National Glass Centre & Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Visit Guide - October - Decembe 2018

Visit October – December 2018 Free Admission and Free Visitor Parking Open Daily 10.00 – 17.00

Image: Victoire (Spirit of the Wind), Rene Lalique, 1925 © Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Reflecting our past; igniting our future

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For a FREE day out with a difference visit National Glass Centre!

““Amazing, educational and inspiring.

We loved every second” Visitor comment, July 2018

Discover the history of glass making in Sunderland, enjoy our intriguing worldclass exhibitions and explore on our iconic glass building. You and your family will love our amazing glass blowing demonstrations,

hands-on creative activities and themed tours. Complete your visit with a bite to eat, or a coffee in The Glass Yard and browse hand-made glass and ceramics, quirky jewellery, gifts and homeware in our shop.

Free Daily Glass Blowing Demonstrations Our amazing daily glass blowing, lathe and flame working demonstrations are free and run throughout the day. Experience the heat of our 1000 degree furnace and watch our expert glass making team craft stunning pieces before your eyes.

Flame Working 11.00 and 15.45 (15 mins) Glass Blowing 12.00, 13.30 and 15.00 (30 mins) Glass Lathe 13.00 (30 mins) Please note there are no Glass Lathe demos on a Tuesday

Special Halloween Glass Making Experiences

Glass Pumpkin Demonstrations 1.30pm every day Monday 22 – Friday 26 October, plus Monday 29 to Wednesday 31 October During these demonstrations, which take place especially for Halloween, you can watch the skill of the studio glass blowers as they make a beautiful glass pumpkin. Each piece they make is also available to buy.

Please note – there will be no glass blowing demonstrations on the dates of our Glass Pumpkin making experiences.

Make a Glass Pumpkin Create a colourful hot glass pumpkin for Halloween! These experiences offer you the opportunity to personalise your pumpkin by applying coloured glass at over 1100 degrees centigrade. Working closely with our Hot Glass Studio Team you will blow down the ‘iron’ to blow a bubble into the glass. The glass artists will finish your artwork by using a mould to create the pumpkin shape and add a colourful stem in the effect of your choice!

Sat 20 / Sun 21 / Sat 27 & Sun 28 October 10.00 – 11.00 / 11.00 – 12.00 / 12.00 – 13.00 14.00 – 15.00 & 15.00 – 16.00 Min age 16 (all children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult) Please note – there will be no glass blowing demonstrations on these dates

£46 per person Max of 3 people per session

Exhibitions

Main Gallery

Carrie Fertig Forgiveness 29 September – 24 March 2019 To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, National Glass Centre commissioned the artist Carrie Fertig to create a new body of work exploring the theme of peace. After undertaking workshops with diverse community groups, Carrie came to the conclusion that forgiveness plays an essential role in achieving a state of peace. This exhibition presents a body of work created using flame and hot-worked glass, film, sound, performance and installation, to explore the stages of forgiveness.

Image: my sister's bones, film still, Carrie Fertig. Photo by Rob Page

Research Gallery

MA mini Show 3 November – 27 January 2019

Balcony Gallery

Gifted 29 September – 13 January 2019 Christmas shopping can mean being bumped around in a crowd to buy the same old thing. Do something different this year, visit National Glass Centre and purchase a unique, handmade gift in a pleasant and relaxing environment. The exhibition ‘Gifted’ will feature glass, ceramics and jewellery created by ten highly skilled artists. All work is for sale.

Image: Medium Round Bowl, Ceramics by Emma Williams

Based within National Glass Centre, the University of Sunderland offers courses in Glass and Ceramics including BA (Hons), MA and PhD. This exhibition presents a selection of work by the most recent students graduating from our MA course.

Collections Gallery

Skills and Techniques 15 September – Autumn 2019 Artists and designers often develop and master specific skills and techniques. This exhibition presents the work of world-leading practitioners specialising in a range of glass and ceramic techniques. Each approach is represented by works of art created in recent years, and approximately one hundred years ago, to show the changes in style, that occur over time.

