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Of Interest: Textile Workshops at the 50 Plus Show – RDS Dublin

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Promotional poster for The 50 Plus Show, a lifestyle event for older people, featuring smiling adults and event details including dates, location, and activities.

There are several textile workshops on offer at the Senior Times’ 50 Plus Show, taking place in March at the RDS in Dublin. There are more 50 Plus Shows scheduled in other cities later in the year: Limerick, Sligo, Cork, and Galway.

Textile and Art Related Workshops

  • 10:30 AM – Water Marbling (Arts & Crafts Stand). Turn your work on paper into a silk scarf with Asta Jackobson (Asta will also be holding further workshops on the Asta Fashions Stand)
  • 10:30 AM – Weaving Workshop with Seamus Kirwan (Wool Experience Stand)
  • 11:30 AM – Weaving Workshop with Seamus Kirwan (Wool Experience Stand)
  • 12 PM – “Joyful Stitching” with Tamara Fiabane (Arts & Crafts Stand) A mixture of needle felting and embroidery to create a flat piece of art, which can be a sheep, a bee or something of your imagination.
  • 1 PM – Painting Workshop with Dublin Art Classes (Arts & Crafts Stand). Take home a small original painting
  • 2 PM- Wool Spinning Workshop with Seamus Kirwan (Wool Experience Stand)
  • 2:30 PM – Painting Workshop with Dublin Art Classes (Arts & Crafts Stand). Take home a small original painting

When: Thursday, the 12th – Friday, the 13th of March, 2026

Where: RDS Dublin, Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

For more information and to register, visit their website – https://seniortimes.ie/50-plus-expo/

Editor’s Note: The Registration is via a calendar app that isn’t as obvious as it could be. To find it, click on the Blue Circle Button (The Pink Arrow is for emphasis). See the images below to find where to click and what the registration form looks like.

Or you can contact the organisers by email to register: brian@slp.ie

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Where to find the Blue Button to register
Event booking form with fields for name, email, phone number, date and time, quantity, comment, and a send button.
Screenshot of the Booking Form

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Roscommon Art Centre Tapestry and Fibre Art Festival

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The Tapestry and Fibre Art Festival Roscommon festival weekend kicks off on Thursday 28th April with the launch of an exhibition by the members of Contemporary Tapestry Artists Ireland CTA.

On 29th April Interconnections 4 in Roscommon Arts Centre will launch, and a series of workshops will take place on Saturday 30th April.

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

Friday April 29th:
Launch of Interconnections 4. An exhibition of handwoven fine art tapestries

Saturday 30th April – Workshops
Workshop 1 – Title: Weaving with Up-cycled materials.
Workshop 2 – Title: Weaving Blue. Finishing techniques, Blocking

Sunday May 1st
Symposium Title: Exploring Fine art textiles €5.00  (Discussion, Tour & Presentation)

Booking essential through the art centre box office

https://www.dcci.ie/craftspeople/how-we-can-help/opportunities/roscommon-art-centre-tapestry-and-fibre-art-festival

INTERCONNECTIONS 4

This exhibition is the fourth in an ongoing biennial collaboration between contemporary tapestry artists from Scotland and Ireland. The first and second Interconnections exhibitions were shown in Roscommon and Boyle in 2016 and 2018, the 2020 exhibition was online due to Covid restrictions.

In 2022 INTERCONNECTIONS 4 will open in Roscommon Arts Centre 29th April – 14th May and will tour to The Granary Gallery, Weston Park, Shropshire for June, July and August. 2022

The exhibition will consist of a number of one-off hand-woven tapestries of all sizes from miniature to massive, on a large range of themes. The tapestries have been made over the past four years by the 8 participating professional tapestry artists, 4 from Ireland and 4 from Scotland. Visitors to the exhibition can expect to be blown away by the beauty, colour and sheer technical virtuosity of the work.                                                                                                                                                       

Contemporary tapestries are made by hand on simple looms, in the same way as the historic tapestries we see when we visit castles and country houses. The technique is a very ancient one and almost impossible to mechanise. The subject matter and style is contemporary with pieces dealing with the issues of the day as well as abstract and more representational themes.

The exhibition has been co-curated by Frances Crowe (Ireland) and Joan Baxter (Scotland) both well respected tapestry artists in their own countries. They first met in 2012 and when a chance to exhibit together in Ireland presented itself in 2016 it rapidly grew into a larger and more important project for the artists of both countries. The opportunity to exhibit together regularly allows the participating artists to forge creative links, to collaborate on a number of other projects, to form friendships and learn from each other.

Exhibiting Artists:

Ireland: Frances Crowe, Mary Cuthbert, Terry Dunne, Angela Forte
Scotland: Joan Baxter, John Brennan, Clare Coyle, Elizabeth Radcliffe

Interconnections is funded by Roscommon County Council Creative Ireland Programme 2022 and Roscommon Local Enterprise Office, supported by Roscommon Arts Centre and King House.