C.R.A.F.T. / qʷicčiƛma

C.R.A.F.T.
Centre for Retrofitting and Failure Techniques. 

qʷicčiƛma
(the sky opened up) is how we translate this concept to nuučaańuł.

C.R.A.F.T./qʷicčiƛma explores and fosters contemporary arts practice with people of all stripes. We are a small, plural, Indigenous-led organization with a locally-oriented printmaking studio, an outdoor garden/stage/gathering area, and a digital space with unlimited potential.

[ CENTRE ] To be a lightning rod and reference point in arts-based practice and research. To form, then document, current experimental practices.

for (Generosity)

[ RETROFITTING ] To activate the possibility of redoing, reworking, revisiting concepts and materials as a methodology for testing, building, making, and sustaining communities, practice and work.

[ AND ] Inclusion

[ FAILURE ] To approach risk with awareness, but without fearing unexpected results. To use openness, observation, and adaptation as a productive trajectory and test space into an unknown future.

[ TECHNIQUES ] To refine and integrate the practice of arts-based research, making and execution. To explore the [re]distribution of wealth through making-based practice. To be self-sustaining in this work. 

Membership

Everyone is welcome at C.R.A.F.T./qʷicčiƛma. You don't have to be a member to participate. Posts about our work, events, and C.R.A.F.T. Papers are always available on this website, they will never be paywalled.

You can support C.R.A.F.T.'s work through a $10 annual membership. Membership fees help cover costs for our in-person events for people of all stripes. The main membership benefit (besides the fun of participating, and maybe a meal or two) is that you receive the first announcements of important events in your inbox.

We are testing the paid membership system, so are offering a one year free trial, and will talk over the idea of membership fees with our members at our next AGM.

Thanks for your support of these fun, accessible events where everyone is welcome.

News

For the curious, you can sign up for infrequent news in your inbox. We'll also let you know by email when we have an art sale. We'll probably only send one or two messages a year. We're happy to know you're a part of our ecosystem.

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This platform allows you to add a tip! But only monetary tips. Tipping is a contentious topic these days, we're definitely going to open this up. We've never gotten a tip before, so we'd probably have to have a meeting to decide what to do if we get one.

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For any other kinds of tips (hot, etc), email emily@craftpeople.ca.

C.R.A.F.T. is a B.C. non-profit society located on Ahswinnis Reserve, Port Alberni, Canada. Incorporation Number S0073243.

C.R.A.F.T./qʷicčiƛma studio
5323 River Road
Port Alberni, BC V9Y 6z3

Studio visits by appointment only, thanks.

Contact: emily@craftpeople.ca

Board :
Klehwetua Rodney Sayers, co-founder & president
Michelle Jacques, vice-president
Emily Luce, co-founder & treasurer/secretary

C.R.A.F.T. is buoyed by many individual and organizational supporters on this adventure. We thank the artists, advisors and friends around us, and are pleased to share the ongoing results of our collective vision here. Thanks also to the BC Arts Council Accelerate program as well as the Alberni Valley Community Foundation for its financial support and guidance.