The exhibition consists of works from the National Glass Centre’s collection and loans from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

The V&A have loaned these works to support DesignLab Nation, a project which aims to inspire the next generation of designers and expand the reach of the V&A’s collections.

DesignLab Nation is supported by Art Fund, The Foyle Foundation and other generous donors.

Image: Sirio, Ettore Sottsass, 1980-83 © Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Project Space

Dan Holdsworth Traverse

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art reopened inside National Glass Centre in March 2018 after an 18 month period of rebuilding and relocation. In its main space, adjacent to the NGC brasserie, The Glass Yard, it reveals major bodies of new work.

It is also revealing a second, smaller space for the presentation of single works by artists, at the entrance of NGC. The Project Space serves two aims. It allows artists to test out experimental new works in public for the first time, where they can be seen in a setting of either intimacy or intensity.

It also allows the gallery to share works from its collection, which has been begun to create a lasting legacy for Sunderland of the fifty years of new art that the gallery has supported since 1969.

Dan Holdsworth has created a brand new work especially for the space. Holdsworth has travelled to Iceland nearly a dozen times since 2000, photographing the country's extraordinary glaciers in new ways to explore how alien to us features of the natural landscape remain. Here, creating work by flying drones carrying high-definition cameras above a glacier, Holdsworth has photographed the landscape in remarkable detail, then created a monumental panorama of the area by stitching together a vast number of images. From this, he has created an astonishing animation that allows us to 'vertically traverse' the glacier, encountering this wonder of the natural world in a way that has only become possible through advanced digital technology.

Dan Holdsworth, Traverse, 2018, HD video Premiered at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Two new exhibitions by Dan Holdsworth Artist Dan Holdsworth has dedicated the last five years to realising two major bodies of work, both of which receive their public premieres at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in 201819. In recognition of the depth of his achievement, the gallery has awarded Holdsworth not one but two consecutive one-person shows, each of which profiles a singular vision of landscape in a digital age. The series Spatial Objects and Continuous Topography are investigations into the limits of what constitutes a photographic ‘object’. The ‘objects’ in question, which constitute Holdsworth’s subjects, range from single pixels through to entire geological formations. These exhibitions reveal works that respectively picture some of the most majestic and monumental landscapes in the world; and humble individual pixels – seen on a human scale, as if actors in the world alongside us. These are works that could only have been created in the twenty-first century.

Image: Dan Holdsworth, Argientière Glacier from Continuous Topography (2016)

Dan Holdsworth Continuous Topography 26 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 Since 1996, the English artist-photographer Dan Holdsworth has explored the “extreme” territories that characterize humans’ changing relationship to the ‘natural’ world in the Anthropocene. Since 2012, the artist has worked alongside academic geologists to map the exact contours of Alpine glaciers and rock formations, by using drones, lasers, photography, and high-end software ordinarily employed by the military and climate scientists. The result is the series Continuous Topography, consisting of images created from millions of points marked in space, each a millimetre-perfect registration of the precise contours of a rapidly changing landscape. This landscape is the Argientière glacier in the Alps.

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Dan Holdsworth Spatial Objects 18 January – 17 March 2019

Image: Dan Holdsworth, Spatial Objects (2015)

Holdsworth’s Spatial Objects are strange, alluring portraits of the ‘objects‘ that every one of us encounters every day, and which are the building blocks of vision in a digital age, but which ordinarily lie beyond our perception. The titular ‘objects’ are single “data points” – pixels marking a unique point in space, as GPS co-ordinates. The starting point for these works has been geological mapping data from the US Geological Survey of Crater Lake, a protected National Park in the western United States. When transformed into a 3D model, the data allows us to see every single point in the landscape in virtual space. Holdsworth has created photographs of individual pixels, blown-up to a scale that they become possessed of a monumental physicality. In each work, we encounter the edges of an individual plane of one pixel: each image shows only “a fragment of a fragment” of the landscape, in the artist’s own words. Here, we experience the space of nature just as it is mediated through our omnipresent screens – as pure RGB colour and light.

