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Campus Clothes Swap next week ♻

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The Clothes Swap is back for 2024! 🌈
 
 
What: Campus Clothes Swap
When: Tuesday 14 May, 11am – 1pm (drop in any time)
Where: Te Rua Makerspace, Level 2, Puaka-James Hight Library
Cost: FREE!
 
How does it work?
 
🧣Bring along a maximum of five good quality, clean items that you no longer need or want, and you get to take home some groovy new threads, for FREE!
 
👗Swapping starts at 11am. You are welcome to drop your clothing donations in Te Rua Makerspace from 9am onwards on the event day. The Swap will run until 1pm.
 
🧤Please note we will only accept clothes/shoes/accessories that are in good, clean, pre-loved condition.
 
Spread the word, start going through your wardrobes, and we hope to see you there for some slow fashion fun!  ✨
 
This event is part of UC’s Waste Education campaign, which runs from 29 April – 17 May 2024.
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Worm Farm Workshop

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Join UC Sustainability this International Compost Awareness Week to learn about worm farming!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kaitlyn Lamb from the UC Compost Club will teach you tips and tricks for starting a worm farm, caring for your worms, and help trouble shoot some common problems with time for Q&A. Learn how worm farming can help you reduce food waste, while creating rich healthy soil for your garden. 🐛🐛

The workshop is taking place on Thursday 9 May, 11am – 12pm, at our on-campus worm farm, which is located outside Chiltons Cafe.

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Repair Cafe at UC next week

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Repair, don’t replace! 🛠🧵

Students and staff are invited to bring along their broken items to UC Sustainability’s pop-up ‘Repair Cafe’ and have them repaired for free by our team of volunteers. Let’s all work together to keep our stuff out of landfill!

What: Repair Cafe

When: Wednesday 8 May, 11am – 1pm

Where: Te Rua Makerspace, Level 2, Puaka-James Hight Library

Drop in with your items at any time during the event. Volunteers will be able to help with:

  • Darning, hand sewing and glueing
  • General clothing and textile repair
  • Jewellery repair
  • Shoe repair including glue, stitching, sole fixing, eyelet repair and replacement
  • Industrial sewing for more heavy-duty items, like canvas or bag repair
  • Leather stitching and leather hole punching
  • Eyeglasses repair
  • Iron on patching for clothing like denim and waterproof/puffa jackets.

Item not on the list? Bring it along and we’ll see what we can do! (no electronics sorry). If we can’t help you, we can point you in the right direction of somewhere who can.

If you have repair skills and would like to be involved as a volunteer, please email chloe.sutton@canterbury.ac.nz.

This event is part of UC’s Waste Education campaign, running 29 April – 17 May 2024.