Conversations for Change: Sustainable craft remaking culture

“The Inaugural Craft SWAP”

Do you have craft items in your stash that you no longer have a use for?

 If you answered Yes to this question then we invite you to participate in the Inaugural Craft Swap to be held in conjunction with the sustainable conversation.

The Craft Swap premise is to promote the reuse / recycling of items and promote sustainable craft, as well as having FUN.

How it works?

Step 1: Collect a “Craft Swap Bag” from Make your House a Home 67 Williamson Street  Bendigo – available from 1 August or alternatively contact Janine 54 100 585 janine@bendigosustainability.org.au to reserve your bag for the night.

Step 2:  Fill your bag with one type of craft / art items – ie. Material, paper, ribbons, zips, buttons, wool etc.

Step 3:  Bring your bag on the evening and receive a token for your “bag”

Step 4:  Exchange your token for another “bag” 

Step5:   Happy Crafting!

We look forward to seeing you there on the night!

Guest Conversationalists include:

Verity Lougoon, is one of Australia’s leading exponents in ecological textile design. Her skill basis is in sustainable fabrics and screen printing.  She is currently researching options for sustainable options for printing paste.

Angie Russi will present; Weaving Across Walls: Indigenous Women and Men’s Fibre Project, a Shepparton Art Gallery initiative. The project grew from an initial three day work shop in 2009 with indigenous weaver  Patricia Harrison who taught 25 local Koori women traditional weaving techniques of South east Australia, a local skill which was almost lost. The Shepparton Art Gallery recognises that it has an important role to building community capacity within marginalised groups and within the wider community – weaving across ignorance.

Hayley Lau blogs about ethical craft and living at remade.com.au. She is a young mother, op-shopper, a creative and a piscatarian (which means she doesn't eat any meat except fish, which she is trying to wean herself from). She ran a handmade clothing line where each piece was made from reclaimed materials.

This event is proudly supported by LaTrobe University Visual Arts Centre