Category: Community

March 13, 2014

What a lovely evening!!!

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles

More photos to follow! Thanks to everyone who gave their time and effort to make it happen. We’re now busy getting ready for this Saturday’s repair cafe at St George’s Church from 11am-2pm. We’ll have volunteers and tools on hand to help repairs of bikes, electrical goods, clothing, textiles and anything that needs darning. So… → read on

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January 20, 2014

Bike Tastic!

Clothing, Community, electrical, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social

Thanks to our lovely new volunteers Dan and Roberto we were able to offer bike repairs at the November repair café. Several bikes were adjusted, tyres fixed, baskets and lights attached and diagnosis for further repair was conducted. Dan demonstrated his versatility by getting stuck in with other repairs… fixing among other things this old… → read on

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January 2, 2014

Happy New Year!

Clothing, Community, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Textiles

The Brighton Repair Café gang would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! If you are busy making resolutions for the year ahead why not make one of them a promise to yourself that you will repair one of your possessions rather than throw it away… Come and escape the January blues and… → read on

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December 5, 2013

Roll Up for the Bridge Circus

Clothing, Community, Darning, festival, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Research, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

This Monday & Tuesday we will be holding a mendathon a Brighton University as part of the Bridge Circus Symposium to see how many things we can fix in two days, whilst challenging people to actively occupy their objects rather than passively consume and dispose of them. Volunteers will be on hand with a range of skills… → read on

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November 9, 2013

Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival

Community, electrical, festival, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

We were invited to hold an outdoor repair café at Magpie’s Eco Festival. The event was held at Magpie’s fantastic Shabitat warehouse where they sell second hand goods from clothes to furniture. Set in Saunders Park, the festival was a fun mix of great local music, food, drink and eco-projects and craftspeople. We held our café… → read on

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October 17, 2013

Our next event…

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Please share online or download, print and display if you would like to help spread the word. Thanks! → read on

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October 2, 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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September 21, 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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August 20, 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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July 2, 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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Category: Community

What a lovely evening!!!

Bike Tastic!

Happy New Year!

Roll Up for the Bridge Circus

Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival

Our next event…

This Saturday…

We are back

Super repairing…

Super fun fixing at Super + Super