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First Cast Iron Pour Event to launch Metal Monkeys on Sunday 31st May 2009 at The Kiln,Badshot Lea Village Hall, St Georges Rd, Badshot Lea, Farnham.

Metal Monkeys involved the community in their first public iron pour and launched the group with a grant from the Lottery distributer Awards for All. Metal Monkeys worked with two local schools and arts organisation Creative Response, who work with vulnerable people.

As well as enabling people to see the spectacle of an iron pour there was a storytelling workshop, facepainting and Hog roast/BBQ to celebrate newly created art works and collaboration!

Iron Monkeys a professional development workshop for the group also took place from 18th to 24th May 2009, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. This enabled Metal Monkeys to learn about a continous pour cupola furnace under the instruction of Professor Daniel Hunt from Kansas State University, USA. Metal Monkeys have built one of only a handfull of continuous pour furnaces in the UK, the exciting advantage of this type of furnace being the production of multiple art works and artist collaboration.

Iron Monkeys has enabled the production of new art which was on show as part of Surrey Artists Open Studio Event in June 2009.

Metal Monkeys also hosted a workshop for 12 artists from 25th to 30th May.

Welcome to our world of hand made fine art jewelry. All of the jewelry displayed in our showroom is made in our workshop. A few of our many specialties are “Old World” vitreous enamel, engraving, and hand made chains. We work with sterling silver, 18k gold, enamel, peridot, blue topaz, rhodolite, amethyst, citrine, almandine garnet, diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald and many other gemstones and materials. We make rings, bracelets, necklaces, chains, earrings, key chains, engraved wedding bands, engagement rings, men’s jewelry, accessories and more. We describe the jewelry as “Meaningful Jewelry” because of the motifs, symbols and subjects which are incorporated in the jewelry. For example, the Fleur de lis, Lady Godiva, Alexander the Great, Philip of Macedonia, Helios, Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, Nike and others. I personally want to invite you to visit our workshop and showroom in Downtown Sarasota at 1400 State Street. We are there Monday thru Saturday. Please feel free to call us at 941-316-9594. We have posted a sampling of approximately 250 items on our website, .www.bowmanoriginals.com. Thank you for your interest in our work, Ned Bowman

Demonstration of metal casting and organ pipe making at the Ahrend Orgelbau workshop in Leer, Germany. From the film ‘Martinikerk Rondeau’ part of a 5CD and 1DVD boxset ‘Pronkjuwelen in Stad en Ommeland’. See www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk for further information. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659, played by Sietze de Vries on the Martinikerk pipe organ. Pipe maker: Hinrich Manssen Now available from www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk And from www.muziekhandel-boeijenga.nl US NTSC Edition to follow. Release Date TBC.