The Toque Craft Fair, normally held in person, is once again headed to a digital marketplace.
It's the second year in a row the craft fair has gone digital after the pandemic pushed it online in 2020.
“Vendors and visitors responded very enthusiastically to Toque Craft Fair being online last year," says coordinator Meghan Latta in a press release. "Having the event online has made it possible to extend the time the fair runs, and to support online purchasing from the comfort of one’s home through an easy-to-navigate website and a no-fuss pickup after the fair has ended."
With some people still feeling uneasy about the idea of shopping in person, the decision was made to return to the digital model.
It'll feature 30 B.C.-based artists and designers over five days, from Wednesday, Dec. 1 to Sunday, Dec. 5.
While shopping and purchasing will take place virtually, customers will have to pick items up at Western Front, the artist-run not-for-profit centre behind Toque.
"Since the early 1970s, Western Front has held a winter holiday craft fair for local artists and designers to showcase and sell handmade goods, and as a fundraiser for Western Front’s artistic program," says Latta in the release.
Partial proceeds from sales during the Toque Craft Fair go towards artistic programs at the center.
