Join us for our ongoing Speaker Series presentation. Please note this is an ONLINE event.

In a world where craft traditions are shared, explored, and used as inspiration, it is essential to recognize the origins of these skills and honour the cultures from which they come.

Cultural appropriation occurs when artistic and craft practices are taken without understanding or respecting their significance, often stripping them of their cultural and historical context.

Instead, we must approach craft with an ethic of respect, reconciliation, and relationship-building. How do we ensure that our creative practices uplift rather than exploit?

Being in relationship with the land and harvesting from it is an integral part of Indigenous life. Jennifer will talk about harvesting, the histories of colonization and how that has affected harvesting practices, and how that relates to current day land based knowledge.

Tuesday, March 25th
7pm CST (check your own time zone)
Zoom link will be sent out via email after registration.

The Speaker Series is a FREE event, but we recommend a $10 donation. Please consider making a donation for the event. All profits from the event will be donated to an organization of the speakers choice. See below to register and donate.

We are launching our first ever Fibreshed book club!

We will host 4-6 meet-ups during the year to discuss various fibreshed themed books. We will meet up via zoom or in-person depending on participation.

The first book will be Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy by Rebecca Burgess

You can buy the book:

• From the Publisher - Chelsea Green Publishing

• From small indy book store Iron Dog Books

• By Audio book from Audible (and the large chain stores have it as well)

• Mcnally Robinson is out of stock - but call them and request it!

You can Borrow the Book:

• Winnipeg Public Library has two copies

• Pembina Fibreshed has 1 copy to be lent out (email connect@fibreshed.com)

Topic: Fibreshed Book Club
Time: Mar 3, 2024 02:00 PM Winnipeg

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84781736086?pwd=UWdLQjFwTndtZG1aZFZTSUZ0MldCQT09

Meeting ID: 847 8173 6086
Passcode: 250548

Please sign up for the book club, so we can send updates and information!

Join us as we demonstrate how to transform flax into linen.

Spinning Alpaca, Mohair and Silk Workshop

Expand your spinning knowledge beyond sheep's wool in this hands-on class. Bring your wheel or spindle and sample several different types of fibre: alpaca, mohair, silk and combinations.  Experiment with ways to process, blend and spin these types of fibre.  This class comes with an ample goody bag; you'll have a few ounces of several different fibres to take home and continue learning after the class is over.  You must be able to spin to take this class.

Location: Pembina Trail Library  2724 Pembina Highway, in the south end of Winnipeg

Time: Sunday May 12 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Fee: $70 (includes $40 materials fee for fibre samples)

Students please bring: spinning wheel or spindle, and a favourite processing tool, if you have one: a flick carder, hand cards or portable combs.  The instructor will also bring processing tools so we can experiment with blending processed roving.

Joanne Seiff is the author of three books, including Knit Green and Fiber Gathering.  She’s a long time spinner and knitter, and occasional dyer and weaver.  Her fibre arts articles have appeared in Spin-Off, Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits and other fibre arts publications.  Joanne has a long time interest in the huge variety of fibres available for spinning.  She wants to encourage spinners to explore diversity in their fibre choices.  She believes this experimentation and exploration widens our knowledge as spinners.  She’s enthusiastic about the history of diversity --from crossbred sheep, fibre plants and rare breed animal conservation.

Mending Workshop

Join Anna-Marie Janzen of Reclaim Mending and learn some new mending skills. We will cover some basic sewing stitches vital for mending projects, as well as how to patch clothes (including knits), mend tears, and darn your socks! We will also cover how to do visible mending - because why hide your beautiful handiwork?

Students should bring (If possible):

- anything that needs mending (small tears, holes in jeans, knit holes)

- sewing supplies such as needles, and thread

- fabric and/or thread scissors

Provided materials

- needles

- thread

- patching materials

- patching yarn/thread

- hand-outs

Bio:

My name is Anna-Marie Janzen, I am the owner/operator of Reclaim Mending, a Winnipeg-based clothing repairs and alterations service.

I started sewing when I was 3 years old, at the feet of my grandmother. Years of a love of sewing and mending, and a passion for fair fashion has led me to embark on this journey of small business. My goal is to help people make their clothes last - so we can all reduce our consumption and the strain we put on the planet and on humanity with the fast fashion industry.

