Meeting Announcement:

 

Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland

 

with

 

Meghan Nuttall Sayres

 

at

 

Pioneer Hall

1642 43rd Avenue East, Seattle

In the Madison Park neighborhood

 

Friday, March 16, 2007, 7:00 PM

 

 

Please join Washington author Meghan Nuttall Sayres in celebrating the publication of her recent book Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland, a collection of contemporary tapestries, photographs, and personal essays that explores how young artists in Gleanncolmcille, Donegal, Ireland, with the help of elder mentors from their village, formed a weaving cooperative called Taipeis Gael. Taipeis Gael contributes to the preservation of regional culture in the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking sections of western Ireland. The weavers believe their work is important because "large chunks of our cultural heritage have been lost with the passing of just one generation."  Ms. Sayres will present tapestries, yarns dyed with natural Irish dyestuffs, and a slide show.

 

Meghan Nuttall Sayres writes and weaves in Eastern Washington where she lives with her husband, three children, two sheep and cat. Meghan spins her own yarns for tapestries, dyeing her wool with native plants. She has explored this craft in Ireland and Turkey and taught workshops abroad. Ms. Sayres received a B.S. in Recreation Therapy from the University of Colorado and an MPA in International Rural Development from the University of Utah. She established the Department of Recreation Therapy, Physical Rehabilitation Services, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, and currently volunteers for Taipeis Gael, a tapestry weaving cooperative in Donegal, Ireland.

 

Books will be available for sale at the talk.

 

Meeting Schedule:

 

7:00             Mix and mingle.  Announcements.

7:30             Meghan Nuttall Sayles: Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland

8:30             Show and tell – Bring anything you’d like to share with the group. 

 

Please note:  This meeting is free to members, $5 at the door for guests.

 

Meeting Location and Directions:

 

Pioneer Hall is the home of the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington.  See the map below.  Parking is available on nearby streets.

 

From I-5 or 405, take 520 toward the University of Washington.  From the Eastside, exit at Lake Washington Blvd and turn left off the bridge and right into the Arboretum.  From I-5, take the first exit from 520, Montlake Blvd.. 

Go straight through the light, following the main road until you take a right into the Arboretum. 

 

Go through the Arboretum, turning left at the light, at Madison Street.  Go about a mile, and turn right on E. Blaine Street.  Go two blocks.  Pioneer Hall is straight ahead.

 

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