Attention Crafty Parents: Handmade Nation
March 16th 2009 by Dr.MOZ in Arts and Crafts, Indie Designers, Movies and Media
This week’s crafty post doesn’t feature another fantastic handmade Etsy design, it features the new documentary Handmade Nation chronicling the rise of fantastic handmade designers and their art! Filmmaker, author, and independent curator Faythe Levine traveled 19,000 to document the new wave of craft in the USA and her journey is scheduled to
be shown in the following locations:
- April 2nd: California, Eureka 7:30 pm Accident Gallery (free and open to the public)
- April 2nd-5th: Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin Film Festival (tickets and times to be announced)
- April 3rd and 4th: Oregon, Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft (Fri tickets $25 fancy swag bag included, Sat tickets $10)
- April 18th and 23rd: Illinois, Chicago Independent Feature Project “IFP” (tickets available for $10 online, scroll mid-page)
- April 23rd: Wisconsin, West Bend Museum of Wisconsin Art (tickets and times TBA, contact museum)
- July 9th: Vancouver, BC Got Craft? (tickets and times TBA, gotcraft website)
- Feb 4-April 25th: Manchester, U.K. UK DiY (tickets and times TBA, UK DiY blog)
- Sept 09-Jan 10: Jönköping, Sweden Jönköpings läns Museum (tickets and times TBA, visit museum website)
The list above is an early schedule available at the time of this post, so be sure to check-in with handmadenation.com regularly for updates.
Have fun and stay healthy,
Dr.MOZ
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March 16th, 2009 at 11:58 am
nice..I live a few minutes away from Eureka! and that one is also free! I will be there..thanks for the invite.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I will make sure to go to one
March 18th, 2009 at 2:26 am
i love everything home made and especially by parent hand
thanks for sharing to me
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:36 am
looking forward seeing you on July 9th in Vancouver !
March 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Good concept. I wanna go…only BC in Canada?
March 30th, 2009 at 2:08 am
I love any thing about filmmaking and creative hand made art. So I’m sure going to visit at Vancouver, which is very near to my place.
March 30th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Handmade craft’s has a better quality compare to some manufacturing companies. That’s why I prefer to use handmade thing’s.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
That sounds fun, but I’m located on the east coast.
Any dates scheduled near the D.C. area that you know of?
-Sharon
April 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Wow this is a cool event. Handmade crafts really possessed a quality that is far from mass produced ones by machines. Well, I should recommend this one my colleagues.