Event

Designing a Capital: Crafting a City 2010

"I have planned a city that is not like any other in the world. I have planned it not in a way that I expected government authorities in the world would accept. I have planned an ideal city - a city that meets my ideal of the city of the future."
Walter Burley Griffin 1912

Planning is well underway for the 2013 Centenary of Canberra celebrations. With the vision of the Canberra 100 team to create a year of memorable celebrations to mark the anniversary, not only for Canberrans but for all Australians, and to proudly celebrate a city that symbolises our freedom, spirit, achievements and aspirations. It is shaping up to be a momentous occasion.

In the years leading up to these celebrations, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre presents Designing a Capital: Crafting a City, an annual program of exhibitions and events designed to probe and explore the role of the arts in establishing a Canberra culture, highlighting Canberra as a breeding ground for artistic expression.

The Designing a Capital: Crafting a City 2010 program encourages ongoing dialogue through exhibitions and public events to reinvigorate community awareness and involvement in the culture-scape of the extraordinary phenomenon that is our National Capital. Join in unfettered discussion and debate; experience artistic expression; rediscover the local landscape; and uncover experimental design that celebrates new ideas in fashion, hair and beauty.

A bounty of events is on offer to revisit what and who have shaped Canberra thus far, and to provide inspiration for the next century.  For the program of events please visit www.craftact.org.au/events/daccac/.