Friday, August 26th
6:30-9:00pm
NC Museum of History

The Better Threads Bash will be a celebration of the joy and creativity in all things fashion and textiles! Hosted at the NC Museum of History in downtown Raleigh.

The event will include:

• Pop-up fashion shows featuring unique eco-conscious designers.

• Hands-on crafting activities from Craft Habit and Scrap Exchange.

• Our Tracking Textiles: The Modern Lifecycle of Clothing display on the supply chain of textiles.

• Appetizers, dessert and coffee / tea for all attendees!

The event is free to attend and open to all ages!

If you'd like to make a suggested donation to offset the cost of producing and hosting, we greatly appreciate it.

VIP Tickets for the Common Threads Fashion Show are available for $25 each and include a 1st or 2nd row seat (first come, first serve) and swag bag.

Attend the Common Threads Fashion Show Model Call to walk the runway for Redress Raleigh at our upcoming Better Threads Bash!

About the Model Call

• All heights, all sizes. Ages 5 and up are welcome.

• Please attend from 10am-12pm or from 1-3pm.

• Please do not attend the model call if you can not be available for the show date (August 26).

• Come in black jeans and tank top or t-shirt. Solid colors.

• Teen to adult females bring heels.

• Light natural makeup, please.

• You will be photographed and videoed at the model call.

• Models may attend with no more than one guest / parent / chaperone.

• You may also submit by video.

• Please note that our staff will be at lunch from noon to 1:00.

About the Common Threads Fashion Show

• The Common Threads Fashion Show will be held August 26, 2022 at the NC Museum of History as part of Redress Raleigh’s Better Threads Bash.

• Models must be on site at the museum that day from 1 PM to 9 PM.

PLEASE ONLY RSVP IF YOU ARE COMING. FAILURE TO ATTEND WITH A “GOING” RSVP MAY DISQUALIFY YOU FROM THE SHOW AND OTHER FUTURE GRAY MODELS AND TALENT EVENTS.

Please follow these instructions and complete the form:

• https://forms.gle/62MiRc6arB3hVxNn8

WHEN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2021

TIME: 6-9PM

WHERE: RECITY NETWORK, 112 BROADWAY ST., DURHAM 

Redress Raleigh will be featured as one of the local nonprofits at The Big Give! This is Loop Creative and Giving Tuesday RDU’s 5th annual holiday celebration of nonprofits.

Here's how it works:

Join us for a cheerful evening with Mark Bentley at the helm, including a photo booth, appetizers catered by Horizon Catering & So Good Pupusas, beverages & cocktails, and LIVE music by KidzNotes while kicking off the holiday season. 

You will have the amazing opportunity to celebrate, discover, support, and network with many amazing Raleigh-Durham nonprofits at the event, including Redress Raleigh!

If you cannot join us, please consider supporting one or more of the participating nonprofit organizations with your time, talents, or treasures.

NC State Students! Come meet the Redress Raleigh team at NCSU’s Volunteer and Civic Engagement Fair, hosted by Student Leadership and Engagement. The fair will connect you with opportunities in the community for service, volunteering and civic engagement activities. Set up like a career fair, students can meet with up to 60 local organizations — each with their own unique needs and opportunities for involvement.

Activate Good has partnered with the State of North Carolina and VolunteerNC to host a series of Virtual Volunteer Expos -- virtual "volunteer fairs" hosted through Zoom designed to provide information to community members who may be interested in volunteering. At a Virtual Volunteer Expo, you'll hear from a group of local nonprofits who will each share their organization's mission, current volunteer needs, and ways you can get involved safely. After hearing from each nonprofit presenter, you'll have the option of joining Zoom Breakout Rooms to talk more in-depth to the organizations that interest you.

During this Expo, you'll hear from...

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
Redress Raleigh
The Salvation Army of Lee County
Vets to Vets United Inc.

RSVP to participate!

Redress Raleigh will have an information booth at Moore Square Market on Sunday, July 18. Stop by and visit to learn more about our upcoming events, sign up to volunteer, or get connected to our e-newsletter.

About the Market:

Pick up your local produce and treats, meet up with friends and enjoy live music at Moore Square Market - on Sundays this year! Enjoy a picnic and games in the park or lunch from local restaurants, get some shopping done at nearby stores and make an afternoon in DTR.  The market features vendors selling fresh, seasonal goods as well as original, high-quality crafts. Fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood, eggs, dairy, artisanal goods, pastries and much more can all be found at the market. All vendors operate within 90 miles of Raleigh.

Moore Square Market is an evolution of the Raleigh Downtown Farmer's Market. The Market was relocated with the reopening of Moore Square in 2019. In addition to the weekly vendors, the Market has theme days with special programming, live music, children's activities, weekly non-profits and more. 

