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With the climatic vagaries of an English summer, staging alfresco theatre in a series of London parks is a yearly triumph of hope over experience.
Staging alfresco theatre with no fixed seating seems an act of particular folly. Yet, in the capable hands of London Bubble, it is a folly that triumphs.
The Bubble, under artistic director Jonathan Petherbridge, is garnering quite a reputation for its promenade performances, and this take on Lewis
Carroll's surreal world - which I saw at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich - amply illustrates why.
It is the meticulous attention to detail that is so impressive. Not only are the scenes themselves well planned and executed, but the intervening peregrinations, hymned by a group of wandering minstrels, are a delight of cleverly placed props and signs.
We start in Alice's drawing room as she falls asleep, then accompany her on a series of increasingly bizarre encounters with the Red Queen and Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
The only drawback in Petherbridge's production is that the conventionbound world of the Victorian child is not delineated clearly enough at the start to throw into appropriate relief the frankly psychedelic goings-on in Wonderland.
Minnie Crowe's diminutive Alice could be more bewildered by her experience as she is bounced between the other members of the ensemble, who all take on multiple roles with aplomb.
Janet Jefferies is a suitably imperious Red Queen, Nick Khan has just the right air of aggrieved enigma as Humpty Dumpty and Charlie Folorunsho raises hearty laughs with each of his five turns.
Watching this as the night draws on is an enchanting experience as it is - and on a balmy summer's evening it would be perfect.
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Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun reports that the Chiefs will bring in WR LaQuan Williams and TE Justin Jones for workouts on Tuesday. Williams, 26, signed with the Ravens as an undrafted free agent out of Maryland back in 2011. He was unfortunately among the team's final roster cuts this year and this is the first reported interest he's found since being waived. Jones...
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Collymore 38
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SOME extravagant claims have been made for Stan Collymore, the Nottingham Forest striker. And on the evidence of what he produced yesterday, they may not be so far wide of the mark. Another cracking goal, his second of the season, maintained Forest's impressive start and raised his own stock even higher.
A 1-0 thrashing might be the best way to describe this match, in which Forest, after a stodgy beginning, should have had much more to show for their efforts. But for Leicester City things are already looking ominous, with three defeats in their first three games.
Although Collymore was involved in almost everything of note that Forest did, there were enough strong performances around him to suggest that stopping Stan will not be the only challenge facing their opponents this season. Bryan Roy had an outstanding game as Collymore's foil, Steve Stone provided consistent support on the right wing and the Forest defence remained largely untroubled.
If they had a weakness it was in midfield, where Leicester, particularly in the first half, showed plenty of durability if not much inspiration. But the loss of Mark Draper with an ankle injury after only a quarter of an hour was a severe blow; a team of such modest talents could ill afford that.
Forest had the talent, but it was a while before they worked out how to put it to best use. Stone was an occasional threat, Roy showed glimpses of class, but the game was beginning to drift when, in the 39th minute, Collymore brought it to life in emphatic style.
The great thing about Collymore is that he keeps things simple. He gets the ball, he runs with it, and he sticks it in the net. That was pretty much what happened to Leicester, whose defence did not look particularly vulnerable when Collymore collected the ball some 10 yards outside the area. But he found a gap that had not appeared to be there, accelerating powerfully through it, and a left-foot shot into the bottom corner did the rest.
The game began to open out a bit. Collymore sent a header just wide, and in the first five minutes of the second half both he and Roy got behind Leicester's back five, but neither was able to get himself into a good enough position to make his shot count. Roy, whom Forest use as a central attacker rather than on the wing, was none the less tending to move out to the left in search of unattended space, and a productive ploy it proved to be.
Soon the nimble Roy was in his element, his poise, balance and all-round awareness setting him apart from almost everyone else on the pitch. But not Collymore, who in the 60th minute strode on to Roy's short pass to crash a ferocious shot against the bar. The watching Don Howe - the eyes of Terry Venables - will have taken note.
For all Forest's domination, their advantage remained a slender one. Against a better team they might have paid for that. But Leicester did themselves no favours by having Nicky Mohan dismissed for a second bookable offence, and Forest could afford to be profligate.
Never more so than when Roy released Collymore down the right and the big man showed how well he can create chances as well as take them. His cross left Ian Woan with nothing to do but shoot into an empty net; he found the crowd instead. One thing Collymore has not mastered is how to get on the end of your own crosses.
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Mr McAuley, 29, from Strabane, Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, was detained at Connolly railway station in the city centre at lunchtime. He has been on the run since escaping from Brixton jail, south London, in 1991.
His fellow fugitive, Nessan Quinlivan, was arrested by Irish detectives last Sunday after a raid on a Co Tipperary farmhouse and appeared before Dublin's anti-terrorist Special Criminal Court on firearms charges.
The Garda said Mr McAuley was held after getting off a DART suburban train. Police said he had a handgun when arrested by special branch officers from the Garda's Emergency Response Unit.
He was taken to Bridewell police station, then held at a nearby station under Ireland's anti-terrorist Offences Against the State Act for questioning about the possession of a firearm and other offences.
Both men are wanted by Scotland Yard for questioning about a break- out from Brixton while on remand. They are believed to have used a gun hidden in a pair of training shoes that had been sent from Ireland. During the incident, prison officers were shot at in the jail and a civilian outside was wounded.
The men were awaiting trial charged with plotting to kill Sir Charles Tidbury, a former Whitbread brewery chairman, and causing explosions in Britain. A Scotland Yard spokesman said that the Irish police had notified them of the arrest.
Republican sources in Dublin suggested yesterday that Mr McAuley was carrying a gun to ensure he would face charges in the Irish Republic rather than extradition to Britain. He can be held for 48 hours before being charged.
