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Gala Dinner Keynote Speakers
Modern Daily Knitting’s Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne!
✨ Ann and Kay Tell All: Tales and Lessons from Ten Years of Modern Daily Knitting ✨
Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne are the co-founders of Modern Daily Knitting, one of the most vibrant places in today’s knitting world. Their partnership began in 2003 with a blog that quickly grew into a beloved hangout online, known for its humor, warmth, and stalwart belief that knitting is a vital part of a life well lived. Their two best-selling books presented knitting as the most fun thing ever, the source of everyday joy, inspiration, and amusement.
What began as a lark twenty years ago has grown into a somewhat larger lark for Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, founders of Modern Daily Knitting, the wonderworld for knitters both online and in real life.
This is the talk they have never given, a deep reflection on their work, their friendship, and the knitting community that has taught them so much.
The duo met online in 2002. Since then, their endless curiosity about knitting and the people who love it has led them on a wild, wondrous ride.
Get ready for stories, lessons given and lessons learned, leaps of faith and hard tests, great ideas, terrible ideas, and completely irrational moments of saying “yes.”
Most of all, they’ll celebrate knitting in all its beauty and joy, and explain why their mission has remained constant over their decades of work together: with MDK, the goal has been and will always be to delight knitters.
And at all times, they follow MDK Rule No. 1: Knitting is spoze to be fun.
Modern Daily Knitting would like to welcome you to learn more about the The Equal Justice Initiative, an organization founded by Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer in Alabama, fighting systemic racism, economic inequality, and judicial corruption.
Learn more abou this organization and ways to support here.
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Masked Shopping Hour
To provide a safer and more comfortable shopping experience for immunocompromised attendees and others who may benefit from additional precautions, masks will be required for all attendees and vendors during the first hour of the Marketplace on both Saturday and Sunday. The Marketplace will open at 10 AM, with masks required from 10–11 AM. After 11 AM, masks will be optional. Thank you for helping us make Knitting LIVE! welcoming and accessible to everyone!
Commitment to Authenticity
We are committed to celebrating and showcasing authentic, human-created work. AI-generated designs, artwork, or other creative materials are not permitted at the event. Violations may result in disqualification from participation.
Broadway Show
Buena Vista Social Club
SOLD OUT!
Special Event Tickets
Experience the five-time Tony Award–winning Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway and get swept up in an exhilarating world of Cuban sound and culture that changed the global music landscape.
Inspired by the Grammy-winning 1997 album of the same name, the Buena Vista Social Club musical tells a story inspired by the legendary artists who recorded the soul-stirring, foot-tapping music of Cuba’s golden age. Their groundbreaking namesake album Buena Vista Social Club inspired an Academy Award–nominated documentary that dove into the history of this ensemble, which recruited many Cuban artists who had been retired for years to authentically recapture Latin American musical genres such as son, bolero, and danzón.
Date: Thursday, January 14
Time: 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:15 PM)
Run Time: 2 hours 10 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission
Location: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre– just steps from the Marriott Marquis
Tickets: Orchestra-level tickets are $156 each. We’ll do our best to seat everyone in your party together, but group seating cannot be guaranteed—grab yours when you register for Knitting LIVE! New York.
Limit: Two tickets per person
All ticket purchases are final sale; refunds will not be offered. Additional information regarding ticket pick-up and seat selections will be provided at a later date. Seat locations are not guaranteed to be together.