Moore Square Market is open from 11:00am until 3pm every Sunday from the beginning of May through October 3. The Market is managed by Downtown Raleigh Alliance and the City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources Department.

Presented by: Fashion Revolution USA

Featuring: Redress Raleigh Board Member, Rosalinda Cruz

About this Event

Eighty percent of garment workers are women, most of them aged 18 to 25. How can fashion go from exploiting women around the world to empowering them? Join Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, consultant at Tabii Just Strategies and deputy executive director of program at Women’s March; Tameka Peoples, founder and director of operations at Seed2Shirt; Rosalinda Cruz, founder and chief experience officer of The Asor Collective; and moderator Whitney Bauck, freelance journalist, for an in-depth conversation.

This virtual panel will be held on Friday, April 23 at 6PM EDT.

This event is free, but donations are strongly encouraged to keep our resources open sourced and accessible. Fashion Revolution USA creates tools to support individuals to use their voice to enact change, raise awareness and create a more sustainable fashion future across the country and around the world. Fashion Revolution USA is fiscally sponsored by Social Good Fund, a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Presented by: The Bryan School of Business & Economics Virtual Collaboratory for Sustainable Business Practices

Featuring: Redress Raleigh Executive Director, Beth Stewart

In business, the bottom line is everything. But in sustainable business, you’re working for the Triple Bottom Line – economic, environmental, and social. Join this discussion with local entrepreneurs and small business owners to learn about the innovative ways they incorporate sustainable business practices into their everyday work, and consider the Triple Bottom Line in everything they do. Review presenter’s bios.

Session Panelists:

• Christina Degreaffenreidt, Owner/Creator of Multifaceted, Greensboro NC

• Beth Stewart, Executive Director of Redress Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

• Matt Mullins, Owner/Creator of Empasta Cheeze Vegan Products, Greensboro NC

• Sandi Kronick, CEO, Happy Dirt, Durham, NC

• Andrea Crouse, Designer/Founder, Gaia Conceptions, Greensboro, NC

About This Event

Textile collection agencies and nonprofits have and will continue to be inundated with more donations than they can process. In addition to wasteful practices by industry and consumers, the novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a change for consumer buying trends that may be hard to roll back. What innovative solutions can be developed to ensure that our unwanted garments and textile products are disposed of in a way that promotes reuse and recycling in order to “ride the wave” of change in the apparel industry?

Takeaways

• What is Fast Fashion and why is it a problem?

• What is actually happening to garments that are not reused or recycled?

• Why does textile recycling / re-distribution need to be better?

• What can you do to help? Where, what, and how to recycle garments to maximize waste reduction.

About the Speakers

Ray Malouf
Sr. Market Development Manager, ECA Fashion - ReTexNow

Dallas Bonavita
Executive Director, Note in the Pocket

Beth Stewart
Executive Director, Redress Raleigh

Maggie Bailey
Director, Terra Vita Stewards

* Postponed Indefinitely Due to COVID-19 Precautions*

Redress Raleigh Executive Director, Beth Stewart, will speak on the entrepreneur panel at BETTING ON YOURSELF, presented by the Wilson College of Textiles’ Rohde Women's Leadership Speaker Series.

Attend the event to learn from Beth and other entrepreneurs at various stages in their careers on how they bet on themselves to make their dreams a reality.

Register to attend entrepreneur panel and keynote: go.ncsu.edu/rohde

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and every day. Beginning in 2012, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to support Redress Raleigh in our mission to cultivate a more responsible ecosystem for the fashion industry by educating and mobilizing consumers to be positive advocates.

• Donate to Redress Raleigh

• Sign Up to Volunteer

Join Redress Raleigh on Wednesday, October 23rd at James B. Hunt Library from 6:00-8:00pm for our next "Who’s Who in Fashion & Textiles" event! Our Who's Who series shines a light on movers-and-shakers in fashion and textiles related fields—introducing you to new brands, ideas and connections with a sustainable focus. 

Our next Who's Who will focus on how social media can be used as a force for good, impacting the way we think about sustainability related to fashion, textiles, lifestyle and beyond. We'll enjoy light refreshments in a private space at Hunt Library (Room 4106) while hearing from several local speakers with a powerful sustainability-minded social media presence.

Meet the Speakers:

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 19 for NC State Wilson College of Textiles’ Open House — a wonderful event for all ages to discover, learn and engage with textiles. Redress Raleigh will have an informational table at the event, along with faculty and students providing demonstrations and information sessions on the Wilson College of Textiles.

Things to Do!

