The North East’s Roleplay & Gaming Mini-Con & Kit Fair
Saturday 11th June 2016 – 10am – 10pm – Durham Student’s Union
Tournaments, roleplay, talks, traders, gaming workshops, LARP (Live Action Role Play) and Promotional stalls from societies and organisations.
There will be activities going on throughout the event, such as computer games and board games, as well as periodic activities like sword-fighting and water gun tournaments. There will also be sessions, talks & demonstrations in hourly and half-hourly slots.
Some successful talks and sessions in recent years have included Matt Pennington’s talk on immersion in LARP; Jo Bath’s talks on medieval medicine and medieval ghost stories; Adrian Tchaikovsky and Russell Smith’s author workshops; North East Charity Daleks’ demo on dalek building; and Durham University Improvised Comedy Society’s improvisation workshop.
Preston Park Museum Christmas Bazaar – 6th December 2015
Free Leatherwork Demonstration & Activities
Evancliffe Leathercraft in partnership with Preston Park Museum & Grounds and the HLF River Tees Rediscovered A Spirit of Place Project are pleased to announce that they will be providing FREELeatherwork demonstrations and hands on activities at Preston Park’s Christmas Bazaar on Sunday 6th December 2015 from 10am – 4pm.
Hands On Leatherwork!
Adults and Children alike can have a go at creating their own unique leatherwork item with absolutely no charge for the activity thank’s to the generosity of the River Tees RediscoveredA Spirit of Place Project.
You will be able to choose what you want to decorate from a number of leather items including:
Wristbands
Bookmarks
Key Rings
Hair Barrettes
Festive Shapes
Stitch an Inch of leatherwork!
Try your hand at the traditional art of Saddle Stitch. Sit down and use a Stitching Pony to hold a piece of leather while hand stitching along the edge with saddlers needles and waxed linen thread. Find out how we get that nice neat evenly spaced stitching you see on quality hand crafted leather goods.
(Hands On & Stitch an Inch subject to availability.)
Range of Leatherwork!
Barrel Bag by Evancliffe Leathercraft
Evancliffe lLeathercraft will have a range of leatherwork available to view and purchase. Items will include key rings, jewellery, coin purses, bags, waterbottles, tankards and more!
Preston Park Christmas Bazaar!
The Preston Park Christmas Bazaar is open on Saturday & Sunday the 5th & 6th December 2015 from 10am – 4pm.
(Please note that Evancliffe Leathercraft will only be demonstrating leatherwork on Sunday 6th December.)
Enjoy a weekend full of festivities at Preston Park’s Traditional Christmas Bazaar on the Victorian Street.
Unique gifts for all the family from our hand-picked market stalls
We’re hoping to run more workshops and attend more events and craft fairs during 2015 than we ever have before! So that you know where we will be and when we have now created a page dedicated to Training Workshops and one dedicated to Markets, Shows & Events.
You can use the top menu to access these or click on the following links:
After a busy time, this is it, the last craft fair before Christmas!
We have a busy time ahead exhibiting our leatherwork at many local craft fairs in the run up to Christmas. So that you know where we will be, here is a list of events we are attending. Keep looking back as we will try to add new events as soon as we have confirmation.
Saturday 20th December 2014 – 10.00am – 3.00pm
LionMouth Rural Centre, Esh Winning, Durham. DH7 9QF LionMouth Rural Centre Festive Open Day
Evancliffe leatherwork (& Woodland Wendy) will be among the craft stall holders as Lionmouth Rural Centre celebrates the opening of the “Lions Den” with a day of celebration.
Lionmouth celebrates the festive season with art, craft, food and produce stalls plus a range of activities for young and old to participate in.
