FULHAM WI - MAY MEETING - DIFFERENT LOCATION!!!!!!! - MONDAY 14TH MAY

Dear Ladies

Firstly apologies that this is a bit late coming to you, usual excuses!  Saying that, if anyone feels they would like to join the committee please do let it be known.  We are all perfectly normal, it's not onerous and there is room for all who wish to help organise things!  There are lots of things going on so please do read to the bottom of the email and for those who are coming to the theatre the tickets have arrived and I will bring them with me on Monday and payment would be appreciated!!

Now to our May meeting, change of venue for this month which will always add a frisson of excitement but it will be a good meeting so please do come along to hear and watch Gaby Martin (a Fulham WI member) and to look and learn about food styling and presentation and at the time of writing will focus on presentation of cakes and preserves.  So useful for impressing the friends, the Jubilee and Olympic celebrations coming up, Parsons Green Fair and beyond.

The meeting will be held at the showrooms of John Lewis of Hungerford, 156-158 Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6 2UH.  The link from their website http://www.john-lewis.co.uk/showrooms-fulham.php shows where and the showroom's telephone number is.  The website also shows you what lovely surroundings we shall be enjoying and we are most grateful to John Lewis of Hungerford for welcoming us.

‪www.john-lewis.co.uk‎

 

Gaby Martin

Where body and soul meet to eat.

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Food and lifestyle concepts, styling and design.

Orchestrating events, tastings, micro festivals, pop-ups, social media managment and bespoke services.

For the producer: Promoting outstanding artisan foods by leg and by web. Making it simple for the small producer.

For the hosting venue: Increasing foot fall and engaging visitors through food knowledge, spectacle and innovation.

Building fruitful and sustainable connections through food, Gaby focuses on the social, aesthetic and cultural fusion of food and location. Masterminding enchanting site-specific food events, the aim is community and connectivity.

You will have wants and needs, but we will bring you more.

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Gaby studied art and design at Camberwell School of Art and Kingston University 3-D Design (Interiors), as well as Food Styling at Leiths School of Food & Wine and WSET Award Wine and Spirits.

Gaby is an urban allotment grower, committee member of Slow Food London and splits her time between London and Sussex.

About Gaby:  http://about.me/gabymartin

 

 FULHAM WI – EVENTS UPDATE

Christian Louboutin Exhibition, Design Museum, Saturday 21 May 2012

Meeting at the museum at 10.30am.

 

39 Steps - Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly - Tuesday 29 May at 8.00pm

Tickets are bought £19.50, payment required asap!!!

 

Portobello Jubilee Market - Saturday 2 June - 10am to 4pm

We have been asked to man two stalls and will need to be there from 9am to set up and get the water hot!  All we need to do is provide the cakes to offer people tea and a bit of cake for £1.  Tea and everything else is provided and we keep all the funds raised which will go towards the full bursaries for a course at Denman College which two lucky members will win at our AGM.  All cakes and biscuits are welcome, and cakes that we can cut up would be ideal.  Beautiful cupcakes are always welcome and we can sell these separately but don't make them too big please!   We can collate cakes during the week if that helps you and help on the day will be much appreciated.  

Our stalls are at the Golbourne end of Portobello Road, near the craft market and the Portobello Green Vintage Clothes market.  There will be lots of bunting and balloons and such like so will make a happy family day out with lots of things to look at and be tempted by!

 

Parsons Green Fair - Saturday 7 July - 12noon to 5pm

More cakes required and jams and chutneys and anything else you feel like!!!  Another fun day which is very sociable and raises funds for us!

The Queen – Art & Image - National Portrait Gallery – Thursday 19 July 2012 
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this landmark exhibition brings together some of the most remarkable and resonant images of Elizabeth II made during her reign.  From formal painted portraits to commissioned photographs and from press images to works by celebrated contemporary artists, the exhibition charts the evolving representation of one of the most portrayed people of all time, and the influence of this imagery on changing perceptions of the monarchy. 

Exploring the startling range of artistic creativity that the Queen has inspired, the exhibition also reveals the radical changes in portraiture and profound social developments since the 1950s. Featured photographers and artists include Cecil Beaton, Pietro Annigoni, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Lucian Freud, Thomas Struth and Gerhard Richter. For more information go to http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/the-queen/the-queen-art-image.php

This exhibition is predicted to sell out quickly, so we will be booking tickets (£6.00 each) for the 6.15pm slot.  Please can you let Toto know if you are interested in going to this by Monday, 28 May.

 

Saddlers Wells, Tuesday 18 Spetmber at 7.30pm

Tickets bought, £30.40 payment asap please!!!!

Other events we are considering for later in the year:

• Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950 exhibition at the V&A
• Summer picnic
• Ghost walk for Halloween

Please contact Toto on totofwi@gmail.com or 07957 323 321 regarding any of these events or anything that you would like to do.

 

Greatly look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it on Monday evening.

 

All good wishes

 

Katrina and the rest of the Committee

Fulham WI x