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In today’s episode, Ariel chats with Heather MacKenzie, Executive Director of Solar Alberta, about transitioning to renewable energy deep in the heart of oil and gas country - in a just and sustainable way. Join us to learn about the history of the Solar Alberta organization, from its grassroots beginnings in neighbourhood solar projects, to dealing with (government-funded!) trolls online, all the way up to being the leading non-profit solar organization in Alberta and providing worker upskilling in a unique market.

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The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

Price: (as of – Details)

USA Today Bestseller!

A Real Simple Best Historical Fiction novels of the year!

“The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.”–Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”

—Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedding London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown.

Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?  

With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their points of view alternating and intersecting throughout its pages, whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.

 ”For fans of “The Crown,” looking for history served up as intimate drama, and those seeking another angle on royal lives, “The Gown” seems likely to dazzle and delight.” – The Washington Post

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New Post has been published on https://videopress.newonline.help/2020/10/29/the-gown-a-novel-of-the-royal-wedding/

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

Price: (as of – Details)

USA Today Bestseller!

A Real Simple Best Historical Fiction novels of the year!

“The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.”–Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”

—Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedding London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown.

Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?  

With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their points of view alternating and intersecting throughout its pages, whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.

 ”For fans of “The Crown,” looking for history served up as intimate drama, and those seeking another angle on royal lives, “The Gown” seems likely to dazzle and delight.” – The Washington Post

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  KUTLUĞ ATAMAN: Stefan's Room

MATERIAL GESTURES: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot

November 7 - December 23, 2014  

  Artist Reception on Friday, November 7, from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

118 NORTH PEORIA STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60607

  Alighiero Boetti, Talvolta sole talvolta luna, 1988, embroidery on fabric, 9 x 8.3 inches 

MATERIAL GESTURES: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot 

  Featuring Artists:

ALIGHIERO E. BOETTI

SUSAN HEFUNA

SHEILA HICKS 

HEATHER MACKENZIE

KAREN REIMER

KIKI SMITH 

RICHARD TUTTLE 

ANNE WILSON

  “The warp is what is given in life and the weft is what happens in life.”

– quoted in Indonesian Textiles by Mary Hunt Kahlenberg and Richard Tuttle

Rhona Hoffman Gallery has a long history of supporting fiber-based artists, from showing Richard Tuttle and pivotal fiber artist Claire Zeisler in the 1970s, to currently holding exhibitions by Susan Hefuna and Anne Wilson. Material Gestures continues this on-going interest with a diverse group of artists who embrace, subvert, and rework the ancient mediums of fiber and textiles within contemporary art practice.

  A pioneer of fiber art in the 1960s and 70s, Sheila Hicks is represented in the exhibition with Dervish, a work made by weaving and twisting a special stainless steel fiber that the artist developed with Bridgestone Tire Corporation. Included alongside Hicks in the major traveling exhibition FIBER: Sculpture 1960-present, gallery artist Anne Wilson is represented with Mourning Cloth and Dispersions, works that ascend the materiality of fiber and relate to the body, loss, and memory. Interdisciplinary German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna creates textile works that layer felt, gauze, and text appliqué, evoking her broader investigation of the nature of veiled visibility. Feminist ideas and corporeality connect the work of Hefuna and Wilson with interdisciplinary artist Kiki Smith, whose paper and string piece in MATERIAL GESTURES thwarts the viewer’s expectation of textiles.

A long-time collector of textiles known for his poetic artworks that elevate humble materials, Richard Tuttle is represented with a piece from his 2004 exhibition Indonesian Textiles. Also engaged with global textiles, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti created some of his best-known works in cooperation with Afghan textile weavers. Two artists are shown at Rhona Hoffman Gallery for the first time: Chicago-based Karen Reimer presents a union of conceptual and craft with her Endless Set #1399, and Heather Mackenzie, a recent SAIC graduate who studied with Anne Wilson, offers a glimpse into the latest interrogations of textile history and fiber art.