Earth Day Sustainable Fashion Celebration
Sat, Apr 22
|Yarrow Community Centre
On Earth Day, April 22nd, the 20 Harvest Challenge team will be hosting a celebration at the Yarrow Community Centre! There will be fun activities and performances held from 10:30am until 3pm
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Yarrow Community Centre, 4670 Community St, Chilliwack, BC V2R 5E1, Canada
About the event
On Earth Day, April 22nd, the 20 Harvest Challenge team will be hosting an event at the Yarrow Community Centre! There will be fun activities and performances held from 10:30am until 3pm.
Activities include:
10:30am-12:30pm - Dress for Your Rights! Sustainable Fashion Fair
- Clothing drive: Work clothing for local agricultural laborers Free Clothing Giveaway + Donation
- The Great Textile Recycling Weigh-in Challenge
- Vendors
- Mending table
- Tutorials
- Sustainable poetry!
- Hands-on crafts
12:30-1 - Yoga Session (Chair + Child Accessible Adaptations)
1-1:30 - "Think Thrice" Play Performance
1:30-1:45 - Girl Guides Sustainable Fashion Show Performance
1:45-2 - Singalong!
2-3pm - Sustainable Fashion Fair open for browsing
2pm - Prizes Awarded
- Best fashion show entry
- Best upcycled fabric project
- Best guess the weight of the textile recycling bin
Join the sustainable fashion show for a chance to win!
You're doing sustainable fashion if you're wearing something...
- Mended
- Upcycled/repurposed
- Thrifted
- Handed down
- More than 10 years old
- Purchased from a "sustainable" brand such as Blue Sky, etc
There will be a prize—a gift card for sustainable fashion shopping!—for each category:
- Best Girl Guide
- Best child
- Best adult
- Most creative
- Best costume
- Best "matchy" stuffie-and-me/dolly-and-me
Bring your old clothing and textile waste to donate for repurposing and recycling! Drop off at Yarrow Elementary and guess the total weight of the textile donations for the chance to win a prize!
Check out our sister event too: 3rd Annual Yarrow Community Clean-up!