Crankie Photo Gallery

Julia is cranking the 1909 crankie, the story of how the French speaking lumberworkers and their families came to Maillardville, BC to work in the lumber mill. At Festival du Bois, March 24, 2019.

Julia Derby - Professional Crankist at Festival du Bois, Coquitlam, BC, March 24, 2019.

March 24th, 2019, Julia and Sue taught a crankie workshop at the Mackin House Museum at Festival du Bois. Using rubber stamps, participants filled the scroll with images of cranky things found at the Mackin House!

First scene of the "Pete Seagull" crankie, in honor of Pete Seeger!

Sue adapted one of her first crankies, "The Seagull" to be " Pete Seagull" the mascot of the Vancouver Folk Mudic Festival. Felt appliquéd to felt.

We gave two crankie workshops at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 2017. Over 40 crankies were made!

2017, the first crankie fest in Bellingham, WA at the Alternative Library. A very cool place!

2018, getting ready for Festival du Bois in British Columbia. Yay!!!

In the Crankie Factory before the Vancouver Folk Fest, getting materials ready for the crankie workshops.

The grand finale @ the NW Folklife Festival's Crankie Fest, coordinated by Sue Truman. At the end we all came on stage and reverse-cranked our crankies while the pipes played. Photo by Doug Plummer

This is a FABULOUS audience at the NW Puppet Center's 3rd Crankie Fest, Oct. 1 2016.

Julia Derby and Sue Truman give a crankie workshop to puppeteers at the Felt-a-Con Conference, July 2016.

Northwest Folklife Festival, 2016 - at the Crankie Fest performing "Heart and Hand" a crankie about the relationship between 19th Century quilt designs, fiddle tunes and everyday life.

Rehearsal for the NW Puppet Center's 3rd Crankie Fest, Oct. 1, 2016 with Dejah Leger, Katherine Fahey, Squirrel Butter and Podorythmie. Photo by Doug Plummer

The title page of Valse des Poeles (Waltz of the Stoves). Tune composed by Simon Rieple of Quebec. The story of winter fun - it includes 13 shadow puppets.

Crankie rehearsal in the cabin.

Getting ready for Festival du Bois in Coquitlam, British Columbia. March, 2017.

Crankie workshop at the Vancouver Folk Music Fetival, July 2017.

Crankies and Julia and Cil stepdancing at an outdoor performance. Sometimes the crankies see the light of day! Photo by Doug Plummer

Mission Folk Music Festival, July 2016 in Mission, British Columbia. Love this festival!

Just fooling around!

Garden House performance in 2016. SRO, it was a magical night!

Scene from The Lacemaker. Felt and lace hand-stitched to a felt scroll. Photo by Doug Plummer

Scene from The Lacemaker, hand-stitched felt, fabric and lace on a felt scroll. Photo by Doug Plummer

Scene from The Lacemaker, felt, fabric and lace hand-stitched to a felt scroll. Photo by Doug Plummer

In the cabin. Photo by Doug Plummer.

Julia Derby at the Crankie Fest @ NW Folklife Festival, 2017. Photo by Doug Plummer.

This is how we carry everything at festivals - wagon train! Sue got a few questions - what is that?

Matchbox crankie boxes. Sue bought someone's matchbox collection at an estate sale.

From the Heart in Hand crankie.

Spinning a few crankies at Auntmama's Story Table at Starbucks. Watching master storytellers at work!

Mission Folk Music Festival in Mission British Columbia, 2016

2017 NW Folklife Festival in Seattle.

Sue made this flyer for our crankie show at the Frontier Home. A perfect venue for crankies and the most wonderful audience.

We are busy making crankie kits for our workshop at Cama Beach State Park, June 8th, 2019. Crankies at the beach, can't beat that!

The 5th NW Puppet Center Crankie Fest. We premiered Sue's Hibernicon crankie.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Podorythmie has been performing crankies since 2011, in venues big and small, in the dark and in the light of day. We love to share the magic of crankies! For more information about this artform, visit Sue's website The Crankie Factory.