Clothing the Loop

 


Clothing the Loop is a sustainable fashion festival.

When: Saturday 18 October from 10am to 10pm. See the website below for more details of he three sessions being run during the day.

Location: The Vault, Dairy Road Precinct

Clothing the Loop is a collision of fashion, art, design and activism presented by Australian Dance Party and circular and sustainable designer KELI Studio to inspire and activate textile and fashion circular economies.

SEE Change will be there running a repair café from 10am to 1pm. Volunteer repairers will be there from some of the six repair cafes that operate in Canberra. Bring along an item of clothing that needs a repair. At the same time as the repair café is being run, there are a variety of workshops you can attend.

A highlight of the afternoon session is a clothes swap as well as a panel discussion on Waste Not! Want Less!. A highlight of the evening session is a fashion parade following a panel presentation.

The SEE Change WasteLess group will be there providing reusable mugs to help reduce the waste generated at the event, consistency with the theme of sustainability.

For more details: https://australiandance.party/clothingtheloop/

For tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/clothing-the-loop

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