Events

Today is pretty much a momentous day in life of the world and not just because the Canolfan Gretfftau Rhuthun/Ruthin Craft Centre re-opens. It’s also the day America swears in new president Barrack Obama.

Back to the Craft Centre, though. It’s been closed since the end of December to complete building works. May be you missed the noteworthy month-long Cefyn Burgess exhibition. He showed tapestry representations of Welsh chapels throughout the world (including in the USA, to typical American designs of the times). We tend to forget that wherever we went in the world, so went our chapels. In his words, it was a kind of Welsh Diaspora. Cefyn Burgess assured attendees that many of these buildings were still standing though outside Wales are likely to have found new uses.

To come at the Craft Centre (from 24th for about two months) is a promise of an eclectic mix of work from 15 experienced craft makers from a generation that apparently established Britain as internationally of note in the applied arts.

To coincide with the reopening, there appeared last week a number of eye-catching signs at rear and especially the front of the building, including along the so-called Briec roundabout’s edge. There’s been nothing at the front since it opened unofficially in July and officially in December 2008. Not that a lack of signage seems to have made any difference to buoyant visitor numbers. At least now, though, there’s an opportunity for passing trade to pop in.