Paper Boat Launch day on TV tonight!!

The film is still available to watch on line......looks like you can see it all day Sunday too!

Watch on-line if you live in the UK.

On Friday 30th January,
BBC Alba will broadcast our paper boat fundraiser launch, filmed at Mary-Ann's cottage on Tuesday.

You can watch live and then only 24 after first being broadcast.

Here's what to do!

Go to this website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/ then go to the box headed Naidheachdan (its on the lefthand side )and click on the link for An La (It's on the righthand side). There are two programme options available, one is for watching live (8pm - 8.30pm) and the other is for the most recent programme played. An La is Gaelic for The Day. An La is a news programme. Our paper boat fundraiser is one of many news items broadcast tonight.

The paper boats feature is 19 minutes into the programme.

18. New Zealand - Chris Fersterer

A modern day ‘Westland’. The screen printed image is derived from a shipping container I purchased from the ‘American Shipping Bureau’. I am cutting it up and reconfiguring it as part of my research into sustainable housing. This one will be used as an exhibition space for the Design School, Otago Polytechnic. Medium: Tyvek and acrylic paint. Tyvek is used as a building lining paper.

17. Scotland UK - Sheila

Copy paper printed with the first Harris Tweed we have designed and woven. It is marked ‘Made in Harris’ on the orb mark.
The boat is named ‘An Clo Mor’ which is the Gaelic for Harris Tweed (literally – The Big Cloth).

Sheila
Isle of Scalpay, Western Isles

www.scalpaylinen.com
www.scalpaylinen.blogspot.com

16. Scotland UK - Aine Scannell

The paper design is a collage of pages from an Irish Gaelic bible.

Made by Aine Scannell in Fife.

http://www.ainescannell.blogspot.com/

15. Scotland UK - Anon!!

The pattern shows an electrical switch diagram. Made by 'anon' in the construction section at the Thurso Campus of The North Highland College!

14. Scotland UK - Mary-Ann's cottage - as seen on TV!!

These are the boats we folded at Mary-Ann's cottage while being filmed for BBC Alba News An La! Paper boat fundraiser launch day!

As seen on TV!!

13. Scotland UK - Joanne B Kaar

The paper is made from rhubard collected at Mary-Ann’s cottage mixed with linen fibre.
Made from an old pastic folder. Waterproof!


Made from silkpaper, then handstitched.





Four of the boats are made with papers from banana skins and waste linen fibre from the Scalpay weaving shed in the western Isles. Painted with acrylic then hand stitched. The last one has added string made from New Zealand Flax.

Joanne is a member of the IAPMA - International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paperartsits.
http://www.joannebkaar.com/
http://www.joannebkaar-mary-anns-cottage.blogspot.com/
http://www.iapma.info/

12. Scotland UK - James Hobson

Boat made from a page of the John O’ Groat journal which has an article about the paper boat fundraiser in it! Decorated further with a label from New Zealand beer and a used ticket for New Zealand backcountry huts. Posted in a jelly jar!

11. Belgium - Gwen Willeghems

Gwen works as consultant for Europe Commission in Pakistan. She used Belgium newspapers for the paperboats. She has been living in Islamabad with her fiancee, and a German shepherd pup "Tris" and a persian cat "Gigi" for the last year. She loves cheese and together with her fiancee sells home-made fresh mozzarella cheese in Islamabad!

10. Indonesia - Yosephine Mira Padmasari

Mira used the Indonesian womens magazine "Femina" for paperboats. She hosts jewelry making workshop in Islamabad on a monthly basis, and sells her work in Islamabad's shops.

9. Pakistan - Faiza

Fazia is a 19 y.o college student in Islamabad. The eldest of 4 siblings and lives with her parents in Islamabad. She likes doing art and craft thing and learnt to stitch her own clothes recently. Loves baby, purple and shiny bangels and earrings. There are 2 languages in the paper used for the paperboats, urdu and english. And lots of sparkles!

8. Japan - Yuko Kawatani

Yoki has been living in Islamabad for about 6 months with her husband, Nobuhiro Kawatani, and a Pakistani street dog "Rinse". Her paperboats are made from Japanese women magazines. You will find japanese characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) in the paperboats.

paper boat

7. Norway - Linn Walerstedt

Linn Walerstedt works for UNHCR in Islamabad Pakistan. Enjoys sport in her spare time, from yoga, tennis, hiking, diving to skiing. One of her paperboats is made of Islamabad city map. The others are Norweigan magazines.

paper boat

6. Taiwan - Min-Chu - Compassion International Taiwan

Papers decorated by hand.
Min-Chu and teenagers from Compassion International Taiwan
http://www.citw.org.tw/

Min-Chu has e-mailed me translations for some of the messages they sent with the paper boats.

