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ANYONE
CAN BUILD ONE!!
Calling
all Whirligig Builders…
|$1500
in prizes on tap at 13th
Annual Festival
$1,500 in prizes are up for grabs in the 13th Annual
Whirligig & Weathervane Festival, scheduled for
Shelburne's Historic waterfront on Saturday, September 15 and
Sunday, September 16. There are more than fifteen awards in
eleven categories for whirligigs, including People's Choice,
Best of Show, Most Whimsical and First Time Entrant, plus an
award for Best Weathervane. Awards for Best Human Whirligig
and Best Whirligig from Garbage are also on tap this year.
The festival has been growing each year and the Festival
Committee is committed to spreading the word to whirligig
builders far and wide. "Given
the growing popularity of the event last year and in years
past, we expect more than 1500 visitors this year and they
really come to see the great work produced by some very
talented and inventive people," says co-chair Wayne
Blinkhorn. Past builders have come from Shelburne,
Queens
, Lunenburg,
Yarmouth
and
Halifax
counties and a far as
Ontario
. “With 15 prizes in many categories and prizes surpassing
$1500,” adds Blinkhorn, “we expect a lot of great
entries.”
For many
years the festival was the only one of its kind in the world
and continues to be the largest featuring hand crafted
machines and only one of its kind in
Canada
. Travel agents
from the
USA
and media from
New Brunswick
and elsewhere have made visits to sample the festival and the
whirligig building workshops which have become a staple of the
Festival. In the past two years, attendees came from
throughout the Maritimes and as far away as
British Columbia
. Whirligig makers can register in advance or at the Festival.
There is no registration fee. For info, call
1-902-875-3205.
For more information about the Festival,
or to
volunteer ...
Contact:
John
H. Brown:
Festival Committee
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Box 677
,
Shelburne
,
NS
B0T 1W0
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Tel:
902-875-3205 Fax:
902-875-2585
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Email:
oscarj@eastlink.ca
Some of our
favourite links:
- Whirligig
Plans
- Woodworker's
Workshop.com
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- Books
- Rodney Frost - Creative Kinetics - Making Mad Toys and Mechanical Marvels in Wood
web
link
- Alan and Gill Bridgewater - The Wonderful World of Whirligigs and Wind Machines
- Ken Fitzgerald - Weathervanes and Whirligigs
- Anders S. Lunde - Easy to Make Whirligigs
web
link
- Anders S. Lunde -
Action Whirligigs web
link
- Anders S. Lunde -
Whimsical Whirligigs web
link
- Anders S. Lunde - Whirligigs
for children, young and old
web
link
- David
Schoonmaker, Bruce Woods
- Whirligigs
& Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets with
Dozens of Creative Projects to Make web
link
- Sharon
Pierce - Making
Whirligigs and other wind toy
web
link
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- Craft Projects
- Big
Whirligig Craft with recycled materials
web
link
- Shoebox
Whirligig –
Science
Museum
of
Minnesota
web
link
Web Sites
- Whirligigs web
link
- Flying Pig web
link
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