Season for Change is hosting a virtual event: In Conversation: Demystifying Fashion on November 3, 2020 from 11:00AM-12:00PM.
A conversation with Lydia Higginson/Made My Wardrobe and Dilys Williams on sustainable futures for fashion.
Seamstress Lydia Higginson/Made My Wardrobe and Professor Dilys Williams FRSA, Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion at UAL, are joined by chair Farah Ahmed from Julie's Bicycle for a discussion about the fashion industry, people making their own clothes and an inclusive and fairer fashion future for all. This event will be live captioned.
Farah Ahmed joined the Julie’s Bicycle team in September 2016. She supports the delivery of events and marketing programme, profiles the work of the artists and organizations in the Julie’s Bicycle network, and produces podcasts The Colour Green and Green Heritage Futures.
Farah is a co-founder and facilitator with Diaspora Dialogues for Our Futures, a reflective space for people of colour to centre collective care in the face of the climate crisis. She is an alumni of the peer-led accelerator programme Enrol Yourself, where she developed a self-portraiture project exploring climate grief, mental health and activism. She is also an Arts Emergency mentor.