Calendar

An aggregated calendar of events at the intersection of fashion, arts, and ethics. Some events listed are hosted by Conscious Costume but most are other organizations that we love who are doing great work.

Recommended Books

The above is a link to our Bookshop.org affiliate store. All books are personal recommendations by people associated with Conscious Costume.

Media

Videos featuring Conscious Costume:

Podcasts with Conscious Costume:

The Smartist Podcast: 11/11/2020
Dirty Laundry: Coming Soon!

Sourcing Lists

The Sourcing List is one of the flagships of Conscious Costume’s work. The OLD Sourcing List is a Google Sheet found HERE. We are looking for volunteers to help us move it over to our NEW Sourcing List on Airtable, email us if you’re interested!
NEW Sourcing List
Please contribute to the next draft of the Sourcing List HERE.

Recommended Resources:

Green Theatre Alliances

Film & TV Resources

Ethical Fashion

Guides & Toolkits

Arts & Culture

Environmental Theatre Practices

Plays & Performance Companies

Publications

Exhibits

Classes

COMING SOON!

Recycling

COMING SOON!

Instead of feverish shopping, we hope you are continuing a celebration of gratitude today. We are eternally grateful for the grassroots community supporting the work of making every costume in harmony with people and planet.

Thanks to you, we’

I am FED UP with all the plastic and the ads for CRAP this time of year. I cringe walking by aisles of single use Christmas decorations that will be broken and in the trash by January 2nd.
My goal is to make sure you have the tools you need to creat

Conscious Community Virtual Meet-Up
Monday 12/16 8:30 Eastern/5:30 Pacific

It’s obvious that global leadership is failing to address the intersecting crises of the climate, environmental and labor exploitation. Next month we’ll be gather

We need YOUR HELP sorting costumes to get them ready for reuse, join us MONDAY NOV. 18 3:00-6:00 at 2021 W. Fulton K-111,

The 3rd Monday of the month is our volunteer day so drop by any time between 3:00-6:00 PM to meet other sustainably minded cost

Deadstock is NOT a perfect solution to making more sustainable costumes. From incentivizing overproduction to reinforcing opaque textile supply chains, deadstock fabrics are filled with potential problems. While you are using deadstock fabrics in you

🔗to all are available for our valued Patrons! Y’all make this work possible. Together, we can raise the dead 🧟&zwj;♀️ stock and give it new life in our costumes!

This list is US based because a vast majority of our followers are located in

👀Looking for easy ways to be more sustainable in your costume design?
💀 Consider Deadstock Fabrics!
There may be fewer fabric options, but a little creativity goes a long way. Plus we’re about to drop a post listing lots of places to look f

THANK YOU for coming out and swapping to make a greener theatre industry and Halloween for Chicago! We’re still tallying all the numbers but we had over 200 people and approximately 2,000 lbs of textiles swapped this weekend.

For the first ti