Winter of care and repair

We are excited for this project- applied for a grant to do a community building, winter gathering repair club over the winter, inspired by Jeanna Wigger and her online mending challenge #winterofcareandrepair, launched during the pandemic, to encourage habits of mending and care for our things, each other and ourselves.  It feels like we need more of that.

And as usual, we make a positive from a lack... we always need to find community partners and this time we have connected with another neighbourhood artist friend, Mehtap Mertogan, to use their coffee shop in the neighbourhood for our first gathering.  Mehtap runs mosaic workshops here as well during the winter, it is cozy and public facing, should be perfect.  It's a small space so we are trying to keep it simple with hand repairs the main focus, but also adding in a winter clothing swap as it is finally cooling off in these parts and we could do with some redistribution of jackets and woolies.

I am off to print the poster, we'll let you know how it goes. --Tanya