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Friday, September 15, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER AGO lone dissenting gallery gift shop (Continued from page 28) "I'm ju st passionate about this diary...To me the special thing is the textile art. Nobody has ever done that. People who see it, just love it," she says How ever, the A rt G allery o f O ntario (A G O ) was one o f the few dissenters. Apparently, it was the only well-known art gallery/museum gift shop in the country that refused to carry the book. "It's in the National Gallery in Ottawa; it's in the Canadian Museum o f Civilization; it's in the Vancouver Art Gallery; it's all over Nova Scotia. Yet, right here in Toronto, they would n't take it. And the book has so many Ontario artists represented...But Indigo has it." The success of the diary to date, has the 53-year-old publisher planning to publish one every year. And an added bonus this year, she says, is that many Oakville merchants are donating a portion o f their profits from the sale o f the book to the Oakville Arts Council to support the Oakville Festival for Fibre Arts. G oh's passion for poetry and her fondness for fibre art, inherited from her mother and an aunt who were talented in textile art, prompt ed her to publish a diary for the new millen nium in which one interest complemented the other. An illness in the family postponed the book for a year, but then many maintain that Jan. 1, 2001 is the beginning of the new mil lennium anyway. "/ wanted to m ake this a truly Canadian publication. So, / only used Canadian poets and Canadian a rtists..." Seeing all the talented textile art in Oakville's Festival for Fibre Arts two years ago kick-started Goh's cross-Canada search for quality fibre art. Then, once she had more than enough to choose from, she began pair ing off the textile art with Canadian poems, which helped streamline the selection process. "Finding the poems was another thing. We have such wonderful Canadian poetry. And I wanted to make this a truly Canadian publi cation. So, I only used Canadian poems and Canadian artists...from pre-Confederation to contemporary unpublished poets," she says, explaining that the textile art and the poems were selected to blend in with the different months in the day-book. "So the poetry is tied into the seasons and to the holidays as well. `T h e poetry is as important a part of the diary as the art. I'm hoping that these little nuggets (of poetry) will trigger an interest and people will go from here." ' Goh, who says she's been in the business of publishing textbooks her entire working life, is hoping to attract sponsors for the 2002 diary. Any corporation or business interested in sponsoring the next day-book, can call Rubicon Publishing Inc. at 849-8777. "It's a way to showcase art that is very sel dom showcased. I just feel, I have to do it," says the seasoned publisher, adding that, although she plans to continue with the fibre art/poetry day-book each year, she will prob ably expand to include diaries that will high light other artists - gardeners and photogra phers, for example, which could be an exten sion of her The Glory o f the Garden book that she recently published for St. Jude' s church. If she does use photography to illustrate one of her diaries, it will be another first for Goh. She has always used original art for her children's stories and, of course, for her first day-book, Weaving New Rhythms, Diary 2001, which will be launched at the McLaren-Bames Gallery, 133 Reynolds St. on Sunday between 1 and 4 p.m. Now that Goh has been baptized into the world of adult books, she is ready to publish her second one, which will be a fictional tale about a group of grannies who trade in their knitting needles for motorcycles. Then she hopes to follow that with a book of poetry. Goh has not, however, abandoned text books and children's stories. She will simply enjoy both worlds from now on, just as she enjoys living and working in Oakville as well as traveling to Singapore on a regular basis for both business and pleasure. Kitchen & Laundry Solutions -On GE Profile and GE Profile Perform ance Don't Pay - Till 2001' ·See store for Details ..ANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? 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