Cobb+Co Museum’s annual signature event will be the largest Toowoomba has seen to date.
Have A Go! Festival takes place on the weekend of February 21–22 and will bring together award-winning artisans and experts in traditional trades to share their knowledge and skills with the wider community.
Cobb+Co Museum Director Deborah Bailey said the festival, now in its 9th year, is the only one of its kind in Australia.
'There is nowhere else in the country that you can experience the range and sheer number of traditional skills and crafts offered in one location, over one weekend', Deborah said.
'This year we have expanded the Have A Go! Festival even further to include traditional skills in a wider sense. Heritage trades such as blacksmithing, leather plaiting and rope making will sit alongside other aspects of sustainable living such as making your own soap, growing your own vegetables, raising your own chickens, and generally making your own fun!
‘It is an entirely hands-on festival where visitors are encouraged to try new skills and make their own pieces to take home – children can even make their own toys using recycled materials in the Kids Have A Go! section of the Festival.'
In another first for the Festival, Cobb+Co Museum will host local and regional food, beer and wine producers on the evening of Saturday 21 February.
Deborah Bailey said Have A Taste! is exciting an opportunity to learn from local producers as well as sample their wares.
Have A Go! Festival is at Cobb+Co Museum on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February, 9.30am-4pm. Admission is $10 per day (some workshops are an additional cost). Activities include airbrush art, beekeeping, blacksmithing, button making, copperfoiling, corset making, candlewicking, crochet, ethical farming, felting, gardening, glass gilding, harnessing, jewellery making, lacemaking, leathercraft, leather plaiting, millinery, ocarina making, paper beads, paper crafting, pyrography, relief printing, resin jewellery, rope making, silk painting, soap making, stick furniture, sugar craft, weaving, wheelwrighting, whip cracking and woodturning.
For more information contact Cobb+Co Museum on 07 4659 4900 or visit www.cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au.