Portland Festival of Stone - Stone Carving Weekend
Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, Access via Wide Street / Tradecroft, Tradecroft Industrial Estate, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2LN
Using different sizes and shapes of Portland stone - the Bedrock of the Jurassic Coast, you will be supported to create your own stone carvings, recorded by a photographer and video artist, that will 'contribute as a moment in time' to a collaborative 'Green Corridor' pathway spanning 150 million years.
Portland Festival of Stone is for all ages, students, children and families - offering the best tuition from Tutors from the Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust and Yeoman stone carver from The Worshipful Company of Masons, where you can experience using a range of hand carving tools to see your ideas emerge.
Portland Festival of Stone will also take place at the Drill Hall where there is a geological time line and in PSQTs open air workshop situated in the heart of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, a 400 year old naturally regenerated environment, quarried by hand since the time of Sir Christopher Wren, and saved in 1983 by the Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust from further mineral extraction
'Tout' is old English for ‘Lookout’, and the quarry overlooks the great sweep of Chesil Beach. It is the best and last example from what was once over 100 quarries on the island all worked by hand. You can enter the quarry via the Memory Stones, opposite to the Heights Hotel at Priory Corner, to discover artists site-specific work where sculpture, geology, ecology and quarrying heritage meet.
Timings & Tours
- Friday 13 September:
- 1000-1700
- Saturday 14 September:
- 1000-1700
- Sunday 15 September:
- 1000-1700
Location & directions
Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, Access via Wide Street / Tradecroft, Tradecroft Industrial Estate, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2LN
- Directions:
- For parking at Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve use the Quarry Car Park - Tradecroft, Wide Street, DT5 2LN or at the Heights Hotel, Priory Corner, DT5 2EN. Tradecroft is the only right hand turn on Wide Street that runs from the 3rd Exit on the small roundabout at the Heights Hotel, leading to St George's Church at the top of Reforne. For Stone Carving Workshop at at the Drill Hall Gallery (indoor workshop and exhibition space) Easton Lane, DT5 1BW please park below the 30 mile an hour sign on the main road into the village of Easton. The Drill Hall is located approx. 200 meters on left below the RED TEXACO gas station on Easton Lane. Disabled parking is possible at the Drill Hall - please phone site contact for prior arrangement. Please park just beyond the 40 mile an hour sign, do not park on the main road as it is signed as an Urban Clearway
- Contact on day:
- Hannah Sofaer, Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust
- Telephone number:
- +447413644866
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking preferred
- Booking conditions:
- Email: [email protected] Call Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust 01305-826736 m: 07413 644 866
- Booking contact name:
- Hannah Sofaer - Creative Director
- Booking telephone number:
- +447413644866
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://learningstone.org
- Alternative booking website:
- https://learningstone.org
- Booking opens:
- 18 Aug 2024 09:00 AM
- Booking closes:
- 14 Sep 2024 05:05 PM
Accessibility details
Outdoor clothing / footwear recommended. The open air workshop in Tout Quarry has Tarpaulin cover if needed. Tout Quarry workshop is within short walking distance or 8 mins from the Heights Hotel View Cafe and car park DT5 2EN. Please phone for disability or vehicle access if needed.
Additional information
We provide stone, tools, pencils and safety glasses, or you can bring your own. All ages welcome. Free event. Donations invited. Carvings can be taken home and will be photo / videoed to create a Green Corridor storyline on themes of lifeforms and inspiration from your imagination.
- Max no of people per tour:
- 20
- Est. tour duration:
- 7 hour(s) 0 minute(s)
