Ethical gemstone fair • 10am - 5pm, Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th September 2023, FORGE in London

Join ethical gemstone suppliers Nineteen48, Fair Trade Gemstones and Gemstones Brazil for an opportunity to shop their collections of traceable and fair-traded sapphire, ruby, emerald, diamond, quartz, tourmaline, garnet, spinel and aquamarine - all from traceable sources including Brazil, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Tanzania and the USA. There will also be some Australian sapphire, opal and chrysoprase from Capricorn Gems available to peruse and purchase.

Every gemstone on sale will have complete assurance of mining and production, and the suppliers can provide comprehensive details of each gemstone’s source.

Ahead of the event, attendants are encouraged to review the gemstones listed on Nineteen48, Fair Trade Gemstones and Gemstones Brazil’s websites and let them know directly if there is anything in particular that you would like to see on the day, enabling them the opportunity to prepare.

The fair is free to attend, but you must please email to register your place in advance so Stuart (stuart@nineteen48.com), Kathy (kathy@fairtrade-gemstone.com) and Maira (maira@gemstonesbrazil.com) know you’re coming.

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Nineteen48 offers responsibly mined and fully traceable coloured gemstones from a number of carefully selected sources around the world, primarily Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Their aim is to provide a competitive and affordable product to our customers, as well as a fair return to their partners. When you buy your gems from Nineteen48, you can rest easy in the knowledge that your jewellery will be made with a stone that conforms to their principles of full disclosure and fair trade. You will also be supporting a commercial enterprise with a strong social conscience that contributes actively to charitable and community projects in the countries in which they operate.

Fair Trade Gemstones is a family business founded by David Hargreaves, a mining engineer who has spent more than 25 years developing and consulting to the gemstone industry. He has developed gemstone mines in Africa which are prototypes and early examples of fair trade practice. Fair Trade Gemstones can offer services which meet the needs of a changing market, recognising origin as a factor equal in importance to quality.

Gemstones Brazil is an international wholesaler of fine gemstones, many of which are produced in the business’s own mine, which is operated as ecologically as possible. Business Founder Maira and her family have been involved in the mining and production of minerals and gemstones for decades in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, one of the most mineral-rich areas of the world. Gemstones Brazil strives to produce the finest quality of beautiful gemstones with minimum disruption to our environment and the prioritisation of staff health and safety.

Ethical gemstone fair • 10am - 4pm, Monday 18th September 2023, St. Augustine’s Arts & Events Centre in Brighton

Join ethical gemstone suppliers Nineteen48 and Gemstones Brazil for an opportunity to shop their collections of traceable and fair-traded sapphire, ruby, emerald, diamond, quartz, tourmaline, garnet, spinel and aquamarine - all from traceable sources including Brazil, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Tanzania and the USA. There will also be some Australian sapphire, opal and chrysoprase from Capricorn Gems available to peruse and purchase.

Every gemstone on sale will have complete assurance of mining and production, and the suppliers can provide comprehensive details of each gemstone’s source.

Ahead of the event, attendants are encouraged to review the gemstones listed on Nineteen48 and Gemstones Brazil’s websites and let them know directly if there is anything in particular that you would like to see on the day, enabling them the opportunity to prepare.

The fair is free to attend, but you must please email to register your place in advance so Stuart (stuart@nineteen48.com) and Maira (maira@gemstonesbrazil.com) know you’re coming.

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Nineteen48 offers responsibly mined and fully traceable coloured gemstones from a number of carefully selected sources around the world, primarily Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Their aim is to provide a competitive and affordable product to our customers, as well as a fair return to their partners. When you buy your gems from Nineteen48, you can rest easy in the knowledge that your jewellery will be made with a stone that conforms to their principles of full disclosure and fair trade. You will also be supporting a commercial enterprise with a strong social conscience that contributes actively to charitable and community projects in the countries in which they operate.

Gemstones Brazil is an international wholesaler of fine gemstones, many of which are produced in the business’s own mine, which is operated as ecologically as possible. Business Founder Maira and her family have been involved in the mining and production of minerals and gemstones for decades in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, one of the most mineral-rich areas of the world. Gemstones Brazil strives to produce the finest quality of beautiful gemstones with minimum disruption to our environment and the prioritisation of staff health and safety.

Trade event and awards ceremony • Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023, Hilton London Metropole

The 2023 UK Jewellery Festival and UK Jewellery Awards will bring the UK jewellery and watch industries together for two days of buying, networking opportunities, learning and celebration.