Families

Volunteer with our Learning and Engagement Team Get involved at National Glass Centre by helping families in our glass and craft workshops, and school children in our primary school workshops.

Work alongside staff to develop a range of new skills including glass fusing and sandcasting. Support our cross-curricular school workshops that focus on Art and Design, Science, and History. (Training will be provided by the National Glass Centre team) There is no minimum commitment and we don’t require any previous experience.

Please email learning@sunderland.ac.uk for more information or to arrange an induction.

Art Seekers Art Seekers is back! Join Theatre Tots North East and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) for a series of playful sessions for your little ones!

Each week we will go on an adventure to explore different artworks around the building. Armed only with our adventure packs, drawing hands and vivid imagination, new stories will be made and acted out with all our usual songs and silliness.

Monday 10 September – Monday 15 October (inclusive) 10.00 – 11.00 / Age 1 – 6yrs / £5 per session (£2.50 for additional siblings) Maximum of 15 children per class To secure a place please book: 07951 866261 / hannah@theatretots.com or pay on the day in class.

Book all six classes with Theatre Tots North East and get 1 FREE.

We are an inclusive venue!

National Glass Centre is fully accessible for wheelchair users, and all family workshops are accessible for visitors of all ages with additional needs. Quiet times to attend drop-in workshops are usually after 15.00.

Our bookable workshops have a maximum capacity of 15 people taking part, (plus

accompanying adults). When available, our Learning Spaces can be used as a quiet space for families. Nursing mothers are also welcome here, and in any area of the Centre. If you have any questions about resources for families please ask a member of staff, email learning@sunderland.ac.uk or call 0191 515 5523.

October Half Term Fun!

Ghoulish Glass Painting Scare yourself arty with a special Halloween themed glass painting. Design and make your own creepy hanging decoration to take home and display for all to see.

SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

Glass Shadow Lanterns What lurks in the shadows? Monsters? Ghouls?

Banish them with a creepy lantern! Decorate a glass jar to make spooky silhouettes. Includes battery operated FEBRUARY HALFtealight.

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Monday 22 and Saturday 27 October Wish Jars 10.00 – 16.00 Age 4+ / £4 / Drop-in Decorate a jar /using coloured tissue,

Thursday 25 Fused October / 10.00 – 16.00 Decorative Glass Age 5+ / £3 / Drop-in Choose from two specially cut glass shapes,

cellophane and paint pens then put your wish inside – screwHouse the lid on tight!

Pop-up Haunted

a cupcake or a house, and decorate them with glass mosaic tiles and powders. These can be Art Seekers hung up to display at home.

Come along for a special 1.5 hour long session Monday 20fun!

February Saturday 25 February of absolute Spark/your imagination in this Sessions at 14.00 & 15.30 / Age 6+ / £10 Halloween workshop and make funny bone Bookingand Essential figures shadow puppets. Then follow creepy clues around the NGCA gallery and finally mix all Wish Jars the creative ingredients into a story in this brand Decorate a jar using coloured tissue, new spooky storytelling workshop. cellophane and paint pens then put your Friday 26 October 10.30 – 12.00 wish inside - screw/the lid on tight!

Age 1 – 6yrs / £5 Tuesday 21 February / 9.30 – 10.30*

Sunday 15 January 10.00 skills – 12.00 Improve your paper /cutting by creating 13.00 – 16.00 / Age 4+ to / £3 / Drop-in a terrific pop-up house show your friends.

Tuesday 23 October / 10.00 – 16.00 Paint Mug Age 3+a /Ceramic £3 / Drop-in Get creative and paint your own design onto a mug – perfect for keeping warm with a hot Trick or Treat Plate chocolate during the winter months.

Design and paint your/ own for a special Sunday 12 February 10.00pattern – 12.00 Halloween plate, take4+ it home and fix the 13.00 – 16.00 / Age / £4 / Drop-in enamels in your oven so that it is ready to use for Halloween.

Wednesday 24 October / 10.00 – 16.00 Age 4+ / £4 / Drop-in

To secure a space please book 10.30 – 16.00 / Age 4+/ £3 / Drop-in *9.30 early Tots startNorth relaxed session for those with f Theatre East / 07951 866261 additional needs, this session is on Autism friendly. hannah@theatretots.com or pay the day in class.

