Join Craft + Design Canberra CEO + Artistic Director Jodie Cunningham to formally launch the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival and celebrate the opening of 5 exciting exhibitions in the Craft + Design Canberra Gallery, Festival Hub Space and Civic Square.

Overlayed on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people was a city planned by the Griffins using Garden City principles. As our ‘bush capital’ evolves, we continue to be influenced and guided by its landscape setting. It was with respect for the landscape that Romaldo Giurgola crafted our most significant public building on Capital Hill, and it is with respect for the landscape that we reimagine our urban fabric to support a growing population.

Join Bruce Reynolds for a floor talk about his exhibition How Soon Is Now. Learn about the materials and process used by Reynolds in his exquisite cast relief works that invite audiences to consider the ancient in relation to the present.

Join the artists from Pattern Recognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and hear them talk about their work in this exhibition. This will be followed by the official exhibition opening featuring a performance by vocalist Shikara Ringdahl in collaboration with the work by artist Hannah Quinlivan.

Join artists’ Minka Gillian, Alexi Freeman as they discuss their work in the Speculative Materialism exhibition at Craft + Design Canberra.

Join artists Ximena Natanya Briceño, Oliver Smith, David Walker as they discuss their work in the Robert Foster Metal Prize exhibition at Craft + Design Canberra.

Canberra Modern is excited to present the publication – The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff in this book launch and talk by author Warren Andersen.

Professor of Art History, Roger Benjamin grew up in, and later restored, one of Canberra’s most iconic mid-century buildings – the Alex Jelinek designed Round House. In this talk, and the associated exhibition, we discover how the Round House came to be designed, built and made into a home.

Join Canberra Bonsai professional and ceramic artist Daniel Leone for this talk and demonstration as he unravels the mysteries of bonsai and gives you all the know-how to successfully keep and cultivate your own bonsai.

Hear from Canberra’s emerging entrepreneurs as they take the stage in the high-intensity pitch blitz. The November First Wednesday Connect will be hosted by the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute.

Join the creative team behind the Urban Biome installation in Civic Square for a discussion about the regenerative elements and collaborative process behind this work. Supported by City Renewal Authority.

The Embassy of Finland presents a celebration of Finnish Design in Australia.