The Carving on the Edge Festival seeks to inspire the growth of the traditional and contemporary coastal carving arts through celebration, education and relationship-building, within the traditional territories of the ƛaʔuukʷiatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations).
The festival has grown to support relationship-building in the contemporary and traditional carving communities, with programs led by master carvers, and guided by First Nations values, blending tradition and history with contemporary relevance.
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When Robinson Cook arrived in Tofino in ‘91, the old growth cedars of Meares’ Island “radically changed his world.” That encounter sent him on a
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