Dr Emma Neuberg’s presentation to print and share:

The Slow Textiles Conference (May 8 and 9th, 2010), held at the Stroud International Textiles Festival, stimulates exciting new definitions and parameters for textiles and its related practice in design, craft, industry and design education.

Leading figures in the practice, research and analysis of Slow Textiles gathered this weekend in the historic British textiles town of Stroud for presentation of new research, discussion and dissemination.

Outcomes and reflections of the event to be published soon.

NB If you were a participant and or delegate on May 8th and 9th and are awaiting correspondence, the silence means that we have the wrong email address for you. Please email emma_at_myfirstworkofart.com your correct contact details. Thank you.

You are invited to join our last patchwork afternoon for 2010 just north of Portobello Docks in London.

In celebration of Quilts: 1700 – 2010 at the V&A.

All levels welcome.

All vintage and contemporary fabrics supplied.

Saturday June 19th, 2 til 4.15pm.

Just £15.

For venue details and booking click HERE.

Join us to start projects, develop projects and think about finishing projects.

(Two delicious cafes next door).

“Healthy life expectancy for English females was 16 years higher for those in the top decile in the late 1990s than it was for those in the bottom decile.”

Status Syndrome – How Your Social Standing Directly Affetcs Your Health, (Marmot 2005).

Inequality today is greater in the UK than it was in the late 1990s.

“The pursuit of labour productivity in activities whose integrity depends on human interaction systematically undermines the quality of the output.”

Tim Jackson, 2009.

This may be a definition of the future of learning in British art schools.

It indicates where investment in hands-on, quality teaching is heading.

Keep your £15,000. Keep your part-time job. Keep stress at bay.

Join the Slow Textiles Group’s professional London studio, workshops, networking, exhibiting, Pop-Up Shops and sales – to start whenever you like and have your own schedule, tailormade.

For just £590.

It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know.

For further details, go here.