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NO.13/1 July , 2013
The Fireweed Studio, our little log cabin by
City Hall, has been super-busy since it
opened on June 18. We have added
Tuesday evenings to our Saturday and Public
holiday hours, in order to take advantage of
the popularity of the new Somba Ke Park
Yellowknife Farmers’ Market. Aboriginal
Day was almost a sellout!!
Members came out to review the procedures,
and here are a few keen marketers:
Jenny, Janice and Donna; Garry and Wendy,
Rachel, Ann and Jake, planning how to fill those empty shelves --- decisions made!!
Now our only problem is KEEPING those shelves filled!
THE GUILD GRAPEVINE Yellowknife Guild of Arts and Crafts 113 Kam Lake
Road, Yellowknife (867) 920-4573
email: [email protected] http://ykguild.wordpress.com/
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Ice Cream Bowl Sale
Next item on the agenda was the Ice Cream Bowl Sale – a resounding success, as usual, potters
working from January on, throwing, trimming and glazing. The variety was astonishing and the
buying public seemed delighted – we sold out in 2 hours and made $4000. Congratulations to
our Fundraisers, Yewon and Alicia, for a job well planned and executed. Thanks to all the
volunteers who made the more than 400 bowls, who fetched and carried and cleaned up, and who
sold and scooped under the blazing sunshine of Canada Day, and to our generous customers who
clearly appreciate our “fun”draiser!
Rachel recycling the clay – bowls out of the kiln – Wendy getting going on the glazing
Pay and pick your bowl Choose your ice cream!
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Meet your new Board members: These are the folks who have volunteered to take on the various jobs we need to have done –
who will take your questions and suggestions, and answer them to the best of their ability.
President Rachel Makohoniuk Vice-President Kelly Moore
Also in charge of Pottery classes Sales and Communications as well as Sales and the Fireweed Studio
Treasurer Pat Moore Secretary Janet Diveky
Shares sales with Kelly
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Fundraisers Yewon Kang and Alicia Scallion
Pottery, Garry Singer, Mixed media, Carole Tetlow and Brian Collins
Pottery Classes, Michelle Fortin; Mixed Media classes Janet Procure
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Fall classes
Registration will be on Thursday September 5 at 7 pm; Classes are planned for Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and possibly Saturday and Sunday mornings. First session
would start September 9 and second session November 4. Anyone interested in teaching is asked
to give their ideas to Michelle and Rachel at [email protected] or Janet Procure at
Open Studios will resume in September and are usually Thursday evenings 7 – 9:30 and
Saturday and Sunday afternoons 1-4
From our Many Hands 2 Cookbook JD Made Me Do It Seafood Wraps
Guild favorite at potlucks
1 cup light cream cheese, softened. 1 cup light/reduced fat mayonnaise 450g Imitation crab/seafood sticks or chunks – or real shrimp, crab, lobster, smoked salmon
4-6 large wraps/tortillas [spinach/green or red/sundried tomato add colour] Fresh dill, or freeze dried to taste. 12 asparagus stalks, or cucumber sliced lengthwise 1 red pepper, sliced lengthwise
Blend cream cheese and mayonnaise
Blend crab chunks or other seafood with cream cheese/mayonnaise. If using crab sticks these may be placed directly on wrap. If smoked salmon, spread a line across wrap.
Spread crab/ cream cheese/ mayonnaise mix liberally on wrap.
Sprinkle dill liberally on top
If using crab sticks, lay across wrap.
Lay line of lightly cooked asparagus [or sliced cucumber] across wrap.
Lay red pepper slices beside asparagus
Roll up wrap as tightly as possible.
Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for at least2 hours.
Slice on an angle, 1-2 cm.thick, about 7-8 slices per wrap
Serve and enjoy. John Argue
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A Little Bit of our History
“New” Guild opening, 2007
The Yellowknife Guild of Crafts first began in 1946 when the Dene shared the land with
the people who had come here to work in the mining industry. There were only 3,000
people living in the Yellowknife area then, and in the long winters there was not a lot to
do at the end of the working day. A group of women interested in getting together and
sharing their talents formed a group headed by Ruth Stanton. Over the years the Guild
has taught a wide variety of crafts including sewing, leatherwork, copper enamelling,
batik, birch bark piercing, felting, fabric printing, painting, basketry, jewellery making,
spinning, weaving and pottery. Classes, meetings and sales have been held all over town
– at Con Mine and Negus, in the old St. Pat’s school, Sir John Franklin High School, the
Legion and Elks halls, in the basement of the old library, rooms in the old City Hall, and
in the basement of the old Northern Health Building where Diavik has its offices now
(known to many as the Guild of Crafts or IODE building.) A partnership with the
Catholic School board allowed the Guild a place in their art room for several years. The
Guild now runs out of a two story building owned by YK Dairies – the first time we have
ever paid rent, but also the first time we can work in our own space any time or way we
please.
Now, our city has grown to over 20,000, and the Guild has grown with it. One to two
hundred people each year take classes at the guild, and hundreds more line up for the
annual spring and Christmas sales. Everything is run on a volunteer basis. In the
summer,to display and sell our work, we have the use of the Fireweed Studio, a little log
cabin near city Hall which used to be a blacksmith shop, and now we open on Tuesday
evenings as well as Saturdays, to join in the fun of the new weekly Farmers Market.
