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Sydney Craft Week Festival 2019 - Program launch

Friday 11 October – Sunday 20 October

Sydney Craft Week festival returns for its third year,celebrating all things handmade across GreaterSydney for 10 days in October.

150+ events this year include: 37 exhibitions, 6 talks, 57workshops, 13 markets and retail events, 30 open studiosand 13 live demonstrations.

This community-led program is the only festival in Sydneydedicated to making by hand.

“We are excited to present a jampacked showcase ofmaking that is inspiring, innovative and most importantly

playful,” said Festival Directors Lisa Cahill and PennyCraswell.

An initiative of the Australian Design Centre, Sydney CraftWeek is supported by Government Partner City of Sydneywith a festivals and events sponsorship grant and also byPartners: Class Bento, Skein Sisters, Digital Press,Signwave, ArtsHub and FBi Radio.

About SCW Sydney Craft Week is an inspirational festival that speaksto our fundamental human urge to create, while alsoshowcasing exceptional contemporary craft.An initiative of the Australian Design Centre, this ten- dayfestival features a range of exhibitions, workshops, talksand open studios.

Sydney Craft Week unites the very active craft sectorwithin Sydney's creative community includingceramicists, jewellers, quilters, knitters and other textileartists, plus timber workers, print makers, leather crafters,Indigenous makers and creatives of all kinds who workwith their hands.

Theme The festival theme for Sydney Craft Week 2019 is PLAY.This is reflected in our choice of cover star for 2019,Vanessa Ion’s crocheted creation ‘Cynthia’ the AustralianWhite Ibis.

As part of the theme, we also asked contemporaryjeweller and educator Melinda Young to write about whatplay means for her. “Play is close to my heart and at thecentre of my practice,” said Melinda Young. “In the spiritof fun, play can mean making a space within creativepractice where outcomes are not important,” she said.

Craft Up Late Sydney Craft Week continues the celebrations into theevening with Craft Up Late. Running from 5 – 8pm overthree evenings in three different precincts, this programoffers the opportunity to visit 30+ venues in the evenings:

· Tuesday 15 October in Inner City Suburbs· Wednesday 16 October in Eastern Suburbs· Thursday 17 October in Inner West

Where Sydney Craft Week 2019 is held in galleries, shops,studios and other spaces all over Greater Sydney and

Beyond. Events will be held in 35+ suburbs this year:Darlinghurst, Sydney, Millers Point, Ultimo, Chippendale,Redfern, Waterloo, Rosebery, Bondi Beach, Paddington,Glebe, Camperdown, Annandale, Stanmore, Newtown,Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, St Peters, Tempe, Arncliffe,Burwood, Concord West, Milsons Point, North Sydney,Willoughby, Chatswood, Macquarie Park, Hornsby, NorthCurl Curl, Pittwater, Sans Souci, Gymea, Liverpool,Casula, Baulkham Hills, Thirroul, Mt Kiera, Central Coast(various locations), Gosford.

Sydney Craft Week Festival celebrates the Sydney craftcommunity, from professional artists to occasionalmakers, from those who love to make to those who wantto learn or purchase a handmade work to take home.

More information on all events is available atwww.sydneycraftweek.com

The Sydney Craft Week printed program will bedistributed across participating venues. Please click hereto see the program online.

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 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

PLAYThis year, so many of our events reflect our theme, PLAY,including Commuter Craft – things to make on the move,a day out to Thirroul presented by Rumpus, with threemakers encouraging play through three different crafts.Mathematics collides with craft and play at ADC withSTEAMpop’s Playfold workshop for adults and kids over10. Visit Vanessa’s Ion latest playful crocheted sculpture,koala woman Gloria, as part of the installation Zoo Life.Kirsten Fredericks, well known for her cheeky knitted andcrocheted genitalia, brings her regular event Beers andBalls to Craft Up Late. Kirsten is your devoted crochetguide for this evening of playful wool therapy andcocktails. And contemporary textile artists, the Seed

Stitch Collective are playing with the theme Dopamine togenerate a group show that promises to radiate withenergy and colour.

Other playful events include: Playtime textiles exhibitionat The New Artisan’s Gallery; String Play coiled pendantworkshop with Basketry NSW in North Sydney;Glassblowing Workshop with Mark Eliott; Resin, macraméand punch needle Workshops with Made by Me programPlay It Your Way; Playful Design for Repair at UTS; ClayHard Play Hard at kil.n.it in Glebe; Northern BeachesCouncil presents Replay; Playful creative workshops atSew Make Create; Ready, Set, PLAY yarn event with theSkein Sisters; Play with the makers at CraftNSW; KoreanCultural Centre presents Playlist; Central Coast Councilpresents Make+Play; Re play by jewellery artists MelanieIhnen and Jennifer Fahey; Sensational Play [Mistake]Making Station by Gallery76 in Concord West; TotesPlayful workshop with Nicole Robins; Playing with yarnand sticks or hooks with the Knitters' Guild NSW Inc.

Exhibitions and installationsThis year’s program includes 41 exhibitions andinstallations, including solo exhibitions: In My Nature, anexhibition by Odette Ireland at the Incinerator Art Space inWilloughby; Leaves Fall... exhibition by Barbara Ryman atStanley Street Gallery in Darlinghurst; Touch Me, RemindMe I Am Here by Jane Theau at Barometer GalleryPaddington; Still, Like Water by Kirstie Rea at SabbiaGallery, Paddington; The Song Tree by artist MichelleBelgiorno at Casula Powerhouse; Structura (patterns,shapes and structures) an exhibition by RegineSchwarzer at Bridget Kennedy Project Space in NorthSydney; The Sydney Teapot Show at Kerrie Lowe Galleryin Newtown.

And group exhibitions include Profile 2019: ContemporaryJewellery Award and Response: Small Tapestries fromthe Australian Tapestry Workshop at ADC in Darlinghurst;Artisans in the Gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens;Rekindled at Saint Cloche in Paddington; Knitted, Woven,Stitched and Sewn at Maunsell Wickes Gallery inPaddington; Northern Beaches Council presents Replayat Creative Space in North Curl Curl; a group exhibition atMonster Mouse in Marrickville; Edo in the Sky: TraditionalKites of Japan at the Japan Foundation; In-Betweenexhibition at Gaffa in the city.

Family-friendly events and kids workshopsA number of family-friendly events are part of this year’s

program, including seven workshops and activities forkids being put on by The Japan Foundation, EdenUnearthed and Alison Thompson’s The Magic of theGarden, both at Eden Gardens in Macquarie Park, whileADC is hosting STEAMpop’s Playfold workshop. Kids arealso welcome to come along to a range of markets andexhibitions.

MarketsHead to one or all of our makers markets: StudioOneThirty’s Love Local Artisan Market at San Souci onSaturday 12 October, Made by Hand: Art and DesignMarket at Hazelhurst Arts Centre on Sunday 13 Octoberand ADC’s own Makers Market in Darlinghurst onSaturday 19 October.

WorkshopsGet your hands dirty with a choice of 57 workshops duringSydney Craft Week covering a huge range of differentdisciplines and creative ideas, from kintsugi ceramicsrepair to goldwork embroidery, plus make your own mugs,indigo dyeing for kids and sustainable jewellery making,just to name a few. Head to the website and click on theWorkshops filter for more.

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 For more information, images or interviews pleasecontact: Alix Fiveash, Partnerships and CommunicationsManager, Australian Design Centre P: 02 9361 4555 E: alix@australiandesigncentre.com

  

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