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Mar
26
Sun
Swish and Style @ Jacksons Lane
Mar 26 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Tired of your t-shirts? Wish you had some different dresses? Save money by bringing along your unwanted (but wearable) clothes to our Swish and Style event and go home with a new-to-you outfit, all for free!

It’s simple. Have a clear out and bring good quality clothes to one of our seven events. For each item you bring, you get a token that you can exchange for another garment (maximum 10 items). Everything is free, everything is clean and everything will be re-worn and re-loved.

How it works

For the first hour (12.30 – 1.30), everyone is invited to drop off their clothes, shoes and accessories that they want to donate. Whilst we busily sort them into style and hang them on hangers, you’ll be free to check out the workshops – learning how to do simple fixes to your clothes and how to upcycle them into something completely different – a jumper becomes a hot water bottle cover, a treasured Babygro becomes a patchwork memory blanket and an old t-shirt becomes a bag. If you have any clothes that need a little TLC, bring them along and our seamstress can fix them for you for free while you wait.

The from 2pm until 3pm, you get to look through all the clothes and choose what you want. If you love it, take it. It’s first come, first served – but no elbows please!

What can you bring?

Please bring along:

  • Clean and wearable clothes, shoes and accessories
  • No damage, holes and stains
  • You can bring women’s, men’s, children’s and baby clothes
  • No underwear please, unless in sealed, unworn condition

Anything that we deem unacceptable will be given back to you and you will not be given a token. We have the right to turn away any item.

Please note only adults will be allowed at events. Parents with children under the age of 12 can bring them but they must remain under the parents’ supervision at all times.

Any clothes that are left over at the end of the event will be donated to the Salvation Army.

Feb
5
Mon
Mondays @ the Mills: The 10th Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture – Conservation Challenges @ Mills Centre, Highgate School
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm

The 10th Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture: Conservation Challenges


Jenny Williamson, Easel Painting Conservator

Jenny Williamson has come to know Kyffin Williams’s pictures well through her work at galleries across Wales.  In this talk to mark Kyffin’s centenary year she will answer questions such as ‘what does an art conservator do?’ ‘what does she aim to achieve?’, ‘what techniques does she use?’ and ‘what pitfalls does she need to avoid?’

Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.

Mar
10
Tue
International Women’s Day Crafternoon, @ Aladdin’s Vintage Furniture and Cafe
Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm


Want to Stitch Suffragettes, Embroider Education Pioneers and Celebrate famous Career Women?
Then join us for a special Crafternoon next Tuesday 10th March to celebrate International Women’s Day 2020.

By creating a ‘Dangerous Pocket’ about a famous woman, then and now, we remember those who have led the way and empower us in our own journeys.

PLEASE BRING an A6 size photocopy of a famous woman or someone you know who inspires you AND a pocket from pair of jeans or trousers.

Workshop FREE to any customer of our host Aladdin’s Vintage Furniture and Cafe, 1 Hazellville Rd, N19 3LW.

Workshop inspired by Paula MacGregor’s Dangerous Pockets IWD Project 2019, #dangerouspockets, http://www.paulamacgregor.com/dangerous-pockets-project.html.