Neil Cox, Rob Cosman and the Carver Kings are all on the seminar schedule
By
Mark Schadenberg
Woodstock
has many traditions – Outdoor Canada Farm Show, Cowapooloza, Victoria Day long
weekend with a parade, and the annual Woodstock Fair at the fairgrounds in late
August.
The
Woodstock Fairgrounds this weekend hosts another local annual event as the
Nellis Street facility rolls out the red carpet for the Woodstock Woodworking
Show (www.woodshows.com/woodstock).
The
3-day event is all about wood and all its surrounding and connected hobbies and
professions.
The
Friday to Sunday (Sept. 29 to Oct. 1; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. all three days) event
includes a modest admission price of $12 per day or $15 for the weekend. If you
buy your ticket online, it’s just $10 for one day.
Rob
Cosman of New Brunswick will be in Woodstock to conduct 2 seminars. His
specialty is hand tools.
The
Ontario Woodcarving championships are again part of the weekend’s schedule.
Carl
Durance, Bob Dearlove, Eric MacKeigan, Steve Der-Garabedian, Vic Tesolin and
Neil Cox are also on the agenda.
Cox,
62, who is from Ingersoll originally, is known as a very talented wood carver
and sculptor. If you want to see an amazing piece of art stop by the atrium of
the Ingersoll town hall and library to see the Thomas Ingersoll life-size carving.
Neil Cox and Santa
Another carving by Neil Cox
Der-Garabedian
offers advice on creating all-wood furniture as he is a professional instructor
and owner of Black Walnut Studio.
The
Carver Kings of HGTV are also part of the show – Paul and Jacob Frenette.
The
wood show began back in 1986 with the guidance of Joe Daniel, and later was
also operated by the Woodstock Agricultural Society, but I believe it was idle
for a couple years before chiseled back into existence by the Downes family.
If
you wander through the event website you will see the list of exhibitors,
distributors, and brand names promoting their latest products – Stihl, Ricon,
Lee Valley, R&D Band Saws, Federated Tool Supply, Earlex, Sherwin Williams,
and many more.
The
Woodstock Fairgrounds is an ideal venue as the Oxford Auditorium building
itself is a vast open space and a covered tent walkway connects to the market
building next door. Just a few steps away is the Civic Centre Arena which will
be the centre for a seminar stage and about 50 more exhibitor booths. The
fairgrounds itself also includes a large parking lot and is close to Dundas
Street and its many restaurants.
Carver Kings
The
local fairgrounds is a popular destination with the slot machine facility open
daily, plus the Saturday morning market, August fair, the busy arena fall and
winter, the springtime home and garden show, motorcycle races on the dirt oval in
May, a giant craft show on the same Saturday as the Santa parade, the bookings
of several toy and collectible shows, and also dairy days for elementary students.
The
Woodstock event is associated with a similar wood show in Hamilton set for Feb
23-25 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage
Museum.
LINKS:
www.woodshows.com/woodstock
www.woodshows.com/woodstock
Facebook:
The
Woodstock Woodshow
Mark Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist
(SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
Discussion . . . Direction . . . Determination . . .
Destination
No comments:
Post a Comment