Christmas opening times

Snou@ el nido will open as usual from Thrusday to Saturday, from 13:00 to 19:00 hours
And will be CLOSED ON :

• Dec 24
• Dec 25
• Dec 26
• Dec 31
• Jan 1
• Jan 2

snou@ el nido, the shop

The shopfront

enter here

15% off snou

Haven´t got a gift for MOM/ sister/ girlfriend yet?

Well don´t make up any silly excuses...
at my workshop there´s beautiful contemporary jewelry for every budget and gift certificates for those who get that queasy feeling at the moment of choosing the perfect gift,
so, come by!

THIS SATURDAY
LAST CHANCE for great christmas gifts
with 15% OFF all SNOU jewelry at my workshop.
Come and share a hot wine with me and take a look at my work,
you might find some wonderful last minute gifts!
Saturday 19.12.09
from 1:00 to 7:00 pm
snou @ el nido
Richardstrasse 43-44, Berlin - Neukölln

SAMSTAG
letzte Chance vor Weihnachten
15% Rabatt an alle SNOU schmuck
und leckeren Glühwein.
Für die letzte Weihnachtsgeschenke!
Samstag 19.12.09
vom 13:00 bis 19:00 Uhr
snou@ el nido
Richardstrasse 43-44
Berlin-Neukölln

THIS Christmas: Free GIFTS with every Snou order

Visit my store to see wonderful gift ideas and get free gifts with every order!

´el nido´ is OPENING

´el nido´ OFICIAL Opening

Finally, after a lot of work, we have finished our NIDO
and we want to share it with you at our OPENING.
Everybody is invited to join us on Saturday 12. of December
to get together at our new "clubhouse". We will be exhibiting
beautiful pieces of contemporary jewelry (perfect for your christmas gifts!) ,
and there will be drinks and delicious finger food!
´el nido´is the shared workspace of

Jewelry designers:
SNOU and Anna Kaufmann

AND Headquarters of
Vive Berlín tours (Berlin Statdführungen)

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Richardstrasse 43
Berlin-neukölln
12 december 2009
18:00- 22:00

MAP: How to get there.
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Saludos!
Despues de muchas semanas de arduo trabajo,
"El Nido" está listo. Así le hemos nombrado a nuestro espacio
colectivo de trabajo en la Richardstrasse 43.
Queremos compartir la alegría de inagurar nuestro nido con ustedes.

la apertura de nuestro nido/taller/galeria/oficina
tendrá lugar este Sábado 12.12.09
de 18-22 horas.
Allá nos vemos!

THIS WEEKEND Dec 4- Dec 6, Rixdorfer Weihnachtsmarkt

The traditional Rixdorfer Christmas market will take place this weekend!
An event which is well known by Berliners of all other neigborhoods because it preserves a lot of the genuine, non-commercial , atmosphere of a traditional "Weihnachtsmarkt" (Christmas market) since 37 years.

The Richarplatz (Richard square), together with the Körnerpark, is one of the most beautiful hidden corners of Neukölln and the center of the Rixdorf also known as the Bohemian Village (Böhmisches Dorf) or Richardsdorf.

Founded in 1360 as a village of its own, the Rixdorf was considered the "biggest village outside Berlin" in 1869. Around 1907 it grew into a city which was then "swallowed" by Berlins rapid extension, and has become part of Berlins neighborhood of Neukölln.
Snou´s atelier @ "el nido" is just around the corner and will open its doors as well.

Opening times
Fr. Dec 4th 17:00 -21:00 Uhr
Sa. Dec 5th 14:00 -21:00 Uhr
Sun. Dec 6th 14:00 -20:00 Uhr

Click on image to see map

El nido is composed by SNoU, Anna Kaufmann and Vive Berlin tours



Deutsch
Das Bezirksamt Neukölln veranstaltet in diesem Jahr vom 04. bis 06. Dezember zum 37. Mal den Alt - Rixdorfer Weihnachtsmarkt am Richardplatz. Im Schein unzähliger Petroleumlichter unterstützen Vereine, Organisationen und Verbände die karitative Zielsetzung dieses Berlinweit einzigartigen Weihnachtsmarktes.

