This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.

Mending Workshop

Name: Mending Workshop
Start: 2025-09-27T11:00:00
End: 2025-09-27T15:00:00

In-person

Craft Design Fashion & costumes Fibre & textile arts Visual arts

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Date and time

Sat, Sep 27, 2025, 11:00AM - 3:00PM

Location

ArtSpeak Gallery

1942 Wyandotte Street East

Windsor, ON

Access

Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.

Offered in English.

Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.

About

If you’re concerned about the environmental impact of disposable clothing or just reluctant to say good-bye to a worn beloved garment, this workshop is for you.

You will learn some basic sewing skills so that you can easily and confidently mend small tears and holes in your fave clothes- no need to get rid of them! You will be introduced to invisible and decorative mending methods for patching holes and repairing torn seams in any woven fabrics.

Bring along a piece of your own clothes to repair or we will provide cloth for you to practice on. If you are bringing a piece of your own clothes and want to create an invisible mend you will need to bring along matching materials (scrap fabric for patches, and thread.) Otherwise, all materials are provided.

The workshop will run from 11am until noon and from 2pm until 3pm.

Organizer

Arts Council Windsor & Region

The Arts Council Windsor & Region (ACWR) is a community arts council and art service organization that serves all disciplines of individual artists, arts organizations, and non-arts partners in promoting, developing, and realizing creative activity since 1980. The organization provides the Windsor-Essex Region with valuable services, like ArtSpeak Gallery, professional development workshops, the New Voices program, free space arts residencies, individual grant consultation, an in-office resource library, a website which hosts updated resources, a community arts calendar, and the weekly ArtsNotes newsletter.

This event is part of a hub:

Windsor and Region Festival Hub

Arts Council Windsor & Region Windsor, ON

This year's Festival will include a variety of events including hands-on workshops, art exhibitions, studio tours, as well as a self-directed art walk from Walkerville to Ford City.