Threading Change & Education
What we provide.
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Talks.
Presentation on a topic around the fashion industry and sustainability. Highlighting and creating accessible programs around demystifying the industry and its impact on our world. 1-2 hours. Virtual and in person lessons.
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Impact Projects.
This will be for partnerships with school to do a longer term, 3 month partnership. IT can be done with Post secondary schools and even schools like as a club or ambassador program.
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Resources.
Documents that can be used in a number of different settings, throughout different sectors, they will be resources for post workshops and talks but also documents to be used on their own.
We will have project planning docs, workshop placemats, and example assignments or projects for educators.
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Workshops.
Collaborative, working sessions and interactive program, where partnerships can be fostered but also be a way to put sustainability content within the fashion space into action and tangible change making . 1-3 hours. Virtual and when schools allow for in person.
Our education program is filling the gap in transparency and building awareness around an industry that keeps the industry concealed from the public. We strongly believe in intersectional and equity-based fashion education. We excel in bringing together intergenerational and multicultural communities to build capacity, educate, co-design and engage in collective action.Are you part of a student group? Are you an educator? Do you want to teach your students or peers about sustainable fashion?
Send us an email to collaborate and schedule a presentation with Threading Change!
Free Educational Resources
Textile Waste Crisis
The thrill of a new wardrobe addition, the excitement of keeping up with ever-changing trends – these experiences have become intertwined with our sense of self and societal norms. Yet, as awareness grows surrounding the environmental and social impacts of our clothing consumption, the question arises: what do we do with all the clothes we've amassed?
This project is a collaborative student project, written and produced by University of British Columbia (UBC) students in collaboration with Threading Change. The work was funded by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning at UBC.
Design work credits: Isabelle Sain
A Brief History of Western Fashion
An introduction to western fashion and the impacts of it that are felt most deeply by those already marginalized and exploited. To break this cycle, we must address both the environmental and social injustices cemented in the dominant fashion industry’s history.
This project is a collaborative student project, written and produced by University of British Columbia (UBC) students in collaboration with Threading Change. The work was funded by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning at UBC.
Design work credits: Isabelle Sain
What is Fast Fashion?
An introduction to the fast fashion industry and the environmental and social injustices cost of having a reliance on such an unjust and unsustainable system.
This project is a collaborative student project, written and produced by University of British Columbia (UBC) students in collaboration with Threading Change. The work was funded by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning at UBC.
Design work credits: Isabelle Sain
This guide highlights the crafts of Indigenous peoples who live and create on Turtle Island.
These Indigenous artists and designers use fashion as a way to disrupt
fashion narratives. What these textiles share is a connection to tradition and resistance to the deeply harmful colonial fashion industry by reclaiming their art and heritage.
How do we decipher which fabrics are sustainable?
There isn’t just one fabric that can solve all our problems because every fabric requires some sort of production.
Here are a guide with a few textiles that are more sustainable options and may align with your needs and values.
Modern Slavery is still in the fashion Supply chain.
As consumers and citizens it is important to challenge brands to take responsibility and end the slavery, exploitation and human trafficking within their supply chains.
