Top moments at Rural Arts in 2013
Here's a round up of what we've been doing this year and a few personal highlights too... Janice McVay The highlight of the year for me was the challenge of running the Community Learning ceramics project throughout the summer. We found out at the end of May that we had been successful in our funding application to North Yorkshire County Council and Your Consortium to work with 72 people and the project had to be completed by September! We had to provide 12 hours of training and the groups I had identified were Northdale Horticulture, Broadacres Women’s Refuge and Mental Health support group, Independus group, The Boot Shop in Easingwold, Jennyruth Workshops in Harrogate and Ripon Community Link. We offered 2-day workshops in ceramics and some sessions were here at The Courthouse and some at the venues where the groups met. Artists Angela, Debbie and Shirley provided patience, guidance and fantastic encouragement and helped each person to