Events Calendar
A curated calendar of festivals, exhibitions, residencies and markets — Europe-heavy through the summer, and a steady eye on the rest of the world year-round.
30
Jan
Old Québec, Québec City, Canada
The winter carnival's ice-block artisans' village returns with First Nations beadwork, ceinture fléchée weavers from the Mauricie, and Inuit soapstone carvers from Nunavik.
Runs through Feb 14
9
May
Giardini, Venice, Italy
For the first time, the Biennale dedicates a full pavilion to vernacular craft, with commissions from Pag lacemakers, Évora azulejo painters and Sicilian cart artists.
Runs through Nov 22
12
Jun
Fez Medina, Morocco, Morocco
Sufi orders, Andalusi orchestras, Gnawa masters and gospel choirs share courtyards and palaces across nine evenings in the old medina.
Runs through Jun 20
20
Jun
Plazas of the Old City, Córdoba, Spain
From dusk to dawn, twenty-eight squares of the Córdoba old city host free flamenco performances — cante, baile and toque — under June stars.
26
Jun
Pag Town, Croatia, Croatia
The island closes its main square for three days of demonstrations, masterclasses and a juried exhibition of new work in UNESCO-listed paška čipka needle lace.
Runs through Jun 28
5
Jul
Mas Village, Bali, Indonesia
A week-long residency with Ida Bagus Anom learning to carve a Sidha Karya mask from pule wood — from rough block to consecration.
Runs through Jul 12
6
Jul
Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal
Two intense weeks inside Portugal's national tile museum learning the cobalt washes, cartoon transfer and kiln practice of traditional azulejo painting.
Runs through Jul 17
10
Jul
Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Beyond the main jazz programme, the festival's free outdoor stages this year showcase Balkan brass, Salento pizzica and Calabrian Arbëresh folk.
Runs through Jul 19
13
Jul
Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway
Two weeks in Olav Bergstrøm's barn learning the Telemark and Hallingdal grammars of acanthus painting, with weekend excursions to the Norsk Folkemuseum.
Runs through Jul 24
17
Jul
Kyoto, Japan, Japan
Twenty-three towering yamaboko floats parade through Kyoto in one of Japan's oldest urban festivals — a moving museum of textile, lacquer and metalwork.
20
Jul
Cerro del Fortín, Oaxaca, Mexico
The great gathering of Oaxaca's eight indigenous regions — dance, costume and offering atop a hill above the city, every July.
Runs through Jul 27
25
Jul
Isles of Harris & Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Forty croft weavers open their sheds across two days. Loom demonstrations, dye walks on the machair, and a final ceilidh in Tarbert.
Runs through Jul 26
8
Aug
Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
A two-day parade of restored Sicilian carretti through the seaside town that has painted them since the 1880s, with workshops in the Bertolino studio.
Runs through Aug 9
12
Aug
Guča, Central Serbia, Serbia
The loudest five days in the Balkans: half a million people, five hundred trumpeters, and a brass-band competition that has been running since 1961.
Runs through Aug 16
15
Aug
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The largest Native American art market in the world, drawing more than 1,000 artists from over 200 nations to the Plaza for two days each August.
Runs through Aug 16
21
Aug
Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
Three days in Sibiu's Piața Mare with ceramicists from Horezu, glass icon painters from Nicula and Saxon woodcarvers from the fortified villages.
Runs through Aug 23
4
Sep
İznik (Nicaea), Türkiye, Türkiye
Four days on the shore of Lake İznik celebrating the return of the famous Ottoman tile craft — kiln openings, workshops and a juried tile competition.
Runs through Sep 7
10
Oct
Alba, Piedmont, Italy
Seven weekends of Piedmontese basketry, wool felting from the Biella valleys and copper cookware from Val Chisone, all wrapped around the world's most famous truffle market.
Runs through Nov 29
17
Oct
Kantcentrum, Bruges, Belgium
Nine days inside the Bruges Lace Centre, with juried work from Flemish, Slovenian, Croatian and Japanese lacemakers, plus daily bobbin demonstrations along the canal.
Runs through Oct 25
4
Nov
Sanganer & Bagru, Jaipur, India
A Diwali-week residency across the two great block-printing villages of Rajasthan — indigo dyeing in Bagru, red-and-black bootis in Sanganer, and lantern-lit evenings in the old city.
Runs through Nov 10
9
Nov
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Two hundred thousand traders, dancers, mirrorwork artists and camel breeders converge for one of the planet's oldest livestock and craft fairs.
Runs through Nov 15
14
Nov
Rathausplatz & Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
Beyond the mulled wine, six juried craft halls this winter spotlight Alpine wood turning, Wachau glass, Burgenland embroidery and Tyrolean nativity carving.
Runs through Dec 24
27
Nov
Jokkmokk, Lapland, Sweden
A three-day pre-market for the great February Jokkmokk fair — duodji silverwork, birch-root vessels and reindeer-antler carving from more than fifty Sámi makers.
Runs through Nov 29
5
Dec
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
The Kutani porcelain kilns of Ishikawa open their winter firings to the public — nine days of overglaze demonstrations, tea ceremony pairings and a snow-lit night market.
Runs through Dec 13
23
Dec
Oaxaca City, Mexico, Mexico
One night a year, the Zócalo fills with intricate scenes carved entirely from radishes — a Mexican folk tradition since 1897.