Anbieter von selbstgebasteltem Spielzeug und allerlei aus Holz, Metall und Keramik, Weihnachtsschmuck, Ölbilder, Schmuck, Kerzen, Honig, Marmelade, Bürsten, Besen, Glückwunschkarten finden sich zusammen, Kulinarisches von koreanischen Speisen über Rostbratwurst, kandierte Äpfel, Waffeln, Kuchen, gebrannte Mandeln, Zuckerwatte sowie Glühwein, Kinderpunsch, Kakao, Kaffee mit und ohne Alkohol, Honigmet, Rixdorfer Liköre und Schnäpse, Limonaden und vieles mehr werden boten.

Neben den zahlreichen Ständen wird es auch in diesem Jahr ein unterhaltendes Bühnenprogramm geben. Weitere Attraktionen wie Ponyreiten, die Kamele mit den drei Weisen aus dem Morgenland, die historische Schmiede und die Ausstellung bei Kutschen-Schöne begeistern die Besucher genau wie die historische Polizeitruppe. Auch der Weihnachtsmann mit seinen Engeln, der den Weihnachtsgedichten der Kinder lauscht und die Märchenhexe werden sicher einen Reiz für die kleinen Besucher bieten.

Your christmas GIFT LIST!

So! The thanksgiving turkey is a thing of yesterday (In a few cases maybe a thing of today, tommorrow and the day after...). And for SNOU the busy season begins full of hopes and NEW PRODUCTS, FREE GIFTS with every purchase and more.

Soon the SNOU workshop will be opening officially in "El Nido" Headquarters (Announcement will soon follow) .

If you are already organizing your GIFT LIST , come by SNOU.etsy.com find a special gift for someone you love (or just someone you want to impress with amazing jewelry!)


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(¸.•´ (¸*´¨(♥ FREE GIFTs on ALL your SNOU purchases
Order now and choose from a wide variety of beautiful button pins made using select fine papers (59 mm- 2 inches in diameter). These fun and elegant buttons are a perfect stocking stuffer (retail valued at 5$ each).

The new workshop

7 days in Berlin

The project 7 Days is a work in progress, which is also an artwork. Each day, one artwork is added to the exhibition, and it is linked with the others within a creative dialog, so that the result can also be seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk.

The main subject is the 7 days of the creation of the world. Each artist develops his work based on the following concepts:

Day 1: Light and darkness

Day 2: Sky, water and horizon

Day 3: Earth and vegetation

Day 4: Stars, sun and moon

Day 5: Animals, sea and air

Day 6: Human being

Day 7: End of the Creation, rest

IDEA & CURATOTIAL WORK:
Valeria Schwarz

CONTACT
icollectiveart@googlemail.com


Visit the BLOG of 7days to keep up with the progress

WHERE?

www.wirgallery.com/

Christmas Showcase 2009, Studio 20/17

STUDIO 20/17

6b/2 Danks St | Waterloo | NSW 2017 | Australia
Telephone + 61 2 9698 7999
Open Tues - Sat 11 - 6pm, Sun 11 - 4pm
www.2danksstreet.com.au
www.studio2017.com.au

Was bleibt ist Schmuck
10 P o s i t i o n e n z e i t g e n ö s s i s c h e r S c hmu c k k u n s t

Eine Präsentation des Forums für Angewandte Kunst im Neuen Museum in Nürnberg
Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 12.11.2009
von 18.oo Uhr bis 20.oo Uhr,
im Unteren Foyer des Neuen Museums in Nürnberg

Es sprechen:
Dr. Angelika Nollert, Direktorin, Neues Museum in Nürnberg
Dr. Barbara Maas, Kunsthistorikerin
Cornelius Réer, 1. Vorsitzender des Forums für Angewandte Kunst

Auf Einladung des Forums stellen neben vier schmuckschaffenden Forumsmitgliedern sechs
weitere Schmuckkünstler aus. Alle Künstler sind international tätig und haben ganz verschiedene Wege eingeschlagen. Es entsteht ein Querschnitt durch die vielfältigen Strömungen im aktuellen Schmuckgeschehen.

