The European Stone Festival is returning to the UK this year. It will be held 24-25 May at The Minster in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

The themes for the free-to-attend sessions that will take place in the Stone Show Seminar Theatre as part of this year's Stone Show and Hard Surfaces have now been announced.

Sintered stone brand Neolith recently hosted a live panel event called 'Creating Spaces for the Future' as part of the official London Design Festival programme

The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces 2025 – which will now be co-located alongside UK Construction Week – is to take place on 7-9 May 2025 at ExCeL London in Halls N2-N3 (the nearest end to the Custom House DLR and Elizabeth Line stop).

Events will retain unique focus with independent visitor registration and even more dedicated content over three days

Complete beginners and those more experienced carvers are invited to attend the Summer Carving School in Norfolk this September with Nina Bilbey and Charlotte Howarth

Tooling and machinery specialists, D Zambelis are joining forces with the Worktop Fabricators Federation (WFF) to host a special day focusing on worktop fabrication. Taking place on 16 May from 10am-3pm at D Zambelis' Essex premises, it promises to be a packed day with live demos, the chance to chat with experts and network.

CITB (The Construction Industry Training Board) will hold its Constructing Skills – CITB Skills & Training Conference at the home of Manchester City Football Club, Etihad Stadium, on 6 June

Conservation Day at last year’s Stone Show provided a fascinating look at a varied range of topics spanning conservation within the stone industry, and you can now view all three sessions from the days programme online.

Six years after Wells stonemason and sculptor Paul Roddan staged the first Wells Stone Carving Festival, the event is returning to the Bishop's Barn (the medieval tithe barn owned by the council of the UK's smallest cathedral city) from 4-6 May 2024.

A number of British craftsmen working with stone will be involved in the inaugural Great Australian Stone Festival founded and hosted by Stone of Arc. The event which takes place in March in Wellington, New South Wales is the first traditional stone festival in the country and is the brainchild of professional waller, Emma Knowles who founded Stone of Arc in 2017

The Lettering Arts Trust will present its latest exhibition entitled 'The Nereids’ from 22 February to 23 April at West Downs Gallery, Winchester

Albion Stone, Hutton Stone, Lundhs, Paye, Polycor and The Stonemasonry Company have joined together to form The Stone Collective. With the view to 'educate and inspire the built environment community about the power of stone', those involved are pioneering stone as the 21st-century's low carbon, load-bearing material

The National Federation of Builders has announced two free half-day workshops to complement its Top 100 Most Influential Women in Construction Awards.

British Safety Council's full day Annual Conference will take place on 17 October and is free to attend. Now in its 13th year, this is the first year the conference has been an online event – the theme is: 'Ensuring your organisation is resilient and future-proofed'

The organisers of Marmomac, Veronafiere have revealed that 51,000 visitors attended the 57th edition of the show in Verona, Italy

The UK Natural Stone Show team are at Marmo+mac! You can find us on stand G16 between halls 6-7 in the Central Service area

​​​​​​​The Building Limes Forum’s main event this year, including its AGM, is taking place in Lincoln 1-3 September.

West Riding Stonecarving Association holds a Stone Carving Festival in the grounds of Halifax Minster on the weekend of 22-23 July.

The Worktop Fabricators Federation Open Day held earlier this month at Granite House in Preston was attended by more than 40 members

A resounding success. That’s how Stone Federation Great Britain described the Natural Stone Show’s return to ExCeL London 6-8 June after a four-year gap due to Covid.

The Building Limes Forum is holding a ‘lime slam’ in Lancaster on Saturday 1 July covering the use of lime rendering and harling.

The 10 winners of the Emerging Talent Awards will be announced at the Natural Stone Show at ExCeL London on 7 June

If you want to see how to use stone in cityscapes, including sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), there's a lot to learn from Sheffield, which is why Stone Federation hosted a walking tour of the city led by Sheffield City Council's Senior Landscape Architect, Mike Brearley.

A specially designed seminar theatre on the exhibition floor will host the Natural Stone & Building Conservation Conference at the Natural Stone Show at ExCeL London 6-8 June. The sessions will include the presentation of an Industry Choice Award for the favourite among the category winners of the Stone Federation’s Natural Stone Awards presented in December. Vote for your favourite project at tinyurl.com/stonechoice.

Andrew Sims, heading the Ava Stone marketing push in the UK, says: “Ava Stone are excited to present our large format offering at the ‘go to’ national event for fabricators and stonemasons – Hard Surfaces 2023.

Cevisama: will next week’s exhibition be a new beginning or the end of an era?

the Natural Stone Show London is back and it’s looking good

Brazillian quartzite is revitalising the market for natural stone interiors, and you could see why at the Vitoria Stone Fair this month.

Marmo+Mac in Verona attracted British visitors this year after many had give it a Covid miss last year.

WINS meet again at The Counting House in London on 2 November