I'm back from the anual German Origami Convention. The journey to Salem, the city were the convention was held took over seven hours with the car. I went there with a couple of friends from Frankfurt (all are Origami folders).
The first evening wasn't that eventful at all. We assembled our exhibition models and went to bed. The Second day was full of different possibilities which whom we could fill the day. There were workshops provided by other folders, several hours of "free folding" and of course breaks. There were also two paper shops, where you could buy a range of different papers, books and folding tools, a heaven for folders so to speak. I took two workshops in total where I Iearned how to fold an action model with a bear (a pop up card ith a bear inside) and how to fold an eagle. There was a main hall where the guests could watch the exhibition of origami artwork from folders like us and other people who came from all over Germany.
The whole convention was centered around US Origami Master Eric Gjerde and his tessallations. So there were natuarally a lot workshops for tessallations. I am a figurative artist, so those were suited for me, but i taught some of my models to others and gave a workshop on how to fold a donkey, that was designed by me.
All in all it was a very nice con (besides my inflamed finger tips) were I was able to meet friends again and also make some new friends!
To give you some idea on how a origami convention might look like, here is a link to some pictures i took at the weekend:
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