The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will hold a design festival and a regional meeting in Manila to develop and propagate master craft designers of export products from the region and regain their high marketability worldwide.
The Asean Master Craft Design Festival will take place at ground floor of the World Trade Center on October 20 to 22, 2016 as one of the special features of the Manila FAME, the country’s premier international event for lifestyle exports.
The festival will have a pavilion featuring the works of master craftsmen Roselyn Long Lah of Malaysia, Lim Masulin of Indonesia, Truong PhiDuc of Viet Nam, Rush Pleansuk of Thailand, and Al Valenciano of the Philippines.
The exhibit stand will be designed by Austria-educated Cosmas Gozali of Indonesia.
A regional dialog and meeting will also be held on October 22, to be attended by senior master craftsmen from the 10 Asean-member states.
