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53 |Thursday October 19, 2017 | OAKVILLE BEAVER |www.insidehalton.com Marta Marychuk Reporter mmarychuk@oakvillebeaver.com Artscene " C o n n e c t e d t o y o u r C o m m u n it y " A Fibre A rt Feast featured a t O akville a rt centre Jo sh u a Creek Heritage Art Centre presents A Fibre A rt F east, featuring the w ork of Connections Fibre A rtists and the Oakville Stitchery Guild. The new exhibit opened recently and runs until Sunday, Nov. 12. In this exhibition, The Connections Fibre Artists will celebrate 150 years of C anada with w ork in spired by settlers and pio neers. The Oakville Stitchery Guild, one of the first em broidery G uilds in Canada, will pay tribute to C onstance Howard, the artist and teacher w ho brought em broidery to C anada in 1972. She is considered the m ost influential British pioneer in textile design of her generation. The Oakville Stitchery Guild m eets m onthly at Jo sh u a Creek Heritage Art Centre, with guest speakers and instructors, classes, and w orkshops on stitchery techniques and fabric art. Characteristic w ork includes experim ental em broidery by hand and/ or m achine, m ixed m edia fibre w ork, soft jewellery, lace-m aking, knitting, crocheting, quilting, doll m aking, beading, stum p w ork, altered book-m ak ing and silk ribbon em broidery. The Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre's exhibit, A Fibre Art Feast, in underway and will continue until Sunday, Nov. 12. Above is Finding Home by Frankie LeMonde-Meunier, a member of the Connections Fibre Artists. At right is Once in a Blue Moon by Hermien Venter, a member of the Oakville Stitchery Guild. | submitted photos The Connections Fibre A rtists group is m ade up of artists stretching across C anada and into the U nit ed Kingdom . Fibre is the m edium that connects them, giv ing their art depth and texture that other m edia can only dream of. Their w ork is highly diverse, from silk fusion to thread painting, soft sculpture to m achine em broidery, hand-quilting to photo transfer, fibre w rapping and beading, with new techniques and disciplines occurring reg ularly. Jo sh u a Creek Heritage Art Centre is located at 1086 Burnham thorpe Rd. E. in Oakville. The art centre is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 1-4 p .m ., or by appoint m ent, and is closed on M ondays. For inform ation call 905-257-4730 or email in f o @ jo s h u a c r e e k a r t s . com. film c a c in e m a s 171 Speers Road (a t K err) O akville 905-338-6397 w w w .f ilm .c a blade RUNNER 2049(14A) O c t o b e r 6 th THE r o c k y HORROR p ic t u r e s h o w (14 a ) O c t o b e r 28th, 29th, 31 th g e o s t o r m ( stc ) THE SNOWMAN (STC) OCTOBER 20 th ViCTORiA& ABDUL (PG) C O M IN G So o n facebook.com/filmca @Filmcacinemas O c t o b e r 20 th