A Youth Week Circular Swap Collaboration

🗓 Thursday 16 April 2026
🕛 12:00pm – 4:00pm (arrive anytime before 3:30pm)
📍 Western Sydney University – Parramatta South Campus (Rydalmere)
📍 Building EEA / Janice Reid Pavilion
🎟 Free – registration essential

About the event

Join Festival of Action (Western Sydney University) and City of Parramatta Council for a vibrant, inclusive Clothes and Resources Swap celebrating young people, circular fashion, climate action and community connection during NSW Youth Week.

Held at WSU Parramatta South Campus in Rydalmere, the event is easily accessible via the Parramatta Light Rail, making it convenient for students, staff, alumni, and our wider local communities.

Our event is more than a swap. It is a shared response to the climate crisis, rising living costs, and fast‑fashion culture. Together, we are creating space for generosity, care, creativity, and collective action.

Australia is one of the world’s highest consumers of clothing per person, contributing to around 300,000 tonnes of textile waste each year. Clothes swapping is a powerful circular economy solution, keeping quality items in use and out of landfill, while making fashion more accessible for everyone.

Who can attend?

Everyone is welcome. Students, staff, alumni, young people, and local community members are invited to take part. Come as you are. Bring what you can. Leave with something useful, joyful, or both.

What to bring

Clothes, books, homewares, plants, and study resources
Items must be clean, in great condition, and gift‑worthy
Bring up to 10 items
Can’t bring anything? Still come along — there will be plenty to swap

What’s happening on the day

🛍 Swap Zone – clothes, books, plants, household & study items
🧶 Indigenous wellbeing weaving workshop

❤️African head wrap workshop

🪡Mending by hand/patch making workshop
🥗 Free plant‑based lunch

🎨Junk journalling with the Library
👚 Discussions on fashion, sustainable laundering, climate justice & care
💬 Space to connect, reflect, and imagine alternatives together

Event program

12:00pm - Doors open
Welcome to Country — Heidi Duncan, Barramadagal woman
Swap begins, activations ongoing
12:30pm- Free plant-based lunch served
1:00pm Welcome to the swap - Jenna Condie
1:05pm Poetry (30 mins) — MC: Noor Alameddine
1:30pm Sew a Patch mending workshop (Session 1 — 1 hour) - book here
3:00pm Sew a Patch mending workshop (Session 2 — 1 hour) - book here
3.30pm - Swap winds down
4.00pm - Event ends

How the swap works

Check in anytime between 12:00pm and 3:30pm
Start swapping immediately, no waiting required
Items available depend on what the community brings
Sizes and brands vary, the joy is in the surprise

This swap celebrates all sizes, genders, and styles, with accessories available to ensure everyone can participate.

Have questions or queries? Please feel free to contact Jenna Condie (Event Lead) on j.condie@westernsydney.edu.au

Partners & acknowledgements

This event is organised collaboratively by the Festival of Action at Western Sydney University and City of Parramatta Council, in partnership with Sydney Clothing Exchange, WSU Library, Environment Collective, Inclusive Communities, and Young and Resilient Research Centre

We acknowledge this event takes place on the unceded lands of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation. We acknowledge that this always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Contact the host of Clothes and Resources Swap @ WSU (Parramatta South Campus)