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2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Program
2026 Craft + Design Canberra Open Studios + Organisations Open Day Program
7 + 8 November 2026 | Various Locations
Step inside the studios of Canberra’s makers and discover the creative practices of local craftspeople, designers, artists and arts organisations. Proudly supported by home.by.holly.
2026 Craft + Design Canberra Undercurrent Design Market
13 - 15 November 2026 | Ainslie Arts Centre
The Undercurrent Design Market brings together over 50 accomplished makers from across Australia, showcasing contemporary work in jewellery, glass, ceramics, textiles and diverse creative mediums.
ALTER – a double bill of Design, Dance, Disability and Dissent
6 + 7 November 2026 | Belconnen Arts Centre
Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange. ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration presented by dancers living with and without disability - offering a beautiful hybrid of ephemeral visual art and dance, illustrating the power of dissent through lived and imagined realities.
National Robert Foster Metal Prize
5 November – 12 December 2026 | Craft + Design Canberra
The National Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition celebrates 15 finalists from across Australia who are questioning, reinterpreting and evolving the possibilities of metal as a contemporary practice.
Small Rituals | hand carved, handheld
5 November – 12 December 2026 | Craft + Design Canberra
Senden Blackwood's hand-carved granite vessels challenge the culture of speed, mass production and disposability. Through painstaking craftsmanship, geometric forms and the enduring presence of stone, his work celebrates slow making, material intelligence and the lasting value of objects shaped by time, patience and the human hand.