We are hosting our 1st Vancouver Ideation Jam! Our Ideation Jam amplify youth perspectives and bring their ideas into the fashion industry!
See our new location for this very special swap! Meet us at 1275 Venables Street- unit 340!
About this event
🧥 ABOUT THIS EVENT:
We are hosting our FIRST ever Youth Ideation Jam in Vancouver!!
Threading Change is an ambitious and fully youth-led international organization. We need industries to step up, polluters to pay up, and all hands on deck.
We are hosting another clothing swap for all genders and bodies in Vancouver but with a special twist this time around!
Join us for a creative small group workshop on youth perspectives and advocating for youth engagement at fashion's decision making table.
Our YIJ will be a small group ideation and brainstorming session for youth where we ask them what they would like to see in their local fashion industry and connect our activities to Fashion's Priority areas!
Youth perspectives are so important to changing and disrupting the current fashion industry. This workshop sets out to engage with youth voices, amplify their ideas, voices and needs and provide a space for creative problem solving.
We set out to amplify youth perspectives and bring their ideas into all projects that Threading Change takes on. This opportunity is open to anyone within the United Nations definition of the 'youth' age group: persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years.
After you ideate with us you are more than welcome to go swapping for Second Hand September!
Swapping instead of buying new is a great way to exercise sustainable practices in your wardrobe. Did you know that only 1% of textiles around the world are recycled properly? Keep your old clothes out of the landfill, and give them a new life by swapping and trading. As the saying goes, one person's trash is another person's treasure!
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.
👗 IMPORTANT INFO:
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.
*Change rooms will be limited*
🌎 LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
We respectfully acknowledge that this event is taking place on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories
Come by to meet the Threading Change community and bring your pre-loved items to share and swap!
We can't do it without you!
Please consider donating to our GISM Wayblaze Campaign that we has just launched!
We are so lucky to have a vibrant and supportive community at Threading Change. As a small youth-led non-profit working to hold some of the biggest names in the fashion industry accountable we rely on the generous support of our donors and funders to continue our programs like the GISM.
We are incredibly thankful for your support and amplification in this campaign.
About Threading Change:
Threading Change is a youth-led, justice-oriented global organization created to address the systemic injustices and inequities that persist in the global fashion industry today.
We address the fashion industry holistically, which includes everything from the way we communicate sustainable fashion to how invite global communities affected by the industry at the table. Fashion can be a hugely wasteful industry, using excessive resources like water and textiles and over-producing clothes through trends.
