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SUMMARY:Make a Silver Ring Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Make a Silver Ring – Lost Wax Casting \nSaturday 25th April \n1pm-4pm \n\nCreate your own sterling silver ring! Learn about the lost wax casting process with Nathan Frazer of imadeacoolthing\, then design and make a wax ring ready for casting. In a small group of no more than 6 people we will be making our very own solid silver rings using the lost wax casting technique. In the workshop we will be creating our rings out of wax\, which is a wonderful and adaptable material to work with\, even beginners will find it easy to work with\, and the detail is remarkable. The wax rings will then be taken offsite for casting\, Nathan will finish and polish your silver ring and post back to you. \nWhat to bring: You should have a couple of ideas and images of the type of ring you would like to make\, if you use reading glasses you should bring those too. \nNo under 16’s. \nAll tools and materials will be provided. \n\nWorkshop includes tea and cake. \nThis workshop is sold out.  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.elymuseum.org.uk/whats-on-elymuseum/silver-ring-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Willow Swallow Decorations
DESCRIPTION:Willow Swallow Decorations \nSaturday 9th May \n12pm-4pm \n\nJoin local Master Basketmaker\, Nadine Anderson\, to weave Swallow and Swift decorations in locally grown willows using basic frame basketmaking techniques. \nThe swallows are 18cm x 25cm and the swifts 25cm x 25cm. There should be time in the workshop to complete 1 of each.   Delicate fine willows will be used making it accessible to anyone who may have strength issues with their hands. \nAll materials\, tools and instruction provided. \nIt is 29 years since Nadine Anderson wove her first willow basket\, a rather strawberry shaped affair\, but still it gripped her becoming her obsessive hobby and gradually full-time job. She has a City and Guilds qualification in Creative Basketry\, and has served as course coordinator for The Basketmakers Association committee\, is an active member of Cambridge Open Studios and became a Yeoman Basketmaker to The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers in 2017.  She has woven props for films and created two full sized Green men costumes in Rush for The Lord Mayors Show.  She grows her own willow and harvests the wild freshwater Rush in waterways around Ely\, this small-scale domestic practice is especially important to the integrity of her work. \nAll tools and materials will be provided. \n\nWorkshop includes tea and cake. \n£65 Tickets \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.elymuseum.org.uk/whats-on-elymuseum/willow-swallows/
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SUMMARY:Farming on the Medieval Fen
DESCRIPTION:Farming on the Medieval Fen \nA talk by Professor Susan Oosthuizen \nTuesday 12th May 7pm \nThis talk offers a new perspective on Cambridgeshire’s medieval peat fenlands\, well-known to have been dominated since time immemorial by extensive commons including pastures and meadows\, marshes and meres. It shows how essential the rich ecology of different kinds of grasses and herbs were to commoners’ livelihoods and prosperity – and why ‘in no part of England were common rights more important’. It illustrates how\, across the centuries\, free peasant farmers and stockmen were able to make good livings only because they knew every inch of their local landscapes. And it outlines how their success depended not only on managing their beasts\, the varying qualities of different grassland pastures and other fen resources\, but also on their mastery of often complex engineering aimed at successfully controlling seasonally variable levels of water across their commons. \nSusan Oosthuizen is Professor (Emerita) of Medieval Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. She is particularly interested in commons and the development of landscapes and society between about 400 and 1300 AD\, often focusing on Cambridgeshire examples. A list of her publications\, both books and papers\, often with downloadable copies\, can be found at: https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com. Her most recent books are The Anglo-Saxon Fenland (Windgather\, 2017)  and the The Emergence of the English (Arc-Humanities Press\, 2019). \nTickets £8.50 \nGates open at 6.30pm \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.elymuseum.org.uk/whats-on-elymuseum/farming-on-the-medieval-fen/
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SUMMARY:Calligraphy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Calligraphy Workshop \nSaturday 16th May \n10am-4pm \n\nJoin Gaynor Goffe\, well known calligrapher\, for this workshop where you choose between three different scripts:  modern pointed pen\, uncial or italic.  Your chosen script will then be learned with pointed or square nib. \nAll levels welcome\, including beginners.  Scripts will be used in words and short text. \nTools and materials will be supplied for the workshop.  If participants have calligraphy tools and materials then feel free to bring along. \nAll tools and materials will be provided. \n\nWorkshop includes tea and cake. \n£75 Tickets \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.elymuseum.org.uk/whats-on-elymuseum/calligraphy-workshop-2026/
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SUMMARY:Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art and the Medieval Monastery
DESCRIPTION:Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art and the Medieval Monastery \nA talk by Dr Jessica Barker and Dr Ed Krčma \nTuesday 2nd June 7pm  \nThis talk will be given by the two curators of a major new exhibition\, Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval\, on view at the Sainsbury Centre\, Norwich\, 16 May – 4 October 2026. The exhibition and accompanying book explore the structure and priorities of everyday life by putting contemporary conditions in dialogue with a seemingly remote and alien form of life: medieval monasticism\, and specifically the Rule of Saint Benedict (6th Century). Ely Cathedral was once a Benedictine monastery\, and for the exhibition the curators have been able to loan important objects from its collections: the Ely Cope\, and four examples of 14th century choir stall fragments\, which not been seen by the public since the 19th Century. In addition\, the exhibition includes a rare example of pre-Reformation English panel painting that were originally made for Ely Cathedral\, the Etheldreda Panels\, which have been newly conserved for the show. These and many more examples of medieval monastic objects and artworks are put in dialogue with works by contemporary artists\, including two Turner Prize winners\, Elizabeth Price and Richard Wright. This talk will introduce the exhibition and explore some of its highlights\, including the objects from Ely. \nDr. Jessica Barker is a senior lecturer in medieval art at The Courtauld in London. Her research focuses on sculpture in northern Europe and Portugal\, and she is particularly interested in questions relating to materiality\, gender\, and the history of emotion. Her first book\, Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture\, was published by Boydell in 2020\, and won the ICMA Book Prize in 2021. \nDr. Ed Krčma is associate professor of Art History at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art\, with a particular focus on drawing\, the relationship between art and literature\, and the transactions between recent art and its longer histories. His first book\, Rauschenberg / Dante: Drawing a Modern Inferno\, was published by Yale University Press in 2017. \nTickets £8.50 \nGates open at 6.30pm \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.elymuseum.org.uk/whats-on-elymuseum/living-by-the-rule/
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