Dates set for Art and Craft Ramble

The dates have been set for the fourth Art and Craft Ramble in Wakkerstroom.
Art and craft lovers should diarise 16 – 18 June (Friday and Saturday 9am – 4pm) and (Sunday 9am to 1pm).

The purpose of the event is to:
• Introduce new and local artists and crafters to exhibit, allowing them to test the market at an inexpensive rate
• Inspire young people to take up arts or crafts as a business, due to the high unemployment rate
• Raise money for our annual charity
• Draw people to the village of Wakkerstroom
• Provide residents in the surrounding areas an opportunity to learn a craft/art skill to do during the winter months
• Sell art and craft supplies, or magazines at pop-up shops

The cost for the three day event this year for a 2m x 2m space will be R170 (non-profit event).
Multiple spaces can be bought for bigger stalls.

Space for teachers doing arts or crafts, flower arranging, decoupage, or cake decorating will be R370 (depending on what is needed – there may be a further charge – i.e. use of oven etc.)

The competition theme this year is hand- and footprints.

• An opening will be held on the Friday evening where Gordon Froud, South African artist and curator, has been asked to do the honours. (This however still needs to be confirmed)
• Mountain walk/run which take place Saturday morning
• An auction/prize-giving in aid of ‘Reach for a Dream’ will be hosted Saturday evening.

Very talented pastel artists who tested the market at the ramble last year have confirmed they would attend again this year.

They include: Francis Kendall, Engela van der Hooven, Mark Devenney, Louise Dainty, Leonora de Lange, Sicelo Ziqubu, Matilda and George Angus, Magda Vosloo, Antoinette Walters, Wendy Cloete, Wilma Ferriera/Hoffman, Lizzie Lack and Michelle Moreland.

Wakkerstroom is a small village in Mpumalanga with many Pretoria holiday homes, but also draws day-visitors from Ermelo, Bethal, Secunda,

Standerton, Vrede, Amersfoort, Volksrust, Paul Pietersburg, Newcastle, Utrecht, Piet Retief, Memel and Vryheid.

There are many people that will be looking to do something over the chilly winter months so make sure to visit the ramble which is ideally organised over the long weekend.

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