Elaine Horemans on First Capital Day

Elaine Horemans on First Capital Day

Jung-Ah Kim

Elaine Horemans

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One of the other community events that I've been involved with for quite some time, and this was during the time that we were not at the Tett involves our participation in the First Capital Days, which is a city run event commemorating Kingston as the first capital of Canada. So it's a historic theme thing. And we used to always set up a booth of some sort, which was generally aimed at the groups of schoolchildren that would come through to find out what was going on that day. Of course, every year it's a different group of schoolchildren. So you can talk about the same kinds of things. Spinners are very eager to demonstrate in public, they all love spinning in public. Some of them are not too eager to talk to people while they're spinning in public. But as far as making ourselves visible in the public eye, I think that has always been a great opportunity for us. It's usually in June. So it's held outdoors, we usually have an opportunity to show not only spinning, but usually weaving, we take a small tabletop loom, and sometimes some of their preparations skills or dyeing or whatever, we feel appropriate for that year, and it's always nice to sort of get out of the box to go out and see what it's like in public.