Glass Beadmakers UK

The 2010 Annual General Meeting of Glass Beadmakers UK and Bead Fair is being held on Saturday 25th September 2010
at
Loyd Lindsay Rooms,
Ardington,
Oxfordshire
OX12 8PS
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For those who have been waiting since December for your copy of the GBUK Journal 2009 the wait is almost over. All being well I should be delivering it to the printers some time tomorrow and as soon as I receive the printed copies back we shall be (more…)

After a long break we are pleased to announce that the Autumn 2009 edition of the GBUK newsletter “The Phoenix Issue” is now available for GBUK members to download from the newsletter section. All members would have been emailed a copy on its release. (more…)

The date of the AGM and beadfair is fast approaching, (Saturday September 19th), so please do come along.

The current list of exhibitors are…
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We have decided to hold the 2009 Annual General Meeting of Glass Beadmakers UK on Saturday September 19th at the Highgate House Hotel, Creaton, Northampton. NN6 8NN.

As well as the Annual General Meeting - which I hope as many of you can attend as possible - we are also planning our own small Bead Fair which is to be open to the public.
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A reminder that Saturday 16th May 2009 is the annual Bead Day at Broadfield House Glass Museum - it is open from 10am until 4pm.
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We have all been looking at the proposed content for the Newsletters and Journal, based on the membership feedback in the questionnaire as to what you were looking for from your Society. So I thought I would share this with you and set out how we intend to do this.
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Many of our members will be selling their beads at the Stourbridge beadfair this coming weekend (formerly the GBUK bead fair)

This year it is a three day event. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 23rd, 24th and 25th August 2008.
As in previous years it will be held at the Bonded Warehouse,
Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 4LU.

The fair will open at 10.00 am and continue until 4.30pm each day,
Admission is free and there will be refreshments available.
More details can be found on the fair’s website www.stourbridgebeadfair.co.uk

We look forward to seeing you there.

A reminder that there will be the usual Glass bead day at

Broadfield House Glass Museum
Stourbridge
DY8 9NS

On Saturday 10th May 2008 from 10am to 4pm
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We are pleased to announce that the Autumn 2007 edition of the GBUK newsletter is now available for GBUK members to download from the newsletter section.
Please give it time to download if you are on dial up. (as usual you will need your user name and password from your welcome email to get access to it).
This edition’s featured artist is Lesley McFarland. Plus we have articles on Precision Colour Glass, a report on a Glass conference and an article on how to get a web presence.
Enjoy…
Once again we would like to thank Allan Punton and Di East for all their work on this newsletters and of course to everyone who has contributed.

Over the last few months we have been slaving away producing the first edition of the GBUK Journal for you all.

It will be officially released at the GBUK Beadfair (www.gbukbeadfair.co.uk) on Sunday 26th August 2007, but some of you will have received your copies while on the Dora Schubert courses running at P&T this week.
For those of you NOT going to the beadfair your copy will be posted out to you. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that the Summer 2007 edition of the GBUK newsletter is now available for GBUK members to download from the newsletter section.
Please give it time to download if you are on dial up. (as usual you will need your user name and password from your welcome email to get it).
Once again we would like to thank Allan Punton for all his work on this newsletter and of course to everyone who has contributed.

On another note the GBUK Journal is also now in the process of being printed, and will be released at the GBUK Beadfair free to all members. Look out for your copy… We will also have a limited number for sale to non members for £10 each

GBUK is delighted to offer Lampwork Bead Making Lessons with
Dora Schubert

www.doraschubert.com

As you may recall, many GBUK members booked in to train with Corina, who unfortunately could not commit to our dates.
We are very pleased to advise that Dora Schubert has offered to teach the sessions at Plowden & Thompson Glass Works.
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We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2007 edition of the GBUK newsletter is now available for GBUK members to download from the newsletter section.
Please give it time to download if you are on dial up.
Once again thank you to Allan Punton for all his work on this newsletter and to all of you who have contributed.
Happy reading…

It it with sadness that we have to report that we have had message from Corina Tettinger advising us that she can no longer consider the visit in the summer to teach at the GBUK bead fair as a strong possibility. (more…)