Crafting under the canopy of leaves on a sunny day ☀️ thanks to all who came to FFP005: CRAFT. it was so lovely to connect with each other, with various materials, and with the earth beneath us as we discussed what craft means to us. Reflections coming to the archive soon 📁
And huge shout out to @futurekindstudio@elenafromaustin for hosting 💗
Questions we're exploring around craft ✧˖°.
If you're exploring these questions and want to do so in a supportive, imaginative environment (crafting not only welcomed, but encouraged), join us tomorrow for our next gathering, all centered on the theme of CRAFT.
WHEN: Saturday, March 21, 12-3pm (please arrive as promptly as possible)
LOCATION: FUTUREKIND STUDIO
This month’s gathering is held in collaboration with @elenafromaustin , founder of @futurekindstudio .
What to expect?
✧˖°. A community book AND craft swap
✧˖°. Reflection prompts and quiet journaling time
✧˖°. Storytelling and small group conversations
✧˖°. A film portrait capturing your story (optional)
✧˖°. An extended craft circle following the storytelling component
RSVP at the link in bio!
Save the date for the next Future Folklore gathering in Austin, TX! This gathering will center around the theme of CRAFT. 🧵🪡🧶✂️🧷🎨
THEME: CRAFT
What is the role of craft in an age of mass production, algorithmic design, and digital overload? In this gathering, we’ll explore the meaning of craft, including the historical role that craft has played in community survival, culture, and collective knowledge. We’ll discuss the modern return to craftsmanship and the role it can play in weaving the more beautiful future that we ache for. And we’ll share personal anecdotes and acknowledgements of what craft means to us, and how we want to incorporate it into our lives moving forward.
LOCATION: FUTUREKIND STUDIO
This month’s gathering is held in collaboration with @elenafromaustin , founder of @futurekindstudio .
“While it would be nice to be able to pivot away from fast fashion, not everyone can afford luxury, slow fashion labels. I’d like to pursue a career specifically in the supply chain, working alongside fast fashion labels to identify areas where we can adopt better practices without sacrificing cost. Making better choices overall is far more impactful than just doing nothing.”
In the latest installment of Future Folklore, Featuring: artist @jbaugart shares how she is working towards moving into her dream industry of fashion and sustainability. In her interview, she covers what she’s learned about moving between different industries, the stories the fashion industry tells itself that she wants to challenge, and how being an artist influences how she thinks about sustainability work.
Read the full feature now at futurefolkloreproject.org/featuring (/featuring)
, or at the link in the bio.
Future Folklore Project is rooted in @thelucid.studio 🌙
We’ve been told many different stories about what our career “should” be, and what “success” looks like.
In the latest edition of Future Folklore’s interview series, writer and future coach Priscilla Zorrilla (@inthesearchbar ) shares from the heart about her experience standing at a crossroads when the pull for something more aligned and purposeful could no longer be ignored.
She shares about her decision to walk away from the corporate world and take a bet building a live doing work that she loves, writing her first book, and how she hopes her work can open up possibilities for others.
Read the full feature now at futurefolkloreproject.org/featuring or at the link in bio.
Introducing Future Folklore, Featuring:
A conversation series that explores the intersection of imagination, culture, and regenerative practice through the voices of artists, organizers, dreamers, and stewards who are actively composting the old world while tending the new. Each interview will be an invitation to witness how personal mythology meets collective transformation, how creativity becomes cultural infrastructure, and how the stories we tell today will become tomorrow’s folklore.
Our first feature is @pablo.giori , Co-Director of @experimentalphotofestival , the International Photography Festival Association @photographyfestivals and Agora, School of Experimentation.
“What we want to carry forward instead is the idea of photography as a space for experimentation, where the process, the mistakes, and the discoveries are as important as the final outcome.”
Read the full interview at the link in bio 🌿
Photos provided by @solaguren@grisphoto dtimage
Some of the faces and reflections of FFP004: COLLABORATION held earlier this summer in collab with @thank.god.for.people
Photos by @maya.rabiaa
We had a brief hiatus, but stay tuned for upcoming gatherings, and featured voices series launching soon!
We’re now accepting nominations for Future Folklore Voices – someone whose work, care, or creativity deserves to be seen and celebrated and documented.
Maybe they’re…
🌿 Nurturing community or creating new traditions
🌿 Using art to shift narratives or spark conversation
🌿 Helping others process change and imagine new possibilities
🌿 Working to transform old systems into more regenerative ones
🌿 Tending to overlooked or forgotten histories
🌿 Weaving stories, care, or creativity into a more beautiful future
These nominations will help seed the first season of this archive, which will feature written interviews on our Website/Substack and social media, and ensure that the stories we carry forward reflect a shift toward regeneration, liberation, and collective healing.
Nominate someone (or yourself!) at the link in bio 💚
