October 2019 | Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen

President’s Message:

The count- down is on to the 70^th Holiday Fine Art and Craft Festival. There is no time to waste and you will not want to miss this one. The show committee has gone all out with the advertising. You will see us on FaceBook, Comcast, newspapers and billboards. So while sitting in traffic is not fun, while you are stopped, you might just see us on a billboard depending where you are stuck! If you are a member but not a vendor at this year’s event, please, please, come out and see us; maybe call Carol Haile and volunteer for an hour. Great time to catch up with friends, enjoy the festival and if you haven’t been to a regular meeting lately, join us at 9:00 AM on November 3, 2019 before the show opens that day. It is a great opportunity to get involved with your guild again. Remember without YOU, well it just won’t be the same! Signing up for our famous Christmas party can happen on our website or at our meetings. This is such a wonderful night out and the Yellow House Hotel does an outstanding job for us. Great Food, Great entertainment and best of all Great Friends!

A new event for us is ou r Santa’s Secret Shoppe, a pop up at Renninger’s Farmers’ Market on Saturday December 7, 2019 fr0m 9 AM to 4 pm. We have more of these Pop-up shows planned for 2020. Be part of this action. Check us out! A very casual event!

“When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde

Your President, Barry L. Bennecoff

On November 2nd & 3rd, We will be celebrating our 70th Annual Holiday Festival. This is an event not to miss!

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Media:

This month on BCTV, you will find “Your Berks Craftsmen” featuring our upcoming Holiday show for November 2 and November 3. We had such a good time doing this show. The studio was overrun with makers and fine artists who will be at our 70^th annual Holiday Fine Art and Craft Festival. The studio looked like a mini show. It was beautiful. Judy and Terry Boyer, co-chairpersons of this great event and their guests did an outstanding job telling their stories of their crafts to our audience. AND October is Octoberfest Auction for BCTV. It starts on October 14 and runs that week. Please, please tune in and bid. You will find something for everyone. The wonderful crafts will be auctioned off on Thursday, October 17. It is a big night thanks to all the wonderful makers, craftsmen and artists. Many of these donations come from Reading-Berks members and craftspersons from the Kutztown Folk Festival 2019. We all share a common goal. Help BCTV with their fundraiser because we know what a good friend BCTV is to us. Thank you BCTV!

Your BCTV host, Kay Bennecoff

Show Volunteers:

We need Gate Volunteers!

If you (or a responsible relative) have an hour or two to spare, please consider being a volunteer at our upcoming Holiday Show, Nov. 2-3, at Kutztown University.

We need people to be Greeters or to help at the Admissions and Raffle Tables, especially on Saturday morning, Nov. 2.

Contact Carol Haile (inkpencjh@msn.com or call 610-374-7048) for more information.

Thank you!

Carol Haile, Show volunteers

Holiday Social

The holiday social will be held Tuesday, December 3rd at the Yellow House Hotel. Drinks will be served in the bar at 6 PM (cash bar) and dinner will begin promptly at 6:30 PM.

Matt Vardjan will be collecting donations at the Holiday Social. Monetary donations for the GoggleWorks Scholarship Fund can be made by cash or credit payable to Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen or can goods and/or paper products will also be collected for the Berks Area Food Bank. Scholarship fund donations may be sent to Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen PO Box 85, Mohnton, PA 19540 until January 31, 2020.

Entertainment this year will be Butch Imhoff.

Yellow House Hotel’s GPS address is: 6743 Boyertown Pike, Douglassville, PA 19518

Dinner includes: Italian Wedding Soup, Tossed Salad, Stuffed Baked Potato, Vegetable du jour and Dessert (Apple Pie with ice cream). Tax and Tip will be paid for by the guild.

Payments and signup must be submitted before November 25, 2019.

For questions, contact Matt Vardjan at 610-655-5541.

Sign up now!

Santa’s Secret Shoppe

A Holiday Pop-Up at Renninger’s Farmers’ Market

740 Noble Street, Kutztown PA 19530

Saturday, December 7, 2019
9 AM to 4 PM

Set up: Friday, December 6, 1 PM to 6 PM
or December 7, 7 AM to 8:30 AMM

Deadline November 1

Application can be found at: Santa’s Secret Shop

Note: This will appear in your downloads, having issues with this: please contact info@rbcrafts.org and I will e-mail you a copy.

Standards:

Congratulations to our 3 members whose work was accepted by our standards committee.

Sheila Shuman ceramics and fiber

Amy Langman photography

Angela Serricca jewelry

Our next jury session will be in March, 2020.

Standards Chair, Louise Mehaffey

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Events:

General Meetings: (1st Tuesday of Month)

October 1st: 7 PM GoggleWorks
November 3rd: 9 AM KU Field House
November 5th: No Meeting, see Nov. 3rd.
December 3: Holiday Social at Yellow House, for details and to sign up visit: Holiday Social

Shows:

Holiday Festival: November 2nd and 3rd, KU Field house
Santa’s Secret Shoppe: December 7th, 9 AM to 4 PM at Renninger’s Farmers’ Market

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The Editor apologizes for the late issue of this month’s news. MailChimp was giving me some technical issues.