Craft Forward

We think of arts and crafts as smaller, valuable actions that contribute to the community’s well being and that can tackle bigger social issues; we are big fans of “slow-making and slow-thinking”, focusing on the importance of making by hand, of taking your own time with your thoughts and ideas, and going against fast, capitalist structures of production and art making. We provide a variety of workshops utilising a range of different media, such as knitting and crocheting, collage, publication making, creative writing. Our workshops are suitable for beginners hesitant to approach arts and crafts and for more experienced makers that are tired of the elitism and exclusivity that characterise contemporary arts. Arts and crafts are for everyone, and we would love for our participants to come out from one of our workshops with more confidence in their artistic and social skills.