Author: brightonrepaircafe

17 October, 2013

Our new home…

Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Things

is at the all new Seven Bees Café in St George’s Church, St George’s Road, Kemp Town, Brighton BN2 1ED. Where we aim to hold a repair cafe on the last Saturday of every month (except December). At our first event there we had a few new people join us to darn… sew and staple! Isaac… → read on

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2 October, 2013

This Saturday…

Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, Sewing

We will be holding a Repair Cafe as part of Magpie’s Eco-Festival at Shabitat on the Lewes Road in Brighton… What fun! Bring clothes & textiles, jewellery and electrical goods that need fixing and learn how to repair them yourself with the help of our volunteers, share your skills or use… → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
25 September, 2013

This Saturday…

Publicity

The venus for this Saturday’s Repair Cafe is the new community café in the Crypt of St George’s Church in Kemp Town… The Seven Bees Café. Please feel free to share/print & hang this poster to help us let more people know about the repair café → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
21 September, 2013

We are back

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social

… and we are raring to get repairing! If like me you have dysfunctional electrical goods you’ve set aside (I seem to have many broken lamps) and a pile of clothes waiting to be repaired bring them along on Saturday 28th September from 11am-3pm. We will be holding the next repair café at the brand spankingly… → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
20 August, 2013

Summer break

Publicity

We are on a summer break until late September when we will hold our next repair cafe at a new venue… Join our mailing list to recieve updates of future events by entering your email address on the right hand side of the screen or watch this space for details. → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
20 August, 2013

Super repairing…

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Things

at Super + Super! Mattia helps our youngest repairer to fix his headphones… Susanne fixes her games console… Qingyun turns a broken umbrella into a poncho! → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
2 July, 2013

Super fun fixing at Super + Super

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Things

A great evening was spent at Super + Super fixing electrical goods, necklaces, sunglasses, gloves & elbows on a cardigan as well as adapting trousers and lightbulbs to make them more useable. We can’t wait for the next session at Super + Super on Friday 12th July from 6.30-8.30pm. There will be opportunities to mend… → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
14 June, 2013

Friday night fixing!

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

Tonight we will be holding a repair café at the fabulous Super + Super – A creative hub in the centre of Brighton which shares our mission to learn and share creatively. Come along from 6.30-9pm. Bring clothes, textiles, jewellery, ceramics & electrical goods to repair with help from our volunteers and other repairers. Feel welcome to… → read on

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brightonrepaircafe
11 June, 2013

Stories from the Street (Mendathon)

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

We were really fortunate to have a gloriously sunny day when we took our tables, chairs and tools out into the streets of Hanover for the Street Mendathon. The First thing to be repaired (or at least assessed for which parts were missing) was my old Singer sewing machine. As Tom worked out how it… → read on

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19 May, 2013

Street Mendathon

Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles

Think street party but everyone is repairing something! We are taking our next Repair Café out into the streets of Hanover (Brighton) on the 2nd June from 1-5pm. We’re encouraging Hanover residents to take their tables & chairs outside their houses and to do those repair jobs that have been put off for another time.… → read on

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Author: brightonrepaircafe

Our new home…

This Saturday…

This Saturday…

We are back

Summer break

Super repairing…

Super fun fixing at Super + Super

Friday night fixing!

Stories from the Street (Mendathon)

Street Mendathon