Click on the picks to read.

5. Belgium - Renee Rohr

The papers are posters about wine from Bourgogne in France. Renee is French.

Renee is a member of IAPMA - International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paperartists.

http://www.iapma.info/

4. Scotland UK - Castlehill Heritage Centre and AOC Archaeology

Schooner and a Viking ship.

The schooner was made from an old photograph of Castlehill Harbour.

Vikings!

Castletown Heritage Centre and AOC Archaeology

http://www.castletownheritage.co.uk/

Our Sea

The crash of the sea as it breaks on the shore-line,

The sough of the sea as the tide ebbs away.

With the roar of the waves came here settlers and rovers

The incoming tides brought sea harvest to shore.

The tides that of out are transporting our young men

To fishing, to battles, to countries unknown.

The in-rushng waves are harnessed and captured

To make easy the loading of flagstones and corn.

The harour and bay are now lonier places,

No crack of the sail, no clip of the oar.

But deep in the hearts of the people who live here,

The pull of the sea is as strong as before.

Muriel tells me this poem was in a seachest.

But who wrote it?

paper boat

3. Denmark - Anni Fiil

Kozo paper varnished and decorated with runes from 8th century in Indian ink.

Kozo paper varnished and decorated with runes from 8th century in Indian ink.

Boat is made from ‘lace paper’.

Boat is made from mulberry paper – not sure, Anni found it in her drawer!

Kozo paper varnish and acrylic. Printed with an impression of the floor in Anni’s house.

Anni Fiil is a member of IAPMA - International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paperartists.

Her website: http://www.annifiil.dk/

www.iapma.info

paper boat

1 New Zealand - Lynn Taylor

New Zealand flax paper, thread textile heat set ink.Image 1879 map of Otago Harbour

New Zealand flax paper, thread textile heat set ink.Image 1879 map of Otago Harbour with fish underneath ! Larger boat.

2 layers bonded silk organza rusted with found metal from Otago Harbour, thread, textile heat set ink. Image – passanger list.

Bleached New Zealand flax paper, threads, textile heat set ink, shell buttons – image William Youngs discharge papers.

Lynn is an artist and printmaker. She lives in Dunedin, next to Port Chalmers where the Westland sailed to in 1879. Her work is inspired by similar themes. You can read more about her work in this article which was published in the January 08 issue of New Zealand House & Garden magazine:

http://www.nzhouseandgarden.co.nz/Articles/LynnTaylorsWatermarks.asp

We will be exhibiting our 'Westland' inspired work together during Sept 09 in

New Zealand at the Anchorage gallery Port Chalmers, and in Scotland at Caithness Horizons, Thurso.

All paper boats will be exhibited in the Caithness Horizons exhibition, with all money raised from sale of boats going to The Caithness Heritage Trust to help keep Mary-Ann's cottage open for future generations.

You can follow our research and work here:

http://www.joannebkaar-mary-anns-cottage.blogspot.com/

2. Finland - Hee Sook Lee

left: Wrapping paper. Broken wooden boat

Right: Wrapping paper. Boat full of sand.

Hee Sook Lee is a member of the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paperartists - you can see more of her work here:

http://www.iapma.info/?p=2-3-2-details&id=226

http://www.iapma.info/

paper boat

shipping container

Just wanted to add this photo of the arrival of a really big sea chest to our house! My husband Chris Fersterer is cutting it up and reconfiguring it as part of his research into sustainable housing and this one will be used as an exhibition space for the Design School, Otago Polytechnic. For Mary -Ann's fundraiser he has made his paper boat from Tyvek (building paper) screenprinted with the numbers on this container.









paper boat

Paper Boats - Dunnet Beach Caithness Scotland

Paper boats on Dunnet Beach, Caithness. Each boat is made from one sheet of A4 paper. I've printed the wallpaper pattern from Mary-Ann's Cottage on some and on others there's pages from Mary-Ann's accounts books. All these boats are now shipwrecked!

paper boat