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I would like to invite you to the first International Young Woodfirer Association Symposium in Saint Eloi de Gy (20 km from La Borne), France next summer from July 1st to July 21st 2007.
Goals
- Get to know each other and share experiences
- List the resources and workshops open for Young Woodfirers worldwide
- Organize workshops on various parts of our works and techniques
- Participate in a woodfiring
- Have fun! :)
NEW: Registration
Please send a mail to Philippe . Langlois <AT> gmail . com , with at the top of the email the number of participants coming together, and then, for each of them, the following information:
- Your first and last name:
- Full address:
- Contact phone number:
- Tent or external hosting (like Hotel or B&B):
- Dates of stay: Whole symposium -OR- From X to X
- Number of high-temperature woodfiring you did:
- Ok to make night shifts during the Symposium firing: YES / NO
- Are you coming with some of your works to be exhibited: YES / NO
- Optionnally, you can add:
- If you own a kiln: YES / NO
- Your experience in ceramics: X years
Location
- In Saint Eloy de Gy, 20 km from La Borne, there will be workshops, firing preparation and woodfiring in an Anagama-tube style kiln.
- Starting as of July 1st
- Address: Philippe Langlois, 8 rue des Trembles, 18110 St Eloi de Gy
- In La Borne. There will be slides presentations, talks and meeting with other sculptors, potters and ceramists.
- Starting as of July 13th
- Address: Centre Ceramique de La Borne, La Borne, 18250 Henrichemont
Schedule
The Symposium will take place from July 1st, 2007 to July 21st.
- One week workshop and preparation of firing in Saint Eloy (July 1st - July 7th)
- One week firing in Saint Eloy (July 8th - July 12th)
- Exhibition of Woodfirer works at the local town house (July 13th).
- One week symposium, firing & talks in La Borne for "La Borne s'enflamme". (July 13th - July 21st)
- At the end of the symposium, the kiln will be cool and thus unpacked.
You don't need to attend to the whole event, attendance to any part is possible and is free. The event will be in concordance with CCCLB and "La Borne s'enflamme" symposium.
Workshops
Workshops will happen in a free-spirited way: work on pieces to be fire during the event, discuss techniques, start visiting exchanges ideas and so on.
Yet, there will be a few activities that are already planned:
Art Presentation: "Present your work"
- By: Everyone who bring their pieces, so far: Dave Zdrazil, Duncan Shearer, Charade Honey, Joy Bridy, Philippe Langlois, Michael Maguire.
- You can bring either pictures or pieces to be presented.
- We have already information about participants from New Zealand and France who will bring their work.
Technical Workshop: "What's the best way to make your grog?"
- By: Everyone, free discussion
- Contest for the best technique!
- This fun-centered workshop will deal with simple and silly stuff but which indeed can be very helpful when woodfiring.
- Think of it as a "tips and tricks" workshop.
Technical Workshop: "Clay extraction: Where to look? What to use? How to dig? How to test?"
- by Philippe Langlois
- This workshop will show various material found in the area, their different uses, and discuss about various practice in the different countries represented.
- We will see how some materials readily available can help making pieces for woodfiring.
Technical Workshop: "Working with sculptural special clay"
- Tentative, By: Mr Baillet
- We are getting clay samples from Baillet and possibly other manufacturers which enables very special treatments.
- In this workshop, we'll try out these clay which will be later fired in the woodfired kiln.
NEW: Technical Workshop: "Digging your own clay to prepare woodfiring slips"
- By: Dave Zdrazil and Micheal Maguire
- Discussion about making slips for woodfiring from raw materials found in nature.
Accomodation
There will be plenty of space available in Saint Eloy for those who decide to do camping. Also, bed and breakfast places are available in numerous places around the two locations.
I'm making a list of places to stay (bed & breakfast here). For these places, you'll need to get a car as they are not really close. (For the strong and daring souls, the place in Vasselay can be accessed from the workshop site with a 20mn walk).
Mr Malot Jean
MALOT Jean et Chantal
La Grande Mouline
Bourgneuf
18110 - ST-ELOY-DE-GY
tel : +33 2 48 25 40 44
fax : +33 2 48 25 40 44
(english speaking)
5km from workshop site.
Mme Patient
Fontland
18110 Vasselay
tel : +33 2 48 69 32 77
(non english speaking)
3km from workshop site.
Others
There are other places to stay which are farther:
Best regards,
Philippe Langlois.
