Saturday 24 June 2023 10:30am – 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join visual artist, Xin Cheng, for a meditative workshop repurposing local organic material offcuts into versatile woollen felt. Felt from wool is the oldest known textile, originates in central Asia, and has many traditional practical uses such as shelter, clothing and…

Saturday 29 July 2023 10:30am – 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join Compost Collective facilitator/artist Adam Ben-Dror and artist Xin Cheng this Plastic Free July, and ask the question ‘WHAT COULD A BROKEN WASHING MACHINE BECOME?’. This will be a fun and interactive workshop where broken washing machines are transformed and upcycled…

Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30pm – 6:30pm Nov 1st to Dec 8th 2022 Onehunga Community Recycling Centre, 37 Victoria St, Onehunga 6 week after school program exploring creative re-use, repair, upcycling and hacking of various e-waste including computers, “smart” phones, keyboards, laptops, toasters, home appliances and anything else we find at the recycling centre!

Saturday 26 Nov 2022 11am – 2pm Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub, 153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland Join us for a restorative mending afternoon, and repair beloved garments with your own creative flair! We offer hands-on guidance on darning, patching and other visible mending techniques. Bring your own mending, sewing or upcycling project.

Thursday 10 Nov 2022 1pm – 2:15pm Online event Join Xin and Adam for this online talk where they will share stories from two community projects in Taipei and Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), where convivial making with ‘waste’ materials has opened up possiblities for frugal ingenuity, intergenerational knowledge-sharing, regenerating hearts and social connections.

Thursday 5 May 2022 6pm – 8pm Led by Zoe Thompson-Moore Making shift, combined ‘any number of expedients: kin support and complex patterns of co-residence; gentry hospitality and communal charity; migration and mendicancy; petty theft and the embezzlement of perquisites’. Making shift in rural England also involved ‘drawing one’s resources from a range of natural sources’ and could […]…

Sat 30 April 2022 2pm – 4pm Led by Joanna Langford What if when we wanted new things, like clothes, tools or materials, instead of heading to the mall, we took the time to look around and see the potential in what we already have, what could we borrow, fix, adapt, reinvent or simply do…

Thursday 28 April 2022 6pm – 8pm Led by Adam Ben-Dror & Xin Cheng

Saturday 23 April 2022 2pm – 4pm Led by Stella Carruthers & Xin Cheng Join us for a restorative mending afternoon, and repair beloved garments with your own creative flair! We offer hands-on guidance on darning, patching and other visible mending techniques. Bring your own mending, sewing or upcycling project.

Thursday 21 April 2022 6pm – 8pm Led by Linda Lee From the book Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook, 2020.

Thursday 14 April 2022 5:30pm – 7pm Led by Waste Free Welly How would you imagine a Wellington that invests in a community resource recovery network? Hear Waste Free Welly’s vision for a waste free city, and join us in the co-design for a community resource recovery network.

Saturday 2nd April 2022 3:30pm – 6pm Led by Adam Ben-Dror & Lee Nicolson What happens if we treat our e-waste as valuable components rather than material? What new and useful things could be made by Identifying and recombining functioning parts? Join Adam and Lee in an exploration of the possibilities.

Thursday 17 March 2022 6pm – 8pm Led by Xin Cheng

Thursday 10 March 2022 6pm – 8pm Led by Xin Cheng