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NEWSLETTER Winter 2012 Volume
24 Number 1, January to May 2012
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| Happy New Year 2012 -- our 24th year of basketmaking! Celebrate by honouring our environment which provides us with so many weaving materials by participating in our "GREEN BASKETRY" exhibition during the month of April. This event will take place in the month of Earth Day, April 22, which is 42 years old this year - by coincidence, the reverse of our 24 years of making baskets. A good omen! Joleen Note from Pat Othen: Over the past few months I have added a couple of new items to our web pages. Under the tab "Photo Gallery" are two new tabs "Past Projects" and "Basket Patterns", and in the coming months Joleen and I will expand the Honorary Members section under the tab "Past Events" to include a short biography on each of the Honorary Members. |
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DUES (calendar year) $15 per individual $20 per couple Payable to: Nova Scotia Basketry Guild Mail to: 121 Crichton Avenue, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B3A 3R6 |
FUTURE
WORKSHOPS Suggestions for workshops, and locations to hold the workshops are always appreciated. If you, or someone you know, would like to teach a workshop, or have an idea for a workshop, or an idea for workshop space, please e-mail us and let us know. We have people who can help make it happen! Do
you or anyone you know do chair caning? We often get requests
through the web site looking for people to recane chair seats.
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GORDON Workshops These gatherings are
open to Guild Members
only.
There
is no formal teaching just sharing, to complete workshop projects or to
start new ones.Tuesday Mornings starting Jan 17th 9:30am to Noon with a potluck lunch at noon. Monday Evenings 7pm to 9pm E-Mail: Joleen for details |
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"GREEN
Basketry"
March 28 to April 29,
2012
– Nova Scotia Basketry Guild Exhibition
Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing, Dartmouth Ferry Terminal Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28, 7-9pm Set-up dates: March 27-28 Take-down dates: April 29-30 Our theme, "GREEN Basketry", includes baskets made of green material collected from our natural environment and by re-using man-made materials thus “greening” our environment. We would like to collect baskets
made of A WIDE RANGE of materials.
Bring
your baskets from now until the March 17th Annual General Meeting to
Joleen’s home, 121 Crichton Avenue in Dartmouth – we would like to have
a lot of materials exhibited.----<>----
Throughout the weeks leading up to our exhibition, we will be holding a series of basket making demonstrations at the Saturday morning market space near the door of the Craig Gallery in the Alderney Landing Farmers' Market: Saturday January 28 – Cereal Box
Pencil Holder Baskets
If
you have other baskets “on the go” bring them along and show off the
many ways natural and man-made materials can be woven into useful
baskets!Saturday February 25 – Telephone Wire Baskets ----<>----
FREE WORKSHOPS
During
the exhibition, we will be having a series of Saturday morning free
workshops in the gallery area. Children under 7 may need
adult
assistance.Saturday March 31: 9:30-Noon -
Strawberry Box Lanterns
Help
participants make their own lantern of Nova Scotian made berry boxes
complete with
battery-operated tea light. This is a 1950s Nova Scotian
tradition. Light their way home!Saturday April 7: 9:30-Noon –
Easter Baskets of Paper Strips and Ribbon
This
basket re-uses materials found in our everyday environment.
Woven
in the traditional style of Mi’kmaq fancy baskets with the
diamond-shaped weave, participants will be ready for the
Easter
Bunny! Saturday April 14: 9:30-Noon –
Cattail Birds
This
wrapped basketry bird uses natural materials found in ditches and wet
areas. Help the participants make a bird in the traditional
Western Native
Aboriginal style. They float!----<>----
FREE
PUBLIC TALK – “BASKETS OF NOVA SCOTIA”
Sunday April 22 – Earth Day
2:00-4:00pm given by Joleen Gordon, President, Nova Scotia Basketry
Guild
An
afternoon display and talk about the traditional basket styles in the
Mi’kmaq, the Black, the Acadian and the Celtic communities of our
Province, all of whom use the specific natural materials found in our
environment. We
hope to have a display of baskets made from re-using man-made
materials. Amazing creations made by people in cooperative
communities “greening” and thus saving the environment. In Addition: we will have an Information Session for those seeking basket identification, care, conservation and repair. Bring your baskets! |
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January
21, 2012 - Saturday
