Soul Craft is about the good stuff - about craft and connection - and especially about conversations. And so we've put together a new Festival Program - In Detail page to really showcase the depth and breath of the talks and demonstrations on offer as part of our Festival Day Pass.
This program is about all the things that are important to us - about our connection with ourselves, our impact on the earth, about learning and sharing about how we make and why. It's about how hand making affects our well-being. But it's also practical - about technique, about how to get started with a new-to-us craft, about how other people make time and space in their lives to make.
It's about having the conversations we have been having on this blog over the last few years in real life. The Festival Program is about how craft fills us up and how craft makes us feel!
If you missed out on the masterclass you wanted to do - as many of them have sold out already - then never fear as many of our teachers are also sharing their knowledge, wisdom and joy as part of our Festival Program. Come and meet Elizabeth Barnett, Andrea Mowry, Natalie Miller, Jen Beeman, Anna Farago and Melissa Wastney in real life.... you will love them.
We really hope you love the program - and that there is so much depth and breadth there that you will be struggling to figure out how to fit it all in :)!
Felicia x
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.