Category: Learning
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Our Mendathon at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Clothing, Darning, electrical, festival, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe were really chuffed to have Dave and Faraz from the Restart Project join us for the mendathon to help with electronic repairs – but they soon turned their hands to help with a range of other repairs too. Dave got started by fixing a hedge trimmer. The head of one of the screws was stripped so it… → read on
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Next Saturday 11th October
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe will be back at St George’s Church in Kemp Town for a repair café at our usual time of 11am-2pm. Bring along your broken electrical goods, jewellery and bric-a-brac as well as any clothing or textiles that need mending. We will also have Tom our expert darner on hand to show you how to… → read on
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July’s repair café
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesOur July repair café seems so long ago now as we had a break in August. We are now looking forward to our next event as we are holding a MENDATHON in collaboration with The Restart Project (who fix electronic items – from iphones to laptops) this Saturday (6th September) at the Brighton Mini Maker… → read on
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New volunteers join us at the June Repair Café…
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesAli A.K.A ‘The Chair Doctor’ went to work on two loved but rickety old chairs. He secured the top rail of a chair by reinforcing the outside spindles, gluing and pining it back in to place.Another chair which had somehow had its arm wrenched off, needed the gnarly pins and screws embedded in the wood… → read on
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February’s Repair Café
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Thingsbrought some new faces who were shown how to darn and patch to make links in order to fix jewellery We had a visit from a lady who is knitting a map of Brighton & Dan fashioned a nifty bike basket rack out of coat hangers! → read on
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What a lovely evening!!!
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesMore 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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All the fun at the Bridge Circus
Clothing, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Textiles, ThingsWe were delighted to be invited to be part of Brighton Universities Bridge Circus in December. The event launched The True Value of Materials exhibition in the Grand Parade Gallery and brought together some amazing designers, innovators, businesses and academics. We held a two day repair cafe in the university and enlisted a group of furniture, product… → read on
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Bike Tastic!
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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Roll Up for the Bridge Circus
Clothing, Community, Darning, festival, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Research, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsThis 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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Our new home…
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Thingsis 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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