theCBRwoman is celebrating International Women’s Day 2022. Our key themes for this year are Women. Equality. Sustainability. and you are invited to come and learn, experience and network! Join us at the beautiful aMBUSH Gallery, Kambri, ANU for lunch, drinks, sustainable fashion, an art exhibition and hear from local Canberra women in business who are having an impact on a sustainable future.
As the founder of Eco Styles, Nina Gbor is an award-winning sustainability advocate, ethical fashion speaker, climate activist, writer and educator. From lived experience and education, Nina writes and speaks about the dynamics between the global South and global North, with focus on inequalities and justice in areas of fashion relating to socio-economics, politics and gender.
Nina has a master’s degree in International Development and is a former sustainable fashion tutor in short courses at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She coined the phrase ‘get off the fashion trendmill’ which means individuality and self-knowledge should be the premise for consuming clothing, not fashion trends. She is based in Sydney, Australia and is travelling to Canberra to speak and host our guests for lunch.
aMBUSH is a multi award-winning art gallery and social enterprise. Founded in 2007, aMBUSH is at the forefront of curating arts and public space projects across metropolitan and regional Australia. Multi-award winning aMBUSH Gallery is much more than a physical exhibition space. It’s an innovative program of site-specific, project-based art activations stemming from a unique fusion of philanthropic and commercial impulses. On display during lunch will be MIXED SIGNALS; a collection, by Jess Cochrane, of multidisciplinary works with hidden meanings, in both the way the subjects are posed and the objects placed within the images, which explore our perceptions of beauty and the often binary ways we view people.
Sammy from Rosella Street will be a guest speaker during lunch. Rosella Street is a Canberra based platform that aims to reduce item waste that ends up in landfill and encourages people to make more sustainable choices when it comes to shopping.
Pure Pod is founded on the pillars of people, planet and passion. Their clothing is made with thoughtful design, small production, natural fibres, GOTS Certified organic and supporting community Artisans with their hand loomed textiles. Garments and textiles are made in Australia, India or Asia. Many of the pieces have been hand block printed, screen printed using low toxic dyes and hand embroidered. Each piece has a story to tell. Pure pod will be on display and for sale during the lunch and guests will hear from Kelli from Pure Pod on sustainable fashion and women in the industry.
In support of International Women’s Day, MayFred Jewels has designed the “Clara” crystal bracelet as part of their #crystalsforcauses collection. Fluorite and crystal quartz have been chosen to represent this day as purple, green and white are the colours of the global campaign – purple represents justice and dignity, green hope and white purity.
The name “Clara” has been given in honour of Clara Zetkin, an advocate for equal opportunities and women’s suffrage and who first tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day at the 1910 Copenhagen International Conference of Working Women.
As a special offer, attendees to theCBRwoman IWD lunch can purchase a limited edition Clara bracelet at a 15% discount. For every Clara bracelet sold, $5 will be donated to UN Women Australia, a United Nations entity responsible for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, partnering with community leaders and governments across the Pacific region and around the world.
Limited quantity available, so get in quick! Bracelets can be collected during the lunch and will be for sale unless sold out prior.
