Bay Area Independent Fashion Festival

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Sat, Oct 11 2008
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Celebrate local independent designers who work with sustainable materials and adhere to green business practices at The Bay Area Guide to Independent Fashion Festival hosted by YBCA. Offering a runway show, vendor fair featuring clothes and accessories from emerging and established regional brands; and panel discussion on fashion and politics, this event highlights the craft and couture of some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic independent designers. It also offers a glimpse inside and a living exhibit based on the upcoming book The Bay Area Guide to Independent Fashion by Letitia Ntofon. Supporters of the event include CCA, Innovative Fashion Council SF, Global Exchange, SF Indie Fashion and Eco Citizen.

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Locally Bazaar
12–4 pm
Forum & Grand Lobby
Vendor Fair featuring local independent designers w/ Couture Exhibits by Cari Borja, Erin Mahoney, and Warren Difranco Hsu of After5Media.

Runway Snapshots
2–3 pm
Forum
A quick-look on the Runway w/ Orundide, Miranda Caroligne & Juleselin. See exhibitors list below.

Fashion & Politics Do Mix
5–6 pm
Forum
A conversation w/ Leslie Rabine, Susan Kaiser, Erica Varize, Irene Hernandez-Feiks. Take a deeper look at current issues of diversity in fashion, through a critical lens of America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Sean Combs' If I Were King documentary, Rip The Runway, and an exploration of the article written in New York Times in 2007 about the lack of diversity on New York 's fashion runways and the current “Black Issue” of Italian Vogue. Moderated by Cicely Sweed, YBCA Public Programs Curator.

The Craft & Couture Runway show
6:05–7 pm
Forum
Our evening featured runway show w/ designers from R.A.G. Co-op, Hellyn Teng Mersereau, Sarah Zins, Rehema Bah, and Erin Mahoney.

Locally Bazaar features:

Mittenmaker
Christine Uemura
Heathen
Fifty-seven Thirty-three
Rehama Bah
Beatnik Bags
Amanda Archer Collection
Sweetmarie
Linda La Touche
JoyRider Clothing
Orundide
Jasmin Zorlu
MCG T-shirts
ESTAR
Fluidance
Ikohl
Mediums to Masses
Mad February
Ibeji Body Care
RocknSocks
Tuckymama
A and I Designs
Oaklandish
Threads By ChoCho
SAAZ Designs
Homeygrown
Secession Art & Design
Porcelynne
Peggy Li Creations
Nika Tang
AC Clothing & Bags
Arara
Azul Jewelry
AriRenee Clothing
F.A.T.
Eco Fashions
miss velvet cream
Ruchi
Extra Fuerte
Aiko Designs
Field Day
Dana Levitt Designs
O’Lover Hats
Global Exchange
Eco Citizen
Evarize
California College of the Arts (CCA)
Innovative Fashion Council of SF
BAGTIF/ Black Dot Artists Inc.

Fashion & Politics Do Mix Panel:
Irene Hernandez-Feiks of Chillin' Productions
Susan Kaiser of UC Davis, Chair of Textiles and Clothing
Erica Varize of Evarize Fashion Café and Evarize Design
Panel Moderated by Cicely Sweed of YBCA

Couture Exhibits With:
Cari Borja, Erin Mahoney, and Warren Difranco Hsu of After5Media.

The Runway Snapshots Show With:
Orundide
Miranda Caroligne

The Craft & The Couture Runway Show With:
Hellyn Teng Mersereau, Sarah Zins, Rehema Bah, Erin Mahoney, and RAG Co-op designers: Rag Rehab, Self Clothing, Little Red Sparrow, Icon National, Martin & Mag Pie, boi.oi.oing, Toast, Funk Divine, Red Threads, Racquel Valle, Invisible Hero, S.I.N.D.Y, fiftyseven-thirtythree, fluffy co, Made Jewelry, Jennifer Bair, mzz T rzz accessories & clothing.

Sponsors:

This event benefits Black Dot Artists, Inc, a local non-profit cultural arts organization.

This Public Program is supported by a generous grant from The Wallace Foundation.

The Black New World

West Oakland-based artist, activist, and cultural historian Marcel Diallo and a few of his long-time collaborators transform the Room for Big Ideas into a sanctified outpost of The Black New World using assemblage altars, multimedia, and spiritual merchandise. The Black New World as a social aid and pleasure club in West Oakland serves the Greater Bay Area, yet the philosophical and spiritual reach of The Black New World, as the name implies, seeks to reflect deep Africa-rooted Diaspora culture at its freshest, most Now moment. To re-collect the scattered pieces of post-colonial Black New World identities and mix the gumbo until it’s good and ready is the underlying intention. From New Orleans’s Black Indians and Spiritual Churches to Secondline Jazz Funerals and Harriet Tubman; from juke joints and Orisha shrines to Marie Laveau and Doctor John; from hoodoo and conjuration to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; from Vodou and Toussaint L’Overture to Lukumi and Palo Myombe; from Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley to Candomble and Macumba; from Ifa, Ogboni, and Fela Kuti to Huey P. Newton, Patrice Lumumba, and Ngangas with their minkisi … Enter the Black New World, become a citizen, sit a spell, and sip a taste of that Sanctified Gumbo.

Marcel Diallo is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, poet, writer, cultural historian, and activist best known for his philosophies, writings, and public actions on Black self-determination and neighborhood revitalization through the resurrection and preservation of Black cultural districts. His role in the 1990s underground Bay Area arts scene transformed and popularized the call and response aspect of spoken word and blurred the lines between poetry, emceeing, and theater prior to the influence of slam poetry in the region. He is the founder of various Bay Area cultural arts institutions including Black Dot Artists, Inc., Black New World Social Aid & Pleasure Club, The Eastside Arts Alliance, and Cornelia Bell’s Black Bottom Gallery.

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