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Clothing Repairathon at Taste of Regent Park July 4

Toronto Clothing Repairathon is excited to be fixing clothes at Taste of Regent Park on Wednesday, July 4. Volunteers will be mending clothes for free at Regent Park from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of the Taste of Regent Park Market. Join us for the market and stay for the communal supper at 6 p.m. and the movie at sundown.

Bring your busted jeans and holey sweaters to our table, where we’ll do our best to patch, mend and repair your favourite clothes. Please bring a maximum of two (2) items per person to ensure we help as many people as possible. And keep in mind, that we don’t do alterations, just repairs. Zipper replacements may not be possible at every event as we are dependant on the skill levels of the volunteers that day, and the time available to complete the repair.

Reminder: If you missed us at Withrow Park Farmers’ Market, we’re back there this weekend. Find us at the market from 9 a.m. till 1 a.m. this Saturday, June 30.

As a volunteer-driven group, we’re always looking for sewers of all skill levels. We’re a friendly and fun group who loves sharing our skills and giving back to the community. Love to help out? Please sign up at app.repairathon.com to hear about upcoming events throughout the rest of 2018.

Clothing Repairathon on July 15 at Withrow Park Farmers’ Market

Love your clothes? Don’t toss them, fix them! Bring your beloved ripped jeans, your favourite holey sweater and that great shirt that’s missing a button to Toronto Clothing Repairathon. Volunteers will be happy to mend your clothes for free! Yes, for free. Find our table at Withrow Park Farmers’ Market on July 15 from 9 a.m. till noon, and we’ll do our best to repair your clothing.

Please bring a maximum of two items per person. And keep in mind, that we don’t do alterations, just repairs. We’ll mend rips, tears, holes, hems, reattach buttons and more.

As a volunteer-driven group we’re always looking for sewers of all skill levels. We’re a friendly and fun group who loves sharing our skills and giving back to the community. Love to help out? Please sign up at app.repairathon.com to hear about upcoming events all year long.

If you are a community group or organization who would like to host us, please get in touch. We still have spots open for 2017 season and would love to hold events in neighbourhoods across the city.

Repairathon at YIMBY Festival Oct. 31

Repairathon will be sewing up a storm at the YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) Festival Saturday, Oct. 31 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Look for our table in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University.

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Have a tear in your jeans? Need a button sewn on? Stop by and we’ll fix it. Feel free to come by with clean clothing in need of small repairs, not more than 2-3 per person.

We’re always looking for more volunteers, so if you’d like to help out, let us know. You don’t need to know how to sew, and it’s not a big commitment. For more information on volunteering, click here!

Repairathon tomorrow at Brickworks

Just a reminder that we’ll be repairing clothes tomorrow (Saturday) at Evergreen Brickworks, as part of 100 in 1 Day.  We’ll be there from 9am-12:30am, alongside their fantastic farmers’ market. Also don’t forget, you can you can get there by bike, TTC from Davisville, or free bus from Broadview station. I believe we will be at the south end near the entrances from the parking lot.

Bring clean clothing in need of small repairs, not more than 2-3 per person, and don’t forget to thank our generous volunteers.

Other items to note

  • If you can’t make it to the Repairathon, check out the Really Really Free Market, which is also tomorrow.
  • A week after the Repairathon is the next Repair Café, this time at North York Central Library. Their events are great, and they do repairs of everything, not just clothing.
  • The Toronto Environmental Alliance is running a Waste-Free Challenge. They’ve posted 10 simple actions you can take right now to reduce waste, and they’ve got prizes too 🙂

 

 

Reminder: Wychwood, Tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that our first Repairathon for 2014 is tomorrow, at the Wychwood Barns. Details are on the original post. Thanks to the attention we’ve had including blogTO and CBC’s Metro Morning (I was interviewed early this morning), I expect we’ll be quite busy.

We’ll probably have one event in May and another in June, so you’ll be hearing about those in the weeks go come. In the meantime, there’s also the next Repair Cafe on May 10th.

See you tomorrow 🙂

St Lawrence Market Tomorrow

The September Repairathon at St Lawrence Market is tomorrow, beginning at 9:30! Bring anything with a rip or tear, missing a button, etc., and we’ll see if we can get that fixed. No more than 2 or 3 items per person, as usual.

