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SUMMARY:Renew - Fashion Revolution Week 2025
DESCRIPTION:Storey Gallery and Music Room  \nJoin 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. \nAll events are donation based/free. \nOur event coincides with Fashion Revolution week 2025.\nFashion Revolution was founded by Carrie Somers and Orlando Castro in the wake of the Rana Plaza (Bangladesh)\, disaster in 2013. \nWe have multiple events scheduled over the 3 days – please book a ticket where you see a link\, as spaces are limited. \n \nOpening Night (booking required)\nRenewOpeningNight.eventbrite.co.uk \n6 – 8.45pm | Clothes Swap (more info below) \n7pm | Open Weave\nRhythms of the loom\, poetry and voices from the past\, present and future – raising our voices for those who make our clothes. \nTalk – Janet Swan\, Composer & Environmental Artist.\nFollowed by recorded performance of Soundscape composed by Janet Swan and Scott Robinson\, Digital Composer. \nRefreshments \n \n2 – 8.45pm | Clothes Swap (more info below) \n2-3.30pm | Mending session\n– 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. \n3.45- 5.15 | Daniella Southin Workshop\nLeaf Stitching – Make a leaf and add to our commemorative exhibition. \n5.30 – 5.40 | Nan Sewing\, stitched film\nAmy Dickson and Sewing Café Lancaster\, 2024\,\n6 min\, video and 16mm. \n5.45 – 6.45 | Panel – My Clothing Journey\nRepresentatives from the Sewing Cafe Lancaster Community. \n7 – 8pm | Kate Fletcher – Talk\nFashion\, Sustainability and Other Animals: thinking and doing through clothing.\n(Booking required)\ntalkkatefletcher.eventbrite.co.uk \n8.15 – 8.45pm | Alternative Runway\nUpcyclers and second hand fashion. \n \n11am to 1pm | Clothes Swap (more info below)\n*Please note\, this year we will only accept clothing on Thursday and Friday. Saturday will be take away only.\n \n11 – 11.30pm | Talk – Laura Stanbridge\n(Manager of St John’s Hospice Retail)\n-The Roll of Charity Shops in the Supply Chain. \n11.30 – 12.30 | Dr Beccy Whittle – Talk\non RefuseLab Clothing Library Research Findings. \n1 – 2pm | Deborah Barker – South East England Fibershed\nTalk – Fashion and Farming.\n(Booking required)\nTalkDeborahBarker.eventbrite.co.uk \n2pm – 4pm | Workshop with LUSU Green.\nJoin 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. \n4pm – close \n \nDisplayed and continuing throughout the event. \n\nCraft of Use : Loving Care\nFood Futures and Sewing Cafe Lancaster – Display of photos from ‘Bury your Pants’ trial\nCreative Waste – Rainbow of Umbrella bags by Candy Galarza\nWeaving Stories Videos\nActive Stitching throughout event\nClothes Swap for a Story & Mending Surgery\nYou’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.\n*Please note this year we will only accept clothing on Thursday and Friday\, Saturday will be take away only.\n\nGet in touch at sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com \nAccessibility | 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.
URL:https://sewingcafelancaster.com/event/frw25/
LOCATION:The Storey Gallery\, Meeting House Lane\, Lancaster\, Lancashire\, LA1 1TH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Clothes Swap,Fashion Revolution Week,Learn,Special Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Sewing Cafe Lancaster":MAILTO:sewingcafelancaster@gmail.com
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