BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//What She Makes | Demand Fair Wages for Garment Workers - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://whatshemakes.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for What She Makes | Demand Fair Wages for Garment Workers
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Halifax
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0300
TZNAME:ADT
DTSTART:20240310T060000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0300
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:AST
DTSTART:20241103T050000
END:STANDARD
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20250101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240817T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240817T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T095238
CREATED:20240801T144340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T144504Z
UID:1306-1723899600-1723928400@whatshemakes.ca
SUMMARY:Fair Fashion Festival - Toronto
DESCRIPTION:Threading Change & Oxfam Canada are proud to host the 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 affecting both people and planet. 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. \nYou 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 and Oxfam Canada’s What She Makes Campaign calling for Canadian Fashion brands to pay a living wage to the women that make our clothes. \nJoin 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\, Stitch for Change challenge\, learn how to mend your clothes\, engage with our panel discussion\, connect with our museum of Changemakers\, learn with our workshops\, and debrief with our networking afterparty! \n🌎 FAIR FASHION FESTIVAL COMPONENTS\nClothing Swap + Clothing Audit:\n\nParticipate 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. Jewellery can be swapped if it has been cleaned.\nSwimsuits 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.\n\nStitch for Change Challenge \n\nJoin us for the Stitch for Change Challenge at the Fair Fashion Festival! This unique one-minute sewing challenge invites consumers like you and me to experience the stark contrast between the lives and compensation of Cambodian garment workers and fashion brand CEOs. Within just 60 seconds\, participants will be tasked with sewing 10 t-shirt hems\, mirroring the intense workload that the women who make our clothes endure daily for poverty wages.\nThis thought-provoking activity aims to engage and encourage participants to reflect on the realities faced by garment workers and to rally for greater transparency and fair wages throughout the fashion industry’s supply chain. Stay tuned to find out which brand the What She Makes campaign will be targeting next. Join us and stitch for change!\n\nMuseum of Changemakers:\n\nExplore leading organizations\, brands\, advocacy groups\, fashion designers\, activists and not-for-profit organizations involved in promoting a fossil-fuel free and human centered 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.\n\nVendors:\n\nExplore booths from various sustainable community organizations and vendors selling their products committed to sustainability\, human rights and circular economy practices.\n\nMending Workshop:\n\nAttend 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.\n\nThreading Change Community Quilt:\n\nJoin 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.\n\nIn-Person Panels:\n\nThe two 30-minute panels will be hosted by Threading Change and Oxfam Canada\n\n\nEngage 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\n\n🧵 WORKSHOPS\nWrite for Rights Workshop: Penning Change hosted by Oxfam \nAs part of the What Se Makes Campaign\, join us at the Fair Fashion Festival for the Write for Rights Workshop: Penning Change\, led by our dedicated ally (to be announced). This engaging session will highlight the importance and power of letter writing as a potent tool of activism. Learn about the logistics of impactful letter writing and why your words matter. Participants will be prompted to put pen to paper\, creating letters of solidarity and action to support a special target to be announced closer to the festival date. Come and discover how a simple letter can spark significant change and join us in a collective act of advocacy. \nTextile Transformation with Threading Change: Shaping Textile Waste Solutions with ECCC \nJoin us for an impactful 10-minute sprint workshop\,  as we delve into Environment Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) recent consultation document addressing the deficiencies in textile and apparel waste recycling systems in Canada. Together\, we will explore the gaps in current fashion and textile frameworks and brainstorm meaningful insights and suggestions on ECCC’s proposed solutions. This workshop aims to pave the way for the government to implement tangible and effective measures. We will engage with participants to consult and provide feedback to the key elements within the proposed framework for addressing the waste from the textile and apparel industry. \nCheck out the schedule below for the workshop timings! \n🧵 WHAT TO EXPECT:\nLEARNING IN THE DAY\, MINGLING IN THE NIGHT! \nOur daytime programming will be centred on education-based and community impact programming. From 1 pm to 6 pm we will be engaging in our clothing swap\, mending workshop\, museum of changemakers\, panel discussions\, Threading Change Quilt Making\, and hosting vendors. Our evening program from 7 pm to 9 pm is dedicated to debriefing from a packed day of learning. We will be networking with other industry professionals\, mingling with new friends\, and sipping on some non alcoholic and alcoholic beverages while enjoying the tunes from a local DJ lineup! \nFREE FOOD: \nThere will be free catered food available to all registered attendees. Bevy has a cafe available throughout the day that can accommodate any sweet treat needs or caffeine addictions (paid). \nPRICES: \nIt’s free! Yes\, you heard that right\, we will not be charging you to learn more about the fashion industry. However\, we will be accepting donations of any size to support garment workers in Cambodia who work long and tireless hours to make the clothes that we wear everyday. \n🌎 LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:\nWe respectfully acknowledge that this event is taking place on the unceded\, traditional and ancestral territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit\, the Anishnabeg\, the Chippewa\, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. \nTkaronto (Toronto) is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit\, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. Toronto itself is a word that originates from the Mohawk word “Tkaronto\,” meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing\,”. \nToday\, the meeting place of so-called Toronto is still home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and host this event in this territory. \nAbout Threading Change:\nThe 6F’s: a Feminist\, Fossil-Fuel Free Fashion Future. \nThreading 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. \nWe 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. \nAbout Oxfam Canada:\nOxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in 87 countries as part of a global movement for change. \nOur mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice\, focusing on improving lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. \nWe work directly with communities\, partners and women’s rights organizations to challenge the systems perpetuating inequality and keeping people poor. \nOur flagship\, What She Makes campaign\, advocates for Canadian fashion brands to pay a living wage to the women that make our clothes \nTogether we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them\, their families and entire communities. \nBecause ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.
