What's on 2025

An Introduction to Painting with Watercolours

To be led by Gail Evans, local tutor and artist. Saturday 22nd March 2025 10am to 4pm at Conistone with Kilnsey Village Hall. 
 

Further details to follow.

Chocolate making

Paula Bui of Fusion Chocolate, Ilkley to give a demonstration, with samples of course! On Monday 12th May 2025 at 1pm. The venue will be Conistone with Kilnsey Village Hall. 
 

More details to follow.

2024

UWALS AGM 

Wednesday 27th  November 7pm at Conistone with Kilnsey hall. 

You are invited to join us for our AGM. As usual, business will be dealt with swiftly and at 7.30pm cheese and wine will be served. Then we are very pleased to have Dr. Malcolm Petyt speak to us . He will explore what is covered by the term “dialect” and how Emily Bronte displays many features of her local dialect in Wuthering Heights.

'What are ye for?' he shouted. 'T' maister's down i' t' fowld. Go round by th' end o' t' laith, if ye went to spake to him.'

Malcolm Petyt, a native of Bradford, spent his career in universities. An interest in dialect came with a growing awareness that his own speech was different from that of his Cambridge contemporaries! He grew up not far from Haworth, and noticed that the local speech seemed to be reflected in some of the writings of the Brontes; this led to his first published work. After a doctorate on the speech of the West Riding, he wrote a well-received survey of the development of dialectology. In retirement he has worked with various organisations,   including Friends of the Dales.  

Our AGM is free but to help with catering, please indicate your attendance by emailing uwalsociety@gmail.com or phoning 01756 770350

2024 UWALS  Workshops

Winter Photography Workshop with Andrew Brooks - Saturday November 2nd, 10am to 4pm at Conistone with Kilnsey Village Hall.

An opporunity to create personalised Christmas cards and gifts.You will need no experience or fancy equipment a phone camera is fine. You will learn things about yur camera, you never knew. Many of you will know Andrew from previous workshops; he is a first rate tutor. By he end of the day you will have photographs that can be uploaded to any of the man internet sites to be transformed into cards, calendars, prints etc. Andrew will explain how to do this. Places are limited, so please contact Geraldine if you would like to book a place.

Felting - *Please note the change of venue*

Friday June 7^th 2024 10am to 4pm at Threshfield Institute : FELTING WORKSHOP led by Louise Curnin. 

Louise is a Feltmaker, Tutor and Milliner. She lives in beautiful Wensleydale and the surrounding landscape is her inspiration. Louise has been a feltmaker for over 12 years, having been taught initially by the world-renowned Sheila Smith and she is passionate about spreading her feltmaking skills to new enthusiasts and thoroughly enjoys teaching workshops to groups and individuals hoping they also get the feltmaking bug! Wetfelting is a very versatile medium however Louise’s specialities are lighting and wearables such as scarves, hats and bags. More details about Louise and her workshops can be found on her website www.handmadefromloPeandlou.co.uk

Course description

The day will be separated into two halves. To start, Louise will guide you through the process of creating a beautiful garden or landscape inspired design, and then you will spend the rest of the morning session laying out your design in wool and silk fibres and working the fibres to make the felt fabric for your tealight shade using the wet felting method. Your felt fabric will then dry over lunchtime and we can then spend the afternoon constructing the tealight shade and testing our shade with the tealight provided. The day is suitable for everyone, especially novices. All materials and equipment are provided.

Equipment the participants will need to bring to the course:

A notebook and pen if you wish to take notes, a camera or mobile phone if you wish to record in pictures.

A waterproof apron to protect your clothes, not essential.

Waterproof gloves if you have skin allergies.

A hand towel

A ruler, pen or pencil and scissors for cutting paper.

Cost: £20 (UWALS subsidy), tea, coffee etc included. Please provide your own lunch.

Tapestry Weaving

Wednesday 10^th July 10 am to 4pm Threshfield Institute: Tapestry Weaving led by Anna Wetherall. Anna has been weaving tapestry since 2013 exhibiting her work as part of several group exhibitions.  She studied with a number of leading UK tapestry weavers, is an active member of the British Tapestry Group and runs Nearly Wild Weaving with colleague, Irene. Her inspiration for weaving comes from the natural world, the landscape and its history. She aims to convey a sense of place, the touchstone of a point in time. As a geologist and ecologist, she sees the processes and patterns that have shaped what is around us, this is reflected in the tapestries she weaves. She is passionate about connecting people and nature, and has found that tapestry weaving and other approaches to artistic creativity can make a massive difference to people’s health and wellbeing.

Course description

Come and explore the patterns, textures, colours and shapes in the landscape, translating them into simple woven tapestry. We will take a short stroll outside to look at the views and local features (weather permitting), taking our inspiration from what we see and perhaps hear. We will then return indoors and explore how we can translate our ideas into tapestry in simple ways, or, if you have woven before, perhaps stretching your skills in new ways. Suitable for beginners and improvers. Bring your own equipment if you have it, but there will also be looms warped up ready to go and a range of weft yarn for you to use. Additional equipment will be available for sale, should you wish to continue weaving after the workshop day.

Cost: £20 (UWALS subsidy), tea, coffee etc included. Please provide your own lunch.

Lino-printing *please note the change of venue*

Wednesday 4^th September 10am to 4pm Kettlewell Village Hall : Lino- printing led by Tilly Dagnall

Some of you may have attended Tilly’s very well received workshop some years ago We were asked to bring her back so here she is!

Tilly is a printmaker, usually working with found and reclaimed timber. (This will be a lino-printing workshop)
She draws influences from Japanese woodblock printing, the arts and crafts movement (especially William Morris!) and the natural world around her.

All materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring along pictures that inspire them.  Tilly will also provide books etc to stimulate ideas.

Cost: £20 (UWALS subsidy), tea, coffee etc included. Please provide your own lunch