The FoG blog is back!

The 2021 annual Festival of Glass is online, to keep everyone Covid-safe. Festival favourites are still running, but with a radically new look!

 

An Expo with a difference

You join us as we prepare to launch the 2021 Festival Expo on Sunday 21 February. This will be an Expo with a real difference, because it will be totally online.

 

In partnership with Madeit, Australia's leading online craft retail site, the Festival is running two online boutiques between February 20^th and May 21^st - one for jewellery, one for sculptures & homewares. Visitors to the boutiques can browse and buy a range of glass art; they can meet some exhibitors online in "Meet the Maker" sessions; and they can watch exhibitors at work in and online "Demonstrations". Details of these online events are on the Festival's web site.

 

A Treasure Hunt makeover

This 2021 Festival's Treasure Hunt was launched with a High Tea on Monday 11 January at Drysdale's Café Zoo and has attracted twenty five North Bellarine businesses. The original closing date has been extended a week to February 27^th, to accommodate Victoria's recent 5-day lockdown. So there's still time to hunt for treasure!

 

Each participating business is displaying a piece of glass art and a glass 'Tiny Treasure' it has commissioned. A treasure hunter who finds a 'Tiny Treasure' e-mails a photograph of it to a dedicated address (fogTH21@gmail.com); for every ten different 'Tiny Treasures' they find, they enter a draw for the commissioned glass art. On February 28, Festival organisers will live stream the draw from the Festival's Facebook page, then e-mail each prize winner. 

 

Face-to-face worshops!

Inspired by the glass art in the Treasure Hunt and the Expo? Tempted to create your own? Then a Festival workshop is the place to be! Between February 25^th and March 13^th, there are eleven Festival workshops: make leaves and trees and birds and bugs from glass, learn bead weaving, create colourful mosaics and blow glass beads. sculptures and baubles. All the details are on the Festival web site.

 

Most of the workshops are face-to-face, so the number of participants will be limited, to meet Covid-19 safety rules. So if you'd like to attend one, make sure that you book in now to ensure a place - one workshop is booked-out already.

 

Thanks!

Thanks to all our sponsors - especially the City of Greater Geelong (Arts & Culture) and the Bendigo Bank - for their support through what has been a difficult year for all of us. Thanks especially to Regional Arts Victoria (RAV) for assisting glass artists from regional Victoria to participate in the 2021 Festival.

 

For full details of Festival of Glass events: https://www.sites.google.com/site/afestivalofglass