Spinning Demonstrations:

Demonstration Dates for 2010:

• April
  • April 16th- Earth Day Celebration
    Time: 9am - 2pm, at the Honeoye Falls Lima Manor School (Elementary) 147 East St. in Honeoye Falls, 14472 for 2nd to 5th graders.
    The time is broken up into 4 sessions, 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. Volunteer for all or any combination of sessions.
    In keeping with an Earth Day theme, the event coordinator wants the kids to learn about the wonder of plants and animals and what they do for us. She would like the kids to learn how raw materials move from fiber to cloth and clothing, and the presentation can incorporate any of the fiber arts.
    Demo area: Inside with an elementary school sized lunch table for set-up. (There is a option to move outside if the weather is nice but only if you decide you want to.)
    Lunch is free to the volunteers.
    If there is a volunteer who would like to bring a fiber animal, the school and administration are happy to accommodate.
  • April 24th- Lollipop Farm- Farm Day.
    This one is a lot of fun. If you like talking to kids, come to this one. It's a family day at Lollipop and the kids are always fascinated with the spinning.
  • April 24th & 25th- Artistry in Thread
    Held at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. Very nice venue for sitting and spinning all day. This festival is for all fiber arts, there are many needleworking guilds doing demos, a number of vendors of handcrafted items of all kinds- weaving, quilting, etc, etc, and many attendees are handworkers of some kind.

• August/September
  • NY State Fair, Syracuse, NY.
    Free parking and admission if you do this one.

• September
  • At our own festival (of course!)
  • Knox Farm Fiber Fest

• October
  • Agricultural Fair, Genesee Country Museum, Flint Hill Rd, Mumford
  • National Alpaca Farmers Day- includes many farms around the area.
    Sharilyn will have a list of farms who want spinners as it gets closer.
  • Lazy Acre Alpacas, 8830 Baker Road, Bloomfield