Category: Social
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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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We’re having a PARTY!!!
with live music from The Dobly Brothers (funked up covers), Homebrood (Irish folk) & Banned Sauce (funky, rockin’ blues). So put on your dancing shoes and join us to celebrate our 1st birthday. P.S. It’s a cash bar so make sure you bring plenty of pennies to keep the drinks a flowing & the dancing… → 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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Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival
Community, electrical, festival, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesWe 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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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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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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Super repairing…
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Thingsat 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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Super fun fixing at Super + Super
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, ThingsA 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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