Stained Glass Evening Courses
At Glassartists@GlasgowDetail

Glasgow Detail are pleased to announce the commencement of Stained Glass evening classes.

Our first series of courses will be a 10 week course for beginners.

The course sructure will cover :-


Approaching the design of Stained Glass. Scaling to full size working drawings and templates.
Glass Cutting techniques. Leadworking techniques. Soldering. Cementing, blacking and Polishing.

All students will be provided with comprehensive course notes covering all aspects of the course, including basic colour theory, notes on tools, materials and glasses, glassworking techniques, Health and Safety notes, and a summarised history of Stained Glass.

The course will be both intensive and fun!

Applicants will have a choice of evening, Tuesday or Thursday.

Courses are continious and you can join any time, places permitting

Tuesday 7pm - 9.30pm.
Thursday 7pm - 9.30pm.
And will run all year round

Course fees £ 220.00

Places on the course will be awarded on a first come first served basis.

Don`t miss out!

For further details and Enrollment contact;

Glassartists@GlasgowDetail.
58-60 Osborne Street,
Glasgow.
G1.5QH.

Telephone:
0141 552 0555
Web site
www.Stained Glass Courses
Email;
glassartists@googlemail.com

Five in the Head

Apparently this man was held down by two people and it now transpires was shot five times in the head.
Prior to that he was apparently terrorised into panic and ran, his only crime it seems was to run.
A natural reaction under the circumstances?
Should this be considered an act of state sponsored terrorism?
Should we get used to it?
But why five times in the head?
It seems that he was being watched and followed, so was there time to have averted the situation?
Is there a system in place that when a suspect bomber is being followed to a station, that allows the station to be locked on his or her approach. If there is not, then there should be!
It would only take a phone call to lock the station down and exclude the terrorist from his target, it may not stop him setting off his bomb, but it must surely be of help.
We seem to be drifting into an acceptance of an errosion of our liberty.
During the evacuation of Birmingham, we had the spectacle of machine gun weilding police marshalling people away from the suspected danger areas.
Why was it neccessary for duty police men to be armed whilst carrying out a humane act.
We used to have armed response units which were kept in the background until needed
Now we have this tragedy.
Is it a case that if we escalate our response to these satanic muslims, and I am being specific to terrorists here, will that not lead to a further escalatory response from them and will that elicit a similar response from satanic christians eventually.
I deeply resent any act that leads to a restriction of my freedom and liberty, whether in reading, a book watching a film, gathering in a public place to protest and my freedom of movement without fear.
We must not lose sight of the fact that a fundamental detail of any city or nation is liberty and freedom, without them the rich detail of live would be pointless and we might as well just exist in industrial sheds.

At the Edinburgh International festival 2005

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Finding the Sacred in the 21st Century: A Transdisciplinary Event

organized & directed by Karen-Claire Voss

24 - 29 August 2005

Church of St John the Evangelist, Princes Street, Edinburgh


Finding the Sacred Art Exhibition (admission free)
August 6-29
Featuring works by


Graham Barbour, Rai Barbour, Jean Bell, Joe Boyle,
Rachel Cowan, Alan Dawson, Richard Demarco, Frank Docherty,
Frank J. Docherty, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Ronnie Ford, Robert Gould,
Charles Hynes, Martin Kane, Peter MacKenna, Joe McLaughlin,
Jack McLean, Craig McMaster, Don McNeil, Boyd McNicol,
Shahin Memishi, Paul Murray, Terry Ann Newman, Avril Paton,
Valentine Petrov, Paul Raine, Jim Rankin, Paul Reeves
Yvonne Smith, Leo Stevenson, Ally Thompson,
George Wyllie


August 24-27
Finding the Sacred in the 21st Century: A Transdisciplinary Event
Speakers (admission free)

Including Andrew Greeen, Lizanne Henderson, Alastair Hulbert, David Lorimer, Murdo MacDonald ,Alastair McIntosh, Karen Ralls Tessa Ransford, Richard Roberts, ,Gordon Strachan, and others.

August 24-27
Finding the Sacred - Musical Offerings (nominal charge) Featuring Flauti Animati Scotica, Frank O`Hagan`s Blues Band Hapax, the Glasgow Phoenix Choir, and Quodlibet.

In some circles in contemporary Scotland the word "sacred" is apparently problematic, usually because it is thought to entail something having to do with religion. However, the "sacred" has little or nothing to do with dogma or doctrine. As human beings we are continually involved in the process of trying to locate our finite selves within infinitude. The process of finding the sacred simply means to be in the process of attempting to gather up the fragments, to bind together the finite with the infinite, so both form one great whole; thus, finding the sacred is a process that touches everyone, whether believer or an atheist. Unlike many of the events on offer at a cultural endeavour like the Edinburgh Arts Festival, it is hoped that this event will actively and explicitly function to help people re-connect with the sacred. All of the talks, images, poetry and music presented will be geared toward forging a connection with what poet Adrienne Rich referred to as "the rockshelf furthering all that is."



For more information and to download a program and order form for tickets, catalogue and brochure , visit our website:

Kempock Digital



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