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| Mondays | 12-2pm: Textiles and upholstery 6-8pm: Bike repairs |
| Wednes | 11-1 – Woodwork and Tool Library 1-3pm: Textiles & Quiet drop In 6-7.30pm: Electrical and General |
| Fridays | 12-2pm: Textiles & General |
| Saturdays | 10-12: General & Tool Library |
A recent free workshop led by Matt Davies on screen printing looked great. Let’s hope, it can be the start of on-going work on Screen Printing in the Makery. Screen Printing is a perfect project which could bring together all the different areas of the Makery and suitable for all ages.
Wednesday 9th November – 1pm to 3pm
Saturday 12th November – 10.30am to 12.30pm
Come and grab some bargains and declutter your unneeded fabric and haberdashery.
Bring your unwanted fabric, thread, knitting yarn, buttons, zips, knitting needles, patterns, bits and bobs, swap for something you’ll use. And give a donation if you can to help keep us going!
To help us plan the event, please let us know you’re interested at makery-textiles-swap.eventbrite.co.uk
Buy fabric and craft supplies to start, or finish, your project / repair job / slow sew. Refresh your supplies and support the Makery.
This is more than a Sale:
The Makery is also a friendly community of makers. Share a cuppa and hints and tips to start a new soothing, calming piece of knitting or sewing, or learn how to take up a hem, make a door curtain and matching draft excluded, patch an elbow. To find out more how to join the makery to get updates see this page. If you want to support us with a one of or regular donation have a look here.
Here are the next Men in Sheds sessions.
| DAY | DATE | TIME |
Thursday | 3rd November 17th November 1st December 15th December | 6.30pm – 8.30pm |
Here are a couple of new sessions upcoming at the Makery. Please get in touch or come into a drop in if you are interested.
If you would like to book onto this workshop please do come down to the Makery workshop to sign up. The sign up form is by the entrance. Or just ask a volunteer to help.
This Rag Rug workshop is one of our ReCover and ReMake sessions. In these session we use recycled or reusable materials to make something artistic and/or useful. They are also aimed to be relaxing and social too. It’s a good way to find out what is happening at the Makery and you’ll be invited to join as a member and come back to drop in sessions to keep going with your projects if you want to.
Follow up Email to Retro Fit Workshop.
It was great to host Jonathan Atkinson from Carbon Coop / People Powered Retrofit on Saturday 14th of May. There was a fully booked and packed room at Tod College and some great feedback from those that came.
Here’s a couple of quick reports from Jonathan.
A big thanks to everyone who attended the workshop on Saturday, we’re reviewing your feedback and planning next steps, but there is clearly a lot of interest to build on.
And People Powered Retrofit’s website https://retrofit.coop/
Here are some useful links referenced in the workshop:
Carbon Co-op’s webinar programme
https://carbon.coop/carbon-co-op-webinar-programme/
and reports https://carbon.coop/reports-and-publications/
We’ll definitely do more work in this area so here’s how to keep in touch.
If you want to have a look at the session slides again. They are linked to here.
If you didn’t fill in a feedback form about what you would like to do next then you can do that online here.
Or if you didn’t come and want to come to future events you can also put your name and email down and we will invite you to future events.
HacktionLab presents “That tech is mine!”: a hacktionlab / barnCamp Reunion – featuring workshops and discussions on alt-media, radical tech collectives, right to repair, free and open source software, the maker mentality, and the old hacker ethic.
Bring what you expect to find
What to Expect: This event is an unconference with a wide range of themes broadly about technology, justice and the environment. See here for more on Hacktion Camp 2022.
Workshops will take place in the Makerspace – Todmorden Makery and other rooms in Todmorden College.
We will be camping in a scenic and sheltered location within Todmorden which is 10 mins walk to the college.
Cost: £25 covers room hire for venue and 2 meals (Sat lunch and Sun brunch – vegetarian with vegan options) – payable on arrival – please add any allergies to the comments section of the form.
Arrive with ideas of what you want to share and we’ll work together to create a schedule for the weekend. While this is an unconference and you are free to arrive with rough ideas. It is helpful to have some workshops planned and shared in advance. If you can please do add on to the workshops page here see our wiki page for the Event
Keeping in touch – Before the event it is a good idea to be on the hacktionlab email list and to ask questions there – you can sign up for that here.
Please do make sure you have a good understanding of what to expect from the event. Please see our wiki page for full details
Sat : 10.00 – 11.30 : 14th May 2022 ; FREE
Makery Workshop – Todmorden College
Followed by drop in advice session 11.30 – 12.30
What do we mean when we talk about energy efficiency and retrofit? In this short, beginners guide we explore basic ideas and concepts, helping you get to grips with how you might reduce energy bills, improve your property and make your home a little bit greener.
For: householders interested in energy efficiency and domestic retrofit, housing association staff, housing co-ops and landlords.
Trainers: Jonathan Atkinson
Carbon Co-op / People Powered Retrofit
More info and booking: https://retrofit.eventbrite.co.uk
We are supported by our members Todmorden Town Council and the Lottery community fundss, ,
Makery Workshop – Todmorden College
Come share your ideas for what activities we should organise at the Makery.
We are a member-run space. Mostly we have been building up drop-ins which are going great. Also recently there have been some great one-off workshops run by volunteers. But we might want to do more and we also have a budget to pay workshop leaders who can’t volunteer.
Come to this event to decide
This event is to ask our members, friends and partners What we should do next.
Or in other words what would you like to see at the Makery.
These are some great photos from Chris Foster of the photography club he is leading.
Are you interested in trying out or developing some personal reflective writing. This short series of workshops may help you with personal reflection, decision making, better mental health and general well being.
Places are limited so – Please Book – by emailing todmordenmakery <at> gmail.com
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Makery Workshop – Todmorden College – Burnley Road
This session is a chance to use the sewing and textiles equipment at the Makery.
It is also a way to get help with ongoing projects or to start new ones.
Here are some of the things that we may be able to help with.
We’ve moved things around so that there’s space for people to keep small projects in the workshop. Find out more here about how to join us as a member. todmordenmakery.org.uk/join/
So happy about the new display for the Todmorden Makery from Karen. Amazing art skills. This is a great image to sum up the Makery, friendly, multi-use workshop and happy to help.
A lot of productive chaos at the family fixit club
It’s time for some good old fashioned posters to spread the word on our weekly drop-in sessions – He’s a simple black and white one suitable for photocopiers!
