About this Event
Join us and upcycle your clothes!
In this workshop, you'll learn how to upcycle your denim jackets and pants with Hyunjung Lee. Join us to personalize our clothes by adding patches, embroidery, beads and more!
Let's extend the lifespan of textiles, get connected with each other, minimize waste sent to landfills and oceans, share our eco-emotions and create change together!
All materials and food will be provided. All skill levels welcome!
And we will be having a clothing and material swap as part of the event. Please bring a pre-washed, good condition clothing item (only 1!) or craft materials (like beads, fabric, yarn, thread) that you would like to swap with others and take home something new!
Learn more at: https://www.instagram.com/sewingourfutures/
About our Facilitator, Hyunjung
Hyunjung Lee is a Korean Canadian textile artist and educator based in Mississauga, Ontario. Her practice draws on Korean natural dyeing, global indigo traditions, Indian block printing, and Indonesian batik, which she taught herself. A fashion graduate of Seneca Polytechnic, she independently dyed her entire graduating collection before earning a Bachelor of Craft and Design in Textiles from Sheridan College. Her solo exhibition, Irresistible Indigo, was presented at DesignTO, and she has held residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio and the Living Arts Centre. She teaches art, sewing, and fashion with the City of Mississauga, sharing her knowledge through fun, creative, hands-on learning, including upcycling.
We have enough clothes to dress the next six generations. How can we upcycle materials that already exist and deepen our connection to the materials, process and beings around us?
This workshop series aims to equip an intergenerational audience with the skills to upcycle their garments in an effort to reduce waste in our oceans, build community connections and strengthen civic engagement.
With mending, we are exchanging our time, ideas and feelings with each other and to the item we repair. During the process of sewing, we learn to soften our thoughts and appreciate each motion as being part of the whole. A garment, or community, cannot be made with one thread alone.
These workshops are generously funded by the Ocean Action Grant from Oceanwise.
More workshops to come! Stay tuned at @sewingourfutures on Instagram
Event venue & nearby stays
Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen Street East, Toronto, Canada
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