Thank you for an awesome celebration of local craft in 2024!
Stay tuned for our 2025 date early next year.
(D)rafts and (C)rafts, back for the second year, combines dozens of local craft beverage producers and artisan makers in the District's first small-scale producers festival. On Saturday, July 13, 2024 from 12-4pm, join the DC Brewers’ Guild and the newly established DC Makers’ Guild for this indoor festival at Dock 5 in the Union Market District.
Why is this festival different from the rest? Your friends and neighbors are manufacturing the beverages you will drink and the goods you will purchase. The Brewers and Makers Guilds support small-scale manufacturers on the individual and collective level: they provide members the tools and structure for both individual growth and positive systemic change.
Grab unlimited tastes from 15+ craft beverage producers while exploring products from 35+ locally made artisan goods businesses such as ceramicists, woodworkers, printmakers, jewelers, and more. Stop by the craft station to express your creativity or visit the Guild info booth to learn about their work and how to get involved.
Both Guilds work to unify independent producers, raise awareness and appreciation of the quality and diversity of their industries, and influence public policy decisions to create a business environment that allows them to continue to grow and flourish. Funds raised from this festival will allow the work to continue.
Chefs from Union Market will serve throughout the event for festival- goers to purchase food and nonalcoholic beverages. (Food vendors to be announced soon).
Vendors
Beverage producers
Artisans/Makers
Thank You to Our SponsorS
Interested in Sponsorship?
Contact us at events@dcbg.org.
Rules
Must be 21+ for entrance, small supervised children allowed
No pets, registered service animals allowed
No entrance after 3pm
No outside food or beverage
Tickets are non-refundable
Only small bags or clear bags allowed
We reserve the right to remove people that are too intoxicated
We reserve the right to remove people that are causing unsafe conditions
More about DC’s Local Small-scale Manufacturing Community:
Artisan Makers are the smallest scale of manufacturing businesses. They are people who use a creative process to turn raw materials into a finished product for sale in the retail market, but often have no additional employees. The majority of Artisan Makers in the DC region identify as people of color, women, queer, and/or immigrants. Having a skill and a computer are the only requirements to start a maker business, which makes this one of the most accessible paths to economic stability. Maker businesses offer flexibility for people who work multiple jobs, have limited access to participation in the workforce, and/or cannot work full-time outside of their home.
Craft Beverage Producers are good for our city and are essential to our local identity. Their taprooms and restaurants serve as “3rd places” – neighborhood amenities or gathering places and anchors, each with its own unique individual character that centers and supports other communities. According to the Brewers Association’s 2021 economic impact survey, the DC Craft Breweries contributed $193M to the local economy and created 1,401 jobs; having a local craft beer industry provides another avenue of trade labor in our city. The owners of these manufacturing businesses sit on Main Streets boards and the boards of other local non-profits.
