Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability

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The festival title reflects the three themes which informed Applied Arts Scotland's international craft exchange project which comprised three international residencies bringing together makers from Mexico, Canada, Thailand and Scotland to experiment and create new work, culminating in the Meet Make Collaborate touring exhibition.

The themes also prompt symposium papers that further provoke and stimulate discussion by asking an array of critical questions about the values we invest in craft and how these values represent who we are, how we are seen and what craft can change.

The four day, online festival considers the three themes across three strands:

1. International Collaborating Makers' practice
2. Meet Make Collaborate exhibition
3. Old Stories, New Narratives symposium

The four day international festival will take place across timezones from Nova Scotia, Canada to Bangkok, Thailand.

Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability: an online, international festival of craft is presented and funded by Applied Arts Scotland SCIO, Edinburgh College of Art, MSVU Art Gallery, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Funded by Creative Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.