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Winter Craft Fair comes to College of FET, O Connell Avenue Campus this Friday, December 8

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The 2023 Winter Craft Fair will showcase the city’s learners’ amazing skills. Photo by Jakub Zerdzicki/Pexels

The 2023 College of FET Winter Craft Fair is taking place on Friday, December 8 from 1pm to 6pm to showcase the city’s learners’ amazing skill

The 2023 College of FET Winter Craft Fair is taking place on Friday, December 8 to showcase the city’s learners' amazing skill
The 2023 Winter Craft Fair is open to the public at College of FET, O Connell Avenue Campus

The Winter Fair is taking place on Friday, December 8 in the College of FET, O Connell Avenue Campus, V94 W651 from 1pm to 6pm.

Following the success of the “Art meets Craft in the Coach House” exhibition in The People’s Museum during May 2022 and the open day in O’Connell Avenue Campus, suggestions were made that a craft fair of learners’ work would be a wonderful event to showcase and validate the quality and variety of art and crafts being produced by learners attending classes being run by community-based adult education providers across the city.

The Limerick Community Education Network, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, and Learning Limerick have partnered to support this idea and run a Winter Craft Fair.


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After a hugely successful Fair in December 2022, the groups are joining together to showcase the city’s learners’ amazing skills.

Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board has a number of tutors who deliver courses in the area of craft and these courses have been popular with learners. Tutors have supported learners to develop and maintain these skills and one of the aims of the initiative is to highlight the quality of work and celebrate the creative skills that are acquired through community-based adult learning across the City.

Learners will have an opportunity to not only showcase their craft skills but also provide a space that allows them to sell their creations if they so wish.

The event is free to attend and the groups welcome members of the public, family members and friends to attend.  

Tea and coffee with a festive bite will be available at the event and the group welcomes to public to attend with all forms of crafts such as knitting, crochet, woodwork, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, mosaic, decoupage, paintings, cards and other items.

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