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OHCG Newsletter / Winter 2023 Ontario Hooking Craft Guild Outdoor Poster Exhibit / In the News Our Beaconsfield Outdoor Poster Exhibit is featured on pages 12 and 13 of the Winter edition of the OHCG Newsletter. Every poster is displayed, and includes the titles and authors of each rug. Congratulations to:  M. McMurray, Carolyn Ells, Jacques Lepage, Claire Fradette, Isabelle Rollin, Brenda Ticehurst, Emmy Maten, Sue Rolland Dawson, Barbara Silver, Dawna Mathhew and Helen Radford. OHCG Newsletter. Issue 4, Winter 2023. Cover Page. OHCG Newsletter. Issue 4, Winter 2023. Page 12. OHCG Newsletter. Issue 4, Winter 2023, Page 13.

Outdoor Poster Exhibit    July 22, the City of Beaconsfield’s “Happy Hour by the Water” event marked the official opening of our outdoor poster exhibit. Almost 900 people showed up for the concert and also viewed the poster display. Julie Poirier-Monette, co-ordinator for Beaconsfield’s cultural life, announced the poster exhibit to the public and read out a heartfelt message from our Guild thanking the City for creating this beautiful poster display of our work and inviting those drawn to our craft to visit our website and Facebook page and join us in September for Monday meetings.   Panels 1 and 2. Photos courtesy of Emmy Maten. As one tours the exhibit, the first poster describes our Guild and its history, and shows our Centennial Hall Tile rug, which is currently hanging in the Beaconsfield Library. The posters which follow display some of our members’ rugs (chosen by the photographer) and various rug hooking techniques. Panels 3, 4, 5, 6. Photo courtesy of the City o...

Special presentation to Mayor Bourelle and the City of Beaconsfield – our Centennial Hall Tile Rug    From 2019 through 2020, twenty-seven of our members created a unique tile rug, conceived, and designed by M. McMurray. This rug represents the Centennial Hall building which has been our weekly meeting place since many, many years. Our beloved home will be replaced in the near future by a new community centre which will better meet the community’s needs. We kept this rug a secret until 2 pm during the afternoon of our April 29, 2023 rug exhibition! Our special guest Mayor Bourelle attended our exhibition for the grand unveiling of our gift to him and to the City of Beaconsfield. M. McMurray spoke to the mayor and to the public about our special gift and its creation. It was so well received! Our rug will hang in City Hall and will eventually find its permanent place in the new Community Centre, preserving the memories of Centennial Hall for all those who loved it. The unve...

 June 7, 2022  Culture and Inclusion Project – our 3rd and 4th Workshops While our first 2 workshops were with elementary students, today’s workshops were with high school students, totalling 26 students. Six of our Guild members (Juliet, Dawna, Chris, Muriel, Kitt, Emmy) volunteered to animate today’s workshops. Following introductions, we each held up rugs and let each student pick their favorite. The animal rugs were very popular! Instead of providing a design to hook as we had done with the younger students, we gave the high school students total freedom to create what they felt like hooking. Our students worked from the backside of their frames, using our adapted Proddy stick or a chop stick to push loops through the netting, somewhat like doing punch needle hooking. The results varied from geometrics, to their initial, and to various scenes. Punch needle technique using an adapted Proddy stick. A geometric design The letter K A house Another house This piece, a pumpkin f...

Culture and Inclusion Project    The Beaconsfield Library invited our guild to take part in a wonderful project to promote cultural activities to students living with disabilities. Several members of our guild first attended information and training sessions presented by Altergo. Then at subsequent hooking Mondays, everyone brain-stormed ideas and we developed workshops which could be appreciated by the students. May 26, we presented our first 2 workshops, and they were a success! The students enjoyed making Proddy flowers using strips of colourful T-shirt fabrics, and each student proudly showed their work at the end. Our guild members were equally filled with joy from interacting with and encouraging the students. We were all proud! We will do 2 more workshops in June, followed by 6 workshops in the fall. Our Proddy flower project Our Proddy stick (cut-off chop stick inserted and glued into a wooden bead). Left to Right: Claire, Alex (Regard9), Muriel, Cynthia (Lib...

BHCG Virtual Celebration /  Gallery 6 Virtual Gallery  Virtual Gallery _ Gallery 6 / Christmas Challenge Gallery 6 / Christmas Challenge BHCG Members In this gallery you can tour a selection of Christmas Ornaments created by some members of the Guild. Christmas Challenge In late October, the web committee came up with the idea of a Christmas tree ornament challenge. The hope was that a common theme would motivate our members and also encourage them by knowing that their pieces would be published online. In the past the guild has been invited to decorate a small Christmas tree for the Beaconsfield library. This time our creative webmaster, Maria, designed an Advent calendar with the ornaments. Twelve members took part and here you can see their beautiful ornaments and the result of Maria’s magic touch. The pieces are shown in a special Christmas gallery which will close our virtual 45th Anniversary celebrations. Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild sends out warm Season’s g...

Rugs from the Barachois Project!_ Special Show & Tell : National Acadian Day_ August 15, 2020      National Acadian Day    Emmy Maten    Since 1881, Acadians have been celebrating their history, culture and heritage on August 15. In 1710, the British conquered French Acadia. Acadia consisted of what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and included some areas of Quebec and Maine. There are remnants of the 17th Century French language that no longer exist anywhere except in books and amongst those who still speak the Acadian regional dialect! Throughout the 1700’s battles continued at different fortifications including the capture of Fort Beauséjour in 1755. When the Acadians refused to sign an oath of allegiance to Britain, the British ordered Le Grand Dérangement, or the Great Expulsion, which started August 10, 1755 and continued for 9 years. 11,500 Acadians in all were deported to the New England States and many found thei...