11/08/2025
Workshop Zone Programme 2025!
The Workshop Zone is home to some of the best makers and tutors from Wales and the UK - make sure you visit early and book your places, so you can relax and have fun whilst learning traditional and contemporary skills with heritage crafts!
Find us in between the End Up Bar and Round the Twist…
Mainly suitable for 14yrs + , and all adults … visit and book early as places get snapped us quickly!
Don’t forget to show your work in our “selfie frame” and tag and Events Wales ….
• WyldWood Willow: Amanda Rayner
Join esteemed maker Amanda for willow weaving and basketmaking workshops. Something for all to try, from Dragonflies,birdfeeders,hearts and stars, to a wide range of useful and colourful baskets.
Lots of sculpture,crescent chairs,baskets and willow coffins to peruse…
•Blodau_Arian: Jayne Hunt
Local maker Jayne runs eco-freindly jewellery workshops using recycled materials such as silver and copper - choose from rings, bangles or pendants!.
•The Moon and the Furrow: Kate Unwin
Kate is a custodian of a Welsh woodland. Her Workshops will include:
Working with the natural rhythms of the year to plan your life and live better. We will craft and bind our own journals and make natural inks to decorate them.
Working with the natural rhythms of the moon and using them to support our plans, minds and bodies. We will make travel altars to use when away from home and in nature.
Working with the elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. How can the natural elements support our day to day lives so that we are more in touch with the natural rhythms of the earth. What is a charm, amulet and talisman and how can they help us? We will craft one of the above with natural materials.
• Melanie Made Mud: Melanie Van de Velde
My pottery wheel workshop enables the festival goers to 'Have a go' on the pottery wheel. They are guided by myself and my team on one of 6 wheels to throw their very own pot out of stoneware clay.
Many people I speak to say 'I've always wanted to have a go!' but don’t find the time - being at a festival is the perfect opportunity for many to fulfil a life ambition. This year I will be offering longer sessions too, for anyone who has an inkling to try something new.
I offer potters an upgrade option to have their pot fired, glazed and posted - a real bonus as to look forward to!
• Tools for Self Reliance Cymru (Awarded the Wales Africa UN Gold Star Award)
A non-profit, volunteer run charity, based in Crickhowell, that provided donated tools, sewingmachines and training, to help people in rural Tanzania regain more self-sustainable livelihoods.These fabulous volunteers run blacksmithing and green woodworking workshops. All customers work with one of their craftspeople and take home either a steel ornate hook or a lovely stick stool, all handmade by them.They also sell refurbished DIY, gardening and craft tools.
• Pop Can Crochet Community Project: Poppy Rowland-Hill
Poppy will offer a range of projects to suit all abilities. From beginners workshops whereparticipants can learn to make their own crochet star or flower, to more complex crochet projects for more practiced crocheters. Alongside this, I would love to bring together the creative crocheters of Green Man to create a freeform communal piece that everyone can
contribute to, that will be displayed at the end of the festival.
• Brooms and Brushes - Rosa Harradine
Rosa will be running traditional brush making workshops at Greenman - participants can make a 'turkey wing' style brush from broomcorn fibre and a variety of colours of thread. We will also talk about the history of brush making and the type of fibre that we will use.
• Grow Feral: Samantha Francis
Grow Feral's activities explore the symbiotic relationship of the natural world - humans,creatures, plants, land and earth, as a radical act of creating, growing, doing and being together. Samantha does this through creative green, growing and gardening projects,
workshops, events and socially engaged activities via hands-on making and doing sessions. For Green Man, Grow Feral will run plant-based workshops where participants can take something away:
- Botanical monoprinting
- Nettle cordage making
• Loom Room: Sara Kelly
Loom Room is a collaborative, flat-pack pop-up weaving space where the walls become tapestry looms. Designed for communal making, it accommodates up to 10 looms and has travelled to festivals and events across the UK. Prioritising accessibility and shared experiences, it invites participants to weave at their own pace, contributing to ever-growing tapestry walls. The structure also offers indoor space for smaller workshops, but its heart liesin open, interactive weaving.
• Jones and Fraser - Traditional Building Crafts
This team will run workshops for Traditional and vernacular building techniques and crafts, in each of the following activities- Stone carving, Dry stone walling, Lime plastering and pargetting, stone roofing, plaster casting, timber carving and oak work. These activities will enable people to get a hands-on experience of historic crafts whilst being able to learn from and question experienced specialists.
• Amerton Arts Studio GreenWood: Geraint Lloyd
Geraint will be running his popular green craft workshops on a herd of twenty shave horses.
Projects include Bread boards, cooking spoons, and stools.
