The West Coast Origami Guild

West Coast Origami Meetings:

West Coast Origami Guild
The WCOG holds meetings on the second and fifth Saturdays of the month. The monthly (second Saturday, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM) meetings are graciously hosted by the Cahuenga branch of the LA library in the basement auditorium at
4591 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.
Directions: From the 101 Freeway, take the Santa Monica Blvd. exit and go East about 1 mile. Turn left one block after Vermont. For more information, please contact Cathy Ortiz:

Catherine Ortiz
corigami@sbcglobal.net
(818) 907-1539

West Coast Origami Guild
Special Meetings (Orange County, CA)
Special meetings held only on the fifth Saturday of the month:
(i.e., not every month!) from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Hosted by Carol Stevens:

(714) 998-7400

Origami -- Kai (Orange County, CA)
For more information, please contact Kazuo Kendrick:

(714) 893-4596

Peninsula Paperfolders (Palos Verdes, CA)
Meetings are held on the third Saturday of each month, except June, October, and December, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Miraleste Library at 29089 Palos Verdes Drive East in Rancho Palos Verdes. The club does not meet in December.

The June and October meetings are part of festivals at the Cabrillo Beach Museum on Steven White Drive in San Pedro, California. Free parking is available at Mimer Street & 21st Street, San Pedro, California. The Whale Festival is in June; SeaFest is in October.

For more information about the Peninsula Paperfolders, please contact Beth Giogovcsan at (310) 375-5698.

Pacific Ocean Paperfolders (Santa Monica, CA)
Meetings are held on the fourth Sunday
of each month, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
at the Wild Oats Market, 500 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA.
For more information, please contact Dorothy Engleman.

Hi-Desert Folders
For more information, please contact Linda Lawson:

(805) 944-1757

Origami Paperfolders of San Diego
Meetings are held on the third Saturday
of each month, from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM.
For more information, please contact V'Ann Cornelius:

(760) 753-9623

Peninsula Origami People (POP)
Meetings are held on the fourth Saturday
of each month, from 2:00 PM to whenever...
at the Pacifica Main Library, 104 Hilton Way
(Right off of Palmetto Ave.), in Pacifica, CA.
For more information, please contact Charles Esseltine.

Redwood Origami Club (ROC)
Meetings are held on the third Wednesday
of each month, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
at the Windsor Library, Windsor CA.
9291 Old Redwood Hwy #100, Windsor, CA.
The date is subject to change, due to meeting room availability.
The December meeting is a holiday party held in a member's home.
For more information (or to confirm the meeting date),
please contact Judy Pagnusat:

(707) 795-2277

Bay Area Rapid Folders
Meetings are held on the first Saturday
of each month, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the
Bernal Heights Library

500 Cortland Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110

For more information, please contact Kayo Kurata:

(415) 543-6271

Napa and Sonoma Valley Paperfolders
Meetings are held on the fourth Saturday
of each month, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the
Sonoma Community Art Center, Room 212
76 E. Napa St., Sonoma, CA.

League of Intrepid Paper Sculptors
Meetings are held on the second Saturday
of each month, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
at The Bean Scene, 186 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale, CA.

Valley Fold (West Sacramento, CA)
Meetings are generally held on the second Saturday
of each month, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM,
depending on the availability
of the Turner Library in West Sacramento.
For more information, please contact Sherrell Cline-Richmond:

(530) 756-3237

Portland, Oregon Paper Shapers (POPS)
Meetings are held on the second Sunday
of each month, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
at the Paper Zone at 1136 SE Grand Avenue. Salmon is the nearest cross-street.
For more information, please contact Shani Wieting

PAPER (Seattle & Puget Sound area of Washington)
Meetings are held on the second Sunday
of each month, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
at the Redmond Regional Library,
15990 N.E. 85th Street, Redmond, WA 98052.
For more information about PAPER, please contact Mark Morden:

(206) 662-1441

www.ifold.org has archived the Pacific Coast Origami Conference (PCOC) 2000, 2003, and 2005 websites .
Tom Hull edited the proceedings of the Third International Meeting on Origami Science, Math, and Education (3OSME).

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Last updated June 19, 2012.