{"id":34232,"date":"2026-08-08T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34232"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:38:21","slug":"august-club-meeting-downtown-devoted-to-fancrafting-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34232","title":{"rendered":"AUGUST CLUB MEETING DOWNTOWN DEVOTED TO &#8220;FANCRAFTING&#8221; WORKSHOPS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-34225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AUGUST2026-FancraftingWorkshopsPromoCard-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>Genre fans are often avid crafters; <strong>\u201cfancrafting<\/strong>\u201d is a term we\u2019ve coined to describe the act of a SF\/F fan creating a SF\/F-themed craft! And that is what\u2019s on our agenda in just one week\u2019s time, on <strong>Saturday, August 15<\/strong>, as we return to our <strong>downtown<\/strong> meeting hall at the <strong>Nouvel Hotel<\/strong> for our August <strong>Fancrafting Workshops<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon will be dedicated to several, <strong>hands-on, how-to workshops<\/strong> on SF\/F-themed craft projects, including the making of simple, construction-paper dinosaurs or sci-fi movie monsters, and the fashioning of genre-themed jewellery. <strong>See how it\u2019s done, learn a new craft, and try your hand!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, MonSFFen are encouraged to bring in, for our display table, examples of their own fancraft, completed projects, those in progress, or both! <strong>Share your SF\/F-themed creative undertakings with the group!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><em>See you all on Saturday, August 15!<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><strong>P.S.:<\/strong> MonSFFen will recall that the digital version of <em>Warp<\/em> 117 was released back in May, but print copies were not available at that time due to a printer-ink shortage. Update: after several months delay, we\u2019ve finally received our back-order of printer ink, and so we expect to have a limited number of print copies of <em>Warp<\/em> 117 available at our August meeting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre fans are often avid crafters; \u201cfancrafting\u201d is a term we\u2019ve coined to describe the act of a SF\/F fan creating a SF\/F-themed craft! And that is what\u2019s on our agenda in just one week\u2019s time, on Saturday, August 15, as we return to our downtown meeting hall at the Nouvel Hotel for our August &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUGUST CLUB MEETING DOWNTOWN DEVOTED TO &#8220;FANCRAFTING&#8221; WORKSHOPS!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34271,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions\/34271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}