Discover new ways to get creative with your clothes and textiles at our all-day workshop event. We will be hosting a range of activities and workshops throughout the day, showcasing various voices in slow fashion, including:

All day activities:
-Mending and Upcycling
-Scrappy Fashion Show
-Craft Supply Swap
-Collaborative Stitching
-Slow Fashion Tapestry
-Swerv Demo
-Photowall

Talks:
12pm - Fashion and Activism
1pm - How to be a Craftivist
3pm - Styling the Old, Creating the New
4pm - Fashion Futures

Workshops:
12-2pm - Crochet Workshop
2.30-4.30 - Knitting and Crochet for Climate

Workshops and activities will be happening all day from 11am-6pm. No previous skills needed to take part! We’ll be sharing a more detailed program on our social media channels (@weavingchangeuk and @re_thrindle) closer to the event! Kids and adults welcome.

Bring an item to mend or upcycle. And bring some materials for the textile craft supply swap (tools and materials; no more than 1 bag per person please)

There will also be an after-party at PRSC (People’s Republic of Stokes Croft) with a Scrappy Fashion Show (details for this will be announced shortly). The afterparty is 18+ ONLY.

The day event at Sparks is from 11am-6pm, the afterparty from 6.30pm-10.30pm.
The day event is organised on a pay-as-you-can basis, the afterparty is ticketed (£9 in advance/£12 on the door). If you’d like to support us some more and make sure that we can host more events like this in the future, please consider an extra donation.

P.S Buying tickets in advance helps us to plan for numbers and support the event financially. Thank you!

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