Upcoming Events…
Find Mardi from ReNewy Living at these events
Your go-to guide for local sustainability events in Newcastle, Central Coast & Hunter communities. This aims to be a valuable resource for our community – to help celebrate localness, promote positive health & wellbeing, promotes environmental awareness from different perspectives, and offers opportunities for personal and community growth.
Find Mardi from ReNewy Living at these events
Note – This is not a comprehensive page of all events in the area. This is a free community service by Renewy Living. Information is correct at publication time. Contact event hosts for availability, bookings, tickets, or more details.
Sunday 28th April 2024
9am, Croation Wickham Sports Club, 20 Albert Street, Wickham
Note – This is not a comprehensive page of all events in the area. This is a free community service by Renewy Living. Information is correct at publication time. Contact event hosts for availability, bookings, tickets, or more details.
Saturday 5th May 2024
10am- 12pm, Forecourt, 18 Wolfe Street (outside High Tea with Mrs Woo)
Join HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO on the streets for Fashion Revolution Week’s first global Mend in Public Day. GOLD-MEND IN PUBLIC DAY is High Tea with Mrs Woo’s take on this global event. Learn a life skill – mend to extend the life of your clothing and textiles! We will be showing Kintsugi for Clothing gold-mending techniques to repair your favourite garments. Free Registrations Essential…
Saturday 4th May 2024
9.15am – 11.30am, Belmont Library
Can you sew a straight line or use an iron? Do you have fabric you can donate? Do you want to help prevent used fabric going to landfill and being part of the circular economy? Join us for a social sewing morning at the Belmont Library “Make and Mend Space”. We’ll be making bags from rescued fabric to share with others. Sewing machines provided.
Sunday 5th May 2024
10am – 12.30pm, Valentine Community Hall
Presented by the Valentine Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group will help you to understand your energy use, make your house more energy efficient, understand solar systems and what options are available. Hear case studies and chat with locals who have solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Free registrations here…
Starting on Monday 6th May 2024
4pm – 6pm, Upcycle Newcastle
Over 4 weeks, we will teach your kids and teens everything they need to kick start their basic sewing machine skills. Aimed at 9+ year olds, we offer project based teaching, with students completing items of a pencil/pen wrap and simple backpack with drawstrings and straps.
Saturday 11th May 2024
9.30am – 11am, Summerhill Waste Management Centre
This workshop will give you all the tools you need to turn your simple food scraps into a natural fertilizer, reducing landfill and greenhouse gas emissions. At the end of the workshop you will be able to purchase your chosen home composting product online with 75% off RRP, plus FREE delivery! Details and bookings here…
Saturday 4th May 2024
1pm – 2.30pm North Cessnock Community Hall
This FREE community-focused event helps celebrate your individual fashion style by sourcing new-for-you quality clothing without spending a cent. Meet others who share a common purpose by participating in this positive impact event – to reduce textile waste through preloved fashion. Free Registrations here…
Saturday 18th May 2024
9am – 2pm – Medowie Community Centre & Lions Park
Join us for a fantastic community day full of workshops, activities, live entertainment, local community groups, speakers, a huge market, street food, live tunes, kids zone