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27 Jan 99

Southern Craftmakers - Waterfront Museum, Poole 30 January - 14 March 199

Southern Craftmakers is a selling exhibition on tour from the Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, curated by writer and critic, Margo Coatts. It is an exhibition of craft for today's living spaces and showcases the work of twenty contemporary makers from within the region.

Included are four furniture makers, a woodworker, five textile artists, four potters, two lettercutters, two silversmiths, a glassmaker and a blacksmith, all at different stages of thir careers. The exhibition aims to raise the profil and accessibility of craft made in the south of England today. All of the works included combine practical funtion with techncal ingenuity and imaginative use of colour and texture. The exhibition is an introduction to some of the makers who are currently creating work to be collected for the future.

The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday from 10.00am to 3.00pm and on Sundays from Noon to 3.00pm
Admission is £1.75 for Adults and £1.20 for Chidren
It is free for Poole Residents
For further information about this exhibition please contact: Jocelyn Glanfield by telephoning 01202 683138

AN APPEAL FOR HELP FROM POOLE MUSEUM IN CONNECTION WITH A FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION

Waterfront Museum is preparing an exciting exhibition entitled 'Write on' that will open in the Town Cellars on 27 March 1999. The exhibition will form the Museums contribution to The National Year Of Reading 1999. It is planned for the local shcools to make use of 'Write on' through the Literacy Hour in schools. It is about writing, how we do it, whey we do it, what we get from it and much more.

In thinking about what we get from reading the Museum is appealing for unwanted books as examples of writing that has given pleasure in the past. The Museum wishes to recyle unwanted books in order that visitors may experience books others have enjoyed and no longer wish to retain. The books can be about absolutely anything, from reference to fiction, for cildren or adults, hard or paperback.

Books may be taken to the Waterfront Museum, 4 High Street, Poole or left at Poole Central Library for transfer to the Museum.

For Further information about this exhibition please contact either Meena Patel or Selina Armour-Chelu on 01202 683138

Clive Fisher - Outreach & Visitor Services Manager, tel 01202 683138