Connect with Canberra’s creative community by engaging in a regenerative hands-on making experience, learning unique craft and design skills from our accomplished artists in the Craft + Design Canberra Festival Workshop Program for adults and children.
Regenerate your creative practice with artist and mentor Amy Kennedy.
Join First Nations artist Harry’s Clarry (Kamilaroi) to make your own personal Yarn Stick.
The team at Canberra Innovation Network, led by experienced venture investor and salesperson Nick McNaughton, CEO Campus Plus, will take you through 3 half-days of intensive learning and practising selling to grow, how to find investors and how to negotiate the right deal with them.
Bring your lunch and get creative with Canberra artist Sally Black in Civic Square to sketch the public artwork Urban Biome with watercolours.
Regenerate your soul and have fun making by hand in this reflective clay workshop with local ceramicist Fran Romano
Join artist Mariana del Castillo to create poetic relief sculptures with tin and fabric that are inspired by the macro, quiet and regenerated natural world, visually exploring the anthropomorphic transformation of arthropods.
Join international visiting Finnish artist Siru Tuomisto in a fun sculpture workshop that explores the value of everyday objects. Bring in an old object that has significance to you and learn how to regenerate it into a new, playful and exciting work of art.
Join artist Minka Gillian to explore the transformative power of recycled materials. In this workshop you will discover how to regenerate rubbish into a small, Chrysalis netted sculpture, turning waste into art. This hands-on experience invites you to weave personal stories and creativity while highlighting the potential for beauty in everyday materials.
Belonging to Whom? redefines community engagement by inviting participants to discuss street ownership from emotional, legal, historical, and economic perspectives. Through collective-thinking workshops, we aim to gather visions for city regeneration by transforming designated street surfaces through speculative design.
Join Canberra Modern and The Mill Architecture & Design at Manning Clark House for an architectural model building workshop for kids using found and recycled materials.
Regenerate your approach to creative practice in a responsive, hands-on workshop with artist Valerie Kirk, at Mugga Mugga heritage site. Experiment with different media to create individual and group storyboards exploring place, history and time.
Join artist Bruce Reynolds and learn how to cast a low relief plaster piece from your own design. Carve your unique design in the negative which will then be a cast as a positive panel. Hand colouring techniques will be shared and the resulting sculpture can be hung.
In this workshop we will take a relaxed and meditative approach to creating – immersing ourselves in the powerful possibilities of regeneration that mending affords. Mending is so much more than just making do. Visible mending is a wonderful way to reduce our impact on the planet while expressing creativity and honouring the histories of the everyday objects that are closest to us.
Join Ronnie Jordan (Pitta Pitta Wangkamahdla) and make a bush animal using natural fibres.
Join regenerative designer and artisanal jeweller Alexi Freeman for a hands-on, family-friendly workshop exploring the creative potential of repurposed materials, transforming discarded domestic household recycling into unique, eco-conscious and wearable art.
The Contemporary Craft Retreat is a community event, runs for 4 days and offers a variety of craft workshops.
