Future Craft Collective goes to the Olympics

December 22, 2009

We were contacted a few weeks ago by a woman in Vancouver who is spearheading a community art project in Vancouver this coming February. She was searching the internet looking for inspiration around her idea for creating community generated prayer flags, or wish flags as it were, and she found Future Craft Collective!

Perhaps you remember way back when we were asked to create a community craft project for the Obama Mama picnic here in Austin. It was a huge success. The flags were perfect in their idea of spreading hope and not political jargon. And they were positively beautiful to boot.

Since that original project, we’ve recreated this project in different ways for public creation – most recently for our friend Liz’s book release party for her amazing picture book All the World. For each occasion it has been fun, simple, and uniquely beautiful too – for each event has different people and therefore different flags with different messages.

After talking with Natasha in Vancouver, their project is off! And the website is up. And kids, schools, families will be participating in the event, creating the wish flags to hang in Vancouver when the all the world convenes there in February for the Olympic games.

So, I guess, in a sense, Future Craft Collective will be at the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver. How cool is that?

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