We’re inviting you to
THE GRAND APHRODITE
PRE-CHRISTMAS GODDESS EVENT
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12-4pm
featuring Perfumes of Peace – 7 Virtues CEO, Barb Stegemann returns to Aphrodite
Come and meet Barb Stegemann between 2 and 4pm – sample her beautiful line of 7 Virtues fragrances and hear the amazing story behind them. See http://www.the7virtues.com
Additional in-person presentations by celebrated jewellers Clare Bridge, Dorothee Rosen and artisan Lisa Nishi will add another dimension to the event. Enjoy this unique opportunity to hear the story behind their amazing creations
And we will offer 10% discount on all jewellery this day only! –
Afternoon tea and cakes will be served.
Special bonus downtown offer on this date: Afterwards plan to have dinner at The Townhouse between 4 and 6 pm and enjoy a special Aphrodite dessert designed just for this event. More details to follow. Check them out https://www.facebook.com/AntigonishTownhouse
Now here’s the skinny on our guests:
ABOUT BARB STEGEMANN
We’ll let her awards tell the story of this remarkable woman and her 7 Virtues Fragrances:
· Top game changer in the history of CBC’s Dragons’ Den
· Named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 award in the Trailblazers and Trendsetters category
· Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Emerging Entrepreneur category
· The 7 Virtues fragrance wins Chatelaine Beauty 100 award
· Profit Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs
· Chatelaine Woman of the Year Award
· Women’s Innovator Award, US Department of State
· First Female Hon Colonel 14 Wing Greenwood Canadian Forces Base
Not bad for a girl from Antigonish!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Clare Bridge
Clare Bridge’s initial collaboration of art and nature was shaped by her Quaker education in New York. Early on she developed a keen understanding of the simplicity of form and design. In college, majoring in fine art, she was initially drawn to painting with acrylics. However after moving to Maine in 1973, her desire to express strong colours and textures led her to mixed media, incorporating glass, metal and recycled elements. Clare incorporated organic tones of her mixed media discipline into jewellery designs. And so evolved her “wearable sculptures” inspired by her now Nova Scotia home with its profusion of organic coastal offerings.
Lisa Nishi
Lisa Nishi studied Fine Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Advanced Textile Design at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and Fashion Design at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her work has been in Vogue Magazine and on the cover of Neiman Marcus, ‘The Book’. Her work has been sold in New York, London, and Paris and is currently on offer at The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and The Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. Nature has always been the starting point for her designs. Cape Breton Island serves as a rich source of inspiration. “The fishermen here taught me how to knit nets and so I made a mermaid dress from actual lobster twine.”
Dorothee Rosen
Dorothée was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada in 1989 at the age of 19. In 2005, she graduated from NSCAD University with a major in jewellery design and metalsmithing, and a minor in art history (focus craft). Recipient of various awards and scholarships, Dorothée showed outstanding achievements in her studies at NSCAD, and continues to participate in exhibitions in Canada and the US. Dorothée creates in her studio in Halifax. Her work is available at her studio, or through several galleries in North America.
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