3 oktober 2009, International Day of Felt

who - what - where - when - how

Who?
Feltmakers around the world.

What?
Let us know your plans. Are you planning an open studio? Are you organizing a group event? Is your school planning a project for FeltUnited? Are you hanging felt on your front door? Share you stories with us no matter how big or small. We Felt United.

Where?
Everywhere and anywhere - just show your felt

When?
Join us on October 3rd, 2009 the first International Day of Felt.

How
It is easy:
•Smile!
•Make felt in yellow, orange or red or any combination of those colours
•Display that felt for the world to see on October 3rd, 2009
•take photos of your display in October
•Send those photos to us
•We do the rest!.. keep smiling ;)






Join us - We Felt United


Felt - intertwined, bound together, forever as one - United

2009 is the United Nation's International Year of Natural Fibres, It will be the first year for an International Day of Felt.
Felters from around the globe will join together displaying their felt by exhibiting it outside their homes and studios.

The theme for this year will be a slice of the colour wheel, yellow through red.

People around the world will be surprised by finding yellow felt on doorsteps, orange felt birds in parks, children wearing red felt vests and husbands carrying bright felt bags to work. There will be felt in museums and felt in markets. There will be felt groups organizing open days and workshops.
...felt in trees, on cars on bicycles and on mountaintops.

This is an open call to felters around the world who have not yet heard about FeltUnited. We are asking felters everywhere to participate on October 3rd, 2009.

Display your felt - on your front door, in the park, along the road or on your car. Anywhere your heart desires... be wild! Have fun! Let the world see what you make.

Are you part of a felt group, an association or a school? Make this a project.
Our goal - to connect felters around the planet - to feel as one, part of a whole. We want every feltmaker to participate whether you have been felting for two days or a lifetime, young or old. Everyone is able and invited to participate.

If you have any plans or ideas tell us and we will spread the word. If you want to be connected to other felters in your area to set things up or if you need help in putting an idea together contact us at; info@feltunited.com

Send photographs of your work as it is displayed in October to be included in an exhibit that will be available online, as well as in a multimedia presentation with www.feltunited.com. (good quality - detailed and overall images - along with contact information for credit purposes - more details and a release form available closer to the event date)

FeltUnited is currently in the planning stage for an exhibit featuring felt from around the world, as well as a multimedia presentation featuring photographs from Octobers event. More information to follow.

Our warmest regards,
Elis Vermeulen (Holland)
Cynthia Reynolds (Norway)

Contact us at info@feltunited.com
www.feltunited.com