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!
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.
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.
