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A Brief Review of The 2008 Festival... |
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The third International Festival of Glass has been hailed as the best yet with more events, more venues and more visitors than in the previous two festivals. Around 15,000 people enjoyed a huge programme of events, demonstrations, talks and activities. Featuring world class exhibitions, including the prestigious British Glass Biennale, demonstrations, performances and events, the festival presented a multi-media, visually exciting and dynamic celebration of the glassmakers art.
The Festival won the Silver Award in the ‘Best Tourism Experience’ category at in the regional Excellence in Tourism Awards 2008 at
Birmingham’s International Convention Centre in November.
Over the August bank holiday weekend from 22 to 25 August the third festival attracted local, national and international enthusiasts with events throughout the historic Glass Quarter and lived up to its promise to be the most exciting glass gathering in Britain - since the last festival in 2006! Plans for the 2010 Festival are already in the making!
"The festival can seriously claim to be the most
internationally significant visual arts event taking
place in the West Midlands this year"
Terry Grimley, Birmingham Post
International masters from as far afield as the USA, Australia, Germany, Israel and Egypt led workshops in the week prior to the Festival; the British Glass Biennale ran until the end of September in the vast and dramatic shell of one of the areas most famous glasshouses while glass and other craft studios across the region welcomed visitors at Open Studios to watch skilled artists and many tried their hand at one or two of the extraordinary range of craft skills.
The whole family joined in many of the workshops and throughout the festival there were opportunities to party the night away with traditional food, musical entertainment, dramatic glassmaking demonstrations and performance events. The Festival ended on a spectacular high when a visiting group of Egyptian musicians and Sufi dancers amazed a huge crowd at the festival finale. Click the image for a PDF download of a Festival Review.
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