World Peaces Zine July 2021

d l r o W s e c a e P e n Zi Featuring:

Creating Peace Together by Connie DeJong

The Clintonville Jamboree Continues!

New Workshops!

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Creating Peace Together by Connie De Jong Workshop Survey The Team Clintonville Jamboree Haven Herbs Global Gallery Coffee Shop Global Gifts The Just Craft Shop Ellery New Workshops!

covid info

All artists and collaboraters that are a part of this Zine have Covid precautions in place. We are doing our best to ensure the safety of our staff and customers with the following protocols at World Peaces: -Masks are required for non-vaccinated folks.

-We are cleaning and disinfecting all high touch surfaces regularly.

-We have hand sanitizer available.

-Customers limited to 9 at a time.

-Purchases can be picked up, we can bring out to your car, or we can deliver. We also welcome requests for personal shopping times outside of regular hours.

-We are staying up to date with the latest protocols and will respond to feedback or requests.

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Creating Peace Together

by Connie De Jong, PhD

World Peaces opened a storefront in late October of 2020 based on the hope and belief that people would need to reconnect once it became safe to do so, and we wanted to be ready to provide one of the spaces to host those connections. Handcrafting workshops are one of the central ways we are creating space for connecting with each other. I want to tell you a little more about why World Peaces offers workshops and how to be a part of how they evolve in our physical space as well as online.

Handcrafting is a central aspect of Fair Trade. We believe there is so much value in working with our hands. We can connect with the materials- typically recycled or natural materials, through handcrafting.

We can connect with our families, neighbors, strangers and friends through handcrafting.

We can connect with the wider global community through handcrafting and trading handcrafts. This is simple, age-old, powerful and transformative work.

The pandemic has taken a toll on our minds and our connections with each other.

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us to gently reconnect with one another. We can chat and listen to one another, work in proximity, and create a work that emerges from our stories.

We have begun a materials section in the store and online for those handcrafters who want to be free to create their own ideas. We also completed our first in-store workshop painting birdhouses. And we are more than half way through a workshop series created for the high school students at the254.org youth center in Gahanna. We are also developing paths to reach out to our immigrant and refugee communities to participate with us. As we grow our handcrafting workshop options, we would love to hear from you about the best times for you to attend and the most exciting work you would like to create. We have a short survey to help us learn from you – please consider taking a moment to complete it for us.

We want to thank you for coming to the store, for connecting with us in whatever way is most comfortable for you, and for what you have to offer our community and the world. We are all World Peaces, thanks to you.

Interested in getting involved with workshops? We want to offer as many as possible in all of the styles and crafts that interest you!

Take a few minutes to take our survey and let us know what kind of workshops you would be interested in attending!

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Use the QR Code or go here to fill out the survey: tinyurl.com/WSSurvey2021

Connie De Jong

World Peaces Owner

Connie De Jong founded World Peaces out of a desire to expand her impact through Fair Trade. She will be our instructor when it comes to all things Fair Trade in our upcoming workshops.

Cortney COTTS

Operations Manager, Maker

Cortney Cotts is a local artist with a degree in Ceramics and Printmaking. She is our workshop instructor who handles the creative side of things; making the actual craft.

Ryan Hudson

Artist

G. Ryan Hudson is a self-taught artist residing in Columbus, Ohio. His media of choice are acrylics and spray paint. He has offered a workshop in his painting style. Come see his work on our walls for inspiration.

Jenn Jarvis

New Team Member

Jennifer Jarvis is a recent graduate from the Ohio State University with minors in Business and Design.

She will be out and about at our events so be sure to introduce yourself and tell her about your workshop ideas!

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clintonville jamboree

A fun neighborhood pop-up market! The Clintonville Jamboree welcomes the community to sip, stroll, and shop safely while enjoying camaraderie on summer afternoon. The weekly event will be held 11am2pm on July 10th and July 31st on High Street and Dunedin Rd. alongside partnering businesses Global Gallery Coffeeshop, World Peaces, and Wild Cat Gift and Party in conjunction with Bazaar Ritual. The weekly outdoor pop-up market will feature music, food, and a mix of vendors selling local art, handmade and fair trade goods, vintage treasures, plants, and prepared foods.

Interested in becoming a vendor? Applications for July 31st: tinyurl.com/CVJamboreeJuly Interested in performing during the event? Email us at clintonvillejamboree@gmail.com

Haven Herbs Haven Herbs is your one-stop, small-batch worker-owned apothecary for ALL of your family’s health needs. We are based in central Ohio and are built around a commitment to each other, our community, and the planet.

Currently, we are working on continuing and implementing the following mutual aid strategies: Page 5

Haven Herbs is your one-stop, small-batch worker-owned apothecary for ALL of your family’s health needs. We are based in central Ohio and are built around a commitment to each other, our community, and the planet.

Currently, we are working on continuing and implementing the following mutual aid strategies: 1. All proceeds from Justice 4 All, our tincture to help restore body, mind, and spirit (formulated for burnt out activists in the first place!), goes to two organizations fighting police violence against BIPOC. 2. We are in the process of building a shiny new website of our own, and when it is done, there will be a “Round Up for Reparations” function. Each quarter, we will be supporting a different BIPOC organization.

