The Stove's foundation meeting was deemed a success, thanks to Andrew Lyon from International Futures Forum and a large group keen to demonstrate their found-art sculpture. More pictures on flickr here
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Evie is an internet sensation
8 year old Evie Cloy has been the Town Crier of Creetown for 6 days now.....just try Googling her!
Bookings via The Stove - reasonable commission rates ;-) - is this what they call Social Enterprise??
Bookings via The Stove - reasonable commission rates ;-) - is this what they call Social Enterprise??
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Creetown Appoints Nation's Youngest Town Crier
from South West News Service. com
A schoolgirl has become Britain’s youngest town crier – at the tender age of eight.
Evie Cloy found herself in with a shout when she turned up to a contest to find the next ‘bellman’ for the seaside town of Creetown in Dumfries.
The town has been without a crier since 1962, when WW1 veteran James Blake died at the age of 74 after 33 years of service.
But
not a single adult took part in the competition to find a
successor, so up stepped Evie – with a very direct bid for the job.
Looking the judges straight in the eye, she took a breath and yelled:
“My name is Evie Cloy and I want to be the next town crier of
Creetown.”
One of the panel, Allan Lowden, the town crier from nearby Gatehouse, said: “Evie might have been the smallest contestant but she definitely had the biggest voice.” The youngster, who has been given a hand-made ceremonial jacket and will be appearing in the town over the next few months, said: ”I’m really pleased. There hasn’t been a town crier in Creetown for 51 years so I love my new job. “I was a bit nervous but once I started shouting I felt better. I’m quite glad no grown-ups wanted the job.”
Her proud dad David, 45, said: “She’ll be making announcements at local events and fetes.
“There were two categories in the competition, over-16s and under-16s, but nobody over 16 turned up. It seems like the youngsters were more interested in it. “Evie’s chuffed. Her little sister Katie, who’s five, was very excited about the competition but was a bit too shy to take part.”
Organiser Will Levi Marshall said: “It’s great that Creetown finally has a town crier again after all these years and we’re delighted that Evie will be doing the honours. “Recently we’ve been exploring different methods of communications throughout Creetown’s history, including flags, the ancient ferry route to Wigtown, flares, bell casting and, of course, reviving the tradition of the Town Crier.”
James Blake, Creetown’s last town crier, was something of a local legend. After his death in 1962, his obituary recorded that “as a bellman he had few equals, his fine resonant voice often being heard a mile away and visitors to Creetown often stared in amazement when they met him on his rounds.”
A schoolgirl has become Britain’s youngest town crier – at the tender age of eight.
Evie Cloy found herself in with a shout when she turned up to a contest to find the next ‘bellman’ for the seaside town of Creetown in Dumfries.
The town has been without a crier since 1962, when WW1 veteran James Blake died at the age of 74 after 33 years of service.
Britain’s youngest town crier Evie Cloy dressed in her contemporary new uniform armed with the original bell gets to work
One of the panel, Allan Lowden, the town crier from nearby Gatehouse, said: “Evie might have been the smallest contestant but she definitely had the biggest voice.” The youngster, who has been given a hand-made ceremonial jacket and will be appearing in the town over the next few months, said: ”I’m really pleased. There hasn’t been a town crier in Creetown for 51 years so I love my new job. “I was a bit nervous but once I started shouting I felt better. I’m quite glad no grown-ups wanted the job.”
Her proud dad David, 45, said: “She’ll be making announcements at local events and fetes.
“There were two categories in the competition, over-16s and under-16s, but nobody over 16 turned up. It seems like the youngsters were more interested in it. “Evie’s chuffed. Her little sister Katie, who’s five, was very excited about the competition but was a bit too shy to take part.”
Organiser Will Levi Marshall said: “It’s great that Creetown finally has a town crier again after all these years and we’re delighted that Evie will be doing the honours. “Recently we’ve been exploring different methods of communications throughout Creetown’s history, including flags, the ancient ferry route to Wigtown, flares, bell casting and, of course, reviving the tradition of the Town Crier.”
James Blake, Creetown’s last town crier, was something of a local legend. After his death in 1962, his obituary recorded that “as a bellman he had few equals, his fine resonant voice often being heard a mile away and visitors to Creetown often stared in amazement when they met him on his rounds.”
Friday, 1 March 2013
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Creetown - this Saturday
Our public art project in Creetown reaches a big milestone this Saturday with our first major public event in working with local residents......do join us if you can - should be braw
Your Invite to Our Foundation Gathering
The Stove needs your Help
The Stove is getting itself
properly organised for the future and needs your help to do this – we’re asking
folk who are interested in the arts in D+G to join us for an informal evening to let us know how we are doing so
far and what we could be doing better in the future. After we have all agreed a
way forward everyone will be offered membership of The Stove (free)
So what has this got to do with you?.......
We believe The Stove can make a genuine contribution
to the future of our region – for both the creative sector and the wider
population
Still wondering what it has to do with you?.......
The Stove is two things:
1. A Building……..you need to
come to this gathering if:
- You’d like to see a place in the centre of Dumfries
where you can meet other creative folk, get info about what is going on locally
and further afield.
- You’d like to be able to hire affordable space to hold
workshops/events
- You’d like to show/present/gig in a space dedicated to
multi-disciplinary contemporary arts
- You’d like to rent a small serviced space in the
centre of Dumfries
- You’re interested in being part of the artist team to
work on a series of commissions integrated into the building
- You want to know about progress with the building (we
aim to have completed the necessary building work by the end of 2013 btw)
2. An Organisation……you should
come along if you are interested in:
- Collaborating with other artists as part of teams to
take on large commissions
- Bringing forward new ideas for projects/initiatives
that need an ‘organisation’ to carry them forward (NB – one of The Stove rules
is ‘if you have an idea you need to be prepared to do it yourself’)
- If you are an organisation yourself and are looking to
collaborate and share resources/expertise
- Learning new skills by taking part in Stove projects
- Building a creative career in Dumfries and Galloway
- Encouraging early career folk to get started locally
- Growing the ‘arts scene’ in D+G
- If you are not part of the ‘creative sector’ but you
are interested in working with our sector in your work (we can be pretty handy
like)
We are holding an informal and relaxed gathering that
will be run by Andrew Lyon of the International Futures Forum – the aim is
find a creative solution that works for all of us to set up The Stove as the
best thing it can be. By attending you will be offered the chance to build
yourself into the Stove network from the beginning of this exciting new phase
of the venture.
You do not need any expertise of any kind to take part
– just enthusiasm and an open mind and heart.
When: 6pm Wednesday 13th
March 2013
Where: The Stove, 100
High Street Dumfries DG1 2BJ
What: Informal workshop
led by Andrew Lyon till 7.30, refreshments and chat after
Friday, 22 February 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
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