URL:https://whatshemakes.ca/event/fair-fashion-festival-toronto/
LOCATION:Bevy\, 738 Dundas Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5A 2C3\, Canada
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://whatshemakes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_814740049_498422358585_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250601T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250601T160000
DTSTAMP:20260503T095238
CREATED:20250522T011447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T011447Z
UID:1428-1748775600-1748793600@whatshemakes.ca
SUMMARY:FAIR FASHION FESTIVAL YORK: Fossil Fuel–Free\, Feminist\, and Built for Us.
DESCRIPTION:We’re back\, GTA — transforming fashion\, one thread at a time. The York Fair Fashion Festival is a BIPOC youth-led event rooted in community care\, sustainability\, and resistance to a system that exploits people and the planet. This all-ages gathering brings together youth\, families\, artists\, organizers\, and everyday people to imagine what a just\, circular future can look like\, starting with what we wear. \nAt FFF\, we center the stories and leadership of Black\, Indigenous\, and racialized youth and women who are too often excluded from sustainability conversations\, even though we’ve been doing the work all along. Through clothing swaps\, mending zones\, workshops\, community quilting\, and real talk with change-makers in the space\, we’ll build skills\, share stories\, and take action together. \n✨ Last year\, we kept 2\,000+ pounds of clothing out of landfills\, created jobs for youth\, and brought 200+ people into conversations on fashion justice and circular economies. ✨ This year\, we’re going even deeper — more hands-on workshops\, more space for connection\, more power in our communities. \nBring your friends. Bring your family. Come ready to swap\, stitch\, mend\, and thread a future that’s rooted in equity\, sustainability\, and joy. \nThis is the circular fashion movement — and you’re invited. \nComponents: \n\nMassive clothing swap\, bring 1-10 gently loved items to swap and exchange for new beloved treasures.\nWorkshops: Learn about Extended Producer Responsibility with Threading Change and join Uptown Climate Conversations for a discussion about Climate\, Healthy\, Anxiety\, and Fashion’s Link to it All\nTake part in TC’s Community Quilt: What do you want to change in the fashion industry?\nJoin Oxfam Canada for a Keynote Presentation outlinning the social implication and the current situation on the ground in garment producing countries and TC will host a panel discussion “Threading Circular Futures: Youth Power Leading Community Action”\nNetwork inside our Museum of Changemakers: A Dedicated Space for NGOS and youth-led movements committed to taking action towards achieving the UN’s 17 SDGS\nAlso in the Museum of Changemakers space we will have Oxfam Canada’s Stitch for Change Challenge!\n\nHow to get there: Metro: Line 1: Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Subway Station: yes it it wheel chair accessible! \n\nBus: 20\, 501\, 77\nParking: There is no free on-site parking available as the building does not have a parking lot. There are many paid parking lots available within the vicinity such as: short term on-street parking around the perimeter of the building; there is also parking available at TTC Commuter Lots\, KPMG building\, etc.\n\nNotes: \n\nTo save time at the swap\, pre-fill out the clothing audit form. We collect data on the clothing at our events to better understand the consumption patterns of consumers. It takes 2 minutes\, promise!\nThis is a child-friendly event: we have plenty of space for strollers\, but we will not be providing childcare services on site\nBring a refillable water bottle\, but we will have some refreshments available
URL:https://whatshemakes.ca/event/fair-fashion-festival-york-fossil-fuel-free-feminist-and-built-for-us/
LOCATION:Vaughan Studios & Event Space\, 100 Queen St. W.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5H 2N2\, Canada
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://whatshemakes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_1035270053_498422358585_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR