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Bahira: Thursday, April 17th at 7 pm in person!

Announcements, Programs, Upcoming Programs

Bahira: Thursday, April 17th at 7 pm in person!

As Spring returns to the Bay Area, we return to in person programming! Our
speaker for April will be Bahira, a local textile artist whose work can often be
seen at FabMo in Sunnyvale. Inspired by an international upbringing—
her parents were American expats moving around the Middle East—and a first
career in ethnic fusion dance, Bahira now crafts one-of-a-kind dolls in
recycled fabrics, drawing on worldwide traditions from Japanese Shinto to Hopi Kachina and everywhere in between.
The program will be at 7pm at Veterans Memorial Senior Center (1455 Madison Ave, Redwood City). Please wear a mask if you have any cold- or flu-like symptoms, even if you’re fairly sure it’s only seasonal allergies.
If you’d like to join the speaker for dinner before the program, please contact Lizzy Ten-Hove (emtenhove [at] gmail [dot] com)

Dinner Gatherings are back!

Announcements, Upcoming events

Dinner Gatherings are back!
by Gudrun Polak
When Covid hit us in 2020 we lost the wonderful opportunity to enjoy dinner with our fellow Black Sheep friends before the guild meetings. It had been great socializing and lots of good ideas were hatched out. Often it gave us a chance to spend an extra hour with our speaker.
It is time to get back into this habit and the time is NOW, this month. Update your calendar, write down the guild meeting and add “Dinner at 5:30 pm” to your list. As I look at the locations where we used to meet I find that our favorite Thai restaurant in Redwood City is no longer listed. I do find the Japanese restaurant that I liked just as much:

ASYA – 3215 Oak Knoll Dr. After consulting with our local gourmet, Jodi, I added two more choices:

– Big Brother’s Burgers – 2137 Roosevelt Ave                                                                                                  – Villa Lucia’s – 1725 Woodside Road

Please check out their locations, websites and menus.
Then let me know what you prefer and I’ll make a reservation.
Gudrun

Art on the Square – Summer 2024

Announcements, Past Events

Black Sheep Guild participates in annual Art on the Square

           

The Black Sheep Guild once again put together a great booth for Redwood City’s “Art on the Square” series: in this case, the “Jewelry on the Square” event of July 12th.

Guild members demonstrated their crafts and welcomed passersby to try their hand at spinning, rigid heddle weaving, and kumihimo braids.

We made some lovely connections with folks of all ages, including several young people who were particularly enthusiastic.

It was a lovely opportunity to reach out to the larger community. Many thanks to all the members who contributed!

Barbara Shapiro Introduces the New World Shibori Network Foundation

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Barbara Shapiro Introduces the New World Shibori Network Foundation

Artist, author, scholar, and friend Yoshiko Wada has presented several times at Black Sheep
meetings. In1975, she taught the first Shibori class in the US. In the 1990s Wada and Japanese colleagues held the First International Shibori Symposium (ISS) in Nagoya, Japan, seeking to promote shibori textiles in Japan and beyond by preserving this century-old technique from disappearing. The World Shibori Network (WSN) aims to share information and inspiration and to preserve Japanese shibori and similar heritage techniques across the globe by creating a bridge between the ancient and the contemporary in textile technologies with an emphasis on sustainability. In 2022, WSN became a non-profit foundation.
Slow Fiber Studios (SFS) https://shibori.org/slow-fiber-studios/ is now the official
educational arm of WSN and will continue to offer in-person and online lectures and workshops on a variety of textile subjects. The Shop https://shop.slowfiberstudios.com/ offers excellent sustainable indigo and other dyes, Shibori tools and products, and a range of pertinent books and videos, etc. Newly developed Slow Fiber TV https://shibori.org/slow-fiber-tv/ offers subscription-based access to uncut versions of the various SFS workshops and other content.
Trips and tours https://shibori.org/international-tours/ are in the planning stages. Join our
mailing list for updates on our programs and consider become a member of WSN
https://shibori.org/membership/. Full disclosure, I am a founding board member of the new WSN Foundation.

— Barbara Shapiro