Gezeigt werden Arbeiten von:
Iris Bodemer - Pforzheim,
Askan Hertwig - Nürnberg,
Katja Höltermann - Nürnberg,
Jiro Kamata - München,
Ted Noten - Amsterdam,
Alessandra Pizzini - Nürnberg,
Katja Prins - Amsterdam,
Judit Pschibl - München,
Sabine Steinhäusler - Nürnberg,
Norman Weber - Kaufbeuren


Ausstellungsdauer vom 13.11.2009 bis 06.12.2009, Eintritt frei
Führungen mit beteiligten Künstlern des Forums:
Mittwoch, 25.11.09 um 19:oo Uhr und Dienstag, 01.12.09 um 19:oo Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag - Freitag 10.oo - 20.oo Uhr,
Samstag und Sonntag 10:oo - 18:oo Uhr, Montags geschlossen
Neues Museum, Klarissenplatz, 90402 Nürnberg

Soon: SNOU workshop/gallery opening in Berlin

If you missed:

Do not worry!
Soon our atelier/gallery will be opening for good and we hope to see you there

Snou, Richardstrasse 43-44, 12055 Berlin-Neukölln

Artists and Designers close up

If you love beautiful handmade art and design , and love to know about the creators of such works up close and personal , then follow Etsy´s featured sellers interviews, for a fresh and personal view in the life and work of people who like me, and maybe you, want to make a better living for themselves and others by supporting the creation of hand made objects of beauty and daily use.

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Walking theGrey area

http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/


The Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, the agency Design Flux and Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, are honored to present you our new joint project: Walking the Gray Area.

Walking the Gray Area is a collective exhibition curated by Valeria Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, that brings together 20 Latin American and 20 European jewellery makers and artists who ocationally work with jewellery as a medium, into a dialogue about jewellery, global mobility, contemporary identities and its personal and/or collective implications. The curators of Walking the Gray Area, have each selected 20 artists from their respective continents: Latin America and Europe. Each artist has a unique approach to jewellery: different perspectives of art and jewellery, differnt ideas, different interests, different materials and techniques, different countries. But all artists have one thing in common: like the curators themselves, they have experienced the phenomena of global mobility in one or another way: born in one place, lived, studied, worked in another one.

The artists have randomly paired: one Latin American artist has been coupled with one European artist. Each pair will start a dialogue, through a web blog that has been created for this purpose, in the ways they find interesting or relevant: they are able to exchange conversations, stories, pictures, images and even materials. The dialogue can be verbal, visual of both and will lead to the creation of one body ornament by artist.

We invite you to visit the blog, moderated by the Mexican art critic Jose Manuel Springer, which will walk you through the process of creating an exhibition from the scratch and allow you to interact with the artists and moderator.

The exhibition will be presented within the frame of the symposium Gray Area, Ist Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe, to take place from April 12th to 16th in Mexico City. The opening date of the exhibition, at the fabulous Galeria La Refaccionaria, in Mexico City's historic Centre will be announced in the following months.

We hope that you will enjoy the experience and that you will walk along with us towards this amazing exhibition. Visit the Walking the Gray Area Blog at:


http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/

Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, la agencia Design Flux y Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, tienen el placer de presentar su nuevo proyecto de cooperacion: Walking the Gray Area.

Walking the Gray Area es una exposicion colectiva, curada por Valeria Siemelink y Andrea Wagner, que pone en contacto a 20 artistas y joyeros latinoamericanos y 20 europeos para desarrollar un dialogo sobre joyeria, mobilidad global, indentidades contemporaneas y sus implicaciones tanto colectivas como personales. Cada una de las curadoras de la muestra han seleccionado 20 artistas de sus respectivos continentes: America Latina y Europa. Cada artista tiene un acercamiento muy particular con la joyeria: diferentes perspectivas, diferentes ideas, diferentes intereses, diferentes tecnicas y materiales, diferentes paises. Pero todos estos artistas tienen algo en comun: al igual que las curadoras mismas, todos han experimentado, de una u otra manera, el fenomeno creciente de la mobilidad global: nacidos en un lugar, viviendo, estudiando o trabajando en otro.

Los artistas han sido organizados en parejas creadas al azar: un artista latinoamericano ha sido emparejado con un europeo. Cada pareja iniciara un dialogo, a traves de un blog que ha sido creado con este proposito, de la manera que ellos decidan: a traves del intercambio de textos, imagenes, fotografias, videos e incluso materiales. El dialogo puede llevarse a cabo de manera verbal o visual y resultara en la creacion de un ornamento elaborado por cada uno de los 40 artistas participantes.