To book, visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com or call 0191 568 9700

Glass Potion Bottle Collage a Glass Photo to Frame Make your own stickers create a contrasting Bring a photo you’d like to forever to design on a glass bottle orremember jar. Watch as the staff this workshop. a collage between sandblast it andYou’ll thencreate you can reveal your artwork glass and then paint onmake the glass to create a hat. underneath.

You’ll also a witch or wizard stunning hanging frame.

We’ll be using recycled bottles and jars but it’d be even better if22 you could bring your– own!

Wednesday February / 10.30 12.00(No larger than 500ml) 14.00 – 15.30 / Age 4+ / £10 Booking Friday 26Essential October / 10.30, 14.00 and 15.45 1.5 hour session / Age 5+ / £8 / Booking essential Glass Painting Use glass painting pens to decorate a glass Wendy the Sneezing Witch house shape or a cupcake shape – hang it – Theatre Tots Storytelling up at home as a colourful decoration Wendy the Witch can't stop sneezing but when Thursday Februaryterrible / 9.30happens!

– 10.30* Do you she does, 23 something 10.30 – 16.00 Age 3+ £4 out / Drop-in think you could/ help her/get of trouble? Take part inearly this interactive show full offor songs *9.30 start relaxed session thoseand with silliness and help us an is especially messy additional needs, thiscreate session Autism friendly. spell for forgiveness!

Saturday 27 October 14.30 and 16.00 45 minutes session / Age 2-7 / £6 Booking essential (babies go free!)

Family Fusing Decorate a Plate or Mug Get together as a group to make a large fused Use your imagination andthe decorate your glass panel. Learn about fusing process, own bespoke ceramic mug using discuss your ideas andplate drawor a design for your brightly coloured paint pens.and children age 10+ collaborative project.

Adults Friday 24how February 9.30 –and 10.30* will learn to cut/glass, everyone uses 10.30tiles – 16.00 Age 3+ /glass £4 / grains Drop-into create a glass and /coloured unique fused glass artwork. Perfect for families *9.30 early start of four, with a maximum of six people taking part relaxed session for in one project.

(Fused glass artwork is fired in those with additional the kilnthis so must be collected after the workshop, needs, session usually within a week). is Autism friendly.

Sunday 28 October / 10.30 and 14:30 1.5 hour session / Age 6+ / £30 per project Booking essential

Festive Fun! Twilight Workshops Festive Glass Fusing* Use coloured glass grains and glass mosaic tiles to embellish a bespoke glass decoration.

Wednesday 5 and 19 December / 16.00 / £10 Age 6+ / Booking essential Christmas Coasters* Make a pair of beautiful glass coasters of your own design in this festive fusing workshop.

Wednesday 12 December / 16.00 / £12 Age 6+ / Booking essential

Winter Workshops Hot Chocolate Mug Paint a design onto a ceramic mug, take it home and simply bake it in your own oven, then it’s ready to use all winter!

Saturday 17 November / 10.00 – 12.00 & 13.00 – 16.00 / £4 / Age 4+ / Drop-in

Family Fusing

Winter Landscape Test your creative skills in this brand new mono print workshop! Explore Dan Holdsworth’s exhibition in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) and find inspiration to create your very own winter scene print.

Sunday 25 November / 10.30 & 14.00 / Duration 1.5hrs / £6 / Age 8+ / Booking essential Christmas Craft Get inspired by the wonderful makers at our Craft Fair and make your own Christmas gifts.

Saturday 1 December / 10.00 – 12.00 & 13.00 – 16.00 / £3 / Age 3+ / Drop-in Love Christmas Make a day of it and get in the festive spirit with four exciting art activities taking place throughout the day. Paint a glass decoration and treat plate, decorate a felt Christmas tree and create a fantastic Christmas card for your loved ones!

Saturday 8 December & Sunday 9 December 10.00 – 16.00 / £10pp for all 4 activities Age 4+ / Drop-in

To book, visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com or call 0191 568 9700

Snow Globe Decorate a jam jar and add glitter to the water to create a fantastic festive scene to take home and display.

Saturday 15 December / 10.00 – 12.00 & 13.00 – 16.00 / £4 / Age 4+ / Drop-in Family Fusing – Christmas Edition* Spend some quality creative time together as a group to make a large fused glass panel. Learn about the fusing process, discuss your ideas and draw a design for your collaborative project.

Adults and children age 10+ will learn how to cut glass, and everyone uses glass tiles and coloured glass grains to create a unique fused glass artwork. Perfect for families of four, with a maximum of six people taking part in one project.

Sunday 16 December / 10.30 & 14.00 Duration 1.5hrs / £30 per project / Age 6+ Booking essential Glass Painting Create a colourful glass painted artwork, choose from one of our bespoke shapes, they’re not available anywhere else!

Saturday 29 December / 10.00 – 12.00 & 13.00 – 16.00 / £4 / Age 4+ / Drop-in Solar Powered Creatures Use your imagination to craft a creature using a range of fun materials to give it character.

Saturday 5 January / 10.00 – 12.00 & 13.00 – 16.00 / £3 / Age 3+ / Drop-in

Festive Art Seekers Join us for special Christmas themed workshops for 1-6yrs old and their families! Explore Dan Holdsworth’s photographs in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) and use recycled and reusable materials to make your own snowy landscapes, before creating a story full of magic, mayhem and maybe even a few dinosaurs!

Art Seekers combines theatre, music, story-telling and arts and crafts activities and is suitable for early years children and their families.

Friday 28 December & Friday 4 January 10.30 – 12.00 / Age 1-6yrs / £5 (£2.50 for additional siblings) To secure a space please book: Facebook page Theatre Tots North East / 07951 866261 hannah@theatretots.com or pay on the day in class.

All our workshops are suitable for people with additional needs, and are Autism-friendly. Please contact a member of the Learning Team if you would like more information to help plan your visit. learning@sunderland.ac.uk *All fused items will be fired in the kiln and ready to collect in time to adorn your home or give as a gift for Christmas.

Festive Fun

Blow your own Christmas Bauble This unique experience offers the opportunity to work with molten glass at over 1100 degrees centigrade! During this workshop you will create a beautiful glass bauble to hang on your Christmas tree or to give as the perfect handmade gift. Using a variety of coloured glass you can personalise your design before blowing down the ‘iron’ to see your bauble come to life!

Booking essential. To book, visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com or call 0191 568 9700 Please note – there will be no glass blowing demonstrations on these dates. Wednesday dates are not available in Studio 2.

November: Wednesdays 14, 21, 28 Saturdays 10, 17, 24 Sundays 11, 18, 25 December: Wednesdays 5, 12, 19 Saturdays 1, 8, 15, 22 Sundays 2, 9, 16, 23 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 14.00 & 15.00 £28.50 per person Min age 12 (all children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult – anyone accompanying minors under 18 years will be asked to sign disclaimer) Glass Bauble hangers are available to purchase in our Shop.

To book, visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com or call 0191 568 9700

Christmas Snowman and Snowy Owl Sandcast Create a glass Snowman using sand to make a mould. Add your own colour and decoration to make your design unique. Watch as your design is transformed by our studio team who will pour molten glass into your mould to produce your own individual piece of festive art.

Thursday 27 & Friday 28 December 2018 Thursday 3 & Friday 4 January 2019 Thursday 10 & Friday 11 January 2019 9.30 – 10.30 / 10.30 – 11.30 Min age 6 (all children aged 16 or under must be accompanied by an adult) £16 per person / Max of 10 people per session To book, visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com or call 0191 568 9700

Christmas Family and Friends Photo Shoot Create your unique frame using craft materials and have a festive group portrait taken in our family-friendly Christmas Photography Studio. We will have Christmas props & costumes to make your photo unique, but feel free to wear your cheesiest Christmas jumpers!

Saturday 22 December 10.00 – 12.00 / 13.00 – 16.00 £4pp / Drop in

Adult Courses & Classes Flameworking Writing with Flameworked Glass Saturday 6 October 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Glass Chains Sunday 7 October 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Marbles Saturday 3 November Saturday 12 January Sunday 24 February 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Glass Beads Sunday 4 November Sunday 13 January Saturday 9 March 09.30 – 12.30 / 13.00 -16.00 £40 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Christmas Decorations Saturday 17 November Sunday 18 November Saturday 1 December Sunday 2 December Saturday 8 December Sunday 9 December Saturday 15 December Sunday 16 December 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Pendants & Earrings Saturday 26 January Sunday 10 March 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner

Ignite! Flameworking Sunday 27 January Saturday 23 March 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Insects Saturday 23 February Sunday 24 March 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked 2D & 3D Shapes Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 April 10.00 – 16.00 2 days / £130 Artist: Zoe Garner Flameworked Cube & Structural Forms Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 February 10.00 – 16.00 2 days / £130 Artist: Zoe Garner

Fused Glass Glass Tableware Taster Session Sunday 11 November - £35 Sunday 17 February 13.00 – 17.00 / £40 (Price increase from 2019) Artist: Midori Shinmura Glass Tableware Club Saturdays from 29 September Saturdays from 10 November Saturday 19 January Saturday 2 March 13.00 – 16.30 5 weeks / £125 Artist: Midori Shinmura

Introducing...

Fused Glass Sunday 4 November Sunday 20 January Sunday 31 March 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Sue Woolhouse Artistic Fused Glass Wednesdays from 31 October Wednesdays from 27 February 18.00 – 21.00 5 weeks / £125 Artist: Sue Woolhouse

Casting Glass Introducing...

Casting Glass Sunday 21 October Saturday 12 January Saturday 6 April 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Robyn Townsend

Stained Glass Stained Glass Copper Foil Technique Saturday 27 October 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Gill McGinley Stained Glass Leaded Techniques, Beginners Level Sunday 30 September Saturday 10 November 13.00 – 17.00 Saturday 12 January Sunday 16 February Sunday 17 March 9.30 – 12.30 / £40 (new time for 2019) Artist: Gill McGinley

Image: Jade Tapson, Screen Printing on Glass. Winner of British Glass Biennale 2017 Glass Sellers Art & Craft Student Award

To book visit shop.nationalglasscentre.com Stained Glass Leaded Technique, Intermediate Level Sunday 7 & Sunday 14 October Sunday 3 & Sunday 19 February Sunday 31 March & Sunday 7 April 10.00 – 16.00 2 Days / £110 Artist Gill McGinley Stained Glass Christmas Decorations Sunday 25 November Sunday 2 December Saturday 22 December 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Gill McGinley

Ceramics Introducing... Ceramics Saturday 19 January 10.00 – 13.00 5 Weeks / £100 Artist: Michael Emmott

Intermediate Ceramics Sundays from 4 November Saturday 2 March 10.00 – 13.00 5 weeks / £100 Artist: Michael Emmott Ceramic Throwing Techniques – 1 Day Introduction Sunday 7 October Saturday 3 November Sunday 13 January Saturday 23 February Sunday 24 March 10.00 – 16.00 / £60 Artist: Michael Emmott Ceramic Christmas Decorations Saturday 1 December Sunday 9 December 10.00 – 16.00 / £60 Artist: Michael Emmott

Printing on Glass Introducing...

Screen Printing on Glass Saturday 22 September Saturday 2 February 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Jade Tapson Screen Printing on Glass Thursdays from 1 November Thursdays from 28 February 18.00 – 21.00 / 5 weeks £125 Artist: Jade Tapson Christmas Screen Printing on Glass Sunday 9 December 10.00 – 16.00 / £80 Artist: Jade Tapson

Hand Crafted

Christmas Craft Fair Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 December 2018 10.00 – 17.00 Come along to our craft fair and celebrate the beautiful handmade crafts the North East has to offer.

The fair will be packed with stalls from local and regional crafters. It’s the perfect opportunity to buy a unique handmade christmas gift or just treat yourself to something really beautiful!

Come along to be in with the chance of winning £100 worth of NGC Shop vouchers.* Look out for more details on our website nationalglasscentre.com *Prize draw can only be entered within the Centre on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December 2018. The winner will be drawn on Monday 3 December 2018.

Image: The Sea The Sea

January Studio Sale Friday 5 – Sunday 6 January 2019 National Glass Centre Shop

A fantastic opportunity to purchase a handmade piece of studio glass at a bargain price!

Weddings and Celebrations A unique setting with stunning riverside views, National Glass Centre offers seamless organisation and exceptional hospitality to make your wedding day perfect.

Our modern, bright, and airy spaces offer floor to ceiling windows with views over the River Wear, providing you and your guests with a spectacular setting for your celebration.

With an exclusive location on the banks of the River Wear and only a short distance from Roker Park, Pier and beaches National Glass Centre is home to a number of striking photo opportunities alongside our glass backdrops and eye-catching contemporary art galleries.

Our wedding packages have been created to make your planning as seamless as can be. If you have any specific requirements, our team is more than happy to create a bespoke package just for you.

*terms and conditions apply Image: Duncan McCall Photography

Enjoy your day knowing that our dedicated team is on hand to take care of every need. Our service and commitment will ensure that you and your guests have the day of your dreams.

OFFER – WE HAVE LIMITED AVAILABILITY LEFT FOR 2019 WEDDINGS. Book your 2019 wedding by the end of 2018 and we’ll include a second pouring of Prosecco during your Drinks Reception, complimentary!* Enquiries can be made to our dedicated Wedding Coordinator: Jessica Roth E: ngcevents@elior.co.uk T: 0191 515 5555 (Option 5)

Christmas at The Glass Yard

An Evening of Swing and Sparkle Saturday 8 & Saturday 15 December Arrival at 19.00 for dinner at 19.30 ÂŁ35 per person

Spend a chilly December evening being warmed by the Christmas cheer of Frank, Sammy and Dean’s finest tunes from our Rat Pack Tribute Act. Join us for a glass of fizz on arrival and a 4 course festive feast to follow, then dance the night away.

Booking essential. To book, please contact ngcevents@elior.co.uk or call 0191 515 5555 (Option 5)

Festive Lunches 1 – 31 December 12.00 – 14.30 Available daily, except Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Enjoy our delicious festive lunches in the beautiful riverside surroundings of The Glass Yard Two courses – £15.00 Three courses – £19.00 Booking advisable. To book call 0191 515 5555 (Option 1)

Festive Afternoon Tea Available daily, except Sundays, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. 1 – 31 December 14.30 – 16.00 £15.00 – Traditional Package £19.00 – Includes a glass of mulled wine Enjoy a selection of finger sandwiches such as roast turkey & cranberry, fresh baked scones as well as a selection of pastries such as stollen slices, iced Christmas cake bites and mini sweet mince pies. Warm your hands with a cup of mulled wine after a Christmas shopping trip or winter walk along the coast.

Booking essential. To book call 0191 515 5555 (Option 1).

VISIT

nationalglasscentre.com / ngca.co.uk ACCESS National Glass Centre has wheelchair access to all areas and a Changing Place facility.

There is also a lift available. Free wheelchair hire is available on request and can be pre-booked by contacting Visitor Services.

National Glass Centre welcomes assistance dogs and a hearing loop is available. Our full Access Statement is available online.

We are a cycle friendly venue!

The Coast to Coast (C2C) cycle route from Cumbria to Sunderland runs past National Glass Centre’s riverside entrance. Cyclists are encouraged to use our new riverside Bike Dock and cycle maintenance area.

GETTING HERE Free Admission Free Visitor Parking Open Daily 10.00 – 17.00 Last Admission 16.45 It is recommended that you allow at least three hours to make the most of your visit.

Follow the brown road signs for National Glass Centre or type SR6 0GL into your sat nav.

Nearest Metro Station: St Peter’s.

For a more detailed map and directions visit nationalglasscentre.com

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