Networking
The Menders Trade Café
Organised by Wearers Festival
The free community event where you can bring that beloved garment that needs mending and trade the service for another service!
Wearers Festival and Something™ present The Mending Trade Café, an event about community, circular economy and the sustainable practice of mending and repairing. Volunteer London-based menders will be waiting for you from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Truman’s Social Club.
How does it work?
Bring an item you love that’s in need of repair for our menders to salvage. As payment, they will accept goods or services in exchange.
Please see the guide below for more information about what you can bring.
Come with your pals; chat and meet local menders; watch the craft that involves repairing garments by hand; give a longer life to your favourite items and have a drink, all on the same day!
Access features
Date: Sunday 31th of October 2021
Time: 12:00 – 18:00
Cost: FREE, just confirm your attendance HERE.
Venue: Truman’s Social Club, 1 Priestley Way, London E17 6AL
What to bring? A Guide for attendees.
Bring two things:
1- A garment that needs mending.
Menders will work their magic by hand, so please bear this in mind. We ask that you only bring in items that have holes of no more than 5 cm max and/or that have loose buttons.
You’re welcome to bring your preferred colour of thread or choose from the selection of colours on hand at the event.
Please do NOT bring:
- Broken zippers,
- Clothes that need new hems.
- Clothes with holes bigger than 5cm in diameter.
- Dirty garments. The clothes must be clean.
2- Something to trade with.
This can be a product or a service:
Product: things you produce or make. These are some examples:
- If you are a great baker, you can bring a fresh loaf of bread or cookies (in fact, home-made food is an excellent thing to trade);
- If you sell painted plant pots, bring a nice one;
- If you own a restaurant, offer a free meal.
- If you are an illustrator, bring a lovely illustration for your mender.
- If you sell plants, bring a lovely one in its pot.
Services: you can offer your knowledge and skills to the mender, for example:
- If you are a graphic designer, you can offer the mender a free logo for his/her/their brand;
- If you are a music teacher, you can offer a free piano lesson;
- If you are a marketing manager, you can offer a free 1-1 to help the mender to promote their brand.
- Speak other languages? You can offer a free class.
Do NOT try to trade with:
Old objects that you have around the house and you want to get rid of. This includes old clothes, house adornments, second-hand utilitarian objects and tools, etc.
Some confirmed Menders:
Shelley Zetuni @_sewingsmith_
Suzi Warren @twistedtwee
Sarah Foot @thread.the.word
Katie Nolan @katienolantextiles
Emma Matthews @sockoshop
Hannah Porter @hannah_hp_pea
Oksana Chaplyko @beyond_all_creations
Assia Lollia @assialoliia
Nadia @tlzmovementclothes
Jennifer Droguet @anciela_london
(Are you a mender and want to take part in The Menders Trade Cafe? Email us now! hello@wearersfestival.com )
About Wearers Festival
Wearers Festival is a permanent multidisciplinary art festival that celebrates and explores the diversity of London and the UK through the dress codes of its communities.
www.wearersfestival.com
About Something™
Something™ is an independent creative studio helping ambitious brands & creatives grow within culture by doing things differently.
https://something.global/
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- sustainablefashion
- sustainability
- communityengagement
- communityprojects
- communityarts
- craftsmanship
- lendingservice
- repair
- clothes
- circulardesign
- circulareconomy
- sustainabledesign
- smallbusiness
- communitybuilding