• Storytelling Cafe: Frances Elizabeth Johnson

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    By Professor Alan Rice Online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption. To book […]

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  • Storytelling Café: Jack Gladstone and the Demerara Slave Rebellion (1823)

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    By Professor Imogen Tyler Online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption. Book your […]

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  • Ibo Boy and Dent Runaway Stories

    Ibo Boy Story by Drahoslava Machova and Dent Runaway Story Professor Imogen Tyler, an online Storytelling Café. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, because the past has loads to teach us […]

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  • Natural Dyes & Printing: The Basics

    Learn how to make a dye from dried or fresh ingredients, experiment eco-printing and more by Katrina Barnish and Sewing Cafe Lancaster’s team. Where? At The Rewilding, Patty’s Barn LA2 0DY https://www.the-rewilding.com/ How much? Early bird £60 until the 22nd of May Full £65 How to book? sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com Limited numbers in a Covid safe environment

    £65
  • Storytelling Café: Dent Runaway Story and Sattherwaite Family

    Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, get the zoom link at sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com or at www.sewingcafelancaster.com […]

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  • Convivial Clothing: let’s explore the power of positive change

    Sewing Café Lancaster and Stitched Up Co-operative collaborate to reimagine the textile Industry while doing some mending! 7th Degrowth / 16th ISEE International Society for Ecological Economics Conference: “Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis” Registration: https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/197/register

  • Storytelling Café: The Lancaster Lindows

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    Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption By Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler and Emily Yates, Lancaster Girls Grammar school students and researchers. Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories […]

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  • Beer&Yarn

    Stonewell Tap 8-10 Church Street, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

    We are back to the Pub! Bring a project and connect with the sewing, crafting, mending community. Would love to see your faces and hear about what you are working on.

    Free
  • Dyeing With Kitchen Waste

    Come and have a taste of the variety of vibrant colours using non toxic plant based processes. Bookings at: 1pm to 2:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dyeing-fabric-with-kitchen-waste-lancaster-health-festival-tickets-163827166465 3pm to 4:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dyeing-fabric-with-kitchen-waste-lancaster-health-festival-tickets-163827296855 Come and have a taste of the variety of vibrant colours using non toxic plant based processes. Learn the basics on how to extract and use […]

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  • The Lancaster Gregsons and the Brockbanks: Links to Empire and Transatlantic Slavery

    By By Lancaster Royal Grammar School Because the past has loads to teach us about the quest for profit, growth and consumption Sewing Café Lancaster is making a banner about Lancaster and the slave trade. To get inspired the researchers are talking (online) about the stories they have found. Everyone is welcome, get the zoom […]

    Free
  • Mending at Great Big Green Week

    Come and join us for a mending session at the Cornerstone in Sulyard St, Lancaster LA1 1PX

  • Clothes Swap, Mend along and Talk

    Gregson Lancaster 3 – 35 Moor Gate, Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

    What’s on offer? This year’s Crafternoon will focus on fashion and its implications for social and environmental justice. Bring your mending and join us to explore the fate of secondhand clothing as we unpick the connections between clothing, climate and more… What’s it about? The rise of the so-called fast fashion industry is a major […]

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