Tired of submerging your conscience every holiday season as you battle the crowds at the mall?
Join us this winter for our 3rd Annual Fair Trade and Conscious Gifts Holiday Bazaar.
Buying gifts for your loved ones does not have to violate your ethics.
WHEN: Saturday December 1st from 11 am – 3 pm
WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles (Geneva Room)
Browse through a large selection of affordable, sweat-shop free arts and crafts made by artisans internationally and locally, including:
- Embroidered pillow-covers, wallets and purses from Afghanistan
- Locally made jewelry, blankets, scarves
- Hand made tote bags and designer gift bags
- Fair trade coffee & honey
- Conscious books, CDs
- …and much more!
Free entrance and complementary refreshments while you shop.
All proceeds will directly benefit the artists and workers who made the items.
Confirmed vendors include: Afghan Women’s Mission, Ten Thousand Villages, Garment Worker Center, Pacifica Radio Archives, Global Voices for Justice, Cyntex, SmART Blondz, Frank Dorrell, and local artists Azadeh Ghafari, Gypsie Vasquez-Ayala (Arte Quetzal), Janna Marit, and Sonali Kolhatkar.
For more information, visit www.afghanwomensmission.org or call 626-676-7884.
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