If you like crafts and other handmade trinkets, Crafts Bangkok 2020, happening this Sep 3-6, is going to be your kind of event. Taking place at the mammoth Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC), the event brings together over 380 local artisans and organizations from across Thailand to display and sell their wares, including fabric work (silk, cotton, hemp, etc.), basketry, jewelry, pottery, leather and other arts and crafts. The event is hosted by the SUPPORT Arts and Crafts International Center of Thailand (Sacict), one of the country's most important promotional vehicles for locally-made crafts. 

In addition to the booths and sellers, the event also includes some educational talks that cover a range of issues relevant to supporting local arts and crafts -- such as business and promotional models that sellers can mimic for their own businesses or side hustles. Sacict anticipates the event will draw a very mixed bag of visitors, including retailers, government agencies, families, online merchants and maybe the odd tourist or two who’s still trapped here. 

If you want more info on the event or Sacict itself, you can check out https://www.sacict.or.th/en 

Siam Center and Vogue Thailand have joined in an art-fueled collaboration for charity until Sep 10. The event, titled “Vogue Hope At Siam Center”, brings together five photographers and 12 visual artists to create specially-designed prints, other exclusive goodies and a couple of activities, and part of the proceeds will go to support the Debaratana Vejjanukula Foundation. You’ll find the event happening in Siam Center’s Atrium 1 on the ground floor. 

The artist list has some heavy hitters on it too. This isn’t a complete list, but some names that stand out to us include Alex Face, Gongkan, Bloody Hell Big Head (BHBH), Julie Baker and Summer, and Yoon Phannapast (of Gucci fame). Photographers include Nat Prakobsantisuk and Tada Varich. Both artists and photographers will be showcasing work that embodies ideas of “hope” to them, and the event in a larger context aims to signal a beacon of hope during these hard times.  

Five of the artists — Gongkan, Juli Baker and Summer, Yoon Phannapast, Jirayi Koo and O Terawat — will also be showcasing images that fans can have turned into T-shirts made with recycled thread or on tote bags. There’s also going to be some limited-edition face masks from Greyhound Original. You don’t have to buy them, though. If you want one of those aforementioned goodies, you can also make a B199 donation to the Debaratana Vejjanukula Foundation. 

For more information, visit:

Websites:  www.siamcenter.co.th, and www.vogue.co.th 

FB: SiamCenter and Vogue Thailand 

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