• Tour the college

• Identify fibers

• Tie dye a shirt

• Eat an edible nonwoven

• Try on protective gear

• Weave a bracelet

• Win door prizes

• Enjoy food trucks

Registration

This event is held in conjunction with NC State University Open House. The building will remain open until 4 p.m. for individuals who wish to continue learning about the Wilson College.

Parking and Directions

Parking is available all day on Centennial Campus in the surface parking lots around the Wilson College of Textiles, Oval West Parking Deck, or Poulton Deck.

LEARN MORE AND ATTEND.

Join Redress Raleigh at The Scrap Exchange Design Center for a conversation with local organizations exploring more sustainable and creative alternatives to fast fashion. Stay after the conversation to participate in a clothing swap and alteration hour.

RSVP to this FREE event on Facebook.

Panel Discussions at The Carrack

Redress Raleigh Executive Director, Beth Stewart, will be part of a panel discussion at The Carrack during Durham Fashion Week. Panelists will speak on the topics of Culture, Body Image and Personal Style, and Global Impact.

RSVP to this FREE event on Facebook.

Elizabeth Cline, author of one our favorite books Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion is coming to the Triangle! Her new book, The Conscious Closet, is out NOW, and she'll be signing copies at this event after a panel discussion with some of our favorite fashion & textile gurus (Amy DuFault and Eric Henry). The panel will be moderated by Redress Raleigh Board Member, Rosalinda Cruz.

Don't miss this exciting conversation on domestic production, traceability, sustainability and of course, plenty of delicious beer from Burlington Beer Works.

Learn more about the event.

Join us for Packapalooza, an all-day block party on Hillsborough Street capping off NC State University’s Wolfpack Welcome Week.

Visit us at the Redress Raleigh table from 2-7pm and learn more about sustainable fashion in the Triangle and beyond.

Packapalooza is free and open to the public and features food, live music and hundreds of vendor booths. There will also be appearances by Wolfpack athletic teams, an evening concert by headliner Delta Rae and lighting the Belltower red.

Learn more at packapalooza.ncsu.edu

There are so many amazing people within (or wanting to join) the textiles industry. We are excited to host a Fashion and Textiles Mixer for this community!

This is an opportunity to casually connect with our sustainability-minded network. Get support, ask for advice, and make connections those interested in the many different aspects of the textiles industry: designers and tailors, product developers, manufacturers, retailers, academics and consumers.

This event is FREE and unstructured - but we would appreciate your RSVP via Eventbrite so we can plan for space. Drinks and food will be available for purchase at the bar.

RSVP via EVENTBRITE

✨ G I V E A W A Y ✨

Mixer attendees will have the chance to win a FREE hour-long facial from a licensed esthetician at Aillea in Cameron Village. We’ll be raffling off this #cleanandgreen pampering experience to one lucky guest!

LEARN MORE ABOUT AILLEA

Join Redress Raleigh on Wednesday, April 24th at Raleigh Times from 6:30-8:30pm for our next "Who’s Who in Fashion & Textiles" event! Our Who's Who series shines a light on movers-and-shakers in fashion and textiles related fields—introducing you to new brands, ideas and connections with a sustainable focus. 

Coinciding with Fashion Revolution Week and Earth Week, our next Who's Who will focus on ways to slow down the cycle of fast fashion by reusing and re-purposing garments that already exist—in our own closets and through secondhand retail. We'll enjoy light appetizers in a private space at Raleigh Times while hearing from several local speakers:

• Fifi's of Cameron Village and Revolver Consignment Boutique
  Learn all about selling and shopping consignment from two of our favorite secondhand retailers in N.C.

• Reborn Clothing Co.
  Hear about Reborn's mission to reduce textile waste through upcycling from the brand's founder and CEO, Emily Neville. 

• Wirl
  Speak with personal stylists from Wirl about how to feel confident and stylish in your wardrobe while keeping sustainability in mind. 

Your $15 ticket includes appetizers and event admission. A cash bar will be available as well as plenty of time for Q&A and socializing.

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER.

Fashion and History lovers! Join us at the North Carolina Museum of History on April 7th for a peek into textiles’ past through a documentary on Charles Cannon – the N.C. native behind industrial powerhouse Cannon Mills. 🎞 Following a screening of the film, our Executive Director will bring Redress Raleigh’s sustainable fashion perspective to a panel discussion on innovations & impacts of textiles on modern culture & economy.

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Spring is springing 🌸😍🌸 Come enjoy the start of a new season with us at The Scrap Exchange Sustainability Expo on March 30th. FREE to attend!

Redress Raleigh will be there, along with many other environmental organizations from around the Triangle, to celebrate with music, sustainable food trucks, and interactive activities for all ages.