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Canadian Embroiderers'
Guild, London 40th Anniversary: Gathering Threads
May 12th to 15th, 2011
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
In
celebration of the upcoming fortieth anniversary of the Canadian
Embroiderers’ Guild, London, an exciting fibre focused three day
conference is being planned. Mark
on your calendars the dates Thursday, May 12th to Sunday, May
15th because those are the days that you will want to be in
London, Ontario immersing yourself in all things fibre.
Our
goal is to showcase the fibre arts community in the London area by
inviting other vibrant but less visible groups to bring their different
techniques of working with fibre to a more publicly accessible forum. We
want the larger community to know that fibre is a wonderful medium with
which to create. Other fibre
affiliates include Simply Hooked Rughookers, the London Lacers, the
Canadian Book Artists and Bookbinders’ Guild of Southwestern Ontario,
the Fringe Element Tatters, Forest City Knitters and the Forest City Smockers Guild.
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Gathering Threads . . .
Time has run out
to register for the workshops and for the Wearable Art Fashion
Show.
We thank all of you who will be joining us for the workshops
and the Fashion Show and Dinner. We really look forward to
meeting you and know that you will have a great time with us. For
those of you who weren't able to be part of those activities,
there are still a number of events that you will be sure to
enjoy. They include . . .
- shopping at the Vendors at Perth
Hall, May 12th to 14th, 2011
- taking in the great
work of the London Fibre Groups'
displays at Perth Hall, May 13th and 14th,
2011
- "Fabric of
Art" Invitational fibre art show at the Art Exchange, Wortley
Village, May 9th to June 5th, 2011
- Annual CEG London
Members' Exhibition at the London Central Library, May 4th
to 28th, 2011
We have
garnered a lot of media attention in the London
community, a London Free Press article about our partnership
with Sterling Marking Products, an In Touch spot with A Channel,
a feature in the Beat (Arts in London), and a radio interview on
Western Radio with Ben Benedict's Inside the Arts. We wish to
sincerely express our gratitude to these organizations for their
support of this community arts endeavour. The exposure given to
Gathering Threads by all of them is invaluable to the success of
our events.
Our invitational
fibre art show, The Fabric of Art, is shaping up to be a
really great show. Al Stewart at the Art Exchange is very
excited about the impressive quality and the breadth of the
work that will make up the show. Art pieces from both
workshop teachers and from local fibre artists make up this not
to be missed exhibition!. Opening night is May 13, 7 to 9
pm. Come and see us!
The participating
London fibre groups are eager to share their respective
fibre techniques with all who are interested on Friday and
Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm. Come and visit with them and they will
be happy to show you how they do it - and where you can go
creatively once you know how!
Please visit the Vendors
from Thursday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm. There is a great
variety of fibre related merchandise, hard to find specialty
items that will be just the thing to enhance your latest (or
oldest) project.
We hope to see
you and your friends at all or some of the great events that are
part of Gathering Threads. |
What
Gathering Threads registrants will be enjoying includes . . .
Workshops
with well known fibre arts teachers
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Glee Barnard: beautiful hooked rugs
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Janet
Bolton: simple but gorgeously whimsical art quilts
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Kirk
Dunn: fearless and colourful knitting
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Margi
Hennen: art doll maker extraordinaire
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William
Hodge: a tailored for us beading embellishment class
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Sylvia
Naylor: how to capture your garden using texture
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Rose
Newlove: paper conservator and maker of beautiful books
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Lorraine
Roy: breathtaking collage art quilts with a mosaic look
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Judith
Tinkl: all you could want to know about colour
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Fibre
art exhibitions, both on and off site
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Vendors
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Wearable
Art Fashion Show, Sale and Dinner
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Silent
auction of wearable art items
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Teacher
panel discussion
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Lots
of time to learn and create
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Lots
of opportunities to laugh and relax with like-minded people
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