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Contemporary and traditional African art, crafts, batiks, carvings, masks, gifts and ethnic inspitred jewelry.  Please check below for Vancouver and Lower Mainland venues where you can buy Maridadi Craftz products

So much today focuses on bad and sad events in Africa. It is important that the bad is stressed because that is the only way we can hope to find the good. Africa is about hardship and sorrow, but it's also about tremendous beauty, creativity and talent. Maridadi aims to project what is beautiful about Africa and in doing so provide a market and income for deserving artists. Sourcing products from workshops, co-ops and other self-help groups is important. But so is supporting the artist who chooses to go it alone.  While not minimizing the important role that aid plays, Maridadi operates under the belief that providing markets is much better for African's self-esteem than aid.
 
 

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"I have felt my strongest artistic emotions, when suddenly confronted with the sublime beauty of sculptures executed by the anonymous artists of Africa. These works of a religious passionate, and rigorously logical art are the most powerful and most beautiful things the human imagination has ever produced"  Picasso

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Maridadi Craftz - 2010 Sales venues (more to come)
 
August 19 - Peace Arch Hospital, White Rock
August 28 - CNIS African Market, Vancouver
 
September 11 - Davie Days Festival, Vancouver
September 18 - Douglas College Fall Fair, Coquitlam
September 19 - Urban Farmer's Fall Fair, Queensborough
September 23 - Royal Columbian Hospital, New West
October TBA - Cranberry Festival, Fort Langley
October 19 - Royal Columbian Hospital, New West
October 21 - Peace Arch Hospital, White Rock
October 28 - Lion's Gate Hospital, North Vancouver
 
November 9 - Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey
November 22 - Royal Columbian Hospital, New West
November 23 - Peace Arch Hospital, White Rock
December 7 - Royal Columbian Hospital, New West
December 8 - Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey
December 14 - Lion's Gate Hospital, North Vancouver

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Maridadi Craftz* New Westminster * BC * V3L 1C3 Canada