Boston Fashion Week Presents GlamSlam

Join Boston Fashion Week for GlamSlam, a live storytelling event featuring local fashion professionals — models, curators, designers and more — sharing hilarious, poignant and sometimes glamorous moments in their careers.

From tales of fashion flops to chronicles of WERK-ing the runway, GlamSlam speakers have tugged at our heartstrings, made us laugh, inspired us and most importantly shown us how meaningful and rewarding the work fashion professionals do can be. You won’t want to miss this powerful evening of fashion stories.

Bethany Van Delft, the most glamorous, funny person in Boston, emcees the event.

Storytellers
Sam Donovan — fashion designer, educator, storyteller and former “Project Runway All Stars” contestant. Since “Project Runway,” Donovan has developed a number of fashion education programs: from the creating the Threads Youth Fashion program with Love Your Labels, to piloting the garment sewing division of Cotton Candy Fabrics, to launching Textiles and Fashion Design program at CATS Academy Boston. Sam believes that bringing sewing and garment-making back into the skillsets of more people will help to alleviate the current crisis that the overproduction of cheap clothes has on our climate, as well as help mitigate the adverse impacts on the people who make them. And, as always: remember to backstitch, dammit.

Nahdra Ra — fashion designer, plant-based chef, entrepreneur, teacher, guide of metaphysics & spirituality, social activist, wellness practitioner and humanitarian. Ra is an award-winning international fashion designer and has had the pleasure of dressing many artists, as well as costume designing for films and carnival events. She is also the founder of African Fashion Week Boston — a three-day celebration of African diaspora fashion designers and culture with fashion shows, art galleries, cultural performances, panel discussions and an African marketplace. Ra is also the co-owner of Boston's first Black owned vegan restaurant, Oasis Vegan Veggie Parlor.

Cameron Russell — fashion super model born and raised in Cambridge. Russell has walked at fashion shows for Chanel, Versace, Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Victoria’s Secret, Diane von Furstenberg and Louis Vuitton. In 2012, she delivered a TED talk entitled "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model," which went on to become one of the most popular speeches ever given at a TED conference. She is the author of the memoir, “How To Make Yourself Agreeable to Everyone.”

theo tyson — curator. tyson invites conversations about the sociocultural implications of race, class, gender, identity and sexuality through a lens of fashion, art and culture. Her practice focuses on creating sartorial spaces of reclamation and authority to share the powerful stories of non-white, Black women and those on the LGBTQI+ spectrum, investigating power dynamics that touch on constructs from colorism to misogyny; then taking it a step further to misogynoir. Using the ‘universal’ language and power of fashion, she unravels threads that put forward opportunities for deeper connections to the intent, import and impact of clothing and dress as a means of empathy and empowerment.

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CitySpace Tickets
Premiere: $30.00 (includes reserved seating in the front of the theater)
General: $20.00
BU Faculty/Staff: $15.00 (must present a valid BU ID upon arrival)
Student: $10.00 (must present a valid student ID upon arrival)

Ways To Save
WBUR’s Legacy Circle, Murrow Society, Sustainers and Members save $5.00 on tickets to this event. To apply the discount to your ticket purchase online, you’ll need to enter a promo code. You can get your code by emailing membership@wbur.org.

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