Hope couture: Dressing a bear an inspiring challenge for Toronto designed
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40714
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 May
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 May
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 8-9
- Notes
- Hope Bear is a teddy bear sent by the Anglican Foundation of Canada sent to anyone making a donation of $20 or more to Canada's Kids Helping Kids Fund. "Originally, Hope Bear came with just a bowtie. ... Two or three years ago, the Foundation started receiving requests for bears decked out in clerical garb, as gifts for the newly ordained. Foundation executive director Canon Judy Rois knew where to go" (p. 8-9). The clothing was eventually designed and sewn by Shafiq Beig, assistant production manager at Harcourts Ltd., a Toronto robe-making and tailoring company. "All together, Beig estimates he's made close to 250 Hope Bear surplices, 30 or 40 mitres, and 100 vests. He says he feels honoured and privileged to be contributing to the work of the Foundation, whose work he admires" (p. 9). "He also believes in the coexistence of religions -- he says he loves Christianity as much as his own religion, Islam -- and in the importance of love for people's common humanity" (p. 9).
- Subjects
- Hope Bear
- Anglican Foundation of Canada
- Marketing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Beig, Shafiq
- Harcourts Limited
- Rois, Judy
- Christianity and other religions - Islam - Canada
- Vestments - Anglican Church of Canada