Meetings
IMPORTANT: In accordance to recommendations set by health officials due to the COVID-19 outbreak, our meetings are cancelled until further notice. We will post more information as it becomes available. Take care and be well.
The CBBAG Ottawa Valley Chapter meets on the second Wednesday of each month (September through June) from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Our meetings take place at the Sandy Hill Community Centre, 250 Somerset Street East in Ottawa in the downstairs craft room.
The meetings are open to both members and the general public and involve presentations on a wide variety of topics and a sharing of ideas and projects.
Meetings and Programme for the 2019-2020 season
The programme is yet to be confirmed. Check later for updates.
DATE | PROGRAMME | CHALLENGE | SWAP |
11 Sep 2019 | Summer Activities / Challenges – Ideas, Topics and Choices Minutes for September |
Matchbox due | |
09 Oct 2019 | Hands-on activity: blind tooling with Spike Minogue. Swap launch Minutes for October |
Project launch | |
13 Nov 2019 | Presentation: Historic Bookbinding in Montefiascone with Paul Champion-Demers Minutes for November |
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11 Dec 2019 | Presentation: Bookbinding at the National Archives of Malta with Bronwen Glover Minutes for December |
Last day to confirm participation | |
08 Jan 2020 | Presentation: Lettering Through Time or how our alphabet got to where it is today with Rick Draffin Minutes for January |
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12 Feb 2020 | Hands-on activity: Folding Paper Fun Night, with Spike Minogue Minutes for February |
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11 Mar 2020 | Hands-on activity: Endbands | Sheet exchange | |
08 Apr 2020 | Presentation: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press. Moira Duncan will discuss William Morris’s interest in illuminated manuscripts and medieval print culture through an examination of Morris’s Kelmscott Press and the Kelmscott Chaucer. | ||
13 May 2020 | Special Show and Tell: SWAP exchange | Project presentations | |
10 Jun 2020 | AGM |