Buy Nothing Day: Make Your Own Gift Workshop – 24 November 2007 (check this space again soon for updates)
If shopping, especially at Christmas, is just a chore that seems to contribute nothing more to the world than piles of unwanted goods, come join us for an alternative. There's nothing as original and thoughtful as making presents yourself...Drop in to the Cowley Club from 11am–5pm on Buy Nothing Day, Saturday November 24th for a day of practical playfulness, creative craftiness and skill-sharing, with workshops including:
Learn to knit or make your own clothes
Make your own cards/candles/tetra-pack wallets
Children's workshops making sock monkeys/monsters
Renewable energy toys
Paper making
Also swap something old for something new at our Freecycle stall, take away recipes and instructions for home-made presents... make some friends and come away with something truly unique.
Buy Nothing Day is an annual event started in 1992 as a means to highlight excessive unnecessary consumption in today's Western culture. This event is part of an initiative to reduce consumption by Transition Brighton and Hove.
Links to past actions and what it's all about here.
Learn to make your own clothes and gifts
