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Harewood Celebrates a Week of Craft this Summer with Craft Festival and Radical Acts Symposium
21st June 2022
HAREWOOD CELEBRATES A WEEK OF CRAFT THIS SUMMER WITH CRAFT FESTIVAL AND RADICAL ACTS SYMPOSIUM
In direct response to Harewood’s 2022 exhibition Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters, Harewood will be hosting a week of craft this summer, including the Radical Acts Symposium, offering opportunities for in depth discussions surrounding craft’s power for positive change, as well as a two-day family friendly craft festival Make It Harewood.
RADICAL ACTS SYMPOSIUM: CRAFT’S POWER FOR POSITIVE CHANGE
On Thursday 30 June, Harewood joins with Intelligence Squared – the leading forum for live debates, talks and discussions around the world – in a live-streamed panel discussion.
Reclaiming the Earth will explore how the movement towards a more sustainable future can no longer be divorced from the movement for racial justice.
Food grower and writer Claire Ratinon, curator Ligaya Salazar and product designer Spandana Gopal explore the role race plays in environmental justice, and the power of creativity and craft to communicate this crucial link.
Kicking off a full day’s agenda of conversation, debate and inspiring insight, on Fri 1 July, British designer Mac Collins, winner of the Design Museum’s inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize, will deliver the first keynote, exploring how craft can help us address social issues affecting contemporary life.
A joint keynote from designer and environmentalist Sebastian Cox and multi-disciplinary designer and academic Nick Gant, focusing on how craft can inspire healthier relationships between people and the environment, follows in the afternoon. ‘In conversation’ sessions will offer opportunities to really participate in the debate, with panels discussing how craft can…
- be a practical tool for human connection,
- provide a lens to discuss better representation in the creative sector
- help (re)build healthier systems with healthier outcomes
- help us build deeper, more meaningful relationships with nature Amongst the panelists are writer and critical thinker
Emma Crichton Miller, textile artists Celia Pym and Richard McVetis, Harewood’s 2021 Craft Spotlight artist glassmaker Chris Day, maker and woodcraft specialist Robin Wood, and award-winning architect Jerry Tate.
MAKE IT HAREWOOD
Following its success in 2019, Make It Harewood, a two-day family friendly craft festival, returns to Harewood on Sat 2 + Sun 3 July in partnership with Hole & Corner.
A weekend packed full of workshops and demonstrations, visitors will have the opportunity to get hands on and learn from some of the leading talents in their respective crafts fields, as well as enjoy DJs and live music, talks, craft stalls, plus local food and drink and extended opening hours on Saturday night until 8pm to complete the festival atmosphere.
Paid for workshops include model making with award winning Aardman Studios, blacksmithing with 2019 Harewood Biennial artist Leszek Sikoń, stool making with Freya Whamond, crochet workshops with Kate Brittain, Islamic Geometric patterns and print workshops with Ranya Absulateef, wire flower workshops with Helaina Sharpley, hand building pottery with Rebecca Appleby.
Visitors can also take in glass blowing demonstrations with E&M Glass, wood carving demonstrations with Radical Acts artist Robin Wood and partake in the Communal Do Nothing Machine build with Marvellous Mechanica.
For full details and ticket information visit https://www.harewood.org