Program

Schedule of Events

Subject to change - last updated January 30, 2024.

Hosting its very first art Biennale in 2017, the vibrant art and craft community of the Bonavista Peninsula will welcome "Craft @ the Edge: A Handmade Future", Newfoundland and Labrador’s international craft conference for Canada’s Craft Year 2020. Blending cultural tradition with contemporary approaches, the Bonavista Peninsula is a dynamic and innovative coastal region with breathtaking views, historic Newfoundland heritage and warm hospitality. This remarkable environment will inspire you as a maker and will help you forge connections with distinguished members of the craft community.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Registration

Free Evening

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Registration

Luncheon - Keynote Speaker Sissal Kristiansen

Everything Is Connected: Panel on Sustainable and Relational Animal Fibre

Wool Processing & Appreciation in Our Shared Future

Meet and Greet

College of the North Atlantic’s Textile and Apparel Design Program Students Exhibition Opening

Friday, September 20, 2024

Workshop Session 1: Foraged Plant Fibre Weaving

Workshop Session 2: Bite Sized Tanning

Workshop Session 3: Hand Papermaking with Recycled Paper, Textiles and Sustainably Grown, Harvested and Processed Fibre Flax

Presentation: Soil to Soil - Growing Our Fibre in the Canadian Land Base

Lunch Break

Workshop Session 4: Intro to Backyard Fibre Processing

Workshop Session 5: Foraged Plant Fibre Weaving

Workshop Session 6

Focus Group: Reusing Fabric and Fibre Arts

Loose Ends - Started with love by them. Finished with care by us. Presentation

College of the North Atlantic’s Textile and Apparel Design Program Students Waulk

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Workshop Session 7: Fibre Sculpture: Upcycled Textile Forms

Workshop Session 8: Block Printing with Natural Dye Mordants

Workshop Session 9: Shaping Local Material - Building 3 Dimensional Forms with Textile Techniques

Presentation: The Paradox on Invasives, From “Weed” to Fibre

Lunch Break

Workshop Session 10: Sculptural Needle Felting

Workshop Session 11

Workshop Session 12

Presentation: Reviving Local Fibre Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Unama’ki Cape Breton

Presentation: Unraveling the Threads of Heritage: A Tribute to the Art & Craft of Fibre as it Connects Us as a Culture

Presentation: How to Kneel in the Grass

Market Day 1

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Studio Tour of the Region

Market Day 2

Monday, September 23, 2024

Travel Day

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