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Aurora webshop!
Sweet Salone

Aurora webshop!

Aurora Foundation has been an active participant in the arts and crafts industry through our Sweet Salone project. Icelandic designed goods produced in Sierr…

2 Apr 20201 min
New year, new courses!
Sweet Salone

New year, new courses!

We are only two weeks into the new year, but what a way to start the new year! For the past two weeks, Eva María Árnadóttir and Tinna Gunnarsdóttir visited u…

20 Jan 20202 min
Amazing event this afternoon at the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied art
Sweet Salone

Amazing event this afternoon at the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied art

Great crowd filled the room listening to tale about Aurora´s projects in the creative industry in Sierra Leone. Aurora wants to thank Guðbjörg Káradóttir for…

22 Aug 20191 min
The trainers and producers at the pottery center receive a real boost!
Sweet Salone

The trainers and producers at the pottery center receive a real boost!

For the past few weeks, the Pottery Center has been even more busy than usual. A solar panel system has been set up in the Center, giving a long waited elect…

20 May 20192 min
Pottery school in full swing
Sweet Salone

Pottery school in full swing

The Lettie Stuart Pottery School started at the beginning of March 2019. There were 10 excited students who came for the first day and got introduced to the…

26 Mar 20191 min
Sweet Salone project at full speed!
Sweet Salone

Sweet Salone project at full speed!

Another week of amazing creativity as our Sweet Salone project continues in full swing. Collaborators in our Sweet Salone project, the amazing designers in A…

18 Feb 20191 min
Launch of the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
Sweet Salone

Launch of the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre

Yesterday the Lettie Stuart pottery center was formally launched with all major stakeholders in the Waterloo area. Around 100 persons came to see the newly r…

14 Feb 20191 min
The design team is in Freetown! At least part of it!
Sweet Salone

The design team is in Freetown! At least part of it!

There has been a lot of creativity in the air over the last few days as ideas have been shared, discussions have taken place and laughter and positiveness ha…

1 Feb 20191 min
Annasamar vikur í Lettie Stuart Pottery
Sweet Salone

Annasamar vikur í Lettie Stuart Pottery

Undanfarnar tvær vikur hefur Lettie Stuart Pottery iðað af lífi. Nýtt verkefni er í smíðum hjá Auroru – en það er að koma leirkeraverkstæðinu í Campbell Town…

17 Oct 20182 min
Busy weeks at the Lettie Stuart Pottery
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Busy weeks at the Lettie Stuart Pottery

For the past two weeks the Lettie Stuart Pottery has been buzzing with life. A new project, re-establishing the pottery center and setting up a pottery schoo…

17 Oct 20182 min
New videos on Aurora Youtube Channel
Sweet Salone

New videos on Aurora Youtube Channel

The aim of our project Sweet Salone is to promote and help develop the field of crafts and design in Sierra Leone, mainly through collaboration with Icelandi…

19 Apr 20181 min
New Online Magazine on the collaboration of 1+1+1 and Aurora
Sweet Salone

New Online Magazine on the collaboration of 1+1+1 and Aurora

The Nordic design group 1+1+1 has published an Online Magazine on their collaboration with Aurora Foundation. Starting in 2017, 1+1+1 have been participating…

20 Mar 20181 min