Two Pour Bore
Full Member
I went to the Jewellery Fair there at the Douglas Street Campus (St John's to you and I.) Great craic and lovely people. I particularly liked Darragh O'Mahony's "Smile-It's Free Therapy" brass smiley face thingy. It, ahem, brings me back to certain times of my life. Student vibes, maybe. Haha. 
Smile - It's Free Therapy
The Girls!
Hands/Rings
I've been reliably informed that the dirty hands and fingernails you see in a couple of photos is due to working with the materials; the coppers, brasses, silvers, the chemicals, etc. When I was there they were all running in and out to the workshops, taking turns to look after each others stalls. However much the tutelage is worth the access to workshops and the equipment is worth a mint, and they're certainly not letting the opportunity go to waste.
Unfortunately, after their two years are over, the amount of workshop space, actually affordable workshop space available to them is very, very low. And in one instance wheelchair accessible workshop space for one of the students just doesn't exist. She's looking at the bones of €50k to get herself started up in a bare minimum workshop that works for her. Not even a shopfront to it.
TEETH!
It's great to see small time, starting-out craftspeople really make a go of things. And they were all happy for the chats despite me not buying anything. Took loads of photos, though. And they were all happy to pose! After that I headed to the Douglas Street Quarter for a coffee. Certainly not a pint. Definitely... No, no no! A grand afternoon out!
The market is running next Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th, as well, upstairs by reception in the main building in St. Johns/The Cork College of FET Douglas Street Campus. It'd be worth popping in for a gawk on yer lunchbreak. I certainly enjoyed it!
Smile - It's Free Therapy
The Girls!
Hands/Rings
I've been reliably informed that the dirty hands and fingernails you see in a couple of photos is due to working with the materials; the coppers, brasses, silvers, the chemicals, etc. When I was there they were all running in and out to the workshops, taking turns to look after each others stalls. However much the tutelage is worth the access to workshops and the equipment is worth a mint, and they're certainly not letting the opportunity go to waste.
Unfortunately, after their two years are over, the amount of workshop space, actually affordable workshop space available to them is very, very low. And in one instance wheelchair accessible workshop space for one of the students just doesn't exist. She's looking at the bones of €50k to get herself started up in a bare minimum workshop that works for her. Not even a shopfront to it.
TEETH!
It's great to see small time, starting-out craftspeople really make a go of things. And they were all happy for the chats despite me not buying anything. Took loads of photos, though. And they were all happy to pose! After that I headed to the Douglas Street Quarter for a coffee. Certainly not a pint. Definitely... No, no no! A grand afternoon out!
The market is running next Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th, as well, upstairs by reception in the main building in St. Johns/The Cork College of FET Douglas Street Campus. It'd be worth popping in for a gawk on yer lunchbreak. I certainly enjoyed it!
