FAIR FASHION FESTIVAL YORK: Fossil Fuel–Free, Feminist, and Built for Us.

Canada’s Biggest BIPOC Youth-Led Event in Fair Fashion, rooted in community care and sustainability.

We’re back, GTA — transforming fashion, one thread at a time. The York Fair Fashion Festival is a BIPOC youth-led event rooted in community care, sustainability, and resistance to a system that exploits people and the planet. This all-ages gathering brings together youth, families, artists, organizers, and everyday people to imagine what a just, circular future can look like, starting with what we wear.

At FFF, we center the stories and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and racialized youth and women who are too often excluded from sustainability conversations, even though we’ve been doing the work all along. Through clothing swaps, mending zones, workshops, community quilting, and real talk with change-makers in the space, we’ll build skills, share stories, and take action together.

✨ Last year, we kept 2,000+ pounds of clothing out of landfills, created jobs for youth, and brought 200+ people into conversations on fashion justice and circular economies. ✨ This year, we’re going even deeper — more hands-on workshops, more space for connection, more power in our communities.

Bring your friends. Bring your family. Come ready to swap, stitch, mend, and thread a future that’s rooted in equity, sustainability, and joy.

This is the circular fashion movement — and you’re invited.

Components:

• Massive clothing swap, bring 1-10 gently loved items to swap and exchange for new beloved treasures.
• Workshops: Learn about Extended Producer Responsibility with Threading Change and join Uptown Climate Conversations for a discussion about Climate, Healthy, Anxiety, and Fashion’s Link to it All
• Take part in TC’s Community Quilt: What do you want to change in the fashion industry?
• Join Oxfam Canada for a Keynote Presentation outlinning the social implication and the current situation on the ground in garment producing countries and TC will host a panel discussion “Threading Circular Futures: Youth Power Leading Community Action”
• Network inside our Museum of Changemakers: A Dedicated Space for NGOS and youth-led movements committed to taking action towards achieving the UN’s 17 SDGS
• Also in the Museum of Changemakers space we will have Oxfam Canada’s Stitch for Change Challenge!

How to get there: Metro: Line 1: Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Subway Station: yes it it wheel chair accessible!

Bus: 20, 501, 77
Parking: There is no free on-site parking available as the building does not have a parking lot. There are many paid parking lots available within the vicinity such as: short term on-street parking around the perimeter of the building; there is also parking available at TTC Commuter Lots, KPMG building, etc.
Notes:

To save time at the swap, pre-fill out the clothing audit form. We collect data on the clothing at our events to better understand the consumption patterns of consumers. It takes 2 minutes, promise!
This is a child-friendly event: we have plenty of space for strollers, but we will not be providing childcare services on site
Bring a refillable water bottle, but we will have some refreshments available

Tickets: $10 each, or bring a friend and get 2 for just $16!
(Save $4 when you come together!)

Register for the event via EventBrite.ca