News and Events
October 2010
The Vancouver Fibre Guild
October 14th, 7:30pm
The West Point Grey Community Centre
Leanne and Mandy will be presenting on the topic of knit graffiti at the Vancouver Fibre Guild.
Interesting Vancouver
October 8th, Location and time details TBA
Leanne will a speaker on the interesting world of subversive craft. Details forthcoming.
The Burnaby Public Library
McGill Branch at Willingdon and Hastings
October 7th 8:30 pm
Leanne Prain and Mandy Moore will be guest authors at the Burnaby Public Library. Join them for a one hour conversation about knit graffiti. Yarn Bombing books will be available for purchase and for signing.
June 2010
Vogue Knitting
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is mentioned in Vogue Knitting.
May 2010
Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art
May 31, 2010
Leanne was a guest author at the teen book club of Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art. She helped the teen book club yarnbomb the tree and a bicycle rack in front of the school. If you are in Kitsilano, drop on by to see their work at West 8th and Alma!
April 2010
Richmond Quilters and Lacemakers Group
April 27, 2010 7pm
Leanne will be speaking to the Richmond Quilters and Lace-makers about the world of Yarn Bombing!
February 2010
Shameless Magazine
Leanne has been profiled as a Shameless Woman by Shameless Magazine.
W2 Writers Series
February 24th at 7 pm
W2 Community Media Arts Centre (Woodwards Building)
112 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver BC
Mandy and Leanne will talking about yarn bombing at the Real Vancouver Writers Series on February 24th at the W2 Community Arts Centre. Hosted by Hal Wake – the evening will also feature Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Steven Galloway, Timothy Taylor, Rhonda Waterfall, Weldon Hunter, McKinley M Hellenes, Alex Leslie, kc dyer, Leilah Nadir, Caroline Adderson, and Brad Cran.
Find out more details at: http://realvancouverwriters.com
Maisonneuve Magazine
February 11, 2010
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti was featured in Maisonneuve Magazine.
January 2010
A Night of Social Crafting
Come celebrate the creativity and community of the growing DIY craft, art and design movement in Vancouver. Mandy and Leanne will be signing books at the Vancouver Museum on Thursday, January 21st. Come see Yarn Bombing contributor Knit Girl give a talk on craftivism as well as many other crafty-related events:
- workshops in a range of art and craft media from paper to yarn:
* Blim: button-making and screen printing workshops
* Knitgirl: Knitting and Craftivism
* Kirsti Wakelin: drawing/ exquisite corpse.
- a mini Got Craft market, along with music, snacks and local brews.
If you’re super-proud of what you make at DIY@MOV, MOV is providing exhibit space so that your creation can be on public display in a museum. Think of the bragging rights!
$15 – Tickets available online or at the door.
MOV Members Free
Article on Planet Green
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is featured on the eco-friendly website Planet Green.
December 2009
MACLEAN’S Magazine
Yarn Bombing is mentioned in Maclean’s Magazine ‘Newsmakers ‘09: Lingo‘.
October 2009
Surrey International Writers Conference
Leanne will be taking part in Blue Pencil Sessions and a panel on new media at SIWC: Traditional Publishing-Make Over: How Social Media is Rocking The Writing World.
Moderators: Darren Barefoot, Monique Trottier
Panel: Lorraine Murphy, Susan Safyan, Kirk LaPointe, Sean Cranbury, Leanne Prain
Time: Friday 1:30pm
Join social media provocateurs Monique Trottier and Darren Barefoot as they lead an exciting panel discussion on the changes that social media is bringing – and forcing upon – traditional publishing models. Panelists include blogger Lorraine Murphy, broadcaster Sean Cranbury, associate editor Susan Safyan, author Leanne Prain and journalist Kirk LaPointe.
September 2009
Word on the Street
September 27th, 2009
Library Square
Alice MacKay Room
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/vancouver
Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain will provide tips from the international knit graffiti community, demonstrate how to put up a tag and offer revealing information on how to create your own yarn graffiti crew.
The Georgia Straight, Best of Vancouver Edition 2009
September 24, 2009
Yarn Bombing has been picked by the Straight’s literary editors as the best Vancouver Craft Book for 2009.
http://www.straight.com/article-259703/literary
National Post Excerpt
September 19th, 2009
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti excerpted in the National Post newspaper. http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2010315
Yarn Bombing Book Launch
September 17, 2009
Come and help Leanne and Mandy celebrate the release of their new book! The authors will sign books, tell stories about knit graffiti, and refreshments will be served.
Three Bags Full Knit Shop
4458 Main Street
Vancouver, BC
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
www.threebagsfull.ca
Leanne Prain is an author and communications designer living in Vancouver, BC. In 2009, she co-authored the book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti with knitting editor Mandy Moore. She is currently writing a new book on unusual needlepoint entitled Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery.
She blogs about art, craft, culture, writing, design and publishing.
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
Interested in knit graffiti? Read the Yarn Bombing blog.
Want to find my co-author Mandy? She's at Yarnageddon.