Sydney Craft Week is about celebrating creativity and the handmade in all its forms, creating an opportunity for the whole community to engage with craft, experience the benefits of making, and purchase local handmade work.

This year’s festival focus is climate emergency. Festival director Lisa Cahill said ” The climate emergency has been deeply felt across Greater Sydney and NSW again this year with incessant rain and the resulting flooding and erosion scarring the landscape and causing devastating loss of life, homes and livelihoods.”

Led by the Australian Design Centre (ADC) and supported by an advisory group of craft sector professionals, Sydney Craft Week brings together contemporary crafts organisations and individuals in a celebration of craft across the city as part of a ten-day festival each year in October. The festival fosters community participation and creativity, with the opportunity for the public to meet artists, buy and learn about craft and get involved in making.