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But last week the tannies were on the march, dancing and chanting the slogans of South Africa's revolution. On the country's television sets, under a poster reading, "Loyalty doesn't buy bread," were hundreds of civil servants demanding that the government honour its 1996 pledge to increase public service salaries.
But the novelty of watching National Party die-hards protesting against an ever-tightening fiscal policy was lost on the country as it battled its way through a sixth successive week of speculative assaults on the currency.
Last week the rand fell 5.5 per cent to its lowest levels ever against the dollar and pound. Although the rand has fallen only 11 per cent against the dollar this year, the latest crisis has shaken the government and central bank far more than its previous dive in early 1996 when it fell 26 per cent in a few weeks.
When the government presented its growth, employment and redistribution strategy, it openly called it Thatcherite and told its election partners, the country's largest trade union federation and the Communist Party, that the policy was non-negotiable. The programme's targets promised to take the sting out of slashed government spending by generating thousands of jobs a year by the end of the century, lowering inflation and putting the economy on track for a 6-per-cent growth rate.
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The African National Congress (ANC) government's non-negotiable stance on an economic policy that was soon perceived as a self-imposed structural adjustment programme meant that it failed to win the support of its alliance partners.
Thabo Mbeki, the deputy president and heir to Nelson Mandela, last month defended the slow pace of privatisation, saying he had been advised by Margaret Thatcher, not to move too fast. The body-blow to Mr Mbeki's deliberate pace came at the end of May with the first attack on the rand that threatened to drive it below R5 to the dollar.
The government and central bank fell back on the tactics that saved the rand in 1996, but this time their confidence dwindled in the few days it took for them almost to exhaust the country's foreign reserves.
In less than a month the central bank threw about half its total foreign reserves, more than R26bn (pounds 2.8bn), into the breach to little avail. Punitive central bank interest rates soared as high as 30 per cent as the bank tried to mop up liquidity in the domestic money market and prevent speculators from borrowing rands to fund their attacks on the currency.
Econometrix, an economics consultancy, said last week that the currency crisis was likely to push inflation back up, in spite of interest rates that are 15 per cent ahead of inflation. The higher interest rates have forced them to cut their economic growth projections for this year by two-thirds to 1 percent. Growth is expected to limp up to 2 per cent next year, a third of the government's planned 6 percent.
Chris Stals, the governor of the central bank, last week threw up his hands in an admission of the bank's impotence in the face of currency speculators. "The present financial crisis is of course not a South African crisis but a global one," Mr Stals told the Johannesburg business community. "Had the roots of the problem been in the South African economy, it would have been easier to prescribe remedial action and apply appropriate policies that could guide the situation back to stability."
That explanation is unlikely to sit well with the marching tannies of Cape Town or the ANC's partners less than a year before the country's second democratic elections.
Jonathan Rosenthal is Industrial Editor of the South African newspaper Business Report, part of the Independent Newspapers group.
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(Image: Pia Johnson, Family Resemblance, after Wittgenstein (detail triptych), 2015/16, archival inkjet prints, 45.0 x 45.0cm each)
PhotoAccess presents in the Huw Davies Gallery: Chinese Whispers and Other Stories, curated by Pia Johnson.
Opening on Thursday 27 April at 6pm
Exhibition continues through until Sunday 21 May 2017
Exhibition to be opened by Professor Jacqueline Lo, Associate Dean (International), Australian National University College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Chinese Whispers and Other Stories
Bringing together four emerging female artists of Chinese descent, this exhibition seeks to reveal the complex and shifting nature of cultural difference, identity and migrant stories in 'multicultural' Australia. Featuring interstate photo-based artists Pia Johnson, Tammy Law, Janelle Low and Siying Zhou. The photographic media works negotiate notions of identity, racial discrimination and stereotyping, as well as reimagine the spaces we live in, what makes cultural differences and how it contributes to the narrative of a wider Australian identity. This exhibition is supported by a PhotoAccess 2017 Artist Support Package. View the exhibition catalogue
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In conversation event with Pia Johnson, Siying Zhou and Mikala Tai, Director of 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art. Exploring Chinese-Australian contemporary art and the female perspective. Sunday 21 May at 2pm. Free event. All welcome.
(Image: Siying Zhou, Our first Lamington made in Australia (detail), 2015, single channel HD video, duration 75:00)
Common Ground by PhotoAccess members | FACE2FACE by Emilio Cresciani | Exhibitions 30 March-23 April 2017
(Image: Tony Fleming, Blue Pool, Blue Pool in Bermagui, NSW (detail), 2017, inkjet print)
PhotoAccess presents in the Huw Davies Gallery: Common Ground, by PhotoAccess members and FACE2FACE by Emilio Cresciani.
Opening on Thursday 30 March at 6pm
Exhibitions continues through until Sunday 23 April 2017
Common Ground
The physical and social dynamics of public space play a central role in the formation of community and culture. In the first PhotoAccess members' exhibition for 2017, Common Ground, 36 new and existing members have creatively documented and interpreted public space through photography and photo-based art. View the exhibition catalogue
Artists include: Allen Bills, Fiona Bowring-Greer, Tim Brook, Ulli Brunnschweiler, David Chalker, Alan Charlton, Susan Clarke, Suzie Edwards, Tony Fleming, Michael Fuery, Natalie Gane, Julie Garran, Susan Henderson, Gilbert Herrada, Angus Kendon, Ioan Kendon, Chris Kerr, Kathryn Leo, Annette Lock, Marie Lund, Trevor Lund, Louise Maurer, Thea McGrath, Andrew Robert Morgan, Alec Morris, Benjamin O'Callaghan, Judy Parker, Keith Penhallow, Brian Rope, Jenni Savigny, Tara Shield, Neil Stafford, Brian Stewart, Greg Stoodley, Lachlan Thompson and Kate Travis.
