Sunday, October 26th, 1-5pm
100-130pm- Birthday cupcakes130-300pm- Session 1FULL!
With your own two hands: Hand-built pottery with Dale SmithBefore the invention of the wheel, all pottery was hand made. There are three ways to hand-build pots: slab, coil and pinch. Unfortunately, slab pots take some time to make, as the clay has to dry enough to be handled, so this method will not be included in this workshop. The other two methods are coil pots and pinch pots. Their names tell it all. Coil pots are constructed from coils of clay and the pinch pots are made by squeezing a ball of clay into a container. It isn’t that hard, but the final result can be very satisfying. Please join us and see what you can make with your own hands.
Dale Smith studied pottery at the Vancouver School of Art, and now lives and works in his studio in LeBreton Flats, Ottawa. After moving to Ottawa, he became one of the first craftspeople to have a stand in the, then, newly renovated Byward Market Building. He has participated in numerous craft sales in and around the Ottawa area including, in recent years, the Metcalfe Farmer’s Market. His aim in pottery is craft, not art. While he wants his dishes, bowls, and mugs to have a pleasing proportion, shape and colour, they must always be practical and functional.
FULL!Wicked Winter: BIKE IT!As the weather grows colder, people start putting their bikes away...but must they? In this workshop, Sam and Stefan will show you what it takes to be a winter cyclist. We will discuss clothing and gear (balancing thriftiness, comfort and safety), bike maintenance, and basic bike/traffic-handling skills.
Unwilling to surrender her two-wheeled autonomy to the tyranny of public transit schedules, Sam McGavin first hopped on a bike in snow six years ago and hasn't looked back since. Remarkably few scrapes and bruises have ensued, far outweighed by the solidarity and freedom she shares with other four-season cyclists.
Stefan Reinecke has been a four-season urban cyclist and periodic mountain biker since he was 14. He was an active member of Recycles Cycles in Kitchener-Waterloo, a community bike workshop where he fixed old abandoned bikes and helped people work on their own bikes. Stefan believes bicycles are: gorgeous, a tool of liberation, and a crapload of fun.
Full! Appropriate Comportment through the Dating Life Cycle: For Relationships Both Casual and ComplicatedThe Dating Life Cycle is a veritable minefield of possible missteps and misunderstandings. The Ms Manners and Etiquette will take you gently by hand and illuminate the way to your assigned seat squarely in the glorious action section. And just in case things go awry whilst you are here, they will also show you how to make your exit with grace and dignity.
Ms Matilda Manners
Ms Manners has spent the bulk of her career studying at the International School of Extreme Politeness in Berne, Switzerland. In 2002, she was awarded her PhD of Mannerly Arts. Her doctoral thesis "The Tea Service as an Ongoing Paradigm of Modern Moral Disarray" is seen as one of the school's groundbreaking texts.
Ms Edwina Etiquette
For the past 20 years, Ms Etiquette has dedicated her life to helping those less mannerly than herself. After completing her studies at the Institute for Painstaking Politeness in Vienna, she has filled the position of Gentle Instructress at the Emily Post Memorial Halfway House for the Formerly Rude. She also volunteers as an "Excuse Me, But Please Would You Stop That" ambassador on the OC Transpo system.
FULL!
Uplifting smells, slippery soaps, and suds: Making soap and essential oilsLearn how to make chemical-free soaps using vegetable-based oils and essential oils. Stop relying on corporate, chemically-induced products and make your own. This workshop will show you the basics when it comes to mixing, matching and producing a wide-variety of soaps and soap products.
Nicole Leroux is a certified aromatherapist, massage therapist and reiki master who operates Uplifting Senses, a holistic healing home-based business. Her passion is in supporting people maximize their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
300pm-430pm- Session 2FULL!
With your own two hands: Hand-built pottery with artist Dale SmithBefore the invention of the wheel, all pottery was hand made. There are three ways to hand-build pots: slab, coil and pinch. Unfortunately, slab pots take some time to make, as the clay has to dry enough to be handled, so this method will not be included in this workshop. The other two methods are coil pots and pinch pots.
Their names tell it all. Coil pots are constructed from coils of clay and the pinch pots are made by squeezing a ball of clay into a container. It isn’t that hard, but the final result can be very satisfying. Please join us and see what you can make with your own hands.
Dale Smith studied pottery at the Vancouver School of Art, and now lives and works in his studio in LeBreton Flats, Ottawa. After moving to Ottawa, he became one of the first craftspeople to have a stand in the, then, newly renovated Byward Market Building. He has participated in numerous craft sales in and around the Ottawa area including, in recent years, the Metcalfe Farmer’s Market. His aim in pottery is craft, not art. While he wants his dishes, bowls, and mugs to have a pleasing proportion, shape and colour, they must always be practical and functional.
FULL!
Self-preservation: Canning Made EasyIn this hands-on workshop you will prepare and can your own salsa using fresh, local ingredients. Learn basic home canning techniques that will allow you to preserve a variety of foods to warm you up during winter! Chips will be provided for quality control purposes (i.e. sampling the goods).
Leela enjoys preparing for the apocalypse by growing, preparing and preserving all kinds of tasty things. This year she started a community garden to share her passion with other green thumbs in the neighbourhood. She has been making and canning her own salsa, jam, and fruit for several years, and has given food preservation workshops through Just Food.
FULL!
Intransigent Intaglio: Printmaking with Beth, just got better Intaglio (pronounced in-TAL-YO!) is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is scratched into a surface, known as the plate. This workshop will explore dry point technique which is a fun, easy and cheap way to make beautiful artist quality prints at home. I can see some of you scratching your head right now. I hear the nay-sayers:
"What about a printing press, Beth? What - You think you're smarter than Johann Gutenberg?"
Well that's where it just got better.
Who needs a printing press when you can drive over those suckers with your car?
That's right, we're going hardcore.
FULL!Simple songs with Dave ToughMusic can be as mind-blastingly complicated and technically challenging as you want to make it, but at its most basic it's just the sound of things hitting things and vibrating. This workshop is intended to de-mystify the process of making music, by focusing on some bedrock concepts and secret short-cuts designed to take you from pregnant silence to tuneful wacking in a few fun minutes. If you have an instrument - especially one, like a keyboard, guitar or percussion instrument, that you either know how to play at least a teensy bit and/or that doesn't take any real skill to make a sound on - please bring it along.
Dave Tough is a musician and a perpetual student. He moved to Ottawa two years ago after making trouble and noise in Peterborough, Ontario (banjo capital of Canada) for over a decade. He makes sound on a number of different instruments including his own larynx, and strongly approves of others doing the same.
