Open Up Sheffield comes to Barnsley!

Rather excitingly, the May bank holiday weekend and the weekend after will see the CB Hive site at Elsecar opening up as part of the Sheffield based Open Up open studio project. This is our first opportunity to showcase Barnsley artists and it promises to be a lot of fun.

CB Hive is the name we have given to our studio and gallery site which we are developing at Elsecar Heritage Centre. It's not going to be converted by the time the event comes around, but we really wanted to open it up as part of this yearly event to give the arts and crafts community a chance to show their work in an environment where they can also be on hand to talk to visitors or even demonstrate work. This is the essence of an open studio event, and lots of visitors do enjoy having a chance to talk to artists about their work ... and hopefully buy some of it!

As this is the first year we are doing this we are offering Barnsley based artists the chance to participate for free. You will be allocated space to hang/show work and all we ask is that you try and spend some time with your work across the weekends. You can show at both weekends or just one. We will be doing lots of promotion to ensure we get lots of visitors but Elsecar also has a great number of weekend visitors so we should get quite a few through the door. There is also lots of promotional material being circulated across Sheffield that includes a mention for us (yey!) and a bus is arranged to bring visitors from Sheffield on Sunday 6th May.

The more the merrier so if you are interested in showing, do email us and let us know. It is essential that we have your name in advance of the event. The dates are 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th & 13th May. If you want to know more about Open Up visit www.openupsheffield.co.uk and bookmark this blog to get regular updates.

That's all for now - speak to you soon
Tracey x