FACE2FACE by Emilio Cresciani
An exhibition by Sydney-based emerging artist Emilio Cresciani, showcasing x-ray style portraits of people and their rubbish, commenting on our consumer lifestyle. This exhibition is supported by a PhotoAccess 2017 Artist Support Package. View the exhibition catalogue
(Image: Emilio Cresciani, Alex, 2016, inkjet print)
(Images left to right: Anaïs Tondeur, TCHERNOBYL HERBARIUM, 2011-17, Linum usitatissimum, Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Radiation level: 1.7 Microsieverts per hour, Rayogram. Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardener, 2014, 2015, HFT/Botanical Prints, Rank 3: Microsoft, USA, Software & computer services)
PhotoAccess presents in the Huw Davies Gallery: Planetary Gardening, a group exhibition curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean.
Opening on Friday 3 March at 6pm
Exhibitions to be opened by Libby Robin, Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University, and Affiliated Professor at the National Museum of Australia.
Exhibition dates: 3 - 26 March 2017.
Through varied photographic processes, Planetary Gardening examines symbiotic relationships between the cultural and the chemical, the organic and the technological, and the agency of human and non-human actors.
Bringing together the work of ten mid-career and established artists working nationally and internationally, the works explore how artists have tended to the ecologies of the environment, society, and subjectivity, and considers the effects of our collective cultivation compulsions in shaping our planet and ourselves. View the exhibition catalogue
Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Renata Buziak, Dornith Doherty, Merilyn Fairskye, Joe Hamilton, Janet Laurence, @san_kaido, Robyn Stacey, Anaïs Tondeur, Suzanne Treister. Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean
The exhibition is supported by a PhotoAccess 2017 Artist Support Package, and
Public Program
Join exhibition curators Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean for a curators talk in the Huw Davies Gallery at 2pm on Sunday 26 March 2017. Free event. All welcome. If you missed the talk, you can listen to it on our Soundcloud channel here.
'Move up to the Views' David Flanagan | 'Finlandia Hymn' Anja Loughhead | 2-26 February | Exhibitions
(Image: David Flanagan, Untitled #12 (detail), 2015, C type print, 2000 x 660mm)
PhotoAccess presents in the Huw Davies Gallery the first of our 2017 exhibitions: Move up to the Views by David Flanagan and Finlandia Hymn by Anja Loughhead.
Opening on Thursday 2 February at 6pm
Exhibitions to be opened by Ryan Johnston, Head of Art, Australian War Memorial.
Exhibition dates: 2 - 26 February 2017.
Move up to the Views | David Flanagan
Large scale photographs by mid-career artist David Flanagan. Inspired by the 1970s New Topographics movement, Flanagan's images explore the outer areas of Northern Canberra destined to become new suburbs. View the exhibition Catalogue
Finlandia Hymn | Anja Loughhead
Emerging artist Anja Loughhead presents a series of documented performance pieces examining the photographic representation of Finland's cultural identity and the deep-seated relationship to the landscape. View the exhibition Catalogue
Exhibitions proudly supported by Lerida Estate Wines.
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Artists in conversation, Sunday 26 February at 2pm in the PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery. Listen to an excerpt from the in conversation event on our SoundCloud channel.
(Image: Anja Loughhead, Finlandia Hymn, 2017, still from video, duration: 2:00)
(Image: Sean Davey, South Curtin Oval, Canberra, 2011. Included in the 2013 PhotoAccess 100 Views of Canberra project.)
A 2017 PhotoAccess members' exhibition
The first PhotoAccess members' exhibition for 2017, Common Ground invites our members to creatively document and interpret public space through photography. The physical and social dynamics of public space play a central role in the formation of community and culture. It is with this in mind that we invite new and existing members to creatively address the theme, Common Ground, through photography and photo-based art.
In the lead-up to Common Ground, we encourage members to take advantage of our courses and workshops. A full list is available online here. Working on film? Take advantage of our darkroom subscriptions and free access days, details available here.
Completed online entry forms and a payment of $30 are due by Friday 10 March 2017. Common Ground will run from 30 March – 23 April 2017 in the 'Tall' and 'Long' rooms of the PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery. Click here to enter.


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1. You may recall that I am the default Dept. Head. By that, I mean, no one else really wanted to take it on. (It's unpaid, so there's very little incentive.) We get representation at Dept. Head meetings- I guess maybe the World Languages department is a bit like Puerto Rico in Congress in that respect. I digress. So, it's time to start scheduling for next year, which is always dicey, especially in the French and German classes, as we hold our breath every year, anticipating the day they say that we are going to lose a teacher in either of those subjects. Very stressful- emotions run real close to the surface. Looks like things are ok for now. There's also an added bit of unexpected drama on the part of another colleague and subsequent silent treatment that has also been a big pain in the ass of late.
2. I put my name in to teach an upper level Spanish Civ/Lit. class- stressful only in that my colleague (Mr. Burns clone) usually teaches those upper level classes and kills our program in the process. He zaps any enjoyment and love of language right out of the class and instead demoralizes those students, many of them either fail or drop, leaving him with a class consisting of 10 students at midterm. So I've been worried for weeks now that he's going to confront me and/or call my competency into question, blahdy, blahdy, blah, blah, blah. Long story longer, it looks like I indeed will be teaching that class in the spring. Yay!
3. I'm going to be our school's Student Council Advisor next year- fraught with everyone's 2 cents, of course. Lots to do and consider- homecoming, food drive, fund raisers, blood drives, community service....
