One more success!

The 10th Annual St. Distaff's Day Celebration was hosted by The West Carleton Fibre Guild at the Almonte Fairgrounds on June 4th , 2011. A day of tuition, catered lunch , and comradeship, a fun time was had by all. The attendance exceeded the originaly planned for 100 participants to a brimming 113. Morning and afternoon teaching sessions were held demonstrating the fine arts of weaving, basketry, spinning, felting to name just a few.

A job well done!

FASHION SHOW FEATURES MILL STREET MERCHANTS

On Thursday June 9th The Friends of the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum will hold their annual Fashion Show for the benefit of the museum, at Almonte and District High School from 7:00pm until 9:00pm. This year the show will feature Almonte's own Mill Street Merchants.

Leading the participants is Kentfield Kids. They will feature some of their selection of Name Brand consignment clothing sized from newborns to size 10. Kentfield Kids offers a boutique style experience. They provide a changing room for little ones as well as a play area for the kids while you shop. For your comfort they even provide a place to sit.

Vintage Wear-Ware will be featuring dresses from the 50's and 70's. They are cutting edge with today's fashionistas. A few wedding dresses will also be included. Vintage Wear-Ware is a unique store in Almonte, offering a full range of men's and women's clothing from the 20's to the 90's. Whether it's sweaters, handbags, aprons, hats, skirts (plaid and tartan too), belts, even umbrellas, they have it all. They also offer a rental service for your next themed party or wedding.

White Lilly is the newest shop in Almonte, located in the Heritage Court on Mill Street. White Lilly offers you the opportunity to be drawn in, to see and feel who you really are, from the inside out. The clothes are selected to enhance your highest potential. Made in Bali from eco-fibres, such as bamboo, beech, soya, silk and cotton, the clothes are wrinkle free. To add that extra splash of personality to your wardrobe there are purses, silk scarves, jewellery and more.

Tickets to this amazing fashion show are $20.00 and available at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, 3 Rosamond St. E. Almonte, or by calling 613-256-3061.

Reminder

We are pleased to announce that the 10th Annual

St. Distaff's Day Celebration will be hosted by:


The West Carleton Fibre Guild

at the Almonte Fairgrounds


Saturday June 4, 2011

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

For more information contact stdistaffsday@gmail.com

Registration and information www.stdistaffday.blospot.com

Triangle Shirt Fire documentary night at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Triangle Shirt Fire Movie Night, May 14th at 7:00pm at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, $5 per person. The movie is being provied by the new Worker's Heritage Museum. The Triangle Shirt Fire was the most famous industrial incident of the early 20th century.The fire changed the laws for mill workers. This film highlights the situation of the young women workers.

Coffee and Tea will be served after the film.

Contact info:

Michael Rikley-Lancaster
Executive Director / Curator
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
613-256-3754
curator@mvtm.ca
www.mvtm.ca

A Common Exploration: Art and Artifact

Inherit, Inform, Inspire by Cynthia Jackson

Composing With Fibre: Releasing Meaning from Common Threads by Jo Fitsell and Sara Rockinger

Cynthia Jackson, Jo Fitsell and Sara Rockinger have each been working with textiles and fibre for many years, exploring the many different ways these materials can be used in art. Although each works on her own, these recent works share something in common by looking back at artifacts, techniques and images and bringing them to life in a new and inspiring way. Three different styles, a common exploration.

The artworks by Cynthia Jackson are inspired by a selection of artifacts in the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum’s collection—including, but not limited to, the machinery, workers, textiles and the building itself. The chosen objects reflect a collective inheritance, are informed by their historical significance and combine to inspire the art.

Jo Fitsell returns to her birth province after twenty-five years of exploring and experimenting with surface design. She has reinvented the ancient technique of marbling, revived batiking—silk-screened layers of dye—and introduced painted canvas to her sewing machine. Multiple techniques are brought together in a collage, creating rich and emotional textures that describe the artist’s relationship with nature, wonder and self.

Sara Rockinger creates translucent panels with ghostly images of mill workers from the past, simply using stitch as line, and line as stitch, in graceful and thoughtful remembrances. Hands are really such lovers and when given the freedom to respond to the beauty, warmth and hidden messages embedded in fabric are in full complement with art-making at its most private and intimate.

While each artist brings to this exhibit a distinctive style and personality, together they form a common exploration of the possibilities for creating contemporary artworks with clear links to the past.


Vernissage: Thursday, May 12, 7 pm
Exhibition dates: May 4 to July 10, 2011

Location Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
3 Rosamond Street East
Almonte, ON
613-256-3754 x7
info@mvtm.ca
www.mvtm.ca

Support the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum while seeing a great play in Perth!

What could be better than attending the Classic Theatre Festival in Perth? Supporting the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (MVTM) while you do. Buy your tickets at the MVTM and see "The Fourposter" by Jand de Hartog on August 24th, and you'll be doing just that. "The Fourposter" is one of the most enduring portraits of a marriage in the 20th century theatrical canon. This chronicle of a couple through 35 years of marriage, from a nervous wedding night through to child birth and parenting, mid-life crisis, and the final realities of aging - is both a tender and a times hysterically funny masterpiece. It will be shown at The Mason Theatre 13 Victoria St. Perth.
If you would like tickets please call 613-256-3754 ext. 7, email curator@mvtm.ca, or drop by the museum. The MVTM is open from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 4 pm.

SILENT MOVIE NIGHT AT THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TEXTILE MUSEUM

FEATURING: Daddy Long Legs (1919)

STARRING: Mary Pickford

LOCATION: 3 Rosamond Street East, Almonte

DATE: April 30, 2011, doors open at 6:30 pm, movie starts at 7 pm

Step back in time on April 30th to see a silent movie on the big screen. The MVTM will be showing Daddy Long Legs (1919) starring "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford (who was born in Canada). Daddy Long Legs is a romantic comedy following the life and loves of a young woman as she grows through adversity into a successful author. There will be live music to accompany the movie, just as it would have been done when the movie was first shown. A concession stand will also be provided to curb those movie munchies. Doors open at 6:30 and the movie begins at 7:00. All of this for the low ticket price of $5.00, tickets are only sold at the door and are first come first serve. For more information please contact us at 613-256-3754 ext. 7, or visit our website www.mvtm.ca. We look forward to seeing you here! Mississippi Valley Textile Museum 3 Rosamond St. E. Almonte.