With over 80 exhibitors and an attractive supporting program, the international fair trade fair offers an opportunity to visit Stuttgart
Stuttgart, April 21, 2022.
After a two-year break, Fair Trade is finally opening its doors again in Stuttgart today. Until April 24, 2022, you can try fairly traded coffee from Burundi, learn about sustainable fashion by upcycling old jeans, listen to a reading by Tete Loeper and help shape the country's development policy guidelines. Tickets and the attractive supporting program are available online.
At Fair Handel, over 80 exhibitors will show trends and innovations relating to fair trade and conscious consumption from the areas of development cooperation and global partnerships, sustainable finance and tourism as well as future fashion and future fashion made in Africa. There are numerous activities at the stands that invite you to take part or try them out. In the special area of Future Fashion you can give worn fashion a new shine in the upcycling workshop, get to know fashion designers in the Future Fashion Made In Africa Corner or have a cup of fairly traded partnership coffee at the Burundi Competence Center stand at the Burundi-Baden-Württemberg quiz enjoy. The Mindchangers offer opportunities for young people to participate in rethinking migration and climate change. An attractive cultural supporting program with readings, talks and more invites you to take part, watch and listen.
Whether it's the conscious consumption of products such as fair trade coffee and sustainable fashion or the exchange with people from all over the world: “Everyone can do something every day to make our world a little more fair. “Fair Trade shows small solutions for big changes in the spirit of global justice,” says Philipp Keil, Managing Director of the Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ). The international trade and consumer trade fair Fair Trade with a focus on fair trade and globally responsible action is a sales platform and at the same time an information and contact exchange for the industry, for the media, for decision-makers and consumers. The SEZ organizes Fair Trade as a professional and intellectual sponsor together with Messe Stuttgart as part of the Stuttgart spring fairs.
Date and tickets
- Fair Trade Fair from April 21st to 24th, 2022 at the Stuttgart Trade Fair
- Opening times for visitors: Thursday: 14:00 p.m. - 22:00 p.m
Friday to Sunday: 9:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m
- Tickets and complete program: https://www.messe-stuttgart.de/fairhandeln/besucher/programm
- Accreditation at Messe Stuttgart: https://www.messe-stuttgart.de/journalisten/akkreditierung/
program Highlights
- April 21, 2022, 17:00 p.m.: Ceremonial opening with keynote by Dr. Joy Alemazung
- April 21, 2022, 19:45 p.m.: Future Fashion Movie Night with the film “Made in Bangladesh” at the Future Fashion Forum
- April 21: Bahaga concert at the booth of the Competence Center Burundi
- April 22, 2022, 11:00 p.m.: Book reading “Barefoot in Germany" with the author Tete Loeper
- April 22, 2022, 12:00 p.m.: Official awards ceremony for a Fairtrade school by Sandra Boser, State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg
- April 22, 2022, 15:30 p.m.: Meet the Designer by Future Fashion Made In Africa 23. April 2022, 15:00 p.m.: Book reading “Farman. When our roots catch up with us again” with the author Paruar Bako
- April 24, 2022: 13:00 p.m.: Family Day with Fair Fashion Show by the New York City Dance School
- 21st-24th April 2022: Be. (as opposed to Not Be) – Fashion installation by Burundian designer Pierre Hardy MWETE at the Future Fashion Made In Africa stand
Recommendations for committed people and development policy specialists
- April 21, 2022, 14:30 p.m.: World shop event “Climate justice needs fair trade”
- April 22, 2022, 13:30 p.m.: Project workshop “Old hands meet newcomers”
- April 22, 2022, 10:15 p.m.: Municipal specialist conference – Halftime SDGs – argue convincingly
- April 22, 2022, 14:00 p.m.: 40th SEZ Burundi Meeting on the topic “Climate Justice in Burundi & Baden-Württemberg: One topic, two perspectives”
- April 22, 2022, 15:00 p.m.: 30 years of Fairtrade Germany and how can young people get involved in fair trade?
- April 23, 2022, 10:00 p.m.: Development Policy State Conference x Mindchangers Summit
- April 23, 2022, 13:45 p.m.: eco and fair for future – where are we and where are we going. With Matthias Fiedler, Managing Director of the Fair Trade Forum and Nina Wolff, Board Member of Slowfood Germany.
Further information
https://www.messe-stuttgart.de/fairhandeln/
https://www.instagram.com/fairhandelnmesse/
