Creative Brain Week

Sue spent an amazing week in Dublin with the Global Brain Health conference. She was asked to lead a daily Breaks and Joins workshop, exploring repair in all its forms. This was part of a workshop programme that gave people the opportunity to work creatively, often non verbally, among a packed programme of speakers and […]

Art Deco Lamp

Our regular workshop, On the Mend, is at the Telegraph Hill Centre, where we are alongside Mend it with Mo, the drop in repair café run by Mo Sumah once a month, and then have our own sessions in between. When the repair café is on, we invite people to tell us about what they’ve […]

Paper Making

On the Mend, our regular group at Telegraph Hill centre, uses art, creative writing and conversation, to reflect gently on all things repair.  In the Autumn of 2023, we were experimenting with printing, and with paper making. To make the paper, Amanda tore up huge quantities of newspaper to make the most glorious mush, which […]

Nunhead Repair Cafe

I’m visiting repair cafés to see how other people do it. Our home base, Mend it with Mo, is a one-man enterprise, on a Monday lunchtime. Sometimes there are few people, sometimes there’s a queue.  I decided to take my kettle to The Nunhead repair Café in South London. I got to know about them […]