Specifically, we’ll be in the North building, next to the stage and close to the North Market Administration Office, right across from the Rowe Farms stall.

Other news of note:

And as always, we welcome new volunteers, even if you have never sewn before 🙂

Repairathon Tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that our fourth Repairathon is tomorrow.

We’ll be in front of the Maria A. Shchuka Library, which is at 1745 Eglinton Avenue West. If the weather turns horrible, we’ll move inside the library. We’ll be part of the York-Eglinton International Street Festival, for which Eglinton will be closed from Oakwood Ave. to Dufferin St. Their website lists the entertainers, and that’s on top of the petting zoo, carnival rides, and the “Largest street dance floor in Toronto.”

The Repairathon begins at 12:00pm. Please bring your clothing for repair no later than 3:30.

See you there!

In other news, the Repair Café has posted photos from their 3rd event. Repairathon volunteers Monica and Sue were there to help.

We’ll let you know if and when a September Repairathon will take place.

Kensington Tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that we are on for tomorrow’s Clothing Repairathon at Kensington Market. Our volunteers will be there from 1pm-5pm. Our specific location will be 63 Kensington Avenue. The storefront we’re located at has an awning that we can be under, which means that we will not need to cancel if it is raining. See you there!

Remember to bring no more than 2-3 items of clothing with small holes or tears, missing buttons, etc. We will stop accepting clothing around 15 minutes before we close, depending on how busy we are. And of course, don’t forget to thank the volunteers.

In other news, we’ve been asked to do repairs at next Saturday’s Really Really Free Market. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make it, given how close it is to tomorrow’s event. If you are interested in helping us run more events, please consider volunteering, and suggest it to your friends as well.

End of June News Roundup

Lots of items today.

  • A reminder that our next event is on Sunday, only four days away. We’ll be somewhere within Kensington Market, alongside all the other activities for Kensington Pedestrian Sunday. We’re outdoors with no tent, so let’s hope there’s no rain.
  • Tonight (June 26) is the Toronto Tool Library‘s East Side Launch Party. Earlier this year, IRBE opened Toronto’s first tool library, which loans out a wide variety of tools for a low annual membership. The first location is around Queen and Lansdowne, and this party is to celebrate a new location near Danforth and Coxwell. This second location is still undergoing renovations, but when open will also include a makerspace with all sorts of equipment that can be used on-site.
  • Our friends at the Toronto Repair Café are holding their second event on July 6, 10am-2pm at Skills for Change (791 St Clair Avenue West). You can also see photos from their first event. Most likely one or more of us from the Repairathon will be there. Just like us, they’re continuing to look for additional volunteers.
  • Toronto’s next Really Really Free Market is also July 6, 10am-6pm at Campbell Park. If you haven’t been before, it’s just what it sounds like. Drop off usable items (such as clothing) that you no longer want, and/or take some items that someone else dropped off. It’s all free, of course. The RRFM is the first Saturday of each month, and at some point, we will hold a Repairathon there.
  • I’m very slowly making some improvements to the website. Today I added a list of the Repairathon’s goals to our home page.
  • Lastly, I wanted to point out the great work of the Calgary Repair Café, which is holding emergency repair events due to the flooding. I’m guessing they’ll be seeing a lot of products with water damage.

Reminder: Repair Cafe Tomorrow

Just a reminder that our friends at the Repair Café Toronto are hosting their first event tomorrow. Their goal is much more ambitious than the Repairathon’s; while we are focused on clothing so far, they are hoping to repair anything. It will also be more hands-on, with volunteers helping you to repair your own items. So if you’ve got anything needing repair, or you have some repair abilities, head on over. Saturday May 25, 10am-2pm, at 791 St. Clair Avenue West.

I’m sadly unable to attend myself, but I know that at least one Repairathon volunteer (Monica) will probably be there. You can see her in some of the photos from our previous event. I hope it goes well and that there will be many more events in the future.

Speaking of future events, we’re still working on planning our events for the rest of this summer. As always, let us know if you have any ideas. And of course, we’re always looking for new volunteers, with or without sewing experience. Join us, it’ll be fun 🙂