Do, Think, Imagine Green! in Cyprus & in Portugal
Check out how ModulAct helped us change AfroBanana & make our festival more sustainable. More green opportunities in February with the fully-funded CommunityCloth learning programme in Porto.
As the EU-funded project ModulAct wraps up, our journey towards sustainability is only just beginning.
Over the past few years, we’ve been dedicated to reducing our festival’s carbon footprint through practical and eco-conscious initiatives.
From cooking with solar ovens and piloting an innovative renewable energy device, to using solar panels, reusable cups, and eliminating single-use straws, we are taking actionable steps to make our festival greener.
The road towards becoming a zero-waste festival is a long one, but we’re excited to keep pushing forward.
Together, let’s imagine a more sustainable future.
Special thanks to our consortium partners Lug Open Factory and Metals Jezgra for their great collaboration. Also, to our local collaborator, Thalis Nicolaou Studio for designing our renewable energy device.
CommunityCloth learning programme - February 2025 Open Call
Would you like to learn about Wool processing and Natural Dyeing? Do you think you could organise workshops and activities within your community and spread the knowledge? Then we would like to help you do it!
As part of the project CommunityCloth, we will be offering a free (all expenses paid) learning programme in the areas of Wool processing and Natural Dyeing, that will take place in Portugal (Porto) in the second half of February 2025. The goal is to teach a network of educators who will implement educational activities based in these two areas, testing new community based learning models and sustainable farm-to-cloth activities.
During this learning programme the participants will attend a practical 2-day course where they will learn about Wool processing, from sheep to yarn or Natural Dyeing. This learning programme will also include a 1-day workshop focused on designing activities for practical community learning. In order to test and implement the learnings from this programme, the participants will be asked to organise a few learning activities within their own communities, later in 2025.
This Open Call is open to women only, as this project proposes a model for empowering women and community members from disadvantaged backgrounds through urban farming. We are looking for women who are teachers and educators, community leaders (parents groups, urban activists, collectivities), social workers, or those working in urban farms educational services, city councils, NGOs or fablabs. To be considered for selection, the candidate must also work directly with or for the benefit of young people in learning ages, school children, citizens with disabilities, unemployed women and migrant communities (especially migrant women).
The learning programme is expected to happen in February 2025 and will be completely free. It will be structured around three modules (2 courses + 1 workshop). Each participant will attend only one of the technical courses (course 1 or 2) and the workshop on activity design.
Course 1 Wool processing, from sheep to yarn
Duration: 2 days
Course 2 Natural Dyeing
Duration: 2 days
Workshop Activity design for community learning
Duration: 1 day
If you are interested in participating, please fill in the form below and we'll get back to you very soon!
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact us at info@communitycloth.eu
Applications open until 22 November 2024
