The Speaking Place workshops will be delivered by carefully selected, world-class artists and makers at Piccolo Family Farm as a part of the A Day in the Orchard festival. The workshops will be centred around the concept of 'Speaking Place', and will be delivered across a day of networking among emerging artists of various disciplines as a part of the A Day in the Orchard festival, culminating in a collaborative dinner in the Cellar Door and Experience Centre.

Registration includes participation in Blacksmith Workshop, meals including the Speaking Place collaborative dinner, and entry to A Day in the Orchard festival on Sunday 9th October.

Blacksmith workshop - Hand Forged Herb Chopper

With Glenn Simpson and Matthew Mewburn, Eveleigh Works.

Participants will use hammer and anvil to hot forge to shape their own herb-chopping knife. Some of the techniques will include beveling the blade to an edge, hot bending steel to form a handle and heat treating the blade for hardness. During this course, students will gain insight into working with carbon steels and the considerations required to forge and heat-treat these steel blades.

Each participant will take home a completed, hand forged herb chopper of their own making.

SPEAKING PLACE SCHEDULE

8AM – WELCOME BREAKFAST

9AM – WORKSHOPS COMMENCE

12PM – LUNCH AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS

1PM – WORKSHOPS RESUME

4PM – WORKSHOPS END

6.30PM – SPEAKING PLACE COLLABORATIVE DINNER

This project was made possible through a CTA Experience Marketing Campaign Grant provided by Regional Arts NSW through the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional, remote and very remote Australia

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