This September is going to be a busy and exciting one for Everyone Needs Pockets as we are a Frome hub for Sustainable Fashion Week. We have a full programme of events lined up for the the main weekend on Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October:
Thursday 14 September
- STITCH IT DON’T DITCH IT BANNER-MAKING WORKSHOP
The Welsh Mill Hub
6pm – 9pm
FREE, booking required
A workshop to make ‘#StitchItDon’tDitchIt’ banners for the street stitching event happening on 30 Sept
Details and tickets
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
- STITCH IT DON’T DITCH IT
Frome Westway Shopping Centre
11am – 12pm
FREE
The Everyone Needs Pockets network will be taking to the Westway shopping centre to mend our clothes in public. - COMMUNITY CLOTHES SWAP
The Old School Room at RISE, Whittox Lane
12pm – 4pm
£3 entry
The Frome Wardrobe Collective invite you to discover a more sustainable way to shop for your next wardrobe staple. All genders, ages, and sizes are welcome at our inclusive event. - LEARN TO MEND YOUR CLOTHES WORKSHOP
SHARE Frome, The Bridge
12pm – 2pm
FREE, booking required
Free guidance sessions in small hand sewn clothing repairs for those with little or no sewing experience or confidence.
Book tickets - FEELING DRESSED WORKSHOP, MENSWEAR & WOMENSWEAR
Frome Museum
2.30pm – 4pm
FREE, booking required
Join Dr Lucy Gundry for a round table conversation to look through ‘our eyes only’ at pieces of dress from the archives. We will visually unpick how pieces were made, worn, repaired and re-worn over time…what it felt like to wear these pieces and why loved clothes last! Adults only.
Book tickets - MAKE OLD CLOTHES NEW WITH INDIGO
The Remakery, Welsh Mill Hub
3pm – 6pm
FREE, drop-in
Join Make:Shed’s Cassie and Amala in the Remakery, Welsh Mill Hub, during the afternoon to breathe new life into a loved but tired piece of clothing – refresh your jeans with an Indigo bath or brighten up an old t-shirt with simple resist dyeing techniques. All ages welcome.
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER
- SOUTH WEST ENGLAND FIBRESHED AT THE FROME INDEPENDENT
Outside Frome Library
10am – 3pm
Soil-to-soil fashion plus live demos from members of the producer network. - FASHION REIMAGINED FILM SCREENING
Frome Town Hall
6pm – 9pm
£0 – £5, booking required
Film screening of Fashion Reimagined. Following the film, there will be informal chat and discussion.
Book tickets
ALL WEEKEND
- FROME’S SUSTAINABLE FASHION WEEK WINDOWS
Town centre independent and charity shops
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Saturday 7 October
- THE NETTLE DRESS FILM SHOWING
Rook Lane Chapel
6pm-8pm
Book tickets
£10, Book tickets
Sunday 8 October
- VISIBLE MENDING DARNING WORKSHOP BY SLOW STITCH CLUB
Online
6pm-8pm
£20, Book tickets
For more details and to reserve your place at the events follow the individual links above or:
About Sustainable Fashion Week
Sustainable Fashion Week is an annual event helping to raise awareness and make sustainable fashion accessible through community engagement. This year the ‘week’ runs from “25 SEP TO 8 OCT (and a little either side!)”
Find out more about Sustainable Fashion Week here
and download the full programme here