Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/20/2018
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location
St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church

Categories

• Community

A chance to de-clutter your closets, share your threads, and weave a legacy

of community service and environmental justice. Bring your contributions Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm, or Sunday before service. * You can take home whatever you like when you come and after the service. All remaining clothes will be donated to Matthew 25 Ministries. CLOTHING ONLY PLEASE.

*We can store a few bags of items in the coat closet during the week prior to the event.

For more information about Slow Fashion October, including the social justice issues and environmental impact of our clothing choices, follow these links:

https://fringeassociation.com/2018/10/01/slow-fashion-october-week-1-whats-your-look/

https://www.instagram.com/slowfashionoctober/?hl=en

Here is another opportunity for people to more deeply consider their clothing and consumerism:

https://www.facebook.com/events/605055089888337/

Movie: Unravel

w/ Liz Ricketts

Tuesday, October 16

6:00 – 8:00pm

UC|sustainability TUC 417

Join us for a FREE viewing of Unravel! Unravel follows the Western world’s least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, recycling them back into yarn. Reshma is a bright, inquisitive woman working in a textile recycling factory in small time India, who dreams of travelling the vast distances the clothes she handles have. While Reshma shows us how these garments get transformed, she and other women workers reflect on these clothes. Despite limited exposure to western culture, they construct a picture of how the West is, using both their imagination and the rumors that travel with the cast-offs. Following the viewing of Unravel, Liz Ricketts will speak on the environmental and social implications of the ‘used’ clothing industry in Ghana. Through their not-for-profit, The OR Foundation, Liz and her partner Branson Skinner have conducted in-depth research on Kantamanto Market, Ghana’s largest used clothing market. A minimum of 17 million garments flow through Kantamanto every week. They found that 40-50% of every bale sent to Ghana goes directly to landfill, causing health and environmental crises on top of saddling Ghanaian with the financial burden of dealing with our clothing waste. Liz will highlight the complexities of this trade, offer insight through the stories of individuals working in this industry, discuss the impact our waste has on Ghanaian consumer behavior and share solutions proposed by Ghanaians who work in the industry.