Images from Moon Rain

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Happy New Year to all

People have been requesting some images taken around Moon Rain Centre, so here are a few taken during warmer times.

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Images by K Ewen

The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available

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The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available for order. Contact info@moonrain.ca or telephone 819 457 9711. Please check the Moon Rain website at www.moonrain.ca/TapestryWorkBook.html (PayPal available)

The Living Tapestry Workbook is an introductory guide to designing and weaving tapestry.
The step-by-step instructions simplify tapestry weaving, making it accessible and easy to do. The Workbook covers all the basics needed to get started and serves as a companion to further explorations in tapestry weaving.

The Living Tapestry Workbook introduces the philosophy of Canadian tapestry artist Thoma Ewen, and shares her technical insights and knowledge developed over 35 years of weaving and teaching tapestry. Ewen communicates the ancient indigenous understanding that weaving is a sacred path. She illustrates how tapestry’s vital contemporary role is to transmit beauty, harmony and Peace.

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"When Thirteen Moons Entwine"
a textile arts event in the Outaouais
late summer/early fall 2010

integrating textile arts with the natural environment
and the mythology of the thirteen moons

"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" is a professional textile arts event, inspired by the legends of the thirteen moons of the natural lunar calendar. It is an outdoor laboratory that brings together established professional textile artists with young emerging artists in the creation of textile arts installations along a scenic walking path. This festive event includes exhibitions, workshops and artist's talks at Moon Rain Centre in the Gatineau Hills in the Outaouais region of West Quebec, and collaborates with major exhibition centres in the region to present textile arts exhibitions during the late summer and early fall of 2010.

"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" presents four related textile arts aspects:

installations, workshops, exhibitions and artist's talks

For more information please visit

www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineEnglish.html

or

www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineFrench.html

Call to artists

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Moon Rain Centre announces
A Call to emerging and established textile/fibre artists for:
“When thirteen moons entwine”
an international textile arts event autumn 2010
integrating textiles, the environment and the mythologies of the

lunar calendar.

Artists are invited to propose outdoor textile/fibre art installations,

workshops and artist talks.
Deadline for submissions is January 15th 2010.

Information:
Moon Rain Centre
http://www.moonrain.ca/
info@moonrain.ca
819-457-9711

Article in the Low Down Newspaper

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This article appear in the Low Down newspaper on November 4 2009. The author is Phil Jenkins.
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Fibre Quarterly Article

An article on the Big Weave Project, Moon Rain and fibre was published in the Fall 2009 edition of Fibre Quarterly. The following is the link to the article.

www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1

The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.

Be sure to check out this publication.

Aurora Borealis Behind The Trees

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Misty morning at Moon Rain

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The mist rolls across the fields at Moon Rain

Photography

Ken Ewen

Sunrise at Moon Rain

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Just before another incredible sunrise at Moon Rain Centre

Photography

Ken Ewen

Fibres Boreales Exhibition

Moon Rain Centre Group Exhibition

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Artists and members gathered at Moon Rain Centre last Thursday to select works for the upcoming group exhibition, Fibres Boreales / Northern Fibres, to be presented in St Andre Avelin`s Centre d`Action Culturel fom September 4th to 27th, 2009.

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Thoma Ewen, Phyllis Wedding, Hope MacLean, Francoise Chartrand, Denise Coker

Francoise Chartrand, Denise Coker. Thoma Ewen, Hope MacLean, Krystyna Sadej and Phyllis Wedding are participating in the exhibition. Unfortunately, Krystyna was not available for the photos.

Photography Ken Ewen

FIBRES BORÉALES ~ NORTHERN FIBRES

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une exposition en tapisseries haute-lisse et l’art de la fibre, créées par un groupe d’artistes membres du Centre Moon Rain
a group exhibition in tapestry and fibre arts by artists and members of Moon Rain Centre
du 6 au 27 septembre 2009 ~ September 6 to 27, 2009
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Moon Rain Centre is invited to direct The Big Weave community tapestry project in England

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Finishing the weaving and cutting it off the loom

Photographs by
Joanne de Nobriga

Art In Action

Art in Action is a wonderful event that takes place near Oxford each year. It has become a showcase for Art and Craft in the UK. The intention is that artists set up as close as possible to workshop conditions so that the visiting public can enjoy seeing them at work. We were delighted to take The Big Weave along. We had a tent dedicated to The Big Weave and were busy weaving away over the four days of Art in Action. We had lots of visitors either joining in or just happy to watch the peaceful activity. The weather could have been a lot kinder, we had torrential rain, thunder and lightning! Joanne, our intrepid photographer came along despite the weather and took a few pictures of us working on the red brickwork of the Reading houses and bridge.


Here is a link for Art In Action if you would like to find out more...
http://www.artinaction.org.uk/ .

Photographs by

Joanne de Nobriga

Alfred Sutton School

The Big Weave was at a local school, Alfred Sutton. The classes had the opportunity to watch the tapestry weavers and had the chance to weave too.

Photographs by
Joanne de Nobriga