Notes by Kat Neeser
Actions
Action (Person)
Give Sarah ‘Magpie girl’s number (Kat)
Find out how to recycle swatches (Sarah)
Contact Chris and get set up as a moderator (Beth)
Get names of funding books (Beth)
PAN UK talk at Brighton Uni – possibility of doing a talk (Sarah)
Speak to BPEC about Green Pages (Jess)
Send Kat information about Fringe Festival – possibility of organising swap for then (Sarah)
Present: Kat Neeser, Sarah Bigley, Jess Clynewood, Beth Tilston
Contact Details (@ = at to avoid spammers on website:
Beth – wine_and_corduroy at hotmail.com
Kat – katneeser at hotmail.com
Sarah – sarah.bigley at btinternet.com
Jess – jessclynewood at email.com
Agenda
1) Review notes of previous meeting.
2) Set aims and objectives for the future.
3) Organise date of next meeting.
1) Review notes of previous meeting
The previous meeting was held on 25th July 2007. Please see the notes of this meeting on www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
2) Set aims and objectives for the future
‘How are the textiles group going to respond to the challenges of peak oil and climate change?’
• Reduce, reuse, recycle, reskill, remake, re-educate ... treasure your clothes!
• Appeal to people's aesthetic nature and need to retain element of style.
• Increase individuality
• encourage and increased creativity
• increase self-esteem by developing skills and creativity. We wear new and fashionable clothes to feel good about ourselves, but guess what ... learning new skills and using your creativity makes you feel even better ... and you get new clothes into the bargain!
• decrease reliance on hugely polluting imported cotton and other commercially produced/imported clothes
• awareness raising of environmental impact of cheap clothing production through films and talks - probably have these on at our fun and creative events.
• Link up with ethnic groups and older people (especially older women): wealth of dressmaking/mending/other related skills.
• Link older people and younger people together in creative projects
• twice-weekly selling workshops (separate project, see notes in Textiles and Clothing on forum)
• Swaporamarama event: April 26, 2008 at the Cowley club (we will be providing space, tools and knowledge to enable people to customise clothes. Essentially everyone has to bring along a bag of clothes and they are then free to pick up clothes that other people have brought. That's the swap part. The customisation part comes in when we provide tables with sewing machines and other 'customising' equipment and experts to help people adapt the clothes they have picked up into something new and exciting. The idea is called Swaporamarama and started in America.)
• Encouraging and promoting home clothes swapping parties. Swapping is the new shopping!
• Work with schools e.g. link up with school jumble sales, knitting and patterns on jumpers classes (??), finger knitting, booklets (??), after-school clubs. Possible contact for advice is Sibel from Shäbitat (sibel@leftover.co.uk )
• other notes: Ragroof Theatre and the Boston Museum
3) date for next meeting to be confirmed shortly. Contact Kat Neeser for details.
Notes from Textiles and Clothing group meeting – 6 December
