Events
Connect with the CPALI team at an event near you
Upcoming
San Mateo CPALI Film Screening
CPALI WARP Panel
Continuing Textile Traditions and Creating Contemporary Materials: Madagascar Wild Silk and Raffia
2/26/2026
PrimeTime for Women Event
Building Bridges of hope with Silk
3/3/2026
Vanderbilt Lecture
Threads of Innovation: Novel Textiles & Regenerative Livelihoods in Madagascar
4/8/2026 - 4/9/2026
San Mateo, California
January 22, 2026
Wild Silk: Madagascar's Threads of Change connected new circles in California, shared CPALI's story, and showcased stunning wild silk and raffia from collaborating artisans and farmers.
Past
Stanford Sustainable Societies Lab
Textiles of Hope: Rainforest Silk and Raffia from Madagascar
San Francisco Zoo World Lemur Day
Stanford's Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab explored CPALI's model of nature-based social enterprise with Executive Director Rachel Kramer and viewed Wild Silk: Madagascar's Threads of Change, a collaborative film with emeritus Stanford biologist, Dr. Matthew Scott.
Stanford, California
October 7, 2025
In this talk, wildlife conservationist Rachel Kramer shared the twenty-year story of efforts to work with local farmers, artisans, and insect specialists in Madagascar to craft a new form of shimmering textile from previously unused cocoons of rainforest silk moths. And to leverage near-lost Betsimisaraka raffia weaving techniques in contemporary textiles that honor nature and local communities.
Los Angeles, California
May 10, 2025
CPALI and the San Francisco Zoo teamed up to share stories of locally led conservation efforts that work for people and nature in Madagascar, and showcase textiles made from endemic wild moths.
San Francisco, California 10/31/2025
Celebrate
World Lemur Day with us
31 October 2025
11am - 3pm Pacific
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
Lemur Boardwalk
Did you know? 98% of lemur species face some threat of extinction.
Join CPALI at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens on Friday, 31 October 2025, to learn about this unique group of primates that's endemic to Madagascar.
Connect with our team to hear about current conservation efforts that work for people and nature, and touch textiles made from wild silk by local artisans. CPALI will exhibit starting at 11am. A special Lemur Keeper talk will begin at 2pm on the Boardwalk. See you there!