Birchbark Cylinder Container #1 with Joleen Gordon  an example of the styleA container made of a rectangular piece of birchbark, rolled into a cylinder stitched with root and then pegged to a wooden circular bottom. This canister-like container was traditionally used for storage. You may wish to add a lid! Instructor: Joleen Gordon Cost: $15.00 (includes materials) Participants: 6 Place: 121 Crichton Avenue, Dartmouth - Workshop (the
woodstove providing hot water)
Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm Tools: scissors, awl, non-folding knife and lunch Class contact: Register with Lillian Fowler E-mail Lillian Please Register and Mail in your Class Fee before January 13, 2012 to: Nova Scotia Basketry Guild, 121 Crichton Street, Dartmouth, NS, B3A 3R6 ----<>----
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February
18, 2012 - Saturday
Birchbark Cylinder Container #2 with Joleen Gordon  Todd Labrador making this vesselThis container, like the one in the January class but with root-laced birchbark bottom, is similar to the one Mi'kmaq artist Todd Labrador taught us a few years ago. Instructor: Joleen Gordon Cost: $15.00 (includes materials) Participants: 6 Place: 121 Crichton Avenue, Dartmouth - Workshop (the
woodstove providing hot water)
Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm Tools: scissors, awl, non-folding knife and lunch Class contact: Register with Donna Silvert E-mail Donna Please Register and Mail in your Class Fee before February 4, 2012 to: Nova Scotia Basketry Guild, 121 Crichton Street, Dartmouth, NS, B3A 3R6 ----<>----
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March
17, 2012 - Saturday
Annual General Meeting and Mi'kmaq Quilling with Cheryl Simon  an example of one of the geometric designsAnnual General Meeting will take place over the noon hour break (noon to 1:00pm). All members are encouraged to attend to vote for your 2012-13 executive and to bring your ideas for programming in our 25th year in 2013. Workshop: We are so fortunate to have had Mi'kmaq artist Cheryl Simon teaching us in two previous workshops working with porcupine quills and birchbark, replicating Mi'kmaq geometric and petroglyph designs. This workshop will re-visit those techniques plus introduce us to using quills to create different "fill patterns" in designs. Cheryl will also introduce her new son Declan Andrew! Guild members have donated hand-dyed porcupine quills and Lunenburg County birchbark for this event - many thanks to Edie, Clary and Monique. Instructor: Cheryl Simon Cost: $10.00 Workshop Participants: 10 AGM Participants: Unlimited (we need a quorum of at least 14 or 15 so we would like to see you for the meeting even if you cannot make it for the workshop) Place: 121 Crichton Street, Dartmouth Workshop Time: 9:30am - Noon, Resume quilling 1:00pm to 3:00pm AGM Time: Noon to 1:00pm AGM and bag lunch Workshop Tools: scissors for the bark and tweezers for the quills, your lunch Class contact: Register with Joleen Gordon E-mail Joleen Please Register and Mail in your Class Fee before March 3, 2012 to: Nova Scotia Basketry Guild, 121 Crichton Street, Dartmouth, NS, B3A 3R6 ----<>----
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March
28-April 29, 2012
"GREEN Basketry" Exhibition with Guild Members A
Plea for Help to our Membership
Please Volunteer to help out in any way you can. Ways to help could include helping the organizing committee over the next couple of months, helping with set-up of exhibition, helping with demonstrations and workshops before and during the exhibition, manning the gallery during the exhibition, helping with opening night reception, helping with the take-down of the exhibition. The more hands we have the less work for all of us. Most importantly please submit
your baskets for the exhibition.
Time Line to help you plan your
participation:
Submission of baskets for
Exhibition: from now until March 17th (please
deliver to Joleen's home)Demonstration: Saturday January 28, 9:30am to Noon - Cereal Box Pencil Holder Demonstration: Saturday February 25, 9:30am to Noon - Telephone Wire Baskets Set-up Dates: March 27 and 28 at Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing Dartmouth Opening Reception: March 28, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Workshop: Saturday March 31, 9:30am to Noon - Strawberry Box Lanterns Workshop: Saturday April 7, 9:30am to Noon - Easter Baskets of Paper Strips and Ribbon Workshop: Saturday April 14, 9:30am to Noon - Cattail birds Lecture and Information Session: Sunday April 22, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Gallery Hours: Sunday - 11:00am - 4:00pm Monday
- CLOSED
Take-down:
April 29 and 30Tuesday - Friday 12noon - 5:30pm Saturday - 9:00am - 5:00pm Contact: Joleen Gordon E-mail Joleen ----<>----
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May
19, 2012 - Saturday
TBA Instructor: Cost: $0.00 Participants: unlimited Place: Time: 9:30am to 3:00pm Tools: Your eyes to watch, your hands to try a project Class contact: Register with Lois Murray E:mail Lois Please Register and Mail in your Class Fee before May 5, 2012 to: Nova Scotia Basketry Guild, 121 Crichton Street, Dartmouth, NS, B3A 3R6 ----<>----
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