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Celebrate with traditional Polish festive food, crafts, a clothes swap, Christmas traditions, community conversations and good company!🎄✨ Join us for a warm and festive Christmas Community Gathering filled with good food, creativity, conversation and connection.
This is a chance to come together around a shared table, enjoy some traditional festive food, meet great people and celebrate the end of the year as a community. ❤️
🍽️ We will be sharing food together, and you are also very welcome to bring a dish of your own if you would like to share something from your culture, family or Christmas traditions.
Throughout the gathering, we will have plenty of time to chat, laugh and exchange stories about how Christmas and the festive season are celebrated in different countries and communities. 🌍🎅
We also want this event to be a space to reflect on 2026 together – what has mattered to our community, what we have enjoyed, what we have learned and what we would like to see more of in 2027. 💬✨
We would love to hear your ideas about future activities, events and projects, and talk about different ways people can get involved in our community and wider network.
🎨 Festive Upcycling PomPom Workshop
As part of the event, we will also be joined by Venetia Headlam for a fun and creative festive upcycling workshop.
Using yarn reclaimed from unused garments, you will learn how to make cheerful festive pompoms that can be used to decorate your Christmas tree, your room, your bags or even your pet. 🎄🧶
You will learn how to extract yarn from jumpers you no longer wear and transform it into decorations that can be used and reused year after year. ♻️
All materials will be provided and no previous pompom-making experience is necessary.
The activity is most suitable for ages 7 and upwards. Any children attending must be supervised by an adult.
🧵 About Workshop Facilitator Venetia Headlam
Venetia Headlam, also known as The Crochet Master, is a maker, proud Brummie and co-founder of Yarningham Festival.
She was taught to knit and crochet by her mother when she was young and has been making ever since. A prolific stitcher who always has a project on the go, Venetia can knit, crochet, machine knit and also makes delicious fudge. 😊
👗 Clothes Swap
We will also have a clothes swap, so bring along any clean, good-quality clothes you no longer want and swap them for something new to you.You can also simply donate items if you prefer.It is a great way to give unwanted clothes a new life, help them circulate within the community and reduce the amount of clothing being thrown away. ♻️👚
🎉 Come along to:
🍲 Share food around a community table
🤝 Meet new people and reconnect with familiar faces
🌍 Exchange stories about Christmas traditions from different cultures
💬 Reflect on 2026 and share ideas for 2027
🌟 Find out how to get involved in our community and network
🎨 Take part in a festive upcycling workshop
👗 Swap or donate clothes
🎄 Enjoy a relaxed, friendly and festive atmosphere
Whether you come for the food, the workshop, the clothes swap, the conversation or simply to spend time with others, you are very welcome. ❤️
This project has been funded by the Bauhaus Bites programme which is part of EU Horizon funding and the workshop is supported by the npower Business Solutions Foundation.
For enquiries and accessibility, email us on [email protected]
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Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, B5 5RT Birmingham, United Kingdom, 156 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RT, United Kingdom
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