IFF coral reef lectures and workshops at the Royal Festival Hall, London

I'm mad flat out here getting ready for The IFF's New York show and several other projects, but before that are the London workshops and lectures.

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef lectures by Margaret Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring take place at the Royal Festival Hall, on the Southbank, in London.

Margaret will give an intro talk about the whole project - the plight of reefs, global warming, plastic problem, and the crochet reef response -  then we'll all begin to do hyperbolic crochet. 

The IFF are putting up a new workshop schedule page online this week and will post more info there when they know it exactly. But this is the info thus far.

Lecture/workshop dates:   
Saturday 15th March: 2-5pm Workshop by Margaret Wertheim, with Inga Hamilton and Ildiko Szabo.
Sunday 16th March: 2-5pm Workshop by Margaret Wertheim, with Inga Hamilton.

We are going to be in Spirit Level which is on Level 1 of the Royal Festival Hall. The rest of the festival hall is closed to the public that day so anyone attending will enter via the office entrance and will ideally have to let us know in advance that they are coming - so that we can have a list of names. So if you book it will be an enormous help in managing the event. We have set up a special email address for people to reserve a place on the workshop - ukreef@southbankcentre.co.uk

This is the IFF's page to show what will go on at the workshops. This describes the Chicago/New York workshops, but the London ones will probably follow the same format.
http://www.theiff.org/workshops.html

The full exhibition opens on the 10th June through to 18th August, The Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London. (The Hayward don't seem to have listed it on their site yet.)

Both myself and Ildiko Szabo, are listed as contributors on the IFF's website
http://theiff.org/reef/reef3.html#

Hope to see you there!
Inga

Comments

[natasha]

hey you! wow are you a busy bee! i still owe you some batts, i am awaiting an electric carder (weee) but shoot me an email, i wanna get the contact info for the ny reef people.
xo

[inga]

Hi Natasha,
the workshop dates and details are at the bottom of the page on this link. http://www.theiff.org/workshops.html
Although you'll have to be quick, as they are this weekend.

The New York exhibition will open on the 6th April in two venues. The NYU windows on Broadway and down in the financial district, too.

I think that altobarb is the New York reef co-ordinator. You can find her on ravelry.

Need any more info give me a shout.
Take care of yourself and enjoy your electric carder.
Inga