Estan coordialmente invitados a visitar este blog, moderado por el critico mexicano Jose Manuel Springer y acompanarnos en el proceso de creacion de una exhibicion e interactuar con los artistas y el moderador.

La exhibicion Walking the Gray Area sera presentada dentro del marco del simposio Area Gris, Ier encunetro de Joyeria Contemporanea entre America Latina y Europa, que se llavara a cabo del 12 al 16 de abril del 2010 en la Ciudad de Mexico. En los meses siguientes les informaremos la fecha exacta de la inauguracion, que tendra lugar en la Galeria La Refacciconaria, en el centro historico de la Ciudad de Mexico.


Esperamos que disfruten la experiencia y que nos acompanen durante el desarrollo the esta fascinante exhibicion. Son bienvenidos a visitar el Blog Walking the Gray Area en:


http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/

Que VIVA ViveBerlin !

Vive Berlin tours ha nacido!
Una cooperativa de jóvenes hispanoparlantes que viven en Berlín y que viven obsesionados con la historia y peculiar belleza de esta fascinante ciudad.

"A través de nuestros tours en español descubrirás que la pasión por Berlín crece a medida que se profundiza en la historia que hierve en todos y cada uno de sus rincones..."

Vive Berlin tours ofrece seis recorridos regulares que te revelarán la verdadera Berlin, en tu idioma!

Además ofrecen la posibilidad de reservar un tour privado, con tu propio guia, sobre práctimente cualquier tema que tenga que ver con la ciudad y en uno de muchos idiomas como : inglés, alemán, ruso, hebreo, vasco, catalán y mas.

Grupos bienvenidos, aquí!
Visita la página web para más informacion o envía un mail con tus preguntas y comentarios a:
info@viveberlintours.de

SideSeeing designer market, Sunday, June 7, 2009

Los espero este domingo 7 de junio en la Maybachufer, en el stand numero 3!

I will be waiting for you on Sunday June 7, at the Maybachufer in stand number 3!

Ich warte auf euch diesen Sonntag 7. Juni am Maybachufer in Stand nr. 3!

Cadavre Exquis 2

This is the second time that I make this small "experiment", this time achieving amazing results. It might seem too bad that there wasn´t enough space to end this story, BUT I think the open end gives each one of us a chance to imagine what happened next. Please do comment with your suggestions!
I wish to thank all of those who participated, putting heart, soul and creativity into your contribution. and do not worry, The Cadavre Exquis will most surely visit again soon, bringing new adventures for our imagination!!!

Wondering why the images are soooo small ? Click on them to zoom in to a readable size!



Then I wrote something approximately like :
She turns around and sees him as well. Suddenly a spark transports her memory to another place. She remembers a tree in the distance, a butterfly in the air, happy times...

I am sorry to say that I couldn´t record the last comment. But then again this story is never over! Please comment and thanks!

Cadavre Exquis

A lot of you have probably played "cadavre exquis" ( exquisite corpse or cadaver exquisito) . With images or sentences, you would pass around a folded paper where you could only see the contribution of the last participant based on which you could make your own contribution. In the end you would get a quite funny and absurd story or picture.
I made the experiment of making an open cadavre exquis using a treasury list. The treasury format is optimal. The images of the list help to give some inspiration, the comment thread has the same qualities of the traditional paper, except it is open , everyone can read all the previous contributions. And nevetheless some magical things happen. Just read:

Thank you all for putting your bit of creativity into this wonderful story!!

Mod3rnart´s istudio: a peek into the workshops of creative people

I was invited to participate in a Blog project called istudio created by Mod3rnart.

Its creator describes the origin to the idea: "...its birth came from me being interested in where (studio/workshop) artists create their pieces. I want to create a sort of canvas of pictures from all over the world."

Mod3rnart are two young artists from Corfu, Greece (!) whom enjoy making beautiful items and sharing them with the world, as they say themselves.

So I took a look at istudio and loved it!!!

It is like having a key to the workshop of artists, no matter how far apart they are. And even if it is just a small peek, you know that an image speaks more than a thousand words.

