Fair Fashion Festival - Toronto Edition!
Threading Change in Toronto in collaboration with Oxfam Canada - is proud to host our inaugural Fair Fashion Festival in Toronto - an epic interdisciplinary affair where you will meet industry leaders and experts in the sustainable fashion space and learn about the industry's social and environmental hidden costs. The afternoon will be packed with educational workshops, interactive activities, engaging panels, and community building events while the evening will be a bustling networking party with a local DJ lineup.
You can expect to leave the event feeling empowered to lead sustainable fashion lifestyles, and be clothing changemakers. The different components will raise awareness on the social, environmental, and political dimensions of the fashion industry, immersing you into all three levels of Threading Change's tri-impact model: education, innovation, and consultation.
Join Threading Change and Oxfam in this free, eye opening experience, as we unravel the hidden costs of the fashion industry. Immerse yourself in our clothing Swap + Clothing Audit series, learn how to mend your clothes, engage with our panel discussion, connect with our museum of Changemakers, learn with our workshops, and debrief with us at our networking afterparty!
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fair-fashion-festival-toronto-tickets-953710934077?aff=oddtdtcreator.
🌎 FAIR FASHION FESTIVAL COMPONENTS
Clothing Swap + Clothing Audit:
Participate in a sustainable fashion initiative by swapping clothes and gaining insights into conscious consumption through a clothing audit. Attendees are asked to bring 1-10 items each to swap. You will be given a ticket for every item you bring in. However many items you bring, that's how many you can take. Please note: No socks, swimsuits, and underwear at the swap. Jewelry can be swapped if it has been cleaned.
Swimsuits and bras can be swapped if they have never been worn, ideally with the tag still attached.The clothing swap will be throughout the entire event from 1-6pm.
Museum of Changemakers:
Explore leading organizations, brands, advocacy groups, fashion designers, and not-for-profit organizations involved in promoting a fossil-fuel free fashion future! Engage with booths to learn about the different social and environmental dimensions of the industry and how their impactful work addresses these challenges.
Vendors:
Explore booths from various community organizations and vendors selling their products committed to sustainability and circular economy practices.
Mending Workshop:
Attend a hands-on workshop to learn essential mending skills, promoting the longevity of your garments and reducing textile waste. Learn to customize the clothes that you pick up at the swap and stitch your initials.
In-Person Panels:
The two 30-minute panels will be hosted by Threading Change and Oxfam Canada
Engage in thought-provoking discussions on garment worker rights and the importance of transparent supply chains in a panel with Oxfam, and unravel the political and environmental dimensions of the fashion industry with Threading Change
EPR Policy Workshop:
Dive deeper into the concept of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the fashion industry. Learn about promoting garment workers' rights, and fair wages, reducing textile waste, and enhancing producer accountability and transparency within the supply chain as we write letters to our municipality. We have designed the workshop to be 15 min sprints where education, consultation and impact can converge!
Threading Change Community Quilt:
Join us for a relaxing, all-day experience where you can immerse yourself in the world of slow fashion. Escape the noise and unwind as you express your thoughts on a piece of scrap fabric, then sew it onto our ongoing collective Solutions Quilt.