On October 6th, 2023 The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy world premiere’s online on CBC’s free digital platform Gem. To celebrate the release of the film Cowichan director/filmmaker and NIC Alumni Mary Galloway invites you to attend a virtual celebration. Sweater weather is here, break out your Cowichan Sweaters and Salish knit garments and tune in to CBC Gem to learn all about The Cowichan Sweaters and knitters.
The event will take place across 2 days so that people tuning in to CBC TV on Sat Oct 7th can participate as well. BC and Alberta can watch it on TV on the 7th at 8 p.m.
Take a selfie in your knits while you’re watching and post on our event page to be entered in a draw to win prizes!
Check Mary’s Instagram for more details.