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Craft + Design Week 2026

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Explore. discover. create. make. learn.

Ballarat Craft + Design Week is full of activities for all ages - with ticketed workshops, talks and discussions alongside free exhibitions and retail opportunities.

 

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TALK: Pecha Kucha - Rare Trades Centre

  • Rare Trades Centre 383 – 389 Bradshaw Street Golden Point, VIC, 3350 Australia (map)

The theme ‘ESSENCE’ looks closely at what makes something real, meaningful, or true. In an age of copies, simulations, shortcuts and instant outputs, we’re asking: what gives something its essence? Is it the material? The story? The hand? The intention? The practice that shapes it?

Speakers are

  • Bren Luke  Artist / Illustrator

  • Cody Winward  Passementier & Costume Manager, Sovereign Hill

  • Steph Wallace  Ceramic Artist

  • Lorinda Cramer  Lecturer, Cultural History & Museum Studies

  • Rebecca Mathews & Chris Pratt  Co-owners Kilderkin Distillery

Earlier Event: 8 May
TALK: Crafting Conversation with Shelby Sherritt
Later Event: 8 May
EXCLUSIVE : MAKE / PLAY / LIGHT : Chiptune. Glass. Code.