A year like no other, but look what we did

A year like no other, but look what we did...

We know what didn't happen. But let's focus on what did happen...

16 podcasts made and broadcast
2 Digital Craft Festivals presented with over 20,000 visitors from all over the World.
400+ Makers directly supported via our Digital events.
60 Instagram Live Broadcasts
1 x Festival Merchandise shop For the Love of Craft created
62  Youtube Films made and broadcast
283 Makers Interviewed and Broadcast via Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
1 x New Find a Maker website under development (more on this below)

Apart from the podcast, everything was digitally created from home via Instagram or Zoom and with a huge team of creatives and organisations, working in the background, towards the same goal of keeping craft alive.

Final Podcast of 2020

In our final The Capital of Craft podcast of 2020, we have invited Dr Kate Strasdin (from last week's fascinating podcast) to interview Sarah James, Craft Festival director. They talk about how Sarah's passion for craft was developed and how she and the Craft Festival team worked to keep their message alive, to thrive, not just survive.

To listen to all our podcasts click here. Sarah's podcast will be broadcast from Thursday at 11am on Christmas Eve.

We will have a short break from podcasting and we return in the New Year with a special season of podcasts with makers and thinkers from Brighton.

Final opportunity to view Digital Craft Festival

Digital Craft Festival website will be live until January 1st. News of our 2021 event programme will be announced in the New Year.

What is Find a Maker?

We hope you already know that we run beautiful Festivals, both online and in stunning venues. We often get enquiries from visitors, trying to track down exhibitors from our Festivals, sometimes from many years ago. We put our detective hats on and we usually work out who they are looking for.

But, what if we had a resource featuring some of the finest makers in the world, often found at our Festivals, so our loyal visitors, curators and buyers could browse and search at their leisure for makers, galleries and craft organisations? All pre-selected for quality, obviously.

Add to this a Business School for our selected Makers that supports the various aspects of running a small creative business. If you are a maker, gallery or craft organisation, you can register your interest. here.

Support The Craftivist Collective Handbook

Craft Festival are committed supporters of the Craftivist Collective, led by the extraordinary Sarah Corbett.

The Craftivist Collective Handbook will be a beautiful, hardback book of 20 Gentle Protest projects and tools to help readers become positive and effective changemakers in our complex world.
 
Craftivist Collective's unique Gentle Protest approach to craftivism uses kindness, respect and beauty, inspiring and empowering readers to want to be part of making this book a reality, to help themselves as well as help others.

Your support is urgently needed to make the Handbook a reality.

Currently they have over 800 supporters including a Prime Minister's wife, a Dutch politician, and great granddaughter of Emmeline, granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst (UK Suffragette movement leaders!) amongst them.

Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year

So, until we meet again, may everyone at Craft Festival wish you a peaceful Christmas and a positive New Year.

With Best Wishes,
Sarah, Nina, Kate and Fran.