PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May 10am to 3.30pm
Willow Sculpture - Part I
Led by Judy Macklin
(Other dates: Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd May)
This course is four sessions over two weekends and is sponsored by The School of Education and Life Long Learning at Aberystwyth University.
Cost: £70 (£60 concessionary fee). For further information or to enrol, call 01970 621580 or email: learning@aber.ac.uk quoting Course Code: CF304.
Venue: The Hall Barn
Saturday
15th May 7pm
The Cause of Conflict in Relationship
~ J Krishnamurti / A film
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) is regarded the world over as one of the
great teachers of the 20th century. For nearly sixty years he traveled
the world, pointing out to people the need to transform themselves through
self-knowledge by being aware of their thoughts and feelings in daily
life. The core of his teaching is contained in the statement he made in
1929 when he said, ‘Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to
it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest
or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique.
He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding
of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual
analysis or introspective dissection.’
This is the first of four films to be shown this year of talks given by
Krishnamurti in 1984 at Brockwood Park, Hampshire, collectively titled,
Ending of Sorrow Series.
Cost: Donations
Venue: The Hall Barn
Sunday
16th May 2.30pm to 4.30pm
The Bleddfa Poetry Group
Led by Daphne Turner
(Other date: Sunday 13th June)
The Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
Cost: £5 per session.
Venue: The Hall Barn
Saturday
22nd May to Friday 25th June
The Gilded Egg
An exhibition by the Bleddfa Egg Tempera Painting Group
Click here to
see the Saturday opening. General opening: Sunday 23rd May 2pm to 5pm;
thereafter every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 25th June, 2pm to
5pm.
'The object of art is beauty of form…. the object
of
contemplation is beauty beyond form.’
~ Titus Burkhardt
Members of the Bleddfa Egg Tempera Painting Group led by Jane Knott present
an exhibition of their work. This is varied in the way it is expressed
and in subject matter. Some of the artists have painted for years whilst
others are relatively new. Before the introduction of oil painting egg
tempera emulsion was used as a medium to bind pure ground pigment to a
‘gessoed’ support. We prepare our wood supports, make our
gesso and our tempera colours. Sometimes we use gold and silver leaf.
Students have found that these preparations offer an outer structure and
discipline. The materials of wood, plant fibre, chalk, animal produce
and the metals have their own being and evocative beauty at each stage.
Meanwhile, in the quiet absorption of these tasks the inner world of the
painter can arise, or die down as the case may be. One may then set sail
in freedom and at ones own pace. Rather than product being the ultimate
goal, process in this journey has been valued in the ‘sharing of
a contemplative space’ and the ‘collaborative work’
in being part of a group of individuals who meet regularly to paint alongside
each other. It is hoped you will enjoy sharing in something of our journey
with us. (See Programme / Regular Events
for more information on the Egg Tempera Painting Group).
Venue: The Old School Room Gallery
Bank
Holiday Monday 31st May
The Bleddfa Annual Walk
Led by Albert Thomas of the Bleddfa Centre
All welcome. A circular walk around Bleddfa. Please assemble at 9.30am
and bring a picnic lunch. The walk will be followed by tea in The Old
School Room Gallery at the Bleddfa Centre.
(Please book in advance so we know how many to cater for tea).
Cost: Donations.
Start from: Outside The Old School Room Gallery
