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SO many reasons to shop locally this Saturday 1/24 at 78th street studios from 2-4!!

This is your opportunity to support local, responsible economies! Our vendor list is filled with folks who have taken the more challenging (but dare we say rewarding!) path to use their business to make a more beautiful, creative, intentional, and relational world.

Why shop local this Saturday?
1. Your money stays where you live. It won’t disappear into corporate systems.

2. You can have conversations with makers and participate in the whole story of what you’re purchasing. This makes the item purchased have far more intrinsic value, creating a cascade of care for the items, shared stories, and feeling of connection and self-worth.

3. At this specific market you’re supporting the use of materials that REGENERATE rather than extract. This means healthier soil, cleaner water, healthier landscapes over time.

4. You’re paying for fair wages and real craftsmanship, time, care, and skill. You’re honoring the human work.

5. Shopping the vendors on this list with strengthen our creative and cultural ecosystems! It helps keep traditional skills alive and place-based materials circulating, allowing for greater cultural shifts towards economies of care.

6.it builds our community resilience! And do we ever need it now!

7. It invites you to INVEST, not just “shop”. Youll@make intentional choices for pieces that carry a story, are beautiful, and are worth it.

8. It connects you to here! To our place!! You can carry your landscape with you and feel a part of something larger.

Check out our amazing vendors, like and share, and we will see you on Saturday at 78th street studios in Cleveland!

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We are opening up the symposium with something special, and we hope you’ll be a part of it!

Join our “future worth making” Textile Banner Parade, a joyful, collaborative opening ceremony celebrating hope, care, and the world we’re building together!

Details:
-anyone can participate (as long as you’re registered for the Symposium!
-create a textile banner with a message of hope or joy
-bring it to the symposium on the 24th and parade it with us!
-see it displayed throughout the space during the event

Think: reused quilts, blankets, hand-stitched words, painted phrases, pinned letters, wearable banners, capes, flags- whatever your imagination dreams up!

Please note this is not a protest. This is an act of collaboration, place-making, and shared joy!

More info in sign-up link in bio!