OUGD502: Roundhay Park - Magical Lantern Festival

The Magical Lantern festival launched in London last year and made it's debut in Yorkshire this year in Roundhay Park in Leeds. It is a display of art, heritage and culture with christmas themes. It follows a trail around the park which is used to display the giant lanterns.

The display was exceeded expectations. The scale intensified the experience and it has an extensive collection of illuminating lanterns. The concept of it being a trail visitors have to follow was interesting and made it more interactive that having to scatter them and let visitors make their own journey.

OUGD502: Etsy Made Local - 3/12/16

Etsy Made Local is a craft fair that is held in millennium square in Leeds. It is made of sellers from the online marketing platform that come set up stalls to sell their piece of art work. Most of the stalls this year consisted of art prints, cards, makeup bags, jewellery but there were also other accessories such as pin badges and felting kits to create your own little animals. These craft fairs are inspiring to young creatives to push your work out there and start selling your own work because the age range for the fairs vary so much. It is something I would like to do one day. I emailed about doing the Leeds print fair but there were no available stalls at the time and the stalls are quite expensive to hire out ranging from £60-£100 and there are insurance fees, greybeard and mounting etc incase any stock gets stolen which are things I didn't even take into consideration before emailing the print fair and being explained the terms and conditions of having a stall. I need to research this year what craft fairs I want to participate in next year and make sure I get a stall when the listing are released.  

Things I learned from going to etsy made local:

• Everyone has business cards
• Some people offer discount codes for their online shops
• There are deals for if you buy multiple items
• You can sell a variety of things such as art prints, pins, jewellery. You don't have to just sell one specific thing