Introduction to Raising Angora Rabbits

Tuesday, August 28th 6-8pm

St. Vital Park (Winnipeg)

Interested in fibre production and want to start small? Come learn about angora rabbits! These furry fibre friends friends allow urban and rural dwellers alike to produce their own fibre. Angora fiber from rabbits is soft and silky, and much warmer than wool. Learn about basic care and grooming of Angora rabbits and meet AJ an urban dwelling Satin Angora.

Instructor: Bronwyn Turnbull

Bronwyn is an urban dwelling farming enthusiast who does their best to make urban space into both sustainable food and fibre. Bronwyn has knitted for 15 years and got into fibre production after looking for ways to produce fibre in an urban setting. They fell in love with angora rabbits and now have two. They hope to expand their fibre flock (in a rural setting) to include sheep and angora goats.

Saturday August 18, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Registration fee: $70 includes all materials.

Pembina Hills Arts Centre (352 Stephen Street, Morden Manitoba)

Instructor: Tamara Klassen

Learn to add beautiful colours to natural fibres using  plant dyes in this workshop with textile artist Tamara Klassen. Participants will process samples of cotton, silk, linen, and wool in dye baths prepared with plant material grown in southern Manitoba. You will go home with a journal record of your work and the knowledge to carry on your own dye projects in the future.

Tamara Klassen is a textile artist from Southern Manitoba.  After learning to sew from her grandmother at a young age, she developed a love for textiles early on.  Her work focuses on traditional artisan techniques, learned from her travels around the world, mixed with a modern design aesthetic. Working with predominately natural fibres and plant dyes such as indigo, she creates one-of-a-kind art pieces and home goods using resist-dyeing methods. 

Learn how to start your own dye garden -- which plants provide reliable dyes, how to grow them in our fibreshed, and how to harvest them for dyeing.  Participants will go home with some seeds and plants for their gardens. A follow up workshop in late summer will focus on using home grown dyes on natural fibres.

Sunday May 6, 2018

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Henderson Library (1 - 1050 Henderson Highway, Winnipeg)

Cost: $40 (non members),     $36  (members)

Please bring a notebook and a pen.

Have you always wanted to raise sheep? Are you ready to grow your own wool? Or expand your existing farming plans?  This workshop will be a beginner workshop on how to start raising sheep. The workshop will be hands on, at a working fibre farm.

Sunday, April 22 2018

10am - 5pm

Long Way Homestead Fibre Farm  (East of Winnipeg) 

Cost: $65  Member Price     $70   non-member price (light lunch is included)

Instructors: 

The workshop will be facilitated by Margaret Brook, Linda Glowacki and Anna Hunter. Business partners Margaret and Linda established Leafhaven Shetlands in 2009 with three shetland ewes and a keen interest in spinning and felting. It has since grown to include nearly the entire Shetland rainbow of fleece colours and patterns and a thriving fibre flock.  Anna Hunter is a first-generation sheep farmer, having only had a sheep farm for 2 years Anna brings the perspective of a new farmer who has had to learn everything from scratch, with the help of mentors, books and lots of mistakes Anna knows first hand what is involved in starting a fibre flock from square one.   This workshop will rely heavily on the Canadian Code of Practise for raising sheep, and other great resources.

The outline for the workshop is:

Flock Considerations (breed, budgets, timing and resources)

Infrastructure (fencing, shelter and handling)

Sheep Basics (feed, health, breeding and lambing)

Shearing and Marketing (getting the most out of your wool)

This cost of course will be a one-day starter course, with resources to take away and utilize for your own flock considerations.

Please bring a pen, notebook, rubber boots (if you live on a livestock farm please wash thoroughly before attending workshop), warm jacket or sweater - we will be outside.

What is a Fibreshed and why it is important:  Join us for an afternoon presentation on the concept of fibreshed and the specifics of the Pembina Fibreshed and how it will affect fibre farming, production, dyeing and design in Manitoba and beyond.

Sunday, February 4 2018

2pm - 4pm

Henderson Library (1 - 1050 Henderson Hwy)

Free Event