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GUERRILLA REPAIR ACTION
Fri 22 May
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Join this exciting interactive action from your phone or laptop and meet like-minded makers. All levels of skills welcome! Sign up here: https://collaction.org/Projects/slow-fashion-season-2020/174/details Find the facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/292298488461318/
Time & Location
22 May 2020, 17:00 – 18:00 BST
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About the event
This Friday, XR Fashion Action, Slow Fashion Season and CollAction, an organisation dedicated to massive collective actions and originators of Slow Fashion Season, team up to host a guerrilla repair action. The workshop takes place in response to the imminent re-opening of shops. Activists will take to their streets - or balconies or front rooms - to make, mend and repair old clothing.
“Previously, these Guerrilla Repair Actions took place with larger groups in shopping malls and streets,” says co-ordinator Mara de Pater. “Given the COVID-19 restrictions, which we of course want to honour, this is challenging.”
The group will therefore be meeting up in Dam Square, Amsterdam - with proper distance between each person - and experimenting with online participation.
Alongside chats and interviews, the feed will then be shared through an Instagram Livesteam on @xrboycottfashion and @slowfashionseason, in order to showcase the beautiful alternatives that exist to the…