4. I'm supposed to take a group of 16 students to Mexico on June 9. Spent most of last week on pins and needles worrying about the damn swine flu. Our travel company is so wonderful, though, and I trust them implicitly. They haven't canceled, so it looks like it's a go.
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Miller wrote the play over six days in 1936 while he was at the University of Michigan. He submitted it for the Avery Hopwood award, which is still running today and included a $250 prize. Despite winning the prize it was not then staged, and few Miller fans will have heard of it.
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
*Membership Update* Please note that due to high demand, the Full Membership option which includes a ticket to the Opening Ceremony is now sold out.
You can still purchase standard membership which includes the official Shetland Wool Week bag and membership pack as well as early access to the programme a whole week before tickets go on sale.
A small number of additional Opening Ceremony tickets will be available when event tickets go on general sale on 16th May.
Full Membership £25 [SOLD OUT]
Standard Membership (no opening ceremony ticket) £15
The real advantage of being a member is that you get a chance to have a good look through the programme in advance, which will be sent to you as a PDF by email on Monday 8 May. Bookings will go live on Tuesday 16 May at 1300 BST and this is when you can order tickets to all SWW events.
Shetland Wool Week is a nine-day festival, and this year there are over 300 events from which to choose. Once tickets are announced many events sell out very quickly, so if there are specific classes, talks or tours that you want to sign up for, it is advisable to try and order them as soon as the Little Box Office goes live.
The Opening Ceremony will take place on Sunday 24th September from 1900 – 2100 at the Clickimin Leisure Complex, Lerwick. It's a fun evening with talks, Shetland entertainment and refreshments. It's also a great way to meet up with your fellow knitters and tutors for the week.
We have also added a handy 'Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQs) page to this website, which will hopefully answer some of your queries. Please let us know if we've missed anything by emailing: email@example.com
We're really looking forward to sharing the programme with you in the coming weeks. We've got some fantastic events lined up, and, as ever, an array of talented and inspiring tutors. Watch this space for updates!
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Here's our woolly round up of Edinburgh Yarn Festival.
Anyone who has a love of yarn and textiles probably has a big red circle marked in their diary around the beginning of March – to highlight Edinburgh Yarn Festival – one of the biggest urban knitting festivals in the UK.
It's a big deal, attracting some 5000 visitors to the two-day market place, which is packed with vendors and knitwear designers from all over the world. It's also a key event for the Shetland Wool Week committee, as this is where we promote our own event and announce the new guest patron for the year together with the launch of the official hat.
EYF is a brilliant place to meet like-minded, yarn and knitting obsessed people from all over the world. It's impossible to leave without buying (another) stash of wool, a handful of buttons, a pattern or two.. and be inspired by the conversation and endless garments that vendors and visitors are wearing.
Before the event had even kicked off at Edinburgh's Corn Exchange there was already quite a buzz, with people wondering who would be stepping into Ella Gordon's shoes. All was eventually revealed via SWW's popular social media streams where we were delighted to announce Shetland-born knitwear designer, Gudrun Johnston, as this year's patron. The official hat, the slouchy-style 'Bousta Beanie', designed by Gudrun, was also launched.
Within minutes of the doors opening we had a steady stream of people wanting to meet with Gudrun, ask questions and take a copy of the free knitting pattern. The hat uses a variety of stunning colourways in Shetland yarns by Jamieson & Smith, Jamieson's of Shetland and Uradale Yarns.
It was also clear from people's comments that enthusiasm and interest for SWW continues to grow, with many people prepared to travel long distances to visit the islands.
For some, it is very much on the 'bucket list'. We loved meeting you all and answering your questions. It was also great to see SWW patrons past and present at the stand (Gudrun Johnston, Donna Smith and Ella Gordon).
This year there was a strong Shetland contingent with impressive stands from Jamieson's of Sandness, Uradale Farm, and Shetland Handspun.
The patron is an integral part of Wool Week and generates a lot of international interest. Gudrun Johnston is an enthusiastic ambassador for Shetland's textile industry, so she was a natural choice for the SWW committee.
Gudrun was in high demand throughout the event and did a live podcast with Blacker Yarns. A frequent visitor to Shetland, she has attended every Wool Week since it started in 2010. Many of her designs feature Shetland patterns and yarns, and her Wool Week, Bousta Beanie hat design was inspired by the ever-changing shades of the Shetland landscape. She wanted to reflect this in a simple Fair Isle pattern that floats between one background colour and two contrasting colours. The beauty of this approach is that it creates endless possibilities for colour combinations. In fact, Gudrun surprised us on the day by arriving with a fourth suggested colourway, which uses softer shades of blue. Her gorgeous combination uses J&S 2-ply jumper weight, Shade 2; FC 39MIX; FC34MIX.
It was heartening to see such interest for SWW and the hat pattern at Edinburgh – we've been following everyone's progress on social media. We look forward to seeing more of your work– please do share pictures with us by hash tagging #boustabeanie or #shetlandwoolweek2017 !
Friday, March 10, 2017
We have some very exciting news – the official Shetland Wool Week 2017 hat pattern is being launched today at Edinburgh Yarn Festival.
We're also thrilled to announce that the SWW 2017 patron is one of our favourite knitwear designers, Gudrun Johnston – and she has designed this year's official hat pattern. Inspired by the myriad shades of Shetland's landscape, Gudrun has named her wonderful slouchy style hat the Bousta Beanie.
The pattern is available to download now and printed copies are available for those who are attending the festival. We'll be at stand M8 together with Gudrun, so we look forward to seeing you there!
Knit the hat in any of the suggested colours or choose your own variations and wear it to Shetland Wool Week 2017. Remember to share your pictures with us using #boustabeanie or #shetlandwoolweek2017, we can't wait to see your creations.
