Grow Your Own Clothes x Love After Oil; Panel and Workshop

The Remakery is excited to announce this event- Grow Your Own Clothes: Love After Oil.

Over the course of the afternoon and evening, we will share our visions of what the future of clothing ourselves may look like, and learn practical skills that can make these visions a reality.

Foraged and Homegrown Fibre specialists- Allan Brown and Sharon Kallis will lead you in discovering the new skills for fibre processing. Home Grown Fashion Activists and Researchers Zoe Burt, Zoe Gilbertson, and Alice Holloway will join them for an evening exploring how a future of homegrown textiles might actually work.

The quest for inexpensive cloth, or fast fashion, began centuries ago as a driver for the human colonizing project. It may very well be that the way out of our current crisis lies in reexamining our extractive patterns of clothing ourselves and relationship to cloth.

What might your own version of clothing autonomy look like?

How might our connection to land, plants, animals, and each other shift into new modalities of economic exchange based in relationships of reciprocity?

Come witness what will be a dynamic conversation and sharing circle, leave with new skills and hope for what is possible.

On hand, meet sewers, dyers, spinners, knitters,weavers- and growers of fibre and dye plants to learn ways to step into this work yourself and within your own community.

What is your passion?

Where is your curiosity or existing skill set?

Bring a clean jumper, socks or other natural fibre knit garment ready for repair.

Hands on time will allow for sampling spinning, simple darning and dye demonstrations.

The joy in visible mending is solving holey problems with creative solutions with what is readily available to make garments unique personal objects that can allow us to wear our heart (and our love) on our sleeves.

Facilitators:

Allan Brown ~ Brighton UK, nettledress.org

Sharon Kallis ~ Vancouver Canada, earthand.com

Zoe Burt ~ London UK, zoeburt.com

Alice Holloway ~ London UK, lutc.studio

Joining the conversation is Zoe Gilbertson (Devon) @landworkerwardrobe

This is a social event, bring friends, the bar will be open and delicious snack platters by resident cafe;

Irma's Conscious Cafe

are available by preorder with your booking

Sharon Kallis

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With a “one mile diet” approach to sourcing art materials, Sharon works to discover the inherent material potential in a local landscape. Involving community in connecting traditional hand techniques with invasive species,tended plantings and garden waste, she creates site-specific installations that become ecological interventions.

Graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1996 she began working materials from the land in 1999 and has exhibited and engaged communities with her practice in Ireland, Spain, Mexico and throughout the United States. At home in Vancouver Canada, Sharon works with Vancouver Park Board, Stanley Park Ecology Society.

One of the primary stewards of Means of Production garden since 2009-a community garden that grows art materials as well as Trillium North Park. Sharon has received numerous Canada Council and British Columbia Arts Council grants for both studio based and community focused projects. Her work has been acknowledged as the 2010 recipient of the Brandford/ Elliott International Award for Excellence in Fibre Arts, Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Studio Design: emerging artist, and the Vancouver Mayors Award Recipient for Studio Design in 2017.

Her book, Common Threads: weaving community through collaborative eco-art, was published by New Society Publishers in 2014 and is used in many post secondary programs as a model for creative engagement in shared green spaces.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Remakery Brixton, 51 Lilford Road, London, United Kingdom