Planned Events
August, 2010
Hamptons Mission Exchange
Watermill in the Hamptons
July 12, 2010
Mission Exchange - Upper West Side NYC
Please contact info@goodsofconscience.com if you would like to attend this event, purchase clothing and learn more about Goods of Conscience.
September 11, 2010:
Mission Exchange Haworth, New Jersey
October 2nd-9th, 2010
Trip to Guatemala
In conjunction with David Morris, International http://www.davidmorrisintl.com/cause-travel.htm Goods of Conscience is sponsoring a special journey to Guatemala as part of a documentary film. We will begin by staying at the legendary Casa Santo Domingo in Guatemala’s Antigua, a colonial metropolis in the land of eternal spring. Fr. Andrew will conduct a “sanctuary meal” as a dialogue with notable voices in the Guatamalan community. The journey will cover a tour of Atitlan, an eco-walk on the side of a volcano in the boca costa to a river journey down the pirate canyons of Rio Dulce where Tarzan movies were filmed to the colorful and isolated Afro-Caribbean town of Livingston on the mouth of the Caribbbean.
July 31st, 2010
Mission Exchange in Rumson, New Jersey
June 16th, 2010 - 6:30 to 8pm
Bloomsday!
Come see our new Fall Collection, learn how to love that novel you never could finish, and find out details on our documentary trip to Guatemala in August.
Greg Lord Studios - 526 West 26th Street Room 520
March 18, 2010 - 6PM to 8PM
Goods of Conscience Sample Sale
Please Join Goods of Conscience for a Sample Sale at Holy Family Church in our workshop.
Location: 2158 Watson Ave. Bronx NY 10472
Directions: Take the 6 local train to Castle Hill Ave and walk east approximately 6 blocks. Or the BMX7A express bus.
Please contact Elizabeth at elizabeth@goodsofconscience.com with any questions.
SEE YOU AT THE SALE!!!
February 2, 2010 - Candlemas: 40 Days after Christmas
March 21, 2010 - Stations of the Cross Exhibit
Candlemas: 40 Days after Christmas
When: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 6 to 8:30 PM
Where: St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral For directions click here.
What: Vespers, Fashion and Video art event to benefit Mission Guatemala: Uniform Project
Event Synopsis:
- 6 to 6:30PM Illumination Courtyard of Church Mott Street Entrance. Distribution of “Palliums,” of social fabric.™ Candle blessing. Choreography of participants. (request participants wear black or Social Fabric garments).
- 6:30 to 7PM Vespers Evening Prayer of Church.
- 7PM procession to crypt. Reception until 8:30PM.
- Benefit Dinner following
Mission Guatemala: Uniform Project
What is the mission?
Mission Guatemala is an outreach of Goods of Conscience apparel that involves the making of clothing in New York for Guatemalans of Guatemalan fabric. Why? Preserving an ancient culture. Mayan weaving is a world treasure and in danger of being lost. In developing social fabric™ in 2004 Fr. Andrew O’Connor, a New York diocesan priest, saw that preserving a culture requires a cross pollination of culture. Sweatshops in poor countries create anonymous clothing that resurfaces later in the same counties as used and resold clothing. As a result Mayans can less and less afford their own traditional clothing, much less made with Guatemalan cotton. Making clothing for Mayans reinforces their identity as a culture. The reflective fiber in social fabric™ adds a North American accent to the clothing. Combats poverty. Buying Guatemalan cloth made of Guatemalan cotton provides both economically and culturally sustainable work for the communities of Chicacao and Panajachel where social fabric™ is made.
Why Uniforms?
On November 1st, the Catholic Fellowship of Choate, which I oversee with the Catholic students at Choate, held an All Saints Benefit Dinner to raise money for uniforms and books for the children of San Pedro Cruztal school in Chicacao, Guatemala. We raised $500 after raffling off a Tiffany cross and Starbucks cards. This is approximately 25 children’s shirts that we will make in our workshop and which I will bring down to Guatemala in December. Our making shirts out of their own fabric is of lasting significance to Mayans and is central to MIssion Guatemala.
The idea for the uniforms emerged from planning an outreach with Choate students. Uniforms allow the poor to attend school in Guatemala. The children there need to feel globally cared for. I am the Catholic chaplain at Choate. We organized a dinner to raise funds to make the uniforms. The mass following the dinner was offered for Horacio Villavincencio, the founder of Algodonas Mayas, the producer of the cotton that goes into Social Fabric. I would like to raise additional funding for food to help combat the near 80% level of malnutrition among Mayan children. (see Economist August 27, 2009 article) Chicacao is affected, but less so than other districts. We would like to design a school satchel for the children, a version of which could be sold at the event to support the effort. There are more than 500 children at the San Pedro Crutzal school in Chicacao. If each satchel contains $100 worth of a) uniform b) food allotment c) school supplies. Optimally that means we would like to raise $50,000 at the benefit dinner.
Stations of the Cross Exhibit
Sunday, March 21st - Sunday June 13th
Manresa Gallery (Click for directions.)
San Francisco, CA
An opening reception will be held on Saturday March, 27th. See the gallery's website for more information. http://manresagallery.org