Knitwear designer Gudrun Johnston will be the guest patron for this year's eighth Shetland Wool Week. She was a popular choice for the festival's committee and we're delighted to have her on board.
Gudrun's Shetland lineage runs deep. She was born in Levenwick, Shetland in the 1970s and her grandparents were from Skerries and the Ness. Now based in America, Gudrun has successfully relaunched the Shetland Trader, a design company, first began by her mother, Patricia Johnston.
A regular visitor to Shetland, Gudrun has attended every Wool Week since it started. Many of her designs feature Shetland patterns and yarns, and she is inspired by the myriad shades of colour that can be seen throughout the islands' landscape.
Through her designs, publications and teaching she has been able to share Shetland's rich heritage with a broad international audience.
To find out more about Gudrun visit her website.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
'Taak dy sock' was an expression Donna Smith was familiar with whilst growing up. Here she discusses the origins of some 'knitting' words in the Shetland dialect and how they are still very much in use today.
Those of you who have attended classes or events at Shetland Wool Week and are not familiar with the Shetland dialect might notice that there are many different words we use in Shetland and interestingly many of them involve knitting. Often for a local teacher, it can be tricky to try to 'translate' the words or words to be used, particularly when nervous (I am speaking from experience here!).
Many of the words and terminology used to generally speak about knitting are dialect words, for example, we speak about laying up loops (casting on stitches), wires (needles), wirsit (wool yarn), dressing (blocking), we call our knitting "makkin" and the the verb "knit" is "mak".
The origin of the Shetland dialect, as any language is, is complicated and defined by the history of the place, its ownership, and the people living in and visiting the islands, amongst other things. The Shetland dialect is largely a mixture of English, Lowland Scots and Norn, which is a variation of Scandinavian languages. Norn is now extinct but used to be spoken in Shetland from around the 9th century until it eventually was largely superseded by the Scots language in the 18th century and became no longer a distinct language.
A large number of distinct words are still found within the Shetland dialect today, many of the words are used to describe things that were a large part of day-to-day life such as the weather, crofting, fishing and knitting. For example according to Jakob Jakobsen, who extensively studied the Norn language and in turn compiled the Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland in the 19th Century, the word "makkin", the Shetland dialect word for knitting, comes from the Norn verb "makk" a which is defined by Jakobsen as "to knit woollen yarn".
Other common words you might hear Shetlanders use include:
Sprett = to rip back or the newly coined term "frog", this comes from the old Norse "spretta", and in Shetland dialect the unravelled yarn is the "uppspretta"
Geng = row or rows
Sweerie geng = the first row in knitting. This is often thought to be the most difficult one and so it is best to complete it in one go, otherwise it would be a long time before the garment is finished.
Riggies = Garter stitch rows
Interestingly, many dialect words are only used in certain places within Shetland, and I still often hear words I have never come across, many by the older generation. I love finding new words but I often have trouble remembering them; I must learn to write them down! A collection of words were made before Shetland Wool Week last year and printed inside the notebooks that were for sale. I hadn't actually come across many of those words so it's really important to compile them and write them down while we can. Like the knitting heritage, the dialect is something we need to make sure we preserve.
A phrase I used to hear my Granny say to us was "Taak dy sock and hadd dee oot a lenger" which was an invitation to come along with your knitting, basically it means take your knitting to prevent boredom. So, if you have your knitting you won't get bored – sounds right to me!
You can read more about the history of the Shetland dialect in John Graham's essay on the Shetland dialect website
Friday, January 20, 2017
Shetland Wool Week and its patron Ella Gordon have just returned from a packed few days in New York where they and Ella's 'Crofthoose hat' hit the North American market at the popular Vogue Knitting Live show.
We escaped the storms in Shetland and arrived in NYC, home to 8.5 million people, where we were met by a world of contrasts, noise and colour.
This is the second year we have attended the event – which is one of the biggest dates in the knitting and yarn calendar on the East Coast, attracting around 8,000 visitors. It took place in Times Square, a somewhat incongruous setting, and, over three days, knitting aficionados indulged their passion for yarn with thousands of like-minded people, bought endless quantities of wool from stall holders, attended classes, listened to talks and watched fashion shows. It was also a wonderful opportunity for visitors to wear their beautiful hand-knitted creations and there were many moments spent admiring and sharing compliments.
Our Shetland Wool Week stand attracted a lot of attention and it was so encouraging to be met with such enthusiasm. People seemed genuinely delighted that we had made a return visit and it was a wonderful chance for us to talk about our favourite things: Shetland's textile industry and heritage, the yarn, the islands, as well as answer any technical questions. We also loved meeting old friends and making new ones too.
We had taken samples of the different crofthoose colour ways – from Shetland Organics, Jamieson's, J&S, and Spindrift Crafts – among other Shetland samples. People appreciated the chance to be able to touch and feel the yarn and admired the different colours, especially the natural dyes from Spindrift.
Ella was in her element as she met and chatted with her blog and instagram followers. Many were familiar with her hat design and had already knitted it, while others were keen to take the free pattern and give it a try. There were lots of questions about two colour knitting, which maybe need to be addressed. We feel another tutorial coming on …
Yarn art is a key component of the event and there were some fantastic pieces on display, but the highlight surely had to be the magnificent depiction of Claude Monet's iconic 'Woman with a Parasol'. Produced in Europe by Citémôme it is the result of 100,000 knitted squares. It really was a masterpiece and made a dramatic backdrop to the non-stop fashion shows which took place.
Outside of the event, we gradually started getting the hang of Manhattan's grid plan. Seeing iconic buildings such as the wonderful 22 storey, triangular Flatiron which was built in 1902 was one to tick off the bucket list. Walking the High Line, a converted train track, and now an urban walkway with incredible views and public art was another highlight. We loved soaking up the culture and found the architecture, food, textures and colours an endless source of inspiration.
