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June 2010 Guild Meeting: Potluck

June 1, 2010

The June meeting will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm. This Guild Members meeting will be the annual pot luck and social evening. Please bring an item for the supper table, preferably “finger food”. Also, bring your own plate, cutlery, etc. and of course, your own mug for tea or coffee. [...]

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GVWSG’s 75th Anniversary

May 23, 2010

Interlacement Symposium The last of the workshops has finished. The samples are labeled. The notes are tweaked, tabulated, sorted. Tired but happy workshop participants are heading home to far corners of the Pacific Northwest and beyond to process all this wonderful new information and knowledge. The workshops and lectures were a huge success. Group photos [...]

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GVWSG Meeting and Program: Natural Fibers by Louisa Chadwick

February 12, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 7:30pm – 10:00pm Aberthau Cultural Centre Like a wine tasting, we will have a chance to see and touch a number of different fibres and yarns made with them, many perhaps familiar and some that may be new. The accompanying slides will acquaint us with the animals and plants that produce [...]

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Interlacement Symposium

January 14, 2010

Interlacement Symposium May 17 to 23, 2010 In case you need further enticement to register for the dazzling lineup of Interlacement workshops, check out these tidbits. Greater Vancouver Weavers’ and Spinners Guild Member, Jo Skinner chatted with each of the Interlacement Symposium instructors to get the inside scoop on what makes each of these workshops [...]

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75th Anniversary GVWSG Symposium and Exhibitions

August 31, 2009

In 1935 nine women came together and founded our Guild. Forty years later the membership stood at 354 and today we are about 150 strong. In addition to our monthly meetings and programmes, the Guild has held sales, exhibitions, many workshops, hosted conferences including Convergence in 2002, built an excellent library, published a newsletter and [...]

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Paper Fashion Show and Gallery Exhibit Update

July 16, 2009

Paper Like You Have Never Seen it Before Summer in the city – what could be better than a week on Granville Island, enjoying the many exhibitions, large and small, as well as the ongoing demonstrations of work by Korean and BC artists working with fibre. Emily Carr University on Granville Island in Vancouver is [...]

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ANWG Conference 2009 Report

June 17, 2009

At least 8 Guild members attended the ANWG conference at Gonzago University in Spokane. Our first job after finding our dorm, was to set-up the booth. This went very easily together, thanks to all Cathie’s detailed instructions. We were bowled over by some of the other Guilds efforts, especially the winner from Galiano Guild. So [...]

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Events around “Fibre, Naturally”

May 19, 2009

Summertime – yes, it really is just around the corner, and so are all the exciting events connected with the exhibit, Fibre, Naturally, being held in the Concourse Gallery at Emily Carr University in August. The exhibit itself runs from August 11 – 16, from 8am to 6pm from Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 6pm [...]

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