The UK Jewellery Festival provides a unique face-to-face buying opportunity at a pivotal time of the year, ahead of retail’s busy golden quarter, allowing those in the business of retailing jewellery and watches to place Christmas orders. The event will take place across two days, with business-boosting content sessions running alongside the trade show, allowing visitors to maximise the time out of their businesses. A full and interesting programme includes The Great Sustainability Debate, a panel discussion exploring how both retailers and suppliers can actively engage with material provenance and communicate that to the end consumer - including our very own Fair Luxury team member, Stuart Pool.

The UK’s longest running jewellery and watch trade awards, The UK Jewellery Awards, will take place on the closing night of the event and see over 600 of the industry’s key players come together for an evening of networking and celebration.

The festival is a free-to-attend event for anyone with jewellery and watch purchasing needs. Complimentary catering is on offer at the show, as are a variety of thought-provoking seminar sessions.

Unique event • 4pm-9pm, Thursday 14th September 2023, Hatton Garden location to be confirmed

The Hatton Garden Social, organised by jeweller Kassandra Gordon, has developed into a community-driven members’ association, The Jewellery Collective, that will be hosting its first event this September. The forum will offer a range of business-boosting panel discussions, keynote talks, group mentoring drop-in sessions with jewellery experts, professional networking and a showcase of services and products.

First panel discussion: Best practice in increasing jewellery sales
Kate Baxter (The Cut London)
Gemma Ford, Head of Brand & Marketing (Maya Magal)
Susannah King, Jeweller with 160k+ followers on TikTok (Susannah King London)
Giselle Elsom, Client Services Director (Truffle Social Media Agency)
Rebecca Maddock, Jewellery Designer, Maker & Content Marketer
Nerissa Pratt, Founder (Untld Project)

Second panel discussion: Best practice in jewellery production
Bettina Boerner, Head of Production (De Beers)
Peter Taylor, Director (Goldsmiths’ Centre) Elsa Tierney, Jeweller and Wax Carving Specialist
Gary Williams, Pressman (Mastermelt’s Reclamation & Recycling division)
Norman Belgherbi-Martus, CAD and Casting Specialist (Ino Creative)

Talks will also be offered by the National Association of Jewellers, London Diamond Bourse, Silversmiths & Jewellers’ Charity and Hatton Garden BID.

Webinar • 10pm, Thursday 14th September 2023

International State of Practice is a webinar series created by Ethical Metalsmiths, addressing the urgency of sustainability in the field of Jewelry and Metalsmithing, focusing on issues uniquely relevant to students, educators, and new professionals globally.

Conference • Wednesday 20th - Thursday 21st September 2023, ExCel London

The Jewellery Show is the UK’s premier jewellery trade event of the year; a vital opportunity to refresh your knowledge, gain insight into the latest trends, source new collections and materials to stock in your stores, learn how to improve your business and network with thousands of other jewellery professionals.

A bursting and varied programme of talks includes Traceability Tools with Vivien Johnston Glass (Founder, Johnston Resources), Klemens Link (Director, Provenance Proof) and Catherine Alexander (Business Development, The Watch Register); Greenwashing and New Legislation with Vivien Johnston Glass, Amy Nelson-Bennett (CEO, Positive Luxury) and Marianne Blamire (Executive Strategy Director, mullenlowe); and Sustainability & Traditional Sapphire Mining Partnerships with our very own Fair Luxury member Stuart Pool (Director, Nineteen48), Vivien Johnston Glass and Dr. Peter Janowski (Co-Founder, CEYLONS | MUNICH).

Registration is free and there is something for the whole team at the show. Be sure to tell your colleagues and network that you've secured your free place, as tickets are subject to availability.

Online get-together • 12pm ET/9am PT, Friday 15th September 2023

Living Room Sessions are the jewelry industry’s virtual hang-out for community and conversation on responsible sourcing and sustainability. A beloved meeting, held bi-monthly, with friends and peers of the jewelry industry. A safe space to talk and reflect on the issues around sustainable and responsible jewelry practices.

Sessions are every other month, on the months' third Friday, at 12pm ET. They last one hour with lively discussion, time for questions and answers, a busy chat feed and plenty of camaraderie!

More info on September’s session is soon to come.

Online exhibition of student work • 2023

The Ethical Metalsmiths Students Committee is thrilled to announce that the So Fresh + So Clean 2023 Exhibition is now LIVE! Join them in congratulating an incredible group of international student artists.

