RUN OF THE MILL - Ruskin Mill Trust
RUN OF THE MILL - Ruskin Mill Trust
RUN OF THE MILL - Ruskin Mill Trust
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The Fourth<br />
International<br />
Festival<br />
of Glass<br />
by Keith Brocklehurst<br />
Festival Director &<br />
Head of Glass GHC<br />
This summer another successful International<br />
Festival of Glass was held at the Glasshouse<br />
College and the newly refurbished <strong>Ruskin</strong><br />
Glass Centre. It attracted over 10,000 visitors<br />
from all around the UK as well as from<br />
Europe, the USA and Japan.<br />
The British Glass Biennale exhibition again showed the<br />
best of contemporary glass being made in Britain by<br />
both young and established makers. Among highlights<br />
this year were Gianni Toso, a virtuoso Venetian<br />
glassmaker, and Cedi Nomoda, a traditional Ghanaian<br />
glass beadmaker. Gianni demonstrated both glass-<br />
blowing at the furnace and flame-working exquisite<br />
figures from his family tradition of 800 years. Cedi<br />
showed us bead-making skills passed down in his<br />
family since the 14 th century.<br />
A variety of talks on many aspects of glass, heritage<br />
walks around Stourbridge, “have a go” glass activities,<br />
acrobats, drumming and an African dance finale all<br />
contributed to a vibrant enjoyable weekend.<br />
This year we ran<br />
a photographic<br />
competition from<br />
which we have<br />
selected a few to<br />
give a flavour of<br />
the festival.
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