The Urban Cozies Are All Up!

Winterlude Urban Cozy Installation - First Session, Confederation Park

It took us several days over two and a half weeks, over 30 volunteers and lots of [...]

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Urban Cozy Project Artist Profile: Carol Secord

Textile Graffiti Remnants Textile Graffiti Remnants Outside Wabi-Sabi

The second Urban Cozy Project maker profile features Carol Secord, owner of the fabulous knit/weave/spin shop Wabi-Sabi in the up-and-coming west-end [...]

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The Deets on What’s Going On

Spins & Needles @ Winterlude 2010

For those of you who missed opening weekend for Winterlude, there’s still *lots* of Spins & Needles stuff going on [...]

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Spins & Needles @ Opening Night Ceremonies, Winterlude 2010

Extreme Craft + DJing

It was a crisp but lovely night last Friday and the crowds came out to see what was going on for Opening Cermonies at Winterlude 2010.

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Urban Cozy Project Artist Profile: Greta Grip

Swtich-Swatch Switch-Swatch (2007, 2010)

As part of the Winterlude Urban Cozy Project, Spins & Needles is profiling some of the makers who have contributed to this public art installation at Winterlude [...]

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Tagging the Cozies

Tagging the Urban Cozies

Winterlude 2010 has arrived! It’s been busy behind the scenes, so we’ll be giving you little photo montages of what happened pre-festival in the next few posts [...]

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The Urban Cozy Project at Winterlude 2010 Press Conference

Winterlude Press Conference with Cozy

The Winterlude 2010 press conference took place last Tuesday at noon at one of the festival sites, Confederation Park. One of the highlights of this [...]

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland: Parc Jacques-Cartier

Walk down wintery lane, Parc Jacques-Cartier

This past week we took a walk through Parc Jacques-Cartier to check out the second site where the public art installation will go.

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland: Winterlude Site

Confederation Park 

It snowed for about six straight days in Canada’s capital, starting last week. (And I mean straight – each time you looked out the window it was snowing!) So that means [...]

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Street Art + Craft Inspiration: A Prelude to the Winterlude Project

San Francisco Street Art Graffiti in San Fran’s Haight District (2007)

So what ‘s the inspiration for the Winterlude Urban Cozy Project  next month?

Throughout the years we’ve [...]

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