Repair Remix & Rewear Events | June 23 - June 29
Weekly roundup of NYC-based events & resources for repairing, remixing / upcycling, and rewearing your clothes!
One day to go until Future Fabrics Expo here in London. For context, FFE is the largest dedicated showcase for sourcing sustainable materials solutions for fashion, home & interiors brands - I do some freelance work for the team (primarily focused on organizing the seminar series, featuring 13 panel talks over the 2 days of the Expo, covering everything from regenerative agriculture to fashion industry representation at COP30). Excited to see many months of teamwork come together for a great show ✨
Also had the chance to visit Alterist Marketplace on Saturday and discovered a couple of really cool upcycled brands based here in London / Europe. I was suuuuuper tempted by the SansPeng button-up shirts…!
And finally - on a different but very important topic, I’ve been following these last weeks / days of the NYC Democratic mayoral primary from abroad. Loved
‘s overview of not just the election but also the media coverage of the election (generally appreciate most of what Haley writes!). Particularly this r.e. progressive candidate (and main challenger to Cuomo) Zohran Mamdani:He may not be a perfect candidate and he may not manage to get everything done that he hopes to, but sometimes going for the thing you actually want and falling short is more productive than settling for half-assed, means-tested solutions that never actually seem to change anything. “We are living in the wreckage of compromise. The afterlife of hope,” writes Frederick Joseph in his newsletter about the potential of Mamdani’s campaign to re-enliven the left. “[T]he Democratic center offers the same old managerial liberalism—order without justice, growth without equity, politics without soul. What Zohran offers is not just a pivot from that inertia—it is a rupture. A clean break. A return to the idea that government can be both just and competent, that radical imagination and institutional function do not have to be at odds.”
Link to polling place locator below!
Repair Remix & Rewear: Featured Events
🍬 = budget-friendly events ($15 and under)
This week in NYC (& virtual)
6/24 - NYC MAYORAL PRIMARY: Find your polling place HERE
6/24 - Jenny Cooper: Visible Mending @ Atelier Jolie - 4:30pm (NoHo, Manhattan)
6/24 - NYC Hand Embroidery Workshop @ FABSCRAP in support of the Fashion Act (cc
) - 6pm (Sunset Park, Brooklyn)
6/28 - Visible Mending Cuffs & Edges Tutorial with Collingwood-Norris - 9am ET / 2pm BST (Virtual)
6/28 - Silkscreen Collage @ Atelier Jolie 8:30pm (NoHo, Manhattan)
6/29 - Introduction to Darning: Live Zoom Workshop with Collingwood-Norris - 9am ET / 2pm BST (Virtual)
Repair Remix & Rewear: Full calendar
Includes regular / recurring events in NYC & virtual
🍬 = budget-friendly events ($15 and under)
7/1 - 🍬 Mending and Sewing Workshop @ NYPL, 67th St (NYC)
7/5 - 🍬 BK Rotfest - inc. mending & upcycling (rescheduled from June) (NYC)
7/5 - Denim Mending @ Brooklyn Craft Company (NYC)
7/9 - 🍬 Mending Club @ Lagoon (NYC)
7/14 - Print Club: Textile Printing (NYC)
7/22 - Time for Mending: Part 2 @ Third Space (NYC)
7/29 - 🍬 Mending and Sewing Workshop @ NYPL, 67th St (NYC)
July - Sew Green Fashion Camp w/ Black Girls Sew (ages 5 & 6) (NYC)
July & August - Sew Green Fashion Camp 2025 w/ Black Girls Sew (ages 7 & up) (NYC)
8/7 - Visible Darning & Mending with a Loom @ Brooklyn Craft Company (NYC)
9/27 - Sustainable Sewing: Boro Embroidery & Visible Mending @ Brooklyn Public Library, Greenpoint (NYC)
Multiple - Silkscreen Collage @ Atelier Jolie (NYC)
Multiple - TOAST x Eva Joan Repair Shop Embroidery (NYC)
Multiple - Alterations Workshop with Brooklyn Sewing Academy (NYC)
Multiple - Sewing Upcycling Workshop with New Renaissance Arts Center of NY (NYC)
Multiple - Visible Mending Workshop: Denim Upcycling with The Hoop (NYC)
Multiple - 🍬 Mending Circle @ Knitty City (NYC)
Multiple - Teen + Young Adult Second-Hand Shopping Tour (NYC)
If you’re hosting / aware of an NYC-based or virtual event dedicated to repairing / mending, upcycling, or rewearing your clothes, please reach out - I’d love to include it in this weekly roundup!