Past Events

Cara at the Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinners' Guild
The Drift 2010
The Ashford Way
Monika Stooss from Switzerland
Car-Free Day
DIY @ Museum of Vancouver
On CBC TV

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Cara at the Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinners' Guild

January 20, 2011

Aberthau Cultural Centre
4397 West 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6R 1K4

Cara gave a talk at the Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinner's Guild (www.gvwsg.com).

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The Drift 2010

October 2010
Main Street, Vancouver
Right here at the shop!

The 6th Annual Drift Weekend Art Tour

"Showcasing local Vancouver artists working in all media. The event is free to the public and takes place in shops, cafes, galleries and open studios all along Vancouver's go-to destination for art, design and great food: Main Street!"

"The annual Drift Art Festival includes a wide range of arts and community-based events that occur in galleries, businesses, restaurants, cafes, community organizations and public spaces along Main Street from Industrial to 33rd. The dynamism of the Drift festival attracts visitors that are economically and culturally diverse; children, youth, adults and seniors; local, regional and international visitors; business owners and patrons; cultural producers as well as cultural consumers." - The Drift

We hope you stopped by as you walked the events of the Drift and saw demonstrations by and the work of:
Carmen Craig-Martin (spinning and crochet instructor)
and
Sarah Breggin (felting instructor).

Birkeland Bros was the Featured Drift Retail Partner
in The Drift's E-News September 2010.

"Featured Drift Retail Partner: Birkeland Brothers Wool

Cara Birkeland is a Main Street business owner
who truly supports the Drift and local artists - for the second year,
she has hosted two textile artists and paid their Drift artist membership fees!

This year, Birkeland Bros. is hosting artists Carmen Craig-Martin and Sarah Breggin.

There will be demonstrations of [spinning and felting]
at various times during the weekend."

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The Ashford Way

July 28, 2010

Richard Ashford, of Ashford Products, from New Zealand
gave a seminar right here at Birkeland Bros. Wool!

He discussed what's new at Ashford, answered questions,
demonstrated weaving, spinning, carding, and drop-spindling,
and signed autographs on Ashford products.

For a limited time, Birkeland Bros. has select Ashford products
signed by Richard Ashford for sale. Please contact us for details.

We thank Richard Ashford for joining us
and putting on this wonderful seminar.

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Monika Stooss from Switzerland

July 24 to 26, 2010

Birkeland Bros. was honoured to have a famous felter from Switzerland,
Monika Stooss visit us and be our guest artist in the following courses:

Felted Boots

Felted Skirt

Felted Top

Monika Stooss has pioneered the use of felting for fashion,
as well as for therapeutic purposes in social pedagogy.

To see more about Monika please go to: Spycher-Handwerk
[In German or French, Automated Google Translation only - please forgive the bloopers!]

This website takes you to a wonderful wool family business in Switzerland, where we visited last fall. There are a lot of parallels between Birkeland Bros. and the Graedel family in Switzerland. Their background is in farming and they keep a herd of sheep, camels,
lamas, wool pigs, and ducks - and are able to run carding machines and warehouses
on their own farm. This is also where we first met Monika Stooss.

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Car-Free Day

In June in 2010 and 2011 Birkeland Bros. opened the shop for Main Street's Car-Free Day with a huge spin-in, knit-in, crochet-in, weave-in, and felt-in.

We hope you had fun giving your favourite activity a spin!

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DIY @ Museum of Vancouver

On April 9, 2010,The Museum of Vancouver hosted a social crafting night,
in conjunction with the exhibition Art of Craft.
Over 300 people attended!

Birkeland Bros. did demonstrations and hands-on workshops on spinning, felting, or weaving.
The knit-pit was a hot spot for new and experienced knitters alike.

We had fun and we hope those who attended did so as well.
Birkeland Bros. wishes to thank The Museum of Vancouver for this wonderful event.

Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Street,
Vanier Park

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On CBC TV

We were featured on Living Vancouver on January 8, 2008 on CBC - Channel 3!
Watch the video clip...

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