Thank you for having us NYC. We hope to be back and also see many of you at Shetland Wool Week soon.
Monday, January 16, 2017
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Shetland Museum curator, Carol Christiansen, tells us about about a recent donation to the museum which hails back to the oil boom days of the 1970s.
Parcels of knitting sometimes arrive at my desk from people who wish to see it returned to Shetland. A small pair of mittens, in very Christmassy colours, appeared a few weeks ago from Hampshire. They were donated by Brenda Dawtry, in memory of her late husband Neil, who passed away earlier in the year. Their story is set in a time of great change for Shetland.
In the 1970s a huge terminal for North Sea oil extraction was built at Sullom Voe, in the north part of the main island. Oil and gas development has transformed the islands, greatly increasing the standard of living and attracting workers from around the world, including Neil Dawtry, who worked as an electrical engineer. On his days off he explored the islands and during one of his excursions he met the Nicolsons of Brunga House, Northmavine parish. They were an elderly couple who had raised a family of four on a small croft. As a crofting wife, Kirsty Nicolson (1898-1985) knit her whole life, and sometimes demonstrated spinning to tourists at the St. Magnus Hotel in Hillswick. On the back of Mrs Nicolson's calling card Neil wrote 'Mr and Mrs Nicolson bred their own sheep, sheared them, spun and dyed the wool, knitted it up. I bought her last pair of mittens. Mrs Nicolson's sight failed. 1979'.
The mittens are in fawn wool with green, white and yellow diamond fair isle pattern stripes, bordered by a red and white small pattern. The left mitten has a central band of turquoise in the fair isle diamond motif, whereas the right mitten has a slightly lighter green colour. Perhaps this colour difference was due to Mrs Nicolson's failing eyesight at age 81. She told Neil that she had spun, dyed and knit the mittens from her own wool, and had completed them in one day! However, the mittens are not made from hand-spun, hand-dyed wool, but rather typical Shetland jumper weight machine-made yarns. No doubt there was some embellishment about the making of the mittens in hopes he would buy them, which he duly did for his then future wife, Brenda. We are grateful to Brenda for her kind donation.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Donna Smith meets regularly with a group of young knitters from the Anderson High School. Here she explains how the group came about and what they've been up to.
Every Thursday at lunchtime during school term, a group of youngsters meet in one of the biology classrooms at the Anderson High School in Lerwick to knit. The group consists of pupils, ranging from 12 to 18 years old, and school staff, and attracts a range of individuals from those who have never knitted before to those who have been knitting for several years and are expertly designing and knitting their own Fair isle garments. This group is known as the Anderson High School Maakin and Yakkin (knitting and talking) group.
Over the past few weeks the group have been busy knitting garter stitch triangles (this has helped them practise casting on and decreasing) which were then transformed into Christmas cards to raise money for the school funds during a mass production line over a couple of lunchtimes. Last Saturday I spent a very enjoyable morning at AHS Christmas Coffee Morning helping out at the Maakin and Yaakin stand and needless to say, the cards featuring the hand knitted trees proved to be very popular. Pupils and staff also gathered in the 'Knitters Neuk' to spend time knitting and were joined by many members of the public who had come for their morning coffee and to browse the many stands in the school hall.
The lunchtime Maakin and Yakkin sessions were started in February 2013 by biology teacher, Caroline Simpson, a keen knitter who thought that it would be a good way to bring pupils and teachers together with a common interest, while introducing knitting to those who were less experienced. I work as a science technician at the Anderson High School and go along to the group whenever I can. It is so good to see so many youngsters knitting and it is really good to see someone progress from never having knitted a stitch before to knitting Fair Isle.
The group is part of the Peerie Makkers scheme, a two-year pilot scheme that encourages and enables skilled volunteers to teach traditional knitting methods to pupils in several schools around Shetland. When I was in Primary school, we all got knitting lessons, but several years ago these classes were stopped due to lack of funding. I remember at the time being horrified that this had happened and even wrote a letter to one of the local councillors, something that is not usually in my nature! However, through the Peerie Makkers scheme, and the enthusiasm of several volunteers things are definitely looking up and we are seeing pupils attending these knitting sessions because they want to rather than because they have to which can only be a positive thing. We are even hearing stories of the pupils getting their mothers interested in knitting which is fantastic!
The Anderson High School Maakin and Yakkin group have been involved in several things and projects and have attended other knitting events and groups. In 2013 they made hats and tunics for babies in Malawi in conjunction with UNICEF, they have attended several events at Shetland Wool Week and this year several of the group members modelled their own work at the fashion show during the opening ceremony at the Clickimin Centre. I am very sure these are the people to look out for during future Wool Weeks!
You can read more about the Maakin and Yakkin group on their new blog.
You can read more about the Peerie Maakers here
Thursday, November 24, 2016
We've just attended our first ever Shetland Arts & Crafts Fair which took place over the weekend in Lerwick. It was so good to chat to novice and experienced knitters, or those purely interested in Shetland's wool and textile heritage. Shetland Wool Week really does have a diverse following! And, we'll be hitting the road again in the New Year, so here are some dates for your diaries.
Having attended this very busy show last year, where we had such an incredible response and made so many contacts, we knew that we needed to exhibit again at VOGUEknitting Live textile and craft show New York, 13 – 15 January.
We'll be taking a stand and will be on hand to answer any questions, give details on SWW 2017 and chat about all things Shetland wool and knitting.
Take the opportunity to meet our SWW 2016 patron and knitwear designer, Ella Gordon and find out the inspiration behind the popular Crofthoose hat pattern. Also attending will be Dr Carol Christiansen, who is in charge of Shetland Museum's Textiles Collection, a recognised Collection of National Significance in Scotland. Carol has extensive knowledge of historical and archaeological textiles in Shetland and the Nordic countries.
