Wisecraft, 10yrs + (or if younger must be accompanied by an adult) 1.30 – 3.00 Fun with Clay with Alistair Jelks, The Wellmeadow, 5—12yrs 2.00 – 3.00 West African Drumming with Drumergy, Blairgowrie Library, all ages 2.00 – 4.00 Gospel and African Song with Irene Railley, The Wellmeadow, Teens & Adults 2.00 – 4.00 Magnificent Berry Art with Frances Law, The Wellmeadow, 12yrs—Adult 2.10 – 2.55 Trapeze with aethAERIALarts, Wellmeadow, min height 150cm: 14yrs+ & Adults (wear long sleeves) 2.00 – 4.00 Willow Weaving—Garden Baskets with Sandy Greene, The Wellmeadow, 10yrs—Adult 2.00 – 4.00 The Travelling Gallery Guided Tour & Art Workshop ( Flick Books) with Lindsey Hamilton and Jo

Arksey, meet at the Art Bus, 9yrs + 2.00 – 3.00 Storytelling with Eric Brennan, The Dome Restaurant, Pre-school & Parents 3.00 – 4.00 Wild Withy Puppets with Heather Fraser, Something Special Flowers, 8yrs + 3.00 – 5.00 Harmonica with Luke Ivins, The Ericht Ale House, 10yrs—Adult (under 18yrs must be

accompanied by an adult) 3.15 – 4.15 Storytelling with Eric Brennan, The Dome Restaurant, Primary & Parents 3.30 – 4.40 West African Drumming with Drumergy, Blairgowrie Library, all ages

Time Activity Venue

THIS PROJECT IS BEING PART FINANCED

BY THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AND

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY RURAL

TAYSIDE LEADER 2007-2013 PROGRAMME

The Hugh Fraser Foundation

Drop In Workshops Wire Art Edible Planting Blood & Gore Stage Make-up Fly Tying & Jewellery Jam Art Sock Wrestling Totem Pole Wood Carving (Community Tree Cycle) Trapeze 3pm—4.45pm: min height 150cm: 14yrs+ & Adults Trapeze 4.00—4.45pm: height 104—150cm: kids

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