Meetings
Swap Quote and John Whitehead Award
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Join the annual Swap Quote (an iconic Canadian text, of course) followed by the presentation of the John Whitehead award.
Note: This special year-end meeting will be held at a restaurant in lieu of our regular location (which was unfortunately unavailable for this meeting).
Our reservation is for 6:00 PM i…
Collaborate!
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As part of our Canada Celebration, at the May meeting there will be a BIG (canvas) BANNER with black outlined BIG LETTERS spelling out CANADA. Everyone at the meeting will be invited, in turn, to fill in colourful and calligraphic words, symbols, numerals and other decorative images and designs related to calligraphy. all over the BIG LETTERS of C…
Our Home and Native Land
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Our annual general meeting will be followed by a special presentation by Judy Bainbridge on Canada’s heraldry, including the Nunavut Coat of Arms.
Enchanted Letters and Artful Flourishes with a Passionate Pen
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Meet Heather Held, a freelance calligrapher from Southern Ontario specializing in ornamental penmanship and offhand flourishing. If not working with the pointed pen, she is studying medieval and renaissance illumination techniques. Heather will show a selection of her beautiful works.
Works in Progress
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Note special day and time!
At our Saturday afternoon meeting, four talented CSO members are setting up a pop-up studio to work on a project in progress. See their skills, techniques and tricks in the creation of their distinctive calligraphic styles.
Diana MacDonald will show Art Graph colour blocks on various papers (cold press, hot pre…