Call for Entries Craft Festival Wales 2025

February 14, 2025

C A L L F O R E N T R I E S ⁠ ⁠

We are delighted to announce Craft Festival Wales 2025 Call for Entries. ⁠ ⁠

Caru Ceredigion’s Event of the Year 2024 (Community) returns to Cardigan Castle in September following rapturous praise from audiences and makers alike. ⁠ ⁠

Craft Festival Wales is a collaborative celebration of making supported by leading arts organisations from Wales and beyond. ⁠ ⁠ Craft Festival Wales will host over 90 exceptional makers at Cardigan Castle featuring The Capital of Craft LIVE, Out of the Woods, demonstrations, exhibitions, workshops, children’s activities, live music, theatre & storytelling with satellite events hosted across the Town. ⁠ ⁠

Applications are invited from makers working to the highest standards.⁠ ⁠You make ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, metal, wood, plastics, mixed media, leather, recycled materials, printmaking and paper.⁠

⁠ Your work shows a dedication to quality of making, presentation and originality.⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Supported by Cardigan Castle, Mwldan, Make it in Wales, Cambrian Wool, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen School of Art, Coleg Sir Gar, Coleg Ceredigion, National Museum, Ceredigion County Council, QEST and Novus.

Deadline 6pm Friday March 28th

📸 Cambrian Wool ⁠ Call for Entries in Welsh to follow.

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