Jason Granger of Winnipeg takes part in a
sewing circle at a social forum Wednesday at the Telus Convention
Centre. From left: Katherine Reed; Vicky Dalton; Lois Klassen; Granger;
April D'Aubin; and Gloria Brehm. The forum continues today.
Photograph by : Ted Jacob, Calgary Herald
The full article is here: Tax credits...
I need to counter that very bland report on the Canada Social Forum as printed in the Calgary Herald (next to the obituaries on Thursday) with this much more urgent initiative to get Federal Government attention focused on Homelessness: The 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay - Passing the Burnt Wooden Spoon
On the weekend the Glenbow Museum in Clagary was buzzing with sewing machines and murmuring with conversation, not to mention chatter, and laughter... it was a place to make stuff: to learn to mend (with Linda Hawke), to learn to embroider (with Adina Edwards), to learn to make one-of-a-kind shoulder bags (with Mary Swain) and to participate in the biggest ever Comforter Art-Action sewing circles (with Lois Klassen). We made about 20 blankets that were piled in the lobby on top of a gorgeous Victorian-style oak bed from the Glenbow's collection (c.1905).
I will stay in Calgary for the rest of the week to get the blankets finished and to explore the city's community art projects and gardens (for the Garden Gnomad project).
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May 25, 2009
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In the background - LINKS
- Archive City
- Brenna Maag - Artist
- East Side Culture Crawl
- Garden Gnomad R&D
- Kriss Boggild's art site
- MCC | Comforters
This is the NGO that distributes most of the blankets made by Comforter Art-Action. This website also describes the blanket requirements. Using these specifications, you could make some of your own. - MOPARRC
Sharon Kallis, Lois Klassen, and Lori Weidenhammer are artists in residence at Means of Production Community Garden. This blog follows their work in Vancouver's only community garden for artists. - Potluck Canuck
Lori Weidenhammer's blog: ecology; performance art; slow food... - The Living Blanket / La Couverture Vivante
The official website of Doris Buttignol's on-going women's textile/networking project. You can participate by making a 25x25cm textile square and mailing it in. - Wynne Palmer's blog
Art Projects
- Thirteen Sightings; a Silent Movie
Thirteen Sightings began as a set of e-mail poems, documenting the process of winter becoming summer in Manitoba (1999). The thirteen poems have been combined with S8 movie clips from around the same time. This project was the final requirement for the completion of a 'Post-Graduate Certificate in Digital Arts & Interactive Media' from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. - COMFORTER Art-Action
Check here to view images and ideas generated by COMFORTER. - I'm Thinking Thneed
- 52 Songs of Comfort and Remembrance
This is a link to the coverage that CBC Radio 3 did of the installation I had in Artropolis, 2003 in Vancouver. Click on the brown and orange-coloured rectangle on the bottom of the title page.
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