cowichan fleece & fibre fair |
ivan sayers vintage clothing shows |
salt spring island fibre fest
fibre fest international |
gibsons landing fibre fest
Cowichan Fleece & Fibre Fair
October 20th, 2007
Eagles Hall, Boys Road, Duncan, BC
With the fall season at our doorstep, it is once again time to get ready for the Cowichan Fleece & Fibre Fair.
We have lined up some exciting and informative demonstrations and interesting displays on a wide variety of textile techniques including basketweaving, rughooking, various forms of feltmaking, knitting, spinning, weaving and braiding. Our vendors are bringing a large variety of fibres, yarns, beads and finished textiles to this year's fair.
Browse our Vendor booths and get an early start on your Christmas shopping. Bring your whole family to participate in a full day of fibre fun. Learn to knit, try your hand at spinning, or share your favourite knitting pattern with a new friend.
Kids Onstage, geared especially for youngsters, will present six different mini–workshops with a fibery slant. At 10:30 kids can learn finger knitting and kumihimo braiding followed by felting and spinning at 12:30 and ending with paper weaving and rag weaving at 2:30.
And if you get hungry or need a break, grab a lunch from our fabulous Fleece and Fibre Fair Food Fare kitchen. We will be ready with coffee, tea, juice, and a warm and hearty vegetable soup or chili with a bun. And don't forget dessert!
Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, Oct. 20th, so you won't miss this great day!
Date: October 20th, 2007
Place: Eagles Hall, Boys Road (Near Buckerfields)
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Admission: Adults $2.00, children free
Contact person: Els van Dam 250.743.0851 jacoba@telus.net
Silk yarns hand–dyed with Brazilwood: one dye bath, many different colours by using different mordants and after baths
Ivan Sayers Vintage Clothing Shows
Two Vintage Clothing Shows to Benefit the Seeds for Malawi Project
October 12 & 13, 2007
Ivan Sayers returns to Salt Spring on October 12th and 13th for two live model vintage clothing shows at ArtSpring to benefit the Seeds for Malawi Project of the Salt Spring Garden Club. The theme for this year is the good, the seedy and the ugly.
Friday Show
The Friday night performance at 7:30pm focuses on 100 years of what makes fashion beautiful; what fashionistas were dying to wear over the last century. Ivan will bring the must have outfits from the leading haute couturiers and trend setters, no Rosie the Riveter here – only the Belles of the Ball.
Saturday Show
After the Saturday noon Garden Club fall plant sale, (that's the seedy part), the Saturday matinee at 2:30pm is a laugh–filled spoof on the worst of "fashion". Do you remember those outfits that were "to die for" but now when you look back you wonder how you ever wore such a thing? Yes, Ivan will entertain us with the ridiculous, the sublime and the just plain ugly.
As a Jan. 2004 Vancouver Sun article noted, Mr. Sayers has the "best, most representative clothing collection in private hands in the country."
Mary Boni, coordinator of the fashion program at Kwantlen University College said,
"It is an awesome collection," and Sayers "is the best presenter of history I've heard on this continent." Attendees to the 2005 performance at ArtSpring would agree, we never laughed so hard getting educated about the clothes we wear.
Tickets
Tickets are $14.00 for each performance. If you purchase a ticket for each performance, the set is $25.00. Come in person to the ArtSpring box office, or telephone 250.537.2125 or go on-line artspring.ca to reserve your seats. And bring a friend.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Fibre Festival 2007! It was a fabulous event.
Salt Spring's Fibre Festival will be back in 2009.
Until then, you can see some great photos from this year.
In Praise of Hands — July 2007
Workshops |
July 18–24 |
Salt Spring Island's Fibre Festival is unique: it focuses on natural fibres of all sorts – their histories, and how they are produced, processed, and used in the creation of extraordinary fabrics and fashions. We want visitors, artisans, designers, and fashion houses to discover (or re–discover) the special qualities of luxury fabrics made of breed-specific wools, silks, alpaca, llama, mohair, linen, soy silk, hemp and a long list of ancient and modern fibres.
On the weekend, July 21 and 22, the public is invited to attend the Festival proper. This year, the events will be held at ArtSpring — Salt Spring Island's sophisticated Arts and Theatre Centre — so we'll be right downtown and easily accessible. Some of the events and displays:
• Fibre to Fashion demonstration. Some of the finished items will be auctioned off, so you can actually own a one–of–a–kind, handwoven garment.
• demos (some hands on) and displays of a huge range of textile processes and the work they produce.
• an Interweave Knits Trunk Show with batches of spectacular sweaters.
• a major quilting exhibition.
• selected garments from Saturday night's Designers' Showcase on display.
• fleeces of many kinds of animals with touch & feel samples available; there will also be fabrics spun, woven and knit from the fleeces.
• a Postcard Challenge.
And, of course, there'll be some wonderful vendors on–site, offering excellent fibre, tools, books and finished goods.
Please visit www.fibrefestival.com where you'll find scheduling information and registration forms. If you need further information, please contact info@fibrefestival.com and they'll be happy to help.
All 2007 Festival Photo Galleries are now posted!
Take a moment to complete the 2007 Festival Evaluation Form.
Looking Westward
August 15 – 18, 2007
www.gibsonslandingfibrearts.com
Why not make 2007 the year that you visit the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival on British Columbia's beautiful Sunshine Coast? The Festival is known for its friendly small–town atmosphere, and those who know Gibsons Landing's spectacular mountain–to–sea scenery will agree that this is a perfect setting for this event.
This year's Festival theme is Looking Westward! You'll find the theme interpreted in workshop topics offered by teachers from across Canada, exhibits, and other Festival events.
There is plenty to see and do — workshops, juried exhibit & sale, merchant mall, artisans market, entertainment, demonstrations, tours, and more. You'll find a wide range of fibre arts, including basketry, dyeing, knitting, quilting, needle arts, paper arts, rug hooking, spinning, weaving, and woodworking. We especially want to welcome the many teachers from around BC and across Canada who will bring their diverse talents to the 2007 Festival.
For more details, including visitor information, call 604.740.1229.
May 11 – 12, 2007
www.fibrefestinternational.com
From Fleece to Fibre Arts and Everything In-between!
Join us at Fibrefest International, while we celebrate 2007, the Year of the Craft, at Tradex, in Abbotsford BC, Canada.
The 5th Annual Fibrefest International is an exhibition and conference for the fibre enthusiast. The show is produced by Marilyn Ross of Sterling Farms in Aldergrove, British Columbia.
The goal of Fibrefest is to bring together weavers, spinners, quilters, fibre animal fanciers, fibre artists, children, and the interested public in a joint atmosphere of appreciation, learning and camaraderie.
The show will incorporate world class workshops from top instructors, exhibitor booths selling everything from raw fibre to quality finished goods, a marketplace containing the wonderful works of local artisans, instructor's exhibits and demonstrations, as well as live sheep, cashmere goats, llamas and suri alpacas on display to show off the source for much of the fine fibre available for sale at the various exhibitor's booths.
This premier event will be held at Tradex, in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Tradex is a spacious 60,000 square foot, air conditioned building at the Abbotsford Airport.