🐈 PET FESTIVAL 2024 🐩
🤍 Saturday 31 August & Sunday 1 September 🤍
🐶😻 Welcome to Pet Festival 2024! 🐶😻
Together with our Design Academy intern Radina, we’re organising a weekend full of celebrations for our furry friends. Radina is an avid pet sitter and lover of all animals big and small! So we’re partnering with a few of our favourite cafes, shops, and brands to bring you workshops, creations from local artists, and heaps of goodies for you!
⭐️ EVENTS - AMSTERDAM ⭐️
🧺🐶🐰 PET PARTY PICNIC 🐈🥕💗
Saturday 31 August | 4.00 - 6.00pm | Oostenburgerpark | picnic for humans & pet friends, let’s enjoy a sunny afternoon together! | free & everyone welcome!
🎨🥣🐶 CERAMIC PET BOWL PAINTING WORKSHOP 🐈🍵🐩
Sunday 1 September | 10.00 - 12.00am | Woof & Me | Ceramic dog bowl painting workshop + Materials included (bowl + tools + firing) + one free drink | Details and booking down below!
🐶 Collabs & Sponsors: 🐱
Cuddypup is a paw-picked store with only adorable doggo products from around the world. They will be joining us at our Pet Picnic Party selling the most cutest items!
As a professional pet photographer with over 10 years of experience, Zahra from Axeemoon will be offering complimentary photos at our Pet Picnic! Let them capture your furry friend’s personality and create beautiful memories while getting to know their services better.
Imby is a sustainable and allergen-free pet food brand. They give only the best quality goodies with 100% natural ingredients. They are sponsoring our Petfest weekend!
Woof & Me is a super cute doggo cafe for dog-lovers in Amsterdam filled with treats for you and your furry friends. We are teaming up for a adorable ceramic dog bowl painting workshop and it comes with a yummy drink!
Rudy's Kombucha is a 100% natural Kombucha brand that gives back 1% from each sold to dog shelters! It was founded by Daria & Igor and a super sweet doggo named Rudy in 2019. They are sponsoring our Petfest weekend with yummy drinks!
Ping & Ham Studios is an Amsterdam-based handmade dog apparel and accessories. Each piece, lovingly created by local artisan X’Ania Saldana, is designed to make your furry friend look and feel amazing. From stylish bandanas to cozy sweaters, we offer a range of products to pamper your pup.
💛 Artists - Mini Exhibition 💛
Hello Vonnie is an illustrator and artist working and living in the north of The Netherlands. She's inspired by nature and the magic in every day moments. One of her main goals is spreading happiness through her illustrations. She plays with shapes and colours to create vibrant, colourful illustrations that radiate positivity and joy.
Eva Stalinski is a Dutch illustrator, print maker and dog enthusiast.
Most of her days are spent designing and producing illustrated products like hand printed clothing, ceramic bugs, fairytale comics and whimsical housewares.
She received a BA in Illustration and Animation from Minerva Art Academy in 2015. Additionally she was awarded the Minerva Art Academy Design Prize for her graduation project Prins.
Studio Amsel is a one-woman and three cats operation led by me, Maria, a self-proclaimed lover of all cats (big, small and chonky) who happens to draw and sculpt them a lot. After working as a prop master in the film industry for a decade,last year I packed up all my books, old trinkets and very chubby catsand moved into a seventeenth century canal house, embarking full-time on this whimsical journey of weaving together a universe of color, childhood memories and feline best friends. And my favorite part is: I get to share it all with the world.
Wendy Denissen lives and works in Amsterdam and has a degree in illustration and more than 10 years of experience as a designer. They love the dynamics of city life and it inspires them every day. In their illustrations, they combine bold colors with graphic shapes. Their work is lighthearted and mostly a tribute to women and animals and all other beings that deserve equal rights and circumstances.
Katinka Feijs is a designer and visual storyteller from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where she's building her own circular house. Through visual storytelling she focuses mainly on our food system, celebrating sustainability, slow living and nature's diversity. With a deep rooted interest and fast growing knowledge of the food system - specifically organic and plantbased agriculture - Katinka dives deep into these complex subjects and translates them into images that inspire change.
Eline Veldhuisen is an illustrator from Utrecht. She graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU) in 2020. Her illustrations are colourful and clear and have appeared on book covers, posters, and in magazines. Eline works on commissioned projects and creates personal work, drawing inspiration from her surroundings. People, animals, and nature often play an important part in her illustrations.
Lize Prins is a freelance illustrator and printmaker, based in The Netherlands.
Their work is characterized by their love for playing with shapes, colors and different textures. They are inspired by the ’80s, vintage toys, -ads and cute/crazy characters. Having lived in Seoul, South Korea, has also had a big influence on their work. Working mostly digitally, they love using the risograph to print their work, which gives the print texture, super bright colors and unintentional yet charming little flaws.
Gabrielle Gordeau is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. She loves animals, especially her cat Tex.
⭐️ Pet Workshop ⭐️