FiredUp4 Events
FiredUp4 at Museum of the Home
Chaired and hosted by Sonia Solicari (director) at the Museum of the Home, the panel will include artist, Barnaby Barford and ceramicist, Rich Miller alongside market expert and MAAK director, Marijke Varrall-Jones. Exploring the benefits of creativity on mental wellbeing and how this fits with the need to provide young people with a safe, inclusive and inspiring space, the panel will discuss FiredUp4’s mission to make clay accessible for young people up and down the country through OnSide Youth Zones.
The Kiln Rooms Christmas Sale
This year, members of The Kiln Rooms decided to support FiredUp4 clay, donating a percentage of funds made at their Christmas sales. The Kiln Room raised over £1,600 to FiredUp4 at their Christmas sale this year and we couldn’t be more grateful for the donation. Proceeds from the sale will go directly to helping FiredUp4 to install pottery studios into three new youth zones and introduce young people to clay.
The Kiln Rooms offer three spacious studios in Peckham providing professional development for members and range of classes for all. The Kiln Rooms have a strong sense of community of makers and students.
The Kiln Rooms Christmas Sale marks the start of FiredUp4 collaborating with the ceramics community! Hooray for Clay!
Kate Malone hosts Pottery Workshop at Inspire Youth Zone
Kate Malone hosted a Pottery Workshop, via Zoom for a selection of the Young People at Inspire Youth Zones, Chorley.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle Visits Inspire Youth Zone
The Speaker of the House of Commons and MP for Chorley, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has backed a campaign to inspire more young people to express themselves through art.
Sir Lindsay has thrown his support behind the FiredUp4 campaign - a charity auction which is aiming to raise enough money to fund two pottery studios in the North West through the sale of 33 crafted pottery pieces.
FiredUp4 Launch | In Dialogue: Kit Kemp, Kate Malone, Nina Campbell & Grant Gibson
To celebrate the launch of FiredUp4, Kate Malone was in conversation with Kit Kemp, interior designer and Founder and Creative Director of Firmdale Hotels, at Ham Yard Hotel, alongside interior designer Nina Campbell and chaired by Design Writer, Editor and Podcast Host of Material Matters, Grant Gibson.
The panel discussed the benefits of ceramics and creativity, the importance of craft and championing craftspeople, as well as exploring how to live with and collect ceramics. The event marked the launch of the campaign and the start of an online auction hosted by Maak, the leading auction house dedicated to ceramics, which concludes on 19 November.
All ticket proceeds will go towards equipping two pottery studios and training and supplying staff for one year, in two Youth Zones in the North West. Eventually, the hope is to raise enough funds to reach as many young people as possible.