Hook the Town Red - Speaker and more!

The Northumberland Rug Hookers are hosting a hook-in October 26 and you’re all invited to Hook the Town Red!  

It promises to be a fun day, with vendors, and prizes, and rugs! 

Chris Poole, sharpener extraordinaire, has confirmed he will be there!  

We have some ideas for workshops percolating….watch this space for more info!

....and we have a very interesting speaker for the day!

Hilda Van Netten is a Cobourg-based artist and teacher who will be leading us in a session on the Battle of the Brain! This is a fun class where she will help us to understand the creative vs logical sides of our brains.  Looking forward to it!  You can see some of her work and learn more about Hilda at her website.  

Here is a selection of the many portraits Hilda has done of participants at the Green Wood Coalition Art Hive

She has been very involved with the Green Wood Coalition, an area organization that uses a radically inclusive community model of caring to walk alongside people living with poverty, mental or physical illness, substance dependency, or disability in Northumberland County. By focussing on what’s strong, not what’s wrong, they work for positive change that leaves no one behind.  We will learn more about them and Hilda’s work teaching and doing art at the Community Art Hive over the course of her talk. 

We will have a donation bin set up to collect warm socks and mittens on behalf of Green Wood. If you have items for donation, please bring them along!  Even those reusable hand warmers wb good to include!