About this Event
We are excited to bring Darn it! To Surrender Dorothy this month. Unlike our typical informal 'club' or mending gathering, this will be a structured class in which everyone will leave with new handsewing and darning techniques. We will provide materials, guided visuals, all we ask is you bring an item with a hole! All levels are welcome, this will be an especially beginner-friendly class.
Taught by Martina Cox and Kate Sekules, this class will cover some basic hand sewing tips and tricks, including how to mend a garment by darning (our namesake!) Yarns and additional supplies will also be available for purchase in store from Surrender Dorothy’s beautiful collection.
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Althought Kate and Martina will be teaching this workshop, Darn it! Is a mending club organized by three hosts: Kate Sekules, Martina Cox and Hekima Hapa. Here is a little bit more about us:
Martina Cox is an artist based out of New York City. After graduating from the Cooper Union in 2018, Martina founded her eponymous clothing label, selling one-off garments made to order as a way to uphold slow fashion values. Since closing her business in 2021, Martina has continued to make work about fashion history and craft through Sculpture, Drawing and Performance. She began hosting monthly mending clubs as a way to address methodolgies and spaces where we can learn to heal relationships with objects we often deem as disposable.
Hekima Hapa is a Fashion Designer, social entrepreneur, author and Founder of the 22 year sustainable independent fashion brand inspired by Africa and the people of its diaspora, Harriet’s Alter Ego also known as Harriet’s by Hekima. In 2013, she founded Black Girls Sew, a nonprofit organization committed to positively impacting the lives of youth and families through education in sewing, design and entrepreneurship.
Kate Sekules is a mending and fashion historian, professor, and practitioner. She lectures widely, runs events and repair clinics, including Dr Mend’s clothes surgeries, and hosts #MendMarch on Instagram. She has published and presented academic research at over two dozen symposia internationally, is completing her doctoral dissertation, A History and Theory of Mending at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, and teaches fashion history—and mending—at Pratt Institute, Parsons and BGC. She is author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto (Penguin, 2020).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
13 W 17th St, 13 West 17th Street, New York, United States
USD 44.52
