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.

Leaves of Dhaka
2026-02-06 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Gregson Lancaster, 3 - 35 Moor Gate, Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 3PY, United Kingdom
Find us in Gregson’s Snug
Sew hand stitched fabric leaves and contribute to the ever enlarging commemorative exhibition for the thousands who died in the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse.

All About Pockets
2026-02-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Global Link, 29 Queen St,, Lancaster, LA1 1RX, United Kingdom
Pocket history, pocket instruction and pocket sewing. Make the most of your clothes!

Clothes Up-cycling/ Embellishing Workshop
2026-02-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Global Link, 29 Queen St,, Lancaster, LA1 1RX, United Kingdom
Preparation Workshop for our Alternative Runway
We are hosting a FREE workshop focussing on clothing up-cycling and embellishing for anyone who wants to take part in our Alternative Runway which will take place in Storey Gallery Saturday 25th April 2026.
All skill levels welcome. Technical support and materials/equipment available. Please book a ticket so we know you’re coming

Beer & Yarn
2026-03-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Stonewell Tap, 8-10 Church St, Lancaster, LA1 1NP, United Kingdom
Join us for a convivial meetup every 1st Tuesday of the month. Bring a personal project to work on and grab a drink at the bar to support the Stonewell Tap for hosting us.

Hand Stitched Historic Pockets
2026-03-05 11:00 - 15:00 | Judges Lodgings, Church Street, Lancaster, LA1 1YS
A work day in the original top floor sewing room at Judges Lodgings.
We will provide all materials, equipment and instruction to enable you to begin making your own tie-on pockets by hand.
Refreshments provided – please bring a packed lunch if you wish.
Please book a FREE ticket so we know to expect you!

Memorial Blanket Stitching
2026-03-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Friends Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TX, United Kingdom
A session planned by Fariha to stitch and crochet squares together, made across the community.

Stolen lives, Stolen Futures. Gaza’s children remembered.

Each square represents 10 children murdered by Israel.

Marsh Mending
2026-03-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Marsh Community Centre, Willow Lane, Lancaster, LA1 5PP, United Kingdom
Drop in mending. No experience required. Bring what you need to mend, volunteers will offer expertise, materials and tools.

LUSU Mending
2026-03-18 13:00 - 15:30 | Chaplaincy Centre, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
Mending at Lancaster University

Upcycling & Embellishments
2026-03-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Global Link, 29 Queen Street, Lancaster, LA1 1RX, United Kingdom
A workshop for those intending or interested in making/adapting garments and outfits (modelled by yourself or someone else) for our 2nd Annual Alternative Runway to be staged on April 25th in Storey Gallery.
