﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:49:42 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Crafts Council present new exhibition Real to Reel at designjunction</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/crafts-council-present-new-exhibition-real-to-reel-at-designjunction,c9464509</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1421842</guid><description><![CDATA[The Crafts Council is presenting a daily film screening programme at designjunction from 18 to 22 September as part of the London Design Festival, in a bespoke pop-up cinema designed by architects Carmody Groarke.  The screenings will preview work from the new touring exhibition Real to Reel: Film as material in making, which explores the work of makers who create films as art works.

The films in the exhibition explore material narratives, performative making and animated craft and include:

  · Erosion Series - Porth y Rhaw by Adam Buick.  This new commission captures the gradual]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:37:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Watershed Bristol to host Craft + Technology showcase</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/watershed-bristol-to-host-craft---technology-showcase,c9390767</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1283846</guid><description><![CDATA[Watershed Bristol to host Craft + Technology showcase, revealing three new ideas that demonstrate future potential for The Internet of Things.

RFID enabled Music Memory Box for dementia sufferers, a flying skirt lampshade for public spaces, and a Hug & Pay alternative to currency will be introduced to the public.
This Thursday 28 March at 2pm, visitors to the Watershed independent cinema and arts centre in Bristol’s Harbourside will be transported to a brave new world of the Internet of Things, courtesy of designer-makers taking part in the Watershed Craft + Technology residencies, funded]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:33:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crafts Council commission ‘Weave Waves’ explores craft and sound</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/crafts-council-commission--weave-waves--explores-craft-and-sound,c9378485</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1258760</guid><description><![CDATA[Crafts Council commission – Weave Waves - brings together sound artist Scanner and textile designer Ismini Samanidou to explore the connections between craft and sound www.weavewaves.org.uk
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Weave Waves has been commissioned for the Crafts Council’s new touring exhibition Sound Matters: Exploring sound through forms, launching in May 2013, which looks at how and where the worlds of sound and craft collide.

The dynamic online space - www.weavewaves.org.uk - will show the process of the collaboration between Scanner and Ismini Samandiou via ‘chapters’ which will be uploaded weekly.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:28:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Call for Entries: Art Fund Collect 2013</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/call-for-entries--art-fund-collect-2013,c9370852</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1245901</guid><description><![CDATA[British curators invited to apply to develop contemporary craft collections
The Art Fund and the Crafts Council are delighted to announce Art Fund Collect 2013, the £75,000 scheme which offers UK museums the chance to add an outstanding work of new international contemporary craft to their collections.  

Art Fund Collect was set up jointly by the Art Fund and the Crafts Council in 2008 as a way of boosting public collections with contemporary craft, and developing curatorial expertise and networks within the museum sector.

From 18 February 2013, curators from museums and galleries]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crafts Council takes British craft to Design Days Dubai, March 2013</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/crafts-council-takes-british-craft-to-design-days-dubai--march-2013,c9357838</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1217922</guid><description><![CDATA[The Crafts Council, operating as the British Crafts Council within an international context, will take a group of contemporary craft makers, gallery owners and educators to the design fair - Design Days Dubai - from 18-21 March 2013.
The Crafts Council supports the creative and commercial growth of individual craft makers, galleries and craft organisations from Britain. And with the support of UK Trade & Investment it will take four leading commercial galleries and a mission of high-profile advocates to Design Days Dubai.

Eighteen makers, all of whom are based in Britain, will be]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:17:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Watershed commissions three contemporary craft makers to explore the Internet of Things</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/watershed-commissions-three-contemporary-craft-makers-to-explore-the-internet-of-things,c9354248</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1212166</guid><description><![CDATA[A Music Memory Box for people with dementia, a flying lampshade that communicates feeling, and coins that trigger invaluable experiences: these are all part of Watershed’s new Craft + Technology Residencies, which start this week (7 January 2013).
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and supported by the Crafts Council, the Craft + Technology Residencies bring together makers Heidi Hinder, Chloe Meineck and Patrick Laing, with technologists at Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, i-DAT in Plymouth and Autonomatic in Falmouth, to explore how new technologies embedded in objects (the]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:33:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crafts Council selects 40 new makers for Hothouse scheme</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/crafts-council-selects-40-new-makers-for-hothouse-scheme,c9338043</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1178928</guid><description><![CDATA[The Crafts Council announces the 40 makers selected to start the Hothouse programme in 2013 which will be run in partnership across four regions.

Hothouse selects the brightest new craft talent from across the UK and provides them with a tailor-made six-month programme of creative and business support.

In a marketplace where the bespoke and handmade is being recognised and celebrated by global brands the skill and knowledge of the individual maker becomes ever more powerful.

The Hothouse scheme is for makers within two years of setting up their business who already display a high]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:21:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Over 365,000 embrace craft with the Crafts Council in its 40th year</title><link>http://news.cision.com/crafts-council/r/over-365-000-embrace-craft-with-the-crafts-council-in-its-40th-year,c9202077</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision433023</guid><description><![CDATA[The Crafts Council celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011 with a bumper year of activity; 365,000 visitors saw its five current exhibitions, 27,000 people attended its two craft fairs Origin and COLLECT, and over 7,000 children and young people participated in its nationwide initiatives.
The Power of Making, a joint exhibition with the V&A was the highlight of a busy year attracting 265,000 in the first three months of its four-month run. Many critics have called it one of the exhibitions of the year and it sparked debate in the national media on the topic of skills and craft’s relationship]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:09:24 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>