Laura A Paré - See You In August: The Quilts of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (2025)

Laura A Paré – See You In August: The Quilts of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2025)

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See You in August is a pictorial timeline and history of a collection of quilts created at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, held each summer from 1976 to 2015. The quilts, spanning a period of thirty years, were made one per year by thousands of women who contributed stitches and blocks. The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival was an international feminist women’s festival and is often referred to as the “Original Women’s Woodstock.” Author Laura Paré attended the event from 1991 to its closure. Welcomed into the circle, she now recounts stories of the women and their quilts, revealing the uplifting power of community, creativity, and friendship. Seated around a quilting bee during this iconic gathering, which was known throughout feminist movements worldwide, these women connected heart and soul while working on the shared task of quilting. Seen together for the first time, this Slow Art collection tells its story through memoirs and recollections from the women who made them.

106 pages

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Weight 20 oz
Dimensions 8.5 × .5 × 11 in
Format

Paperback, Hardcover

1 review for Laura A Paré – See You In August: The Quilts of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2025)

  1. Mary McClintock –

    RUN, do not walk, to get a copy of Laura Pare’s FABULOUS new book about the quilts made by women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
    This is a MUST for every woman who ever attended MichFest… and a powerful history to share with young women who never had the chance to attend MichFest!
    Laura Pare’s labor of love to preserve photos and stories of these quilts shines through this treasure of women’s history and art. For 30 years, MichFest women came together with the leadership of an expert quilter to create quilts, most where there was a theme and women made blocks for the quilt. Then, at the festival, the actual quilting was done in a perpetual quilting bee and literally thousands of women over the years added stitches, embellishments. Each year, one lucky woman won the quilt in the festival’s fundraising raffle. I just got my copy of the book and it has MANY, MANY photos of the quilts and the women making the quilts and stories about each of the quilts. This is a GORGEOUS and TRULY amazing history of a vital part of MichFest culture. The MichFest quilts are part of a LONG lineage of women working together to create beautiful quilts!
    And, yes, I was one of the women who made blocks for many of the quilts and many of my quilt blocks are in the photos in the book. Wow, oh wow, oh wow!!
    Get a copy for yourself and copies for all of your friends! And, get a copy for your local library!!!

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