{"title": "MONDAY MENDING CLUB", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.instagram.com/monday_mending_club/?hl=en-gb", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/repair/textile-repair"], "description": "Monday Mending Club is a monthly drop-in gathering where you bring something to mend, with shared tools and guidance for beginners. It was set up by Walthamstow-based textile artist Mika Sembongi as a reaction to the climate crisis with an emphasis on positive action. Since February 2022 it has introduced complete beginners to traditional invisible mending and the Japanese craft of Sashiko, where a repair becomes a creative stitched design to wear with pride. The focus is on the meditative joy of craft, friendly chat and supporting each other, and no booking is needed - just turn up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/monday-mending-club-45707/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61ff8cee4457c6fcb6592627c360aef0d7b6a8ace0de6ea901b99d9328e708f8-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Monday Morning Crafting", "start": "2026-11-02T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T13:00:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "Free to attend, registration essential; all materials provided", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/textile-crafts"], "description": "Monday Morning Crafting is an open, group-led textiles workshop at The Create Place, where members sew, knit and alter clothes with mutual tutoring, cake and plenty of chat. Run for over 10 years by long-standing volunteers Sheila and Julia at St. Margaret's House, the group often turns discarded textile scraps into tote-bags for the charity shop with Ayoka, and has collaborated with the house's Arts & Wellbeing initiatives, including the Artist in Residence programme. 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It is led by sustainable textile artist Shama Kun, an expert practitioner, who teaches the techniques used to create individual and collective works. Participants make colourful, detailed pieces inspired by a theme, such as \"Women's Empowerment\", which can be added to clothing or used as decorative art. 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It is led by artist Martin King, who also offers alterations, and treats the mending as both a material and a cultural repair. Participants receive a reflective prompt beforehand and an encouraged reading list spanning works by authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Audre Lorde. Taking place on Halloween, the workshop invites thought on how we may mask or unmask our identities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop-41800/", "official_url": "https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/event/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63f8977d09e2de904d1050e189a2120f200b42057b9c341a9ea3597ecfd66149-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Made By Hands: The Fabric of Creative Action", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "Free, booking essential. Donations welcome.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000576910393?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/textile-art", "society/sustainability"], "description": "Made By Hands: The Fabric of Creative Action is an intergenerational textile workshop series held fortnightly at The Showroom in London. It is led by artist Kim Chin, a multidisciplinary artist, designer, facilitator, curator, and community organiser. Through textile banner-making, silk-screen print and conversation, participants will explore themes such as connection to place, re-claiming 'waste' within circular economic frameworks, and inspiring agency and action within communities, in the context of The Showroom's annual Mural Commission by Bahar Noorizadeh. 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Participants bring their own sewing, patchwork or embroidery, and can learn a new skill with a tutor. It takes place at The Mill, a community space on Coppermill Lane in Walthamstow, London. Project kits are occasionally available for a small cost, with a £2 donation to The Mill asked for entry.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sociable-sewing-42481/", "official_url": "https://themille17.org/events/sociable-sewing-18-2026-10-27/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20a534803c157a8051721560f7b696d6cbeae649081438ce010e80cefd93a07-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mandem & Nandem: Intergenerational Craft", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "place": "Prince of Peckham", "address": "Clayton Road 1, SE15 5JA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/knitting"], "description": "Mandem & Nandem: Intergenerational Craft is a knitting and crochet gathering where creativity brings people together. It is hosted at the Prince of Peckham and welcomes everyone, whatever their age, skill or experience level. Guests share skills, swap stories and learn from one another across generations while keeping traditional craft skills alive. Bring your needles, hooks and yarn for a relaxed session of conversation, creativity and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mandem-nandem-intergenerational-craft-43533/", "official_url": "https://princeofpeckham.co.uk/listings/mandem-nandem-intergenerational-craft-13/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6cd6be31f33c7b6e30168d448f81855f4e8e1d5660c4f27c64e5a87ea393893-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Permacomputing Club", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/repair", "science/technology"], "description": "Permacomputing Club is a weekly community gathering at a Peckham venue devoted to resilient, sustainable, low-tech alternatives to modern computing. It is organised by Ana Meisel and Margot McEwen and hosted every Monday evening at SET Social. Driven by anti-capitalist values and inspired by permaculture, degrowth, decolonial thinking and intersectional feminism, the club opposes tech monopolies and resource-heavy systems like AI. Sessions centre on collective discussion and hands-on repair rather than solo tinkering, and everyone is welcome, with women and non-binary folks particularly encouraged to join.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/permacomputing-club-38480/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ace7f4a7a474c8501ac951e57d12a485b71cc250dfd9060d663201d94d7a60b0-2000.webp"}]}