Fashion Re/Action: Symposium: Building Sustainable Fashion

THE FINAL EVENT of this year's FASHION RE/ACTION!! Rachel Shragis leads a quilting bee for the 21st century in this unique interdisciplinary event. While our guest speakers explore the question "How can we as consumers create a Sustainable Fashion System?", we'll be working together to create a quilted flowchart of the issues at hand. Speakers include: Carolyn Priebe, founder and head designer for Uluru, a sustainable clothing line based in New York City; Pascale Gatzen, an artist, designer and professor of fashion design in Parsons' Integrated Design Program; Glenn Marla, performance artist and employee of Re/Dress Brooklyn; and Otto von Busch (aka Wronsov), founder of the brand and research project >Self_Passage<, an open-source project investigating empowerment through fashion hacktivism. The event is FREE and open to the public. The talks begin promptly at 1pm with Q&A time after each speaker. Feel free to stay for the entire event or drop in for only part of it. Refreshments will be served. Presented by Culture Push and JEM Fabric Warehouse, FASHION RE/ACTION is the 2nd annual series of FREE workshops and collaborative events to playfully re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. More info: www.culturepush.org.

Fashion Re/Action: Clothing Remake Marathon! 10/15

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This Saturday is our last hands-on workshop event, and the second-to-last of this year's Fashion Re/Action! A total free-for-all of re-making and upcycling clothes, come to our Remake Marathon and use our donated fabric, clothing, and notions to turn discarded garments into the stuff of dreams! Our sewing and design experts Jeremy Wilson and Michael DiPietro will be on hand to help guide you with design ideas and technical help. This is a free-form studio workshop with a lot of hands-on sewing time... and probably the craftstravaganza you've been waiting for. The event is FREE and open to the public. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring in projects you've begun or odd bits and pieces to incorporate into your creations. If you have clothes to donate, we'll gladly accept them. The demonstration starts promptly at 1pm (don't miss it) with open studio time afterwards. Presented by Culture Push and JEM Fabric Warehouse, FASHION RE/ACTION is the 2nd annual series of FREE workshops and collaborative events to playfully re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. More info: www.culturepush.org. The 2011 FASHION RE/ACTION FESTIVAL continues for 2 more weeks of TOTALLY FREE craft and design workshops. Come to one, or come to all! We'd love to have you. Check http://culturepush.org/?q=node%2F758 for info and updates.

Fashion Re/Action: Bargello Needlepoint, 10/8

Learn the art and history of 'flame stitch,' a super-easy and beautiful needlepoint technique dating back to the 16th century. Flame stitch can be used to create crazy embroidery designs that are equally Baroque and Psychedelic - just in time for Halloween! The event is FREE and open to the public. Materials will be provided, but as always feel free to bring in projects you've begun or odd bits to incorporate into your creations. The demonstration starts promptly at 1pm (don't miss it) with open studio time afterwards. Presented by Culture Push and JEM Fabric Warehouse, FASHION RE/ACTION is the 2nd annual series of FREE workshops and collaborative events to playfully re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. More info: www.culturepush.org. The 2011 FASHION RE/ACTION FESTIVAL continues for 4 more weeks of TOTALLY FREE craft and design workshops. Come to one, or come to all! We'd love to have you. Check http://culturepush.org/?q=node%2F758 for info and updates.