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September 2025 Newsletter

Guild Calendar

Guild Meeting

Monday: September 22nd, 2025  

10:00 am to Noon

Gooseberry Room

North Berkeley Senior Center

Outreach Event

Sunday: September 14th

10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Solano Stroll​ 

 1685 Solano Ave. Albany​

Get Together

Monday, NO GET TOGETHER IN OCTOBER

12:30 - 3:30 pm

Gooseberry Room

North Berkeley Senior Center​

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President's Message

Dear Guild Members,

 

Solano Stroll

Our outreach event is this Sunday, September 14th 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Our booth is at 1685 Solano Avenue, next to Akemi Restaurant. Come if you can and help us Talk Fiber.

 

Our Golden Gate Weaver cards for the Stroll came back from the printer and look great! Eight (8) different shots of weaving pieces. If you would like some to give to friends please let me know. They are a wonderful conversation starter.

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Photos

Cards (fronts & back). ​​​​​​​​​A big thank you to Lonnie for designing the cards and having them printed.

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Solano Stroll preparations

Pictures of the goings-on with preparations and booth mock-up for the Stroll. We'll be using a 10' x 10' tented booth with a "pull-up banner" designed by Lonnie.​​

 

September Guild Meeting

Hopefully, by now, you know that we will be meeting on Monday, September 22nd. Next month, we will go back to the regular 3rd Monday of the month for our guild meetings. Please see below for other guild meeting dates at the Berkeley Senior Center.

 

For our first Fall meeting, please join us to share what you have been creating during the summer hiatus. It could be weaving, dyeing, or maybe something else that you’re still working on. It’s All of interest.

It will be good to get back in touch with you as a guild.

 

Happy Weaving. ~ Vicky​

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Meetings

Guild Meeting

Date: Monday, September 22nd, see Vicky's message above  

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

Topics: 

  • Regroup after the summer break

  • Meet new members

  • Solano Stroll experience and what we learned from visitors to our booth

  • Show and Tell - what have you been working on over the summer

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Guild dues are due in June. If you haven't paid, please contact Karen Schwarts, our Guild Treasurer.

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Guild Meetings Calendar:

  • October 20th, Berkeley Senior Center (BCS)

  • November 17th, BCS

  • January 19th, Zoom

  • February 16th, Zoom

  • March 16th, BCS

  • April 20th, BCS

  • May 25th, BCS (date TBD as this is a holiday)

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The Golden Gate Weavers Guild meets on the third Monday of the month, 10:00 am to Noon in the Gooseberry Room, at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave, or on Zoom. No meetings in July, August, and December.

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Study Group

No meeting in September

Get Togethers

Date: Monday, October 6th, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (to be confirmed by BSC)

An informal gathering and an opportunity for Show and Tell.

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Get Togethers are on the first  Monday of the month, 1:00 - 3:00 pm in the Gooseberry Room, at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.

Show and Tell

​​​​​​​​​June Guild Meeting - Picnic and Auction

We had a wonderful get-together in Tilden Park on June 16th. In addition to the lovely potluck food items, members donated beautiful fiber, including alpaca, cashmere, and silk. We raised $185 in the auction. Thank you to everyone who donated fiber and items, as well as the people who bought them.

 

Here are some photos of the event, including Sandy's plastic bags runner, Susie as auctioneer, and Guild members under the trees.​​​​​​​​

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CNCH News

 

 

www.cnch.org 

 

CNCH 2025 - April 24-27, at Asilomar

CNCH 2026 - May 14-17, Asilomar

  • Classes include: Inkle Weaving, Weaving two Ways on the Ridgid Heddle Loom, Tablet Weaving, Huck Lace, Hands on Color, Vibrant Rugs, Spinning Angora Rabbit & Cotton, Spinpossible, Shibori Dyeing with Indigo, Painted Warps and Parallel Threading, Fabulous Felted Flowers, Transparency Weaving, and Pine Needle Baskets

  • Instructors include: Sienna Bosch, Gretchen Fancher, John Mullarkey, Rosalie Neilson, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Mary Zicafoose, Julie Drogsvold, Michael Kelson, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Denise Kovnat, Dawn Edwards, Rebecca Smith and Marilyn Mckanel

 

CNCH 2027 Planning - Get Involved!

    • Area Three, which includes GGW, is planning the 2027 Conference

    • Details TBD from the new co-chairs

EVENTS

  • Tapestry Weavers West Exhibition, June 16 - September 26, Mills Building, 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco - https://www.tapestryweaverswest.org/exhibitions

  • ​Annual Emeryville Arts Exhibition, October 4 to 26, 5905 Shellmound Street in the Public Market Emeryville - includes a mock-Damask monarch butterfly weaving by Bernie, https://www.emeryarts.org/

  • ​Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, June 8 - November 30 at BAMPFA. The exhibit traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration through approximately one hundred quilts representing the work of eighty individuals, many of them women. https://bampfa.org/program/routed-west

  • Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread, August 6 to January 1, 2026 at BAMPFA. The first North American survey of the work of the historically under-recognized Korean artist Lee ShinJa (b. 1930, Uljin, South Korea; lives and works in Seoul). Spanning more than five decades, from the 1950s to the early 2000s, the exhibition showcases the artist’s bold innovations in fiber through forty monumental textile works, woven maquettes, and preparatory sketches.  https://bampfa.org/program/lee-shinja-drawing-thread

  • Arts of Indigenous America, August 26, 2025 to August 31, 2028, at the de Young. The theme “Relationship to Place.” Developed with Native scholars and in consultation with communities of origin, the project centers Indigenous values and voices. Works spanning over a thousand years of history in all types of media. https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/arts-indigenous-america

Resources

Publications

Watch, Read, Listen to

Guild Members Recommendations

Board of Directors

President - Vicky McAdams Vickybees@comcast.net

Treasurer - Karen Schwartz 

Acting Secretary - Karen Tripp 

Newsletter/Comms - Bernie Geuy bernie.geuy@gmail.com

Programs - Vicky McAdams & Bernie Geuy

Membership - Koko Baker 

Librarian - Sarah Leverett 

Historian - POSITION OPEN

CNCH Liaison - Sheila Fitzgerald

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Newsletter Deadline:

Please submit any items to be included in the Newsletter by the 2nd Sunday of the month.

Email: bernie.geuy@gmail.com

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