2021 Fibershed Virtual
Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium
November 13 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Register Here - Tickets $40 with Flex $5 option
This year’s symposium will begin with a conversation between those living and working to produce our global demand for textiles and those that receive the mounds of material that is discarded once clothing is deemed “uninteresting” or damaged. We’ll hear from members of the OR Foundation Community and the Garment Worker Center, who will share the consequences that they personally and professionally experience due to current rates of production within the fashion industry.
The day will include a presentation by Local Futures, an organization founded on the work to uplift place-based regional economies; including efforts to ‘expose the big picture’ and ‘unite and connect’ farmers, mainstreet business owners, indigenous communities and everyone in between. We will hear from artist and textile reuse maker Karen Hampton who’s art and life is shaped by connection to her ancestry– a lineage versed in care and regard for soil, textiles and dyes.
The second half of our day will focus on our region’s water and agriculture. With rapid changes in weather patterns, our soil based systems from which we rely upon for material culture are undergoing transitions. We will hear from hydrologists, farmers, those leading people powered solutions, and researchers in two panel discussions focused on realities and solutions of California water and the growing agroforestry movement. We will hear lightning talks from Fibershed Producer members focused on stories of how they are implementing carbon farming practices and enhancing biodiversity and soil carbon within their working landscapes.
The Fibershed Marketplace Showcase will feature a range of the region’s soil-to-soil textiles and will highlight our region’s farmers, artisans, weavers, felters, knitters, mills and natural dyers who will be offering freshly farmed and ranched goods from our range and cropland systems.
Look for Paleotechnics in the Marketplace Showcase and keep an eye out for our 1 minute video promo.
Schedule:
9-9:15am: Opening Remarks
9:15-10:15am: Conversation between a member of Kantamanto Market and the Garment Worker Center
10:15-11:15am: Presentation by Anja Lynbaeck from Local Futures
11:15-11:20am: Short Break
11:20-11:45am: Presentation with Karen Hampton & Conversation Between Karen Hampton and Teju Adisa-Farrar
11:45-1:15pm: Agroforestry Panel with Sonja Brodt, Nikki Mazaroli, Guido Frosini, Jesse Smith facilitated by Mike Conover
1:15-1:45pm: Fibershed Marketplace Showcase
1:45-1:50pm: Short Break
1:50-2:30pm: Lightning Talks with Marcia Barinaga, John Bailey, Kelli Dunaj, Sarah Keiser
2:30-4pm: Water Systems Panel with Andy Fisher, Regina Hirsch, Dennis Hutson, Brad Lancaster
TIckets $40
$5 Flex price tickets available for those who are full-time students, those living on a fixed income, veterans, or new farmers/ranchers. Please contact Fibershed if you are not a member of these groups but require are flex price ticket.
Weaving Voices illustration by Laurie Sawyer
Fibershed is a non-profit organization that develops regional and regenerative fiber systems on behalf of independent working producers, by expanding opportunities to implement carbon farming, forming catalytic foundations to rebuild regional manufacturing, and through connecting end-users to farms and ranches through public education.
LOOKING BACK AT PREVIOUS YEARS:
Information from the 2020 Fibershed Symposium
12 videos of presentations from the 2020 Symposium
