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CanIron VII
The Saskatchewan Chapter of the Western Canadian Blacksmiths' Guild will host CanIRON VII
at the Ness Creek Festival site in the beautiful Boreal Forest of North-Central Saskatchewan.
This event is set for August 7-9 this summer and, although we've taken the task with short
notice, it will be a spectacular event for Canadian blacksmiths. Six demonstrators have so far
been confirmed. Each one will contribute to the obelisk that will be created and installed during
the conference as a permanent legacy to Canadian blacksmithing.
CanIRON VII will have three demonstration areas plus a significant hands-on area. Hands-on
participation will figure prominently in this conference and we encourage the demonstrators to
invite the audience to join when appropriate.
The organizing committee envisions this conference to be a large hammer-in with
demonstrators as the teachers and leaders. Demos will be scheduled morning and afternoon
but the hands-on area could run around the clock or until those trying to sleep shut us down.
We will all contribute something to be attached to the obelisk form that will be a permanent
installation piece at the Ness Creek Festival site, and will be seen by thousands of visitors each
year. Before the conference we will build and install the 20 foot tall angle iron framework. It will
have 20 panels and we are asking the demonstrators to each contribute to one panel. There are
twelve panels available to be made on site or if a group of blacksmiths wishes to make one to
send. The theme is Journeys and may be interpreted however you like. It may be your life
journey, a road trip you once took, a historical journey of blacksmithing through the ages,
etcetera. You decide!
On-site accommodation includes lots of camping. In more limited supply are shared rustic
cabins and shack tents (or canvas cottages as they like to call them); clean, comfortable and
very basic. Washrooms and showers are in a separate modern building. The Catering is
exceptional, but do book early due to the location it is hard to make last minute additions. There
are additional hotels, cabins and camping nearby at Big River and nearby lakes see the
business section of www.bigriver.ca
We are presently working on our web site at CanIRON.ca and hope to have all the
information there shortly, in the mean time we are sending out the information to date.
Attached are files containing additional information.
The Saskatchewan Chapter of the Western Canadian Blacksmiths' Guild will host CanIRON VII at the Ness Creek Festival site in the beautiful Boreal Forest of North-Central Saskatchewan. This event is set for August 7-9 this summer and, although we've taken the task with short notice, it will be a spectacular event for Canadian blacksmiths. Six demonstrators have so far been confirmed. Each one will contribute to the obelisk that will be created and installed during the conference as a permanent legacy to Canadian blacksmithing.
CanIRON VII will have three demonstration areas plus a significant hands-on area. Hands-on participation will figure prominently in this conference and we encourage the demonstrators to invite the audience to join when appropriate.
The organizing committee envisions this conference to be a large hammer-in with demonstrators as the teachers and leaders. Demos will be scheduled morning and afternoon but the hands-on area could run around the clock or until those trying to sleep shut us down.
We will all contribute something to be attached to the obelisk form that will be a permanent installation piece at the Ness Creek Festival site, and will be seen by thousands of visitors each year. Before the conference we will build and install the 20 foot tall angle iron framework. It will have 20 panels and we are asking the demonstrators to each contribute to one panel. There are twelve panels available to be made on site or if a group of blacksmiths wishes to make one to send. The theme is Journeys and may be interpreted however you like. It may be your life journey, a road trip you once took, a historical journey of blacksmithing through the ages, etcetera. You decide!
On-site accommodation includes lots of camping. In more limited supply are shared rustic cabins and shack tents (or canvas cottages as they like to call them); clean, comfortable and very basic. Washrooms and showers are in a separate modern building. The Catering is exceptional, but do book early due to the location it is hard to make last minute additions. There are additional hotels, cabins and camping nearby at Big River and nearby lakes see the business section of www.bigriver.ca
We are presently working on our web site at CanIRON.ca and hope to have all the information there shortly, in the mean time we are sending out the information to date.
Attached are files containing additional information.
- demonstrators_pic_bio.pdf 1.57 MB
- Obelisk 20 foot-Model.pdf 140.88 KB
- blacksmithbrochure-8.5x11.pdf 253.8 KB
- Caniron VII Registration Form.pdf 124.24 KB
CanIRON Links- CanIRON I - Blacksmith's Gazzette
- CanIRON II in the anvilfire NEWS
- CanIRON III in the anvilfire NEWS
- CanIRON IV Blacksmith forges Trans-Atlantic Links
- CanIRON V
- CanIRON VI - VIBA
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