If you're planning a trip to the show, please come and visit us. We'd love to see you there.
A must-have date for the diary is the popular international Yarn Festival in Edinburgh from 10 – 11 March.
As well as taking a stand, we'll be launching the official Shetland Wool Week 2017 hat pattern and also announcing this year's patron.
Printed copies of the pattern will be available too!
Hope to see you there!
Monday, November 14, 2016
Here is our round up of Shetland Wool Week 2016
The seventh annual Shetland Wool Week was the biggest and busiest one yet! From the most northerly to the most southerly islands of the Shetland archipelago, participants indulged in wool-related workshops, drop-in sessions, talks, demonstrations, studio visits and our famous Sunday teas. Over 160 different events were offered, many with repeat sessions.
Many of Shetland's most experienced makers, designers, and textile specialists participate each year by presenting courses and other events. For 2016 the programme had grown considerably large and varied covering everything from spinning, dyeing, many types of knitting, and weaving to making accessories for wool-working such as shawl pins, silver buttons and baskets.
The Opening Ceremony was a wonderful way to kick off the nine-day festival and guests were given a snapshot of Shetland culture throughout the evening.
The Lerwick Jarl Squad put in a surprise appearance, and there were delicious canapes to try, using only Shetland produce and ingredients, as well as some painstakingly made, and very woolly inspired, cupcakes. There was music and talks and, for the first time, a Fashion Show, curated by Faye Hackers of Shetland College UHI. It was an eclectic display and showcased a variety of wonderful pieces from delicate handspun lace to Fair Isle jumpers and a dramatic Shetland tweed cloak. Keen that no one should miss out, the event was streamed live via facebook which meant that people all over the world could experience the evening.
With so many classes and events taking place throughout the week it's impossible to capture everything, but here is a snapshot of pictures and words:
The tours to the outer isles of Whalsay, Fair Isle, Yell and Unst were incredibly popular and sold out quickly. People especially appreciated the warm welcome they received and the chance to meet and chat with islanders and find out more about their particular textile traditions. One participant commented on facebook, "The pride everyone has in Whalsay was evident which added so much to the day."
Fair Isle trip – a first for 2016, a lucky group of six ventured to this gem of an island to meet with Mati Ventrillon. Blessed with beautiful blue skies, the six took the short plane journey and began their full day tour, which focused on island life and knitting.
There was a guided tour to the South Lighthouse, and the Fair Isle Museum, as well as open studios and talks with Mati Ventrillon and Hollie Shaw. A delicious home cooked lunch at the Aauld Haa Gueshouse, followed by a trip to the impressive Fair Isle Observatory and Lodge rounded off a perfect day, and will remain a favourite for many.
Joanna Hunter's Havera island trip went ahead in a slightly different format due to bad weather, but everyone still had the chance to view knitwear made by its inhabitants back at Joanna's home.
Joanna Hunter and Donna Smith's moodboard classes, always an inspiration, went down well. Joanna commented: "What an amazing wool week, meeting so many creative and exciting people, making new friends from all around the world. Everyone who attended our classes was so enthusiastic and the work they created was fantastic. I can't wait till next year to see who comes through the studio door."
Experienced wire lace knitter Helen Robertson, held 'Light up your lace' lampshade classes, which proved to be very successful, with many commenting on her wonderful teaching skills and calm approach. Participants left the class with a totally completed project.
Natural dyeing workshops were available this year too, with Julia Billings exploring the essential steps involved in transferring the colour found in plants onto fibres.
Shetland's textiles and textile-making traditions are the focus each year but we also aim to bring different traditions into the mix by inviting foreign specialists. This year Estonian knitwear designer and researcher Kristi Jõeste joined us. She taught several classes in her speciality, Estonian glove-making, and one of her patterns was included in the Shetland Wool Week Annual. Along with Shetland knitwear designer and Finnish native Outi Kater, Kristi discussed her research and designs at our Baltic Night evening lecture.
The popular Makers' Market is an opportunity for local wool producers and makers to show and sell their wares during this nine-day event. It went down a storm with people keen to snap up a unique wool item. This year exhibitors featured yarn made from wool of Shetland's two most remote islands communities, Foula and Fair Isle. Students from Shetland College's Textile Department sold knitwear they designed and made in their courses and Shetland Handspun designer and maker Elizabeth Johnston made available her gorgeous hand-spun yarns in Shetland wool, coloured with natural dyes.
Talks were a great way for people to meet up in the evening and mainly took place at the Shetland Museum and Archives. Again, they were mostly all at full capacity, with Baltic Knitting Night; and SWW Patron Ella Gordon's 'Being a Knitter in Shetland' especially drawing in the crowds.
This year the Shetland Wool Week Committee introduced a new online booking system using Little Box Office. This made registering for events easier, as tickets could be printed by the participant or simply shown on their phone, and allowed vendors to check participant numbers as events filled.
This year's HUB also enjoyed a change, and had moved from Islesburgh to the first-class location of the Shetland Museum and Archives. Here woolly participants could meet up with friends old and new, and enjoy a cuppa with their maakin. There were also many knitted donations throughout the week to the popular Shetland With Love charity.
Shetland was blessed with 'Indian Summer' weather on most days but participants also got a taste of our wild and windy autumn weather. Even Da Mirrie Dancers, the aurora borealis, made appearances on several clear nights – truly a magical nine days.


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Name: Nora Repo
Where do you live: Belgrade, Serbia (but I'm originally from Finland)
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For my research, articles and lectures that treat Islam and the Balkans, and for diverse border crossing and bridge building initiatives that promote interfaith dialogue and cultural exchange.
