Category: Sustainability
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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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Our next event…
Clothing, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesWill be at Circus Street Community Spacewhich is at the Old Municipal Market on Circus Street (behind the Blind Tiger & next to the Wood Recycling Store) On Saturday 12th April 11.00-14.00 Bring your bikes, electricals, textiles and jewellery to repair with the help of our volunteers and tools. There isn’t a café in this space… → 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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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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Friday night fixing!
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsTonight 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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Stories from the Street (Mendathon)
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe 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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Street Mendathon
Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesThink 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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High Voltage
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesWe were so pleased to have a new volunteer on board for the last repair café… Mattia who has just arrived from Italy with lots of electrical repair skills and brought with him a great kit to help us repair our electrical goods. Mattia got to work straight away helping to fix my… → read on
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