Balsall Heath Repair Cafe

Join us next Saturday 28th September 12-5pm in our Sustainable Fashion Week Hub for a textile skill share session. From upsizing to embroidery we've got loads of fantastic tricks to share and would love to learn from you too! Bring along something to jazz up or repair and add a personal touch to your wardrobe.

Skills include:

Biomaterial based repair and finishing

Screen printing

Rhinestone embellishment & trim

Embroidery

Applique

Vinyl transfer

T-shirt & other gament upcyling and unpicking through to reconstruction

Advice and guidance for alterations (some sewing machines will be available for your use)

All ages

All sustainable fashion week events: https://www.oldprintworks.org/sustainable-fashion-week

Skillshare tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skillshare-social-tickets-1000232721997?aff=oddtdtcreator

Over 20 workshops and activities at Septembers Second Saturday - from 10am Saturday September 14th

Repair Cafe this Saturday at Balsall Heath Second Saturday - from 2pm, Lower Gallery

Tomorow -
Textiles, electrics and knife sharpening - from 2pm at The Old Print Works - see you there :)

Back at The MAC this Saturday 25th May, and our last visit this time. Organised in connection with Tatiana Wolska: Leisure as Resistance exhibition,

Balsall Heath repair café will be joining us to save your old items from being thrown away, share skills and have fun.

Sat 25 May | 11am - 2pm | Free, drop in | First Floor Gallery

Parking will be really difficult as there is cricket on, so try and arrive by alterbative methods - see you there :)

This month on Saturday May 11th - with knife sharpening, sock repair and textiles - from 2pm until 4pm - check Balsall Heath Repair Cafe Friday the 10th with full list of repairers available

Sock Repair with Hannah - 2.30pm onwards in the Lower Gallery. Part of Balsall Heath Repair Cafe (Bring your socks)

First set of activities at The Old Print Works for 11th May Second Saturday online now, including bookbinding, woodworking, art clubs, theatre, repair cafe, music, pottery..... with more to follow!

Saturday 27th April - we are back at The MAC!
Organised in connection with Tatiana Wolska: Leisure as Resistance exhibition, Balsall Heath repair café will be joining us to save your old items from being thrown away, share skills and have fun.

Sat 27 April | 11am - 2pm | Free, drop in | First Floor Gallery

Come and join in with Balsall Heath Repair Cafe. If you have a penchant for repairing things, and you would like to contribute, send us a message. We have a regular session, every other Second Saturday, at Balsall Heath Second Saturday, plus other events every now and again. Come along and get involved :)

We were at The MAC yesterday as part of the "Leisure as Resistance" exhibition by Tatiana Wolska. Leisure as Resistance marks Tatiana Wolska's first solo exhibition in the UK. Born in 1977, Wolska utilises recycled materials, evoking the resourcefulness ingrained in her during her childhood in communist Poland, where recycling became a necessity due to the scarcity of goods.

The exhibition showcases some of her signature recycled bottle sculptures and several new commissions, including scrap wood sculptures, large-scale drawings, monumental makeshift hut and a mural. One of Wolska's plastic bottles sculpture will be on display in MAC's Outdoor Terrace.

Wolska, describing herself as a 'junk collector', breathes new life into discarded plastic bottles, salvaged timber, rusty nails and foam from old mattresses. She transforms these once-polluting materials into captivating sculptures. Wolska's drawings mirror her sculptures, crafted with ink, pen, pencil, and paint, revealing enigmatic forms with ribbed surfaces and folds.

Wolska has designed the space with a strong emphasis on facilitating and promoting meetings, workshops and discussions centred around critical topics such as the regeneration of natural resources, climate crisis or the concept of resistance through leisure. Audiences are invited to activate this space through community activities such as reading groups, knitting clubs, clothes swaps, repair cafés, and meditation-through-drawing sessions. Please bring any gently used clothes, books, and spare seeds to contribute to the exhibition's swap shop..The exhibition runs until the 2nd June and lots of community groups are involved with the exhibition. We are back at The MAC on the 27th April and the 25th May. A huge thank you to Tatiana Wolska, Roma Piotrowska and The MAC for having us!

There will be a small Repair Cafe today in the gallery of The Old Print Works- Textile repair and knife sharpening 2-4pm

We can fix clothes, sharpen knives, repair electrical items, polish brass, look at your bike and give you a piece of cake! All free, but donations welcome to support our work.

There's another Repair Cafe! - Saturday 8th July, 2pm-4:30pm at The Old Print Works...

Confirmed fixers: textiles, general mechanical/ electrical, knife sharpening

We are open from 2pm-4:30pm on 13th May in The Old PrintWorks. Come and get your broken things fixed!

Next repair cafe is on May 13th! What could you bring for fixing?

The Repair Cafe comes with CAKE. Specifically there will be Lemon Drizzle. But also others!

It’s a Repair Cafe/ Daily Thread double fixing Saturday mash up!

Update- we start repairing at 2pm on Saturday! You can get your repairs in even earlier!

Our knife sharpening ninja, Jojo, will be at the repair cafe on Saturday, 2:30- 5pm. Come along!

Repairers confirmed: mechanical, electrical, laptop, phone, fabric..

Next Repair Cafe!
Saturday 11th February!
2:30-5pm in the Old Print Works!

Fix your old stuff instead of buying new-
Repair Cafe
2:30-5pm, Sat 8th
Old Print Works

Sorry- our camera repairer has cancelled! BUT… we can still fix clothes, bikes, mechanical items. And there will be cake…

Come and get your bike fixed!
Old Print Works
2:30-5pm
Saturday 8th October

NEXT REPAIR CAFE: October 8th
2:30-5pm
The Old Print Works
Analogue cameras, bikes, textiles, electrics…

Jutta is planning her visible mending…

Skirt mended! 👍👍👍