It does satisfy the little voyeur in me.
I love getting a peek behind "the curtains" and into the workshops. Usually I think, wow! how can they keep their work spaces so tidy!!!! and organized!!!! did they clean up for the picture??did they always hve such wonderful organized spaces? Were they born with it?!!! (LOVED the before and after picture of Nadine Bozek).

It just gives you a more human idea of the people and places behind a "product",
it adds to its story and to its aura in a Walter Benjamin sort of way.

When you see a workshop you see more clearly that what comes out of this place was made by a person, lovingly sitting in front of a worktable, making decisions with eye and heart.

And you realize how different this is than having something that came out of a maschine for the thousandth time. And finally you come to the difference between a product and a piece, an item and a work of art! And, of course, it inspires me to be more organized in the future!!!

The story of stuff

What is the Story of Stuff?

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever

Fashion on ETSY

Etsy is a great place to find AMAZING fashion deisgners. Here are some of my Favorites:

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade SNoU.etsy.com

HAPPY MOTHER`S DAY!!!!

OH, mom! I love you sooooo much!

Zimmerhof jewelry Simposium

Zimmerhof Schmuck Symposium 2009.
From 11. to 14. July, 2009

Zimmerhof is a yearly Reunion of Jewelry makers from all around the world. Three days of wonderful conferences and exchange in a relaxed atmosphere.


This year´s Zimmerhof has "Full of Facets" as Theme. Here the information from the organizers (Herman Hermsen & Sofia Beilharz/ Phylicia Gilijamse/ Maryvonne Wellen):

—With the theme “Full of Facets“ we would like to address to jewellery in all its diversity and richness. The symposium will be characterized by lectures from renomated jewellery artists and well-known designers who are specialized in contemporary jewellery and/or serie-design. Futhermore the program will contain theoretical
controversies and reflections.
New materials, innovative concepts and techniques like 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing are going to be brought forward though presenting divers projects on this subject. Confrontations, different points of view to jewellery and new interpretations as well as definitions of the term jewellery will be discussed. We will focus on jewellery as an important, independent communication medium at the intersection with contemporary art, fashion and product design.
The program is internationally orientated with speakers from for example; Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria, thereby alumni students from academies though Europe will lecture about their works. According to tradition there will be a possibility for the visitors to present their own works on the jewellery table.
As usual the Zimmerhof Symposium is a place for international encounter, exchange of knowledge, communication, contact and not at least for partying together!

mehr infos/ more informations

Kontakt und Sekretariat (weekdays 9:00 bis 12h30)
Yvonne von Racknitz
Schloß Heinsheim
Gundelsheimerstr 36
D-74606 Bad Rappenau

Tel. +49 (07264) 808853
Fax +49 (07264) 808854.
info@schmucksymposium.de
Official Website

Studio 20/17 : Paper and text exhibition

Paper/Text exhibition

At STUDIO 20/17

A Group exhibition of jewellery inspired by the written word. Coinciding with the Sydney Writer’s Festival, International and Australian artists exhibit work containing text or paper elements.

Tues May 5th to Sat May 30th.

Opening drinks 6-8pm Thursday 7th May.

2 Danks St, Waterloo NSW 2017. 02 9698 7999.

Exhibiting Artists:-

Alice Potter (AUS)
Annaig Bidan (AUS)
Barbara Ryman (AUS)
Belinda Newick (AUS)
Danielle Butters (AUS)
Eliana Arenas (México)
Erin Keys (AUS)
Fabrizio Tridenti (Italy)
Ingeborg Vandamme (Netherlands)
Jessica Dare (AUS)
Lucia-Natalia Nieves Cortes (Germany- Puerto Rico)
Leah Tarlo (AUS)
Lotte De Mey (Belgium)
Nicole Polentas (AUS)
Sabrina Meyns (Ireland)
Tatjana Panyoczki (NZ)
Zoe Jay Vaness (AUS)

Ausencia y Regreso, by Lucia Nieves Cortés , paper, iron, silver, pigment

Studio 20/17

Melanie Ihnen, Ross Buchanan and Bridget Kennedy established as a workshop and venue for contemporary Jewellery, Object and Photography. Bridget and Melanie both work in the studio, creating limited edition series, commission and exhibition work. Visitors to the space are able to see the work in progress.

Artists are also invited to contribute to a regular exhibition calendar.

Studio 20/17 aims to increase the profile of the applied arts within the contemporary art arena.