We were at the Strathcona Spring Fair on Saturday afternoon, meeting cool folks & families who live 'round East Van. Strathcona is my favourite neighbourhood in Vancouver; it has such magic that when I walk around, the creative buzz makes my ears ring! This is the prime real estate for the remarkable Eastside Culture Crawl, a free art event in late November during which many of the artists open their studios for tours and shopping -- I highly recommend it.
(Our studio at 1875 Powell is just outside the official eastern boundary of the Crawl at Commercial; but if you head over to see the amazing folks in the live-work ARC building anyway, we're just a hop from them, beside Dockers Diner.)
The Spring Fair is like a mega block party and is organized (in part?) by Milisa Gardy of Honey Bee Photography; I'm sure she must be associated with a small army of other volunteers. The weather was lovely, Suzanne brought two of her angora rabbits and her 'cart of wares' and Henna and I did demos of spinning and needlefelting.
If you're in the neighbourhood, I would highly recommend coming out for the Harvest Festival that Milisa et al. is going to be putting on in the fall, and shop the Crawl for Christmas
~R.
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