UPCOMING EVENTS
Meetings are at the Hughes Community Centre, Wisdom Street, Hughes
Evening meetings are held at 7:30pm – 9:30pm on the second Thursday of February, April, June, August, October, and December.
Morning meetings are held 9:30am to 12:30pm on the second Saturday of March, May, July, September and November.
Meeting program for 2024:
February 8, 2024 – Thursday
Activity – Design thinking and bookbinding.
This short evening workshop is designed to help stimulate ideas, ways of making and thinking around this year’s bookbinding challenge: art & architecture. It will help generate ideas about both the theme and bookbinding. The workshop is designed for all levels of bookbinding skills. Come along and be challenged by using problem solving methods that spark creativity for the year ahead.
March 9, 2024 – Saturday
Activity – Tooling on leather with Foil
April 11, 2024 – Thursday
Activity – Postcard from Aotearoa – New Zealand
Hear about Vicki’s discoveries while walking in Aotearoa in March of 2024. Books, printing, wildlife and architecture.
May 11, 2024 – Saturday – All Day session
Activity – Embroidery on leather
Firming up details for this activity
June 13, 2023 – Thursday
Activity – TBA
July 13, 2024 – Saturday
Activity – TBA
August 8, 2024 – Thursday
AGM: Please make sure your membership is current and discuss the achievements of your Guild and what’s in store in the year ahead.
Activity – AGM followed by
- TBA
September 9, 2023 Saturday
Activity- Blind Tooling on leather – A technique for many binding styles be they medieval or contemporary.
October 12, 2023 – Thursday
Activity- Making leather headbands
- Braided leather headbands and
- Leather headbands with a thread core
November 18, 2023 – Saturday (third Saturday as Community fair has it booked for the second Saturday)
Activity- Onlays – Exploring leather onlays and how to do them (hands on)
December 12, 2024- Thursday
Bind Challenge 2024 – Theme to be announced Feb 2024
Bind Challenge, pop up exhibition and talks by binders.
Who will receive the gift for participating in the 2024 challenge ? Members share their stories about the design, materials, binding style and the making of their entry in the ‘pop up’ exhibition.
WORKSHOPS & OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Check out our dedicated Workshops page.
CURRENT / UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
GUILD 24 members exhibition, Mezzanine Level, Civic Library., dates to be finalised