Deck your halls with a traditional evergreen swag – made by you! Join our Museum Interpreter and harvest fresh greenery from our museum site. Then create two of your own swags. Add in ribbon and natural accents such as pinecones and other natural bits you collect. Learn some history about the materials and how they were used for holiday decorating in the past. This program is completed outdoors, so come dressed for the weather. Bring your family and friends for a creative and fun workshop, just in time for the holidays.  

Deck your halls with a traditional evergreen swag – made by you! Join our Museum Interpreter and harvest fresh greenery from our museum site. Then create two of your own swags. Add in ribbon and natural accents such as pinecones and other natural bits you collect. Learn some history about the materials and how they were used for holiday decorating in the past. This program is completed outdoors, so come dressed for the weather. Bring your family and friends for a creative and fun workshop, just in time for the holidays.  

Two workshops each day, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 

How does a middle-aged widow foil the Nazis in occupied France? By knitting—in code!

During World War II, a middle-aged Canadian woman – secretly Jewish – is recruited by the British Operations Executive to serve as a spy in Nazi-occupied France. Her male colleague is skeptical she'll make any difference because she's a woman — and an 'old' one at that. But she defies expectations and challenges the chauvinism and antisemitism of the times, using her craft of knitting to pass coded intelligence messages about the Germans to the Allies. 

'Spycraft' was inspired by the research of writers-producers Kirk Dunn and Claire Ross-Dunn, who uncovered untold stories of women during WWII using knitting as a tool for espionage — listening in on Nazi soldiers who never saw them as a threat and stitching secret codes into everyday garments to smuggle intelligence past enemy lines.

Concessions and cash bar available.

Tickets are only $35 and are available at the Ajax and McLean Community Centres, the Audley Recreation Centre, and online at www.ajax.ca/sfc. For more information, call 905-619-2529, ext. 2787 (ARTS), email us at stfranciscentre@ajax.ca, or visit us online at www.ajax.ca/sfc