Program

Registration

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Free Evening

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Registration

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Luncheon - Keynote Speaker Sissal Kristiansen

From the Faroe Islands to Newfoundland: Embracing Heritage and Sustainability in local wool and in knitting

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Everything Is Connected: Panel on Sustainable and Relational Animal Fibre

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Wool Processing & Appreciation in Our Shared Future

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Meet and Greet

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Opening: Making - An exhibition of the College of the North Atlantic’s Textile & Apparel Design students, created in their first year of studies.

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Workshop Session 1: Foraged Plant Fibre Weaving

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Workshop Session 2: Bite Sized Tanning

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Workshop Session 3: Hand Papermaking with Recycled Paper, Textiles and Sustainably Grown, Harvested and Processed Fibre Flax

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Presentation: Soil to Soil - Growing Our Fibre in the Canadian Land Base

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Lunch Break

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Workshop Session 4: Intro to Backyard Fibre Processing

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Workshop Session 5: Foraged Plant Fibre Weaving

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Workshop Session 6

These workshop sessions will be filled with one of the other workshops we are offering, based on interest/demand. Please indicate your option when registering for the other sessions.

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Focus Group: Reusing Fabric and Fibre Arts

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Presentation: Loose Ends - Started with love by them. Finished with care by us.

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College of the North Atlantic’s Textile and Apparel Design Program Students Waulk

Free Event

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Workshop Session 8: Block Printing with Natural Dye Mordants

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Workshop Session 9: Shaping Local Material - Building 3 Dimensional Forms with Textile Techniques

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Workshop 11: Getting Ready to Export! - An Exporting Session for Makers, Craft & Visual Artists & Cultural Workers

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Presentation: The Paradox on Invasives, From “Weed” to Fibre

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Lunch Break

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Workshop Session 7: Fibre Sculpture: Upcycled Textile Forms

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Workshop Session 10: Sculptural Needle Felting

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Workshop Session 12: Shaping Local Material - Building 3 Dimensional Forms with Textile Techniques

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Presentation: Reviving Local Fibre Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Unama’ki Cape Breton

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Presentation: Unravelling the Threads of Heritage: A Tribute to the Art & Craft of Fibre as it Connects Us as a Culture

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Presentation: How to Kneel in the Grass

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Market Day 1

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Tours

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Market Day 2

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Travel Day