Theme: Buttons: Keeping it together!
Dates: September 29-30 & October 1, 2017
About the Show & Convention
The Ottawa Valley Button Club hosted an event to celebrate buttons,button collectors and Canada`s 150th Birthday in our beautiful capital city.
The event included:
- A button show and sales room
- An exhibit on the history of buttons, with a focus on Canadian content
- A Saturday night live button auction
- Presentations and workshops throughout the weekend
- Well done button competitions (following the NBS Blue Book, 2017)
- Sunday Breakfast featuring guest speaker, Diane Weiler, enamelists, who created our 2017 Convention Favour Button.
All held at the Ottawa Conference & Event Centre, 200 Coventry Rd., Ottawa ON.
Here is a link to the CBC Radio Canada article with Louise Daignault about the show.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1058486/bouton-couture-vetement-collection-collectionneur
We were on Rogers Daytime TV with Dylan Black talking about buttons and the show!
https://youtu.be/Q1X52-2OqcE
CBC Radio One - In Town and Out with Giacomo Panico
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/programs/intownandout/ottawa-valley-button-club-1.4315050
