ARE you aged 65+ and interested in craft and meeting new people?

If the answer is yes, then why not attend a series of free Craft and Design Workshops being held from 10.30am to 12.30pm from September 11 at Crediton Library?

The workshops are part of a wider project which looks at age and change. The workshops will be run by professional artists supported by a community mentor.

Devon Guild of Craftsman (DGoC) is working in partnership with Libraries Unlimited on the project “A Good Age”.

The theme of “Change in our Lifetime” is open to wide interpretation and could be related to the changes experienced by people as they grow older or wider events such as cultural and societal changes witnessed in your lifetime.

The workshops are being run in five Devon towns, Crediton being one of them, with the town libraries hosting the workshops as well as exhibitions of the work at the end of the sessions.

There will be three “terms” of workshops running from Autumn 2018 to Spring 2019.

Join the group in Crediton to make a collaborative piece of artwork about changes in your lifetime, using photography, craft and digital art. Across the three “terms’ of workshop sessions you will take photographs both indoors and outdoors, make collaged artworks with the images, and use a computer to combine images and special effects.

Community artist Kate Green will help and support people along the way and she will bring plenty of cameras for those attending to use or you can take your own.

The workshops are suitable for beginners and those with more experience.

At the end of the workshop sessions, the work will be exhibited in Crediton Library.

In tandem with your workshops, DGoC and Libraries Unlimited are commissioning five, UK-based, professional older artists (born before 1948) to make new contemporary craft work responding to the same theme of age and change within the artist’s lifetime.

At the culmination of the project, Devon Guild of Craftsmen will host an exhibition of the work made in all the library workshops, alongside the commissioned work, with supporting written and visual material, during the autumn of 2019.

There is no charge for these workshops but, if you sign up, the Guild would like you to be involved for the duration of the project.

If you want to know more, please telephone or email either Claire, on 07772 435120, email: [email protected] - or Phil, on 07786 511000, email: [email protected] .