The Nettle Dress Film Screening
March 27 @ 5:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Free
The Nettle Dress is a poetic 2023 documentary by Dylan Howitt that follows the seven-year activity of artist Allan Brown to glean, process, spin, weave, and sew a dress of local stinging nettles. We will be screening it as an opening to the Slow Fashion Show at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), opening at 7 pm the same night. The film will be hosted by Green College Leading Scholars Alex Tavasoli and Alexandra Peck, both members of UBC’s new Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre, Slow Fashion Research Cluster.
Following the film, there is a short five minute walk to MOA where visitors can explore the galleries, including their newest exhibition Nuxalk Nation in advance of the Slow Fashion Show. The fashion show is included in the ticketed admission to MOA. (Note: Indigenous visitors as well as UBC faculty, staff, and students always receive free admission at MOA.)
Organized by Green College Leading Scholar Germaine Koh (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory).