FESTIVAL RETURNS: May 1-25, 2020

2020 Registration Information

ACTIVATING ENRICHING CRAFTED CONNECTIONS

Each May craft-based work is featured & exhibited in a 25-day festival through a variety of events at dozens of venues throughout Metro Vancouver & Fraser Valley. As the only month-long festival in North America designed to celebrate the vitality of our hand-crafted world, we are dedicated to enhancing appreciation of fine craft and our crafted environment from across a continuum, including the ancestral, tribal & traditional to leading-edge contemporary.

Last year the festival had 100+ events taking place at 35 venues across Metro Vancouver, featuring the work of over 100 craft-based artists & designers across multiple disciplines.

The third annual Crafted Vancouver festival runs May 1-25, 2020. Events must run during some part of the festival duration and can start before and/or end after the official festival period.

OUR EVENT PARTNERS

Crafted Vancouver pools together a unique blend of local, national & international independent makers + designers, studios & craft collectives, galleries, museums, showrooms, shops & luxury brands, craft & design schools, cultural organizations, craft member associations, curators, scholars, collectors, embassies, writers, chefs and other regional producers of food & beverage, all making, exhibiting, supporting or selling exceptional craft-based work.

TYPES OF EVENTS

Craft appreciators and collectors are invited to immerse themselves in exclusive Gallery Exhibitions, Artist Talks & Presentations, Crafted in the City – Shop & Showroom Events, Food & Drinks Events, Hands On Workshops, Opening Receptions, Guided Tours, Demonstrations, REEL Crafted Film Festival, Live Podcast, Performances and more.

EVENT VENUES

Intimate events and open exhibitions that shine a light on the hand-made take place at a variety of select venues throughout Metro Vancouver including studios, galleries, museums, gardens, heritage buildings, shops, performance centres, showrooms & luxury retail locations.

Your Event Partner registration includes:

  • An Event Listing and Event Partner listing on the online Crafted Vancouver website including multiple search options;
  • A listing in the printed and digital Programme Guidebook (event name, dates, address, short description) with an anticipated distribution of 6,000 copies throughout Metro Vancouver. View the digital version of the 2019 Programme Guidebook
  • Crafted Vancouver signage (e.g. Festival window decals and signage, not project specific);
  • Inclusion in the “What’s On” daily listing on home page;
  • Inclusion in one or more Crafted Vancouver social media post(s) and newsletter.

Other Event Partner Benefits

Gain Exposure
  • Collectively, we are cultivating an appreciation and demand for handcrafted quality. Your participation is an opportunity to engage in this city-wide celebration with a captive audience.
  • Inclusion in the Crafted Vancouver Programme guidebook. We produce thousands of copies of our collector quality Programme Guidebook, listing each event in detail and distributed during April to select locations throughout Metro Vancouver. The Guidebook has a shelf life long after each festival. Each Event Partner receives 100 copies for their own distribution. For an additional fee we offer a limited number of Advertising Space  to those Event Partners who would like to be featured in a more prominent way during the festival.
    For a closer look, check out our Events and Event Partners in the 2019 Programme Guidebook
  • Be featured in detail on the CraftedVancouver.com website under Events and Event Partners. Each Event Partner receives a dedicated webpage with the ability to update images and text, allowing festival visitors an easy and efficient means of follow-up during and after the festival. Over time this archive becomes a valuable resource for collectors and craft appreciators from around the world. Events details are listed and archived.
  • Events Partners receive coverage through Crafted Vancouver’s social media and e-newsletter as official festival partners.
  • We facilitate festival press releases and requests for images and we work with our strategic partners to cross-promote your event(s).
  • Richard Olak Media provide filmmaking expertise during the festival to compile events into a short film of festival highlights. We engage professional and volunteer photographers to provide event coverage which we use in our newsletters, social media channels and other promotional materials.
  • Festival advertising – 2019 advertising highlights include the following:
    Street banners on Burrard Bridge, Tourism Vancouver Visitor’s Guide, weekly full-page Georgia Straight ads, North Shore News, Art-BC Guide to Arts & Culture, Preview Magazine, Studio Magazine, Artslandia, Surface Design Magazine, Galleries West, North Vancouver Community Arts Council, BC Alliance for Arts & Culture.
Networking and Community Building

Build relationships with other Event Partners and become part of a vibrant and creative community. Crafted Vancouver hosts two networking opportunities for our Event Partners:

  • The Pre-Festival Mixer in April for Event Partners only
  • The Festival Opening Reception in May where Event Partners in attendance are introduced to an audience of festival participants

Festival Fee Categories

1. Signature Events Fees

Signature Events – Hosted and organized by Crafted Vancouver.

2. Independent Events Fees

Independent Events – Hosted by Independent Event Partners at their own venue space. Independent Event examples include:
  • Demonstration
  • Exhibition
  • Food/Drinks Event
  • Guided Tour
  • Hands On Workshop
  • Opening Reception
  • Performance
  • Shop/Showroom Event
  • Studio Event
  • Talk/Presentation

 

  • Solo Maker, Designer or Studio | Group Exhibition of 2 or more: $225 flat fee
  • Small business, not-for-profit organizations: $275
  • Large Businesses, organizations, institutions & associations: $325
  • Collective or Series: $75 each (for groups of 3 or more)
  • Awardee of BC Achievement Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design: Complimentary festival admission. Upon receiving submission, Festival Director will contact you directly.
    About the award

 

All registrations will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis from Sept-Jan each year. Once accepted, an invoice will be sent and payment is required by e-transfer (preferred), cheque or credit card.

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Questions?

Festival highlights and updates

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