The Great Halifax Clothing Swap and Fair Fashion Festival

Schedule

Sat Sep 14 2024 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

Location

Dalhousie Student Union | Halifax, NS

Threading Change is proud to host our inaugural Fair Fashion Festival in Halifax in collaboration with The Great Halifax Clothing Swap - an epic interdisciplinary event where you will meet industry leaders and experts in the sustainable fashion space, learn about the industry's social and environmental hidden costs, and swap your gently-used clothing, shoes, and accessories for new-to-you gems!
Where: Dalhousie Student Union Building, 6136 University Ave, 2nd Floor
Cost: $15 with a clothing donation, $25 without
Children under 12 get in for free.
You can expect to leave the event feeling empowered to integrate sustainable fashion into your lifestyle, and be clothing changemakers. The different educational components will raise awareness of the social, environmental, and political dimensions of the fashion industry, immersing you in all three levels of Threading Change's tri-impact model: education, innovation, and consultation. What’s more, you’ll also get to swap your pre-loved clothes for new treasures at Halifax’s most trusted clothing swap hosted by the Great Halifax Clothing Swap!
Join The Great Halifax Clothing Swap and Threading Change in this experience that will take you beyond thrifting, as we unravel the hidden costs of the fashion industry. Immerse yourself in our clothing swap, learn how to mend your clothes, engage with our panel discussion, connect with our Museum of Changemakers, learn at our workshops, and make new connections! Follow @clothingreincarnated on Facebook and Instagram for special updates leading up to the event.
? FAIR FASHION FESTIVAL COMPONENTS
Clothing Swap hosted by the Great Halifax Clothing Swap:
Participate in a sustainable fashion initiative by swapping clothes instead of buying new ones. Attendees bring gently-used clothing shoes and accessories to donate, and can then take as many clothing items as they would like. For more information on how the swap works, check out the website, greatswap.ca, or follow @clothingreincarnated on Facebook and Instagram.
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.
Mending Workshop:
Attend a hands-on workshop to learn essential mending skills, promoting the longevity of your garments and reducing textile waste.
In-Person Panels:
Engage in thought-provoking discussions on garment worker rights, production processes, microplastic contamination, policy gaps, and the environmental damage caused by the fashion industry in Threading Change’s 1-hour panels with industry leaders.
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-minute 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.
CLOTHING SWAP DONATIONS
Given the limited number of parking spots, you may drop off your clothes near the entrance of the venue using our Clothing Valet Service. We will pick up your clothes and take them to the swap for you. In exchange, we will give you a token that you can present upon arrival. There will be dollies and carts that you may borrow at the end of the event to take your new wardrobes to your car (if you are driving). Multiple entries will be permitted.
VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
The Fair Fashion Festival will be hosted in Halifax’s beautiful south end and within walking distance of downtown at the Dalhousie Student Union Building. The space is accessible (elevator available), has access to gender-neutral washrooms, and is very easy to get to via public transit (the Dalhousie Student Union Building is a bus stop for many of the major bus routes).
The Clothing Swap will be hosted at The McInnes Room, located on LEVEL 2 of the Student Union Building.
The Panel discussions, Exhibitors, Vendors, Mending Station, and Threading Change's Quilt Making Activity will be located right opposite the McInnes Room, in The Council Chambers! You won't miss it.
There is on-street parking around the building and payment is not required on the weekend. There are also Dalhousie permit parking lots around the building that are free to use by the general public on the weekend. Check out the Parking Lot Map attached to identify nearby parking!
About The Great Halifax Clothing Swap:
The Great Halifax Clothing Swap seeks to provide an outlet for community members to express their love for clothing by connecting people through their mutual interest in fashion and the environment. The ultimate goal of the event is to help individuals refresh their wardrobes affordably, encourage a culture of reuse, make the circular economy accessible to the community, and create a channel to efficiently donate clothing to local charities.
About Threading Change:
The 6F’s: a Feminist, Fossil-Fuel Free Fashion Future.
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 to 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.
? LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
For more than 13,000 years the Mi’kmaq have called this beautiful land home, enriching Nova Scotia with legends, art, music, spirituality, history, and language.
Halifax (Kjipuktuk) is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1726.
The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources but in fact, recognized Mi’kmaq and Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) titles and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
As a part of this friendship, when planning your event in Halifax, Discover Halifax can help connect your group with the people of the Mi'kmaq, or help find authentic, enriching ways, to add their culture to your event.

Where is it happening?

Dalhousie Student Union, 6136 University Avenue,Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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