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An online get-together where we host a featured guest and invite them to tell their story and share the why and how behind what they do.
The Monthly is where it all started back in 2012 as an in-person event where we gathered for food and drinks while hearing a special guest present on a topic. When March 2020 hit the organizing group decided to move events online to keep the group going. Connecting people across the industry as well as geography has been an important factor in this event and we intend to keep it going. Our events can be attended live, or watched online at a later date.
Archive
20 | Revaluing Wood Waste | May 28, 2024 | 12-1pm | Eric Law From Urban Machine + Urban Jacks |
19 | Propelling Architectural Imagination | May 10, 2022 | Eytan Fisman from Fast+Epp |
18 | Knot Another Wood Panel – 2 | April 12, 2022 | A 4 sided conversation on CNC technology |
17 | Craft Beer! Craft Coffee!…Craft Wood? | March 15, 2022 | Harry Nelson and High Scorah |
16 | Creating the TWIG Directory | February 15, 2022 | TWIG Organizing group and members from the network |
15 | From Skatepark to Sawmill | January 25, 2022 | Van Urban Timber |
14 | Pitch Night 2 | December 14, 2021 | Spotlight on Ellingsen Woods – Cortes Community Forest |
13 | Green Leaders in Wooden Suits | November 16th, 2021 | Meike Siegner – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ryerson University |
12 | A Future Forest Bioeconomy | October 19, 2021 | Gurminder Minhas – Performance BioFilaments |
11 | Knot Another Wood Panel | September 14, 2021 | Alternatives and Methods of Creating Space |
10 | Pitch Night 1 | August 10, 2021 | 3-4 guest pitches TBD |
09 | Have You Hit a Wall? | July 13th, 2021 | Monty Chong-Walden – Calmura Natural Walls |
08 | Wood Tiles? Why not! | June 15th, 2021 | Mark Anson – Timber Tiles |
07 | The 100 Billion Chopstick Opportunity | May 11th, 2021 | Felix Bock – ChopValue |
06 | Can a TWIG Have Branches? | April 12, 2021 | Post Perennial Follow-up |
05 | Design, Make and Manufacture | March 8th, 2021 | Chris Chan (Rangate) John Neel (Audacity Wood) |
04 | Technology, Tactility & Time-Tested | February 8th, 2021 | John Velten |
03 | Design, Make and Manufacture | January 11th, 2021 | Adam Corneil (Unbuilders, Heritage Lumber) + ECUAD ID Students |
02 | What the Hemlock do you do now? | December 14th 2021 | Patrick Christie, Christian Blyt (Corelam), Scott Forbes (Scotty Wood) |
01 | Welcome Back to TWIG | November 9th, 2021 | Inaugural event |
Connecting people to inspire innovation in wood since 2012.
TWIG operates on the unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples who have lived in deep relationship with the lands and forests we now call British Columbia since time immemorial. We recognize and honour the enduring stewardship, knowledge, and cultures of these Nations—whose care over generations shaped the very forests that gave rise to BC’s forestry industry. We also acknowledge the devastating impacts of colonization, including the near-erasure of many old-growth ecosystems and the displacement of Indigenous communities and cultural practices connected to these ancient forests.
As we work to shape the future of BC’s forest products industry, we are committed to pathways that integrate Indigenous perspectives, support cultural resurgence, and foster a renewed relationship to land, materials, and community—one grounded in respect, regeneration, and transformative change.
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