Textiles

Children: Textiles

Ages 9-12 / Children

Kids Textile Arts (ages 9 – 12)

Learn textile arts including tie dye, batik, embroidery, plushie making, and handweaving. Each class introduces a new skill. Students explore and create, taking home a new project weekly. Fibre art is fun, easy to learn, and experimentation is encouraged! Classes are designed to build confidence in trying new things, and all lessons are fully hands-on. […]

Date:May 8th, 2026  -  June 19th, 2026

Time:3:45 pm

Fee:$150.00

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Youth: Textiles

Ages 12-17 / Youth

Youth Clothing Club (ages 12 – 17)

Make your wardrobe your own with the skills you’ll learn during this fun course! Learn how to embroider patches, print onto fabric with screen and block printing methods, visibly mend your favourite items from your closet, and make alterations to thrifted finds so they fit you exactly how you like.  Participants will learn basic sewing […]

Date:May 15th, 2026  -  June 19th, 2026

Time:6:00 pm

Fee:$160.00

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Youth: Textiles

Ages 12-17 / Youth

Youth Needle Felting (ages 12 – 17)

Try your hand at sculptural textile arts! Needle felting transforms loose, colourful wool into solid, sculpted forms. These can be three-dimensional figures, like flowers or animals, or two-dimensional scenes, like a wall hanging or bunting. Learn how to use special barbed needles to repeatedly agitate wool fibres, causing them to interlock and mat together to […]

Date:June 23rd, 2026  -  June 23rd, 2026

Time:6:00 pm

Fee:$30.00

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Adult: Textiles

16 and up / Adult

Experimental Knitting and Crochet

Become more confident with experimentation, problem-solving, and design with knitting and crochet, while making garments that reflect your unique interests, style, and body. Learn more about colour theory, personalized patternmaking, yarn sourcing and salvaging, understanding fibre properties and sensitivities, basic dyeing techniques, and digital tools (such as pixel or chart makers) to plan colour work […]

Date:June 4th, 2026  -  June 25th, 2026

Time:6:30 pm

Fee:$140.00

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Adult: Textiles

16 and up / Adult

Meditation Scrolls

Our connections to textiles are deep and important. Meditation scrolls are small bits of fabric sewn together in a long strip with a variety of embroidered stitches and wrapped around a wooden spool. Create a memorable keepsake by combining creativity and mindfulness together while learning new stitching techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring bits and […]

Date:May 7th, 2026  -  May 28th, 2026

Time:6:30 pm

Fee:$125.00

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Adult: Textiles

16 and up / Adult

Getting Weird With It: Textile Art

Dive into the world of abstract textile art. Discover vintage hand stitches for beauty and structure, learn various dye techniques to transform thrifted materials, and push the boundaries of traditional textiles by creating experimental three-dimensional artworks! In this dynamic textile art class, participants will explore fabric dyeing, hand sewing, soft sculpture, needle felting, and embroidery. […]

Date:May 12th, 2026  -  June 16th, 2026

Time:6:30 pm

Fee:$185.00

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Turquoise blue guide of the Casa Winter Program Guide with a winter landscape and two penguins.

Casa Program Guide

The Casa Program Guide is produced three times a year; Winter, Spring/Summer and Fall. Inside the guide find listings for the upcoming class and workshop schedule, upcoming exhibitions at The Gallery, information about artists in residence and seasonal events in the building. Program guides are free. Pick-up guides at Casa or at facilities throughout the city.