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Currently I am working as Project Coordinator for the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives – CESCI Balkans and improvising on the side as an independent writer, lecturer and translator.
When did you realize that you were going to work with this/in this area?
The process is still ongoing, as we with CESCI Balkans are looking for a financially more stable position, but I am not far from my dream; to actually concretely use my academic knowledge and skills on projects that can be implemented on the grassroots level for the common good of people in the Balkan area. The interest in the themes that I have studied at the university started already in the late nineties.
If you could choose one place only to live, where would that be and why?
I would love to live by the Adriatic Sea, but I love big cities. That is my big dilemma, how to combine these two wishes: to enjoy of a beautiful seaside and rich cultural life and liveliness of a big city.
How would you describe your creativity?
My creativity takes different forms, it can be for instance textual, I write a lot, or it can be visual or musical. I am extremely visual person, and beautiful and harmonious environment and home are very important to me in life. At home I love to decorate and to find interesting solutions with recycled and old items and elements and give them new life as part of the interiors.
How and when did you start to work with this in a serious manner?
I would say that my choices, when it comes to studies as well as my whole working career, have been one long process of improvisation and constant change, which has required a lot of creativity of different varieties in order to overcome possible and impossible obstacles.
What do you do at the moment?
I am a Project Coordinator for the Central European Service of Cross-Border Initiatives – CESCI Balkans and have recently created projects, which treat gender equality, interfaith dialogue and migration in the Balkans. Currently we aim to find funds to materialize these ideas. I am also writing scientific and other articles.
A recommendation for those who think about starting and running a creative business?
You must dare to take risks, and work a lot, but it does not feel like work most of the time, because it fulfills you and gives you so much.
Tell us how it all started.
I guess that it was given to me in my genes, I always had an "attitude" and it was difficult to follow the mainstream when more interesting things presented themselves on the side. Whatever I chose or did, I always followed my heart.
What is the most important thing in a workplace/studio for you?
The most important thing is that I feel harmonious and have had a good rest. The atmosphere in a workplace gravitates mainly around the people I work with. On the second place comes possibility to listen to the music I like.
What is your favorite film?
Rust and Bone (De Rouille et d'os, 2012) by Jacques Audiard. A totally breath taking story about pain, loss, love and amazing power of life that can overcome impossible obstacles.
Who would you like to invite for a dinner and why?
I would like to meet Desmond Tutu, his kindness and wisdom amaze me.
How do you like to spoil yourself?
By buying a good book or a small nice piece of decoration for the house or clothing. Or by attending some exciting Argentine tango workshop or other cultural event.
What is luxury for you?
There are so many everyday luxuries: a good morning coffee, a nice inspiring chat, a message from a friend, a shared laughter, a mind-blowing tanda (set of songs in Argentine tango), a small dog's joyful presence. But if we speak in a wider scale then a long holiday on a sunny turquoise seaside spiced with books, good food and tango.
What is the nicest compliment you've received for your creative work, and from whom?
I would say that my colleague from the Finnish Ecumenical Council, Project Secretary Sanna Ylä-Jussila, touched me very much by quoting Mother Teresa in a card that she handed to me once. We worked together in interfaith and ecumenical projects. The quote said "It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving". Also Professor of Sociology from the University of Tunis Frej Stambouli who was listening to my presentation once at a meeting at the Anna Lindh Foundation Network gave me very uplifting feedback concerning my research by stating that its diversity and depth were totally amazing.
What do you fear most?
Currently my only occasional fear is that something would suddenly prevent me from living the way I do.
What is a happy life to you?
Happy life is about doing what you really enjoy doing and having an opportunity to share with others the positive energy your pleasure provides you with.
What does a regular day look like for you?
Each and every one of my days is different, intensive and very rich. For me sleep is very important, once I have slept well I can do a lot of things in one day, be creative and full of energy. Morning coffee is important too and walks with my dog Irma that schedule my days to some extent. Otherwise I divide my time between the different projects I work on and find also time to see friends and family, and to swim and dance Argentine tango, of course.
Tell us about your dream project.
My dream project is to see especially these interfaith and gender equality projects that I have created turning into something concrete in the Balkans.
Who is your professional role model/inspiration?
There are many of them. People are often my greatest inspiration. On the first place I would mention the former General Secretary of the Finnish Ecumenical Council Father Heikki Huttunen for all his work, which aims at helping people and building bridges and dialogue. I also admire many of the academic people I have had a chance to work with Professor Peter Nynäs, Director and Docent Ruth Illman and Senior Lecturerand Docent Teuvo Laitila. For their genuine, honest and professional approach to science, which has functioned as an amazing support in order to encourage me and others on our personal ways of doing research.
How would you describe your work style (academic field or fashion style, or both, or something entirely different)?
I am definitely a scientist, when I write and lecture, but I am keen to use these skills for concrete projects in order to initiate a change of some kind in the society on a grassroots level. And I enjoy using aesthetic means for creation of for instance nice publications and brochures and inspiring spaces where to organize events, gather people and work together.
Which is the one thing you can't live without?
If we speak about a thing the answer is Argentine tango. Tango has been to me an amazing revelation; a dance in which you constantly improvise, create, decorate, express, exchange energy and share. If we speak about something else then the answer is definitely my dog Irma. We make a beautiful team.
What inspires you?
People, world, music, emotions and love.
A book that has changed/made the most impression in your life?
I would answer to this Anna Gavalda's book Consolation (La Consolante, 2009) because it helped me while I was passing a very difficult period in my life. It is a beautiful story of all kinds of second chances that life can provide you with.
Check out her awesome research in English here & in Finnish here & here
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