The Ethical Metalsmiths Student Community celebrates student work whilst challenging and educating student members to consider the future of the jewelry and metalsmithing field. Each year, the SF+SC Jury examines what it means to be an artist in the 21st century by curating the most innovative work happening now. This edition of SF+SC has been particularly exciting to organize and facilitate as it has been two years since the last exhibition. EM has been eager to see what is going on in the field at this moment in history!

Conference • 11th - 12th August 2023 • Donald E. Stephens Center, Illinois, USA • (Responsible Gem Boutique: 13th August 2023)

The Chicago Responsible Jewelry Conference, the place where the thinkers and doers in jewelry responsibility gather, will come together again this summer in Chicago, both in-person and virtually. With a mission to engage everyone in the jewelry industry, the annual conference brings together stakeholders at every level of the supply chain, from the mine to the store, to help create a more transparent supply chain.

Tickets are $350 and available for both in-person and virtual attendees, as the conference will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend personally.

This year’s conference will be co-located with the new INSTORE trade show for jewelry retailers and bench jewelers.

Conference • 17th - 19th July 2023, Bohemia National Hall, NYC

Join Initiatives in Art and Culture for a wide-ranging look at the industry employing jewelry as a lens. In addition to considering the centrality of jewelry to culture and as historical document, we will discuss precious substances and their use, a broadened definition of natural resources to include cultural traditions and skills, new technologies, comparative approaches to extraction (for example, artisanal vs. larger-scale mining), and what constitutes (and how to achieve) ethical sourcing and responsible practice.

Tickets from $109.05

Panel discussion • 6pm - 8pm, Monday 22nd May 2023, Education Space @ Cockpit, London

A panel discussion with jewellery designer Ute Decker and gemstone dealer - and Fair Luxury team member - Stuart Pool.

Join ethical making champions Ute Decker and Stuart Pool for an evening of inspiration and advice. We will look at hot topics in the jewellery industry including the supply chains of gemstones and precious metals, as well as current trends such as recycled metals and their merits. Come and consider how your jewellery practice can evolve and how your choices can cumulatively have a big impact environmentally and socially. There will be a chance to ask questions and join the conversation about ethical approaches to gemstones, precious metals, mining and jewellery making.

Organised by the K2 Academy of Contemporary Jewellery.

Tickets are £8

Online seminar • 12pm ET/9am PT, Friday May 19th 2023

Decide for yourself, is B-Corp certification right for you? We know that the work to improve your jewelry company’s business, sourcing, and production practices is not easy and we’ve had numerous conversations with jewelers in the past about how to best convey those efforts to consumers. With the complexity of jewelry industry issues in mind, is it even possible to easily and quickly convey the extent of your efforts to your clientele?

For this month’s Living Room, we’re bringing you insight into the B-Corp Certification from the nonprofit, B-Labs so that you can decide for yourself if it may be a good tool to add to your communications tool kit.

Unique day event • Saturday 25th March 2023, Marchmont House, Greenlaw, Scotland

Join The Scottish Goldsmiths’ Trust in partnership with Marchmont Creative Spaces as we launch a new home for silversmithing in the Scottish Borders: The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop.

To celebrate the opening of the Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop, The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust has created a day programme for everyone from curators to collectors, and industry experts to those passionate about traditional craft. The day will include the formal opening of the workshop, talks, panel discussion and silversmithing demonstrations. Speakers will include Lisa Koenigsberg, President of Initiatives in Art and Culture based in New York City. The day will offer opportunity for networking and discussion, with time to enjoy meeting and talking with fellow attendees.

Day Tickets (£90.00 per person) include lunch, formal opening of the workshop, talks, panel discussion and demonstrations.

Online seminar • 12pm ET/9am PT, Friday 20th January

One of the jewelry industry’s definitions of recycled precious metals is being rewritten in 2023 and we’re concerned. You might be too.

Pasting Living Rooms have engaged in the conversation around recycled gold, but with this new opportunity to influence an actual definition that companies get certified as following, the first Living Room of 2023 returns to the topic.

Some industry standards already stretch recycled definitions by including newly mined gold that has been refined once and is now in the form of bullion as qualifying source material for meeting recycled standards. Now, the proposed definition includes newly mined material outright.

Not condoned in any standard, but a risk, is the inclusion of illicit gold laundered by recycling. Clearly, we need a better definition and we need better practices.

10am to 5pm, Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th January

Nineteen48, Fair Trade Gemstones and Gemstones Brazil will host their first ethical gem fair of 2023 at FORGE, the brand-new creative hub and retail space in Hatton Garden, London.

The event will run from 10am to 5pm on both days.

It's free to attend, but please register in advance.

The venue address is:

FORGE, 59 Leather Lane, London, EC1N 7TJ