February 11, 2015 to February 15, 2015 – City of Cambridge
Discover the City in a new Light! Light is wonderful, precious,essential to life. Light enables us to work, study and play. Light allows us to see, be seen and make us feel safe moving around Cambrid…
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This workshop is designed to support touring companies in starting to measure business and artist travel related to your organisation. We’ll cover the basic steps for deciding what travel you want to…
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This workshop will introduce some basic steps to developing your own environmental policy. Drawing on examples already held by Scottish arts organisations we’ll work through the key areas to cover in…
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Tim looked at the sustainability and upcycling elements of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts's wardrobe course, and how that fed into an Edinburgh fringe production entitled 1,000 Suns. You can read the piece in this week's Stage, on page 40!
They make it sound so easy! Here's Little Boots and designer Michelle Wu talking about her Cyber Cinderella LED dress....
Don't miss our new Q&A with Charlie Ross, founder & director of Offset Warehouse - suppliers of ethical fabrics to the trade and beyond. See it here...
LIPA graduate designer Anna Dunn has written an excellent guest blog for A Younger Theatre, where she discusses the speciality sustainability module in her design course. Taking a construction/deconstruction approach, the college looked both at creating new garments and dismantling existing ones to create a costume set.
Anna also discusses the creation of the design for 1000 Suns at the Edinburgh Festival, the set and costume for which were entirely 'upcycled'. You can read the full article at A Younger Theatre here...
Textile dyeing can put an enormous strain on local water resources in its country of origin. In 'Clothing to dye for' Leon Kaye writes about the issues in the industry as part of the Guardian's Sustainable Business network here...
The lovely Offset Warehouse, providers of ethical textiles etc., are having a garden party designer sale on the 31st August - more info here....
The Fair Wear Foundation might be of use if you're looking to source-ethically produced and monitored garments. Their website synopsis reads as follows:
Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) is an independent, non-profit organisation that works with companies and factories to improve labour conditions for garment workers.
FWF’s 80 member companies represent over 120 brands, and are based in seven European countries; member products are sold in over 20,000 retail outlets in more than 80 countries around the world. FWF is active in 15 production countries in Asia, Europe and Africa.
FWF keeps track of the improvements made by the companies it works with. And through sharing expertise, social dialogue and strengthening industrial relations, FWF increases the effectiveness of the efforts made by companies.
Definitely worth a look at www.fairwear.org.....
The Independent newspaper reports on an accord by 70 clothing manufacturers and retailers to carry out inspections at clothing factories in Bangladesh, following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in April.
The building was home to companies manufacturing clothing for the UK market, and included big names such as Primark and H&M.
Othernames to be involved include Debenham's, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, New Look, Sainsbury's and Tesco. Checks will include identifying and remedying hazards, and ensuring workers are paid while reparations are made.
You can read the full story here...
Stumbled across this article from the Guardian last summer, which looks at the difficulties posed in making textiles more sustainable. It suggests that there are uncomfortable issues at hand, such as the fact that across the full life cycle, natural fibres are not necessarily better than synthetic ones, and that chemical dyes are not necessarily worse than natural ones.
You can read more here...
One of the memorable companies from the 'Green My Production' conference at White Light last week was the lovely bunch from Offset Warehouse.
Offset Warehouse specialise in ethical textiles, fabrics and clothing, and from what I saw at the show, have a vast range. This is what their website says they do...
Offset Warehouse is a social enterprise and the first UK online retailer to bring together all the elements needed to create ethical clothing and interiors.
Offset Warehouse provides all the information and products you need to be ethical in the world of fashion, interiors and design. We serve both business-to-business and business-to-consumer needs.
We are the only online portal to bring together a wide range of ethical fabrics, a haberdashery, garments and resources to make it easy for you to be ethical.
You can see a short video they made about themselves here, or visit their website here...
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