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Idea Box Integrated Arts provides residencies which blend art-making and performance to give students a forum for expressing their own artistic vision.

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BYOB Mending Clinic (Ages 21+)

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Bring your favorite beverage & your mending basket and let's get stitching! We provide materials, tools & assistance- you bring the booze!

Are all those little repairs sitting in the corner staring you down? We're here to help! Bring a beverage (or just yourself and your mending) and join us for an early evening stitch-n-b*tch one Saturday a month. And, bonus-- as soon as you fix it, you can wear it out to wherever you're going next!

We provide:

  • Tables you don't have to clean off before you use them

  • Pins & Needles you don't have to locate before you start or clean out of your carpet when you're done.

  • Black, white, and tan thread (please BYO thread if you need a specific color match)

  • Sewing machines

  • Professional textile artists to advise, consult, and help you figure out how to un-jam the sewing machines.

  • Scrap fabrics and trims

  • Iron and board

  • Jewelry pliers, jump rings, really good lighting, and someone else to help you hold the thing while you do the other thing.

  • Necklace clasps

Also available for a nominal fee:
These are items that usually have to be purchased in packs or multi-project quantities. We sell them at a per-item price so that you don't have to buy a $7 pack of snaps when all you need is a single $1 snap.

  • Buttons

  • Snaps

  • Fusible interfacing

This event is open to students ages 21+ at all levels of experience.

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Earlier Event: May 31
Family Improv Jam (All Ages)