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Willowbank Stone Festival

  • Date: Sunday, September 14, 2014
  • Time: 9 am - 5 pm
  • Location: Willowbank School
  • Address: 14487 Niagara Pkwy Queenston, ON L0S 1L0 (Google Maps)
  • Contact: Willowbank School
  • Email: willowbank@willowbank.ca
  • Phone: 905-262-1239x. 21

A celebration of stone, craft & community including: dry stone walling and stone carving courses and demonstrations, a food & artisan market, talks, tours & workshops, dance & live music, and children’s activities.

From the earliest generations of master builders to present day quarry workers, stonecutters, masons, sculptors and wallers – stone has been a building block of Canada’s national identity.

This two-day event brings together carvers, masons, artisans and everyone with a love of stone. The unique educational component of the experience includes lectures, demonstrations, workshops, dry stone walling and stone carving - with some of the best wallers and highly gifted sculptors from North America and the UK.

Schedule of Events

SATURDAY, September 13

SHORT COURSES (registration required) Dry Stone Walling Stone Carving

FOOD & ARTISAN MARKET - 11am to 5pm Under the Big Tent at Lower Campus

AFTERNOON AT THE ESTATE - 11am to 5pm Children’s activities Stone Carving demos, Blacksmithing demos and Slate Roofing demos House Tours And more…

WILLOWBANK STREET DANCE - with THE BROKEN LYRE - 7pm Under the Big Tent at Lower Campus Tickets $10 (Queenston Residents get in free!)

SUNDAY, September 14

SHORT COURSES (registration required) Dry Stone Walling Stone Carving

DRY STONE WALLING COMPETITION

UNDER THE BIG TENT - 10am to 4pm Children’s activities Yoga

AFTERNOON AT THE ESTATE - 2pm Traditional Irish Music (Celtic pipes, guitar, short-neck banjo and fiddle) Food & Beverages available for sale

MONDAY, September 15

DRY STONE WALLING CERTIFICATION LEVELS I & II (registration required)

http://www.willowbankstonefest.com/

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