10th Year Celebrations!!

Like all great birthday celebrations the cake was a bit of a feature.

The launch of our 10th Year yesterday evening at the Island Centre proved a great success as the

Community Arts Project was unveiled!  And what a fabulous, fantastic, fun series of hangings  they turned out to be!

Everyone was thrilled to see the final outcome of all the hard work and many, many congratulations to  everyone who was involved but particularly to the Creative Team of Deirdre, Helen and Deborah.  Each panel reflects various aspects of life in the Borough of Lisburn and Castlereagh.  The detail in each panel is amazing!  The River Lagan flows through all three panels connecting them to one another.  There's kingfishers, bees, flax flowers, fish, beer, horses, houses, ice skates and oh so so much more.  But the main theme throughout are the people which feature in the hangings and provide the root of the community growing upwards together.  

It's a wonderful piece of work featuring massive creativity and skill and the Team are to congratulated.  

Sarah, a woman of many talents, drew lots of attention as she spun some of her own homegrown flax!

A small exhibition of members' work complemented the hangings and was the perfect backdrop for the Festival of Felting at the Island Arts Centre.

 

Our very own Dorothy launched the 10th Year and gave the perfect lead in to Deirdre who gave us  the background to the Project and how it all developed over the week of felting with community groups. 

Lynda from the Island spoke about how much everyone had enjoyed the project and she praised the Creative Team and everyone for all their work and the fun everyone had working away together.

The formalities were rounded off  by Gail and then it was CAKE TIME!!!

Can't understand what happened to that big cake which Ann had organised. . . . . . maybe something to do with Shaun? . . . . 

I'm including lots of the photos of the night below but if you'd like to see the video (2.5 mins) taken by the Island Centre of the entire week's project then check out the Island's facebook page, it's well worth seeing.

Lovely smiles from Mandy and Dorothy.  And again many congratulations to Everyone!!