3. We want to help train more street medics. We are currently looking for willing and qualified trainers currently and then we will make the announcement once we get the location, trainer, and date nailed down.

4. Your purchases fund our community-driven efforts including monthly free wellness workshops for the Cancer Support Community.

When you buy our products at Haven Herbs, you are doing more than supporting a small business. You are helping us create a healthy, connected community.

Check us out at havenherbs.com to read more!

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Global Gallery Coffee Shop Global Gallery Summer Concert Series

Join Global Gallery Friday and Saturday nights in July and August for our summer concert series. All performances will be on the patio, featuring our outdoor wine bar and firepit. We’ll kick off our live music series 4th of July weekend with Trying, a local indiepop group featuring creative instrumentation such as glockenspiel and clarinet on Friday July 2nd. Indie-folk singersongwriter June Hambach will join us on Saturday July 3rd. Outdoor bar hours start at 4:00pm, and music starts at 7:00pm. We hope you’ll join us for some local music, craft beer, and a fun community environment!

Global Gifts Why Choose Fair & Ethical Fashion?

By Olivia McDermott-Sipe, Global Gifts Sales Associate Over 8 years ago in Bangladesh, an eightstory factory building known as Rana Plaza collapsed causing the entirely avoidable deaths of over 1,000 workers. This should have been a wake-up call, but still today, far too many people all over the world are working in conditions Page 7

that compromise personal safety and autonomy.

Fast fashion has become increasingly popular because it is trendy and cheap, but the true cost of these garments could not be higher. The fashion industry as a whole contributes to 10% of total annual carbon emissions, and that figure does not include fiber waste, which is typically incinerated or sent to landfills. Human lives and unsustainable practices simply cannot be acceptable trade-offs for t-shirts and lounge pants.

We invite you to research brands before you buy to ensure that your money is not fueling the fast and disposable model of the fashion industry. Choosing to buy verified Fair Trade garments contributes to improvements for workers around the world by ensuring just wages, worker integrity, and environmentally conscious practices. And YOU benefit by adding to your wardrobe high quality, skillfully made, and truly unique pieces that you’ll truly enjoy wearing!

Check out the ethical wear on our website here: globalgiftsft.com/shop/clothing/ and be sure to watch for the arrival of fall and winter wear (including woolens) starting in September!

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the just craft

The Just Craft, a podcast for ethically-minded makers, was founded in 2019 by Alissa Head with a mission to open conversation around craft sourcing. Focusing on the handmade movement and where it intersects with climate and social justice issues, each episode touches on ethical sourcing, environmental sustainability, and fair trade.

Season 3, Episode 2: Alissa visits Charis Walker, Shepherdess at Tarheelbilly Farm in Southern Ohio, with a goal to meeting the sheep that made the wool for one of her favorite garments she knit. In part one, learn the history of Tarheelbilly Farm, and how Charis and her husband Ben manage their farm and flock holistically, and how this approach results in happier animals, healthier food, and fine fleeces.

In part 2, Charis talks about crafting with her Tunis wool, and shares her perspective as a woman of color on racism and the anti-racism movement in the knitting and fiber arts community. Finally, listen in, as Charis introduces Alissa to the gorgeous fleeces of sheep Clancy, Hollis, and Julie. Learn more about Tarheelbilly Farm at tarheelbillyfarm.com, and follow on Instagram @tarheelbillyfarmer.

The Just Craft is available on Stitcher, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and thejustcraft.com.

Follow on Instagram @thejustcraft and Twitter @justcraftcast.

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Shop Ellery

The greatest thing about small businesses is the communities that form around them.

Community is vital to all of us and is a pillar in Ellery’s values. By supporting other women-run businesses we all have more opportunities to grow.

At a market earlier this year, I complimented a woman’s earrings. She said she had just bought them from another vendor and couldn’t wait to put them on (I LOVE when you all do this).

She went on to get popsicles with her friends and when she left another woman at my booth said, “you should have told her one of your pair of earrings were prettier, you missed out on a sale” To be honest this comment threw me, it is so RARE to hear things like that in the small business space I have found myself in.

I haven’t stopped thinking about this comment and I felt that I needed to share this experience. The other vendor’s sale was not my loss, this woman made a purchase that she LOVED, she lit up when I complimented the earrings. I don’t believe in pushing sales because I don’t see my customers as just consumers. I see you as friends, as community members.

Without all of you, Ellery would not be here, community and cherishing what you buy, and sell are what makes small businesses so incredible, and I just love this little community so much. Thank you for being here. We are more than consumers, we are a community.

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Jewelry Making Workshop Join us as we create beautiful jewelry from recycled glass, textile, and brass beads all from Ghana. $25 includes the materials to make one necklace or a bracelet and 1 pair of earrings.

July 15th from 4 pm - 5 pm for Happy Hour (Buy your preferred beverage at Global Gallery Coffee Shop) Email us at info@worldpeaces.com if the date you want is full or if you would be interested in having it at a different date/time. To sign up, simply purchase the workshop here: tinyurl.com/JewelryWS Interested in other workshops? Take our survey to tell us what kinds! tinyurl.com/WSSurvey2021

15 W. Dunedin Rd. Columbus, OH 43214 worldpeaces.com info@worldpeaces.com Page 11

July, 2021