We apologise that because of a booking error at The Durrant we have had to change the date of the December meeting from Tuesday 8th to Wednesday 9th. We hope you can still join us for what promises to be a delightful seasonal lecture.

We have also had to find a new speaker for our February meeting because unfortunately Justine Hopkins had to cancel her booking. It was a hard act to replace, Justine is a very popular speaker and back by popular request. Gwen has achieved this difficult task and managed to book the Oxford lecturer Alice Foster who is going to talk about The Glasgow Boys, a group of artists at the end of the nineteenth century.

JOIN US!

TREASURER FOR THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH DEVON 

We are looking for someone join us in the role of Treasurer

Role:

• To take moneys in and pay out our expenses keeping a record of these actions*
• To prepare the annual budget**
• To prepare the monthly accounts**
• To prepare the annual accounts**
• The Treasurer records and banks the subs. at any Barclays Bank or Post Office
• Gift Aid is an annual separate but not time consuming task using a standard form

*Moneys in: Membership Subs, accepting cheques from the Membership Secretary and/or Grants from Head Office or others. 

*Moneys out: Includes our expenses, Lecturers’ fees (paid on delivery), room hire, travel and any publicity expenses. 

**The formula for the Monthly, Annual Accounts and Annual Budget are already established.  If you can use a spreadsheet for your own accounts you already have some of the required skill set.  Maintaining the cash book is a processing exercise and does not require any great knowledge.

**Preparing Monthly, Annual Accounts and Annual Budget requires knowledge of the cash book itself, for which support will be provided, and a little more time.

Lectures run between October and May.  Our present Treasurer prepares accounts for each meeting and for the AGM in October and offers active support to her successor.  

Please contact tricia.palk@btinternet.com

FINE ART SOCIETY COMMUNITY GRANT  £250
Brick by Brick, 7th January - 20th February 2023

The Arts Society North Devon awarded the Burton Art Gallery and Museum a Community Grant of £250 to go towards engagement activities for Brick By Brick, an exhibition of art created or inspired by LEGO. 

Such a family friendly exhibition lends itself to plenty of activities for both children and adults.  We set up a programme of events with Nick Lockett-Clarke, a Lego Engineer who runs Stemgineering...a small business using LEGO in order to educate key STEM subjects to children.  He ran six workshops at the Burton Art Gallery during the course of the exhibition: 

• LEGO Lab: A free drop in session for children of all ages to play with LEGO witht guidance on building. 
• LEGO Stop Motion (x3): These were so popular we ran three workshops!  For children aged 8 - 13 to learn how to bring their stories to life using stop motion and LEGO.
• LEGO Bridge Building: A workshop for 8 - 13 year olds to learn engineering skills through LEGO.
• Adults vs Kids: A fun LEGO challenge event which pitched children against their grown ups with LEGO building skills.

These activities attracted over 150 children to the Burton Art Gallery to learn new skills and engage with creativity.  The funding from the Arts Society allowed the cost of the workshops to be subsidised so that we could run them at affordable prices, an important consideration in a time when the Cost of Living was at its height. 

Brick by Brick was the most popular exhibition we have had at the Burton for many years, and it was great to see so many children and young people in the gallery enjoying the artworks and getting involved in various activities.  Many thanks to the Arts Society for continuing to support our work with this age group.