Renew - Fashion Revolution Week 2025
2025-04-23 - 2025-04-26 | The Storey Gallery, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1TH, United Kingdom
Storey Gallery and Music Room
Join us for 3 days of activities, workshops, speakers, and exhibits to explore how the wear and care of our clothes is entangled with the socio-environmental crisis. Let’s nourish healthy relationships with the clothes in our closet and the environments beyond.
All events are donation based/free.
Our event coincides with Fashion Revolution week 2025.
Fashion Revolution was founded by Carrie Somers and Orlando Castro in the wake of the Rana Plaza (Bangladesh), disaster in 2013.
We have multiple events scheduled over the 3 days – please book a ticket where you see a link, as spaces are limited.

Opening Night (booking required)
RenewOpeningNight.eventbrite.co.uk
6 – 8.45pm | Clothes Swap (more info below)
7pm | Open Weave
Rhythms of the loom, poetry and voices from the past, present and future – raising our voices for those who make our clothes.
Talk – Janet Swan, Composer & Environmental Artist.
Followed by recorded performance of Soundscape composed by Janet Swan and Scott Robinson, Digital Composer.
Refreshments

2 – 8.45pm | Clothes Swap (more info below)
2-3.30pm | Mending session
– Bring your mending and join us for a discussion about Sewing Cafe Lancaster’s activities and ways to get involved in a variety of projects and regularly running sessions in Lancaster.
3.45- 5.15 | Daniella Southin Workshop
Leaf Stitching – Make a leaf and add to our commemorative exhibition.
5.30 – 5.40 | Nan Sewing, stitched film
Amy Dickson and Sewing Café Lancaster, 2024,
6 min, video and 16mm.
5.45 – 6.45 | Panel – My Clothing Journey
Representatives from the Sewing Cafe Lancaster Community.
7 – 8pm | Kate Fletcher – Talk
Fashion, Sustainability and Other Animals: thinking and doing through clothing.
(Booking required)
talkkatefletcher.eventbrite.co.uk
8.15 – 8.45pm | Alternative Runway
Upcyclers and second hand fashion.

11am to 1pm | Clothes Swap (more info below)
*Please note, this year we will only accept clothing on Thursday and Friday. Saturday will be take away only.

11 – 11.30pm | Talk – Laura Stanbridge
(Manager of St John’s Hospice Retail)
-The Roll of Charity Shops in the Supply Chain.
11.30 – 12.30 | Dr Beccy Whittle – Talk
on RefuseLab Clothing Library Research Findings.
1 – 2pm | Deborah Barker – South East England Fibershed
Talk – Fashion and Farming.
(Booking required)
TalkDeborahBarker.eventbrite.co.uk
2pm – 4pm | Workshop with LUSU Green.
Join us for Patch Up for Change, a creative and empowering event where you can design and make your own patches to express your activism and support for various causes.
4pm – close

Displayed and continuing throughout the event.

Craft of Use : Loving Care
Food Futures and Sewing Cafe Lancaster – Display of photos from ‘Bury your Pants’ trial
Creative Waste – Rainbow of Umbrella bags by Candy Galarza
Weaving Stories Videos
Active Stitching throughout event
Clothes Swap for a Story & Mending Surgery
You’ve heard “I got it for a song” how about “I got it for a story”. At our annual clothing swap, trade your unused-but- well-cared-for garments for a story. The price – 1 story per garment is required, we will compile them with the stories collected last year. We’ll also have materials on hand and volunteers to provide guidance on how to restyle, alter or mend items you take home.
*Please note this year we will only accept clothing on Thursday and Friday, Saturday will be take away only.

Get in touch at sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com
Accessibility | The Gallery and Music Room are located on the first floor of the Storey Building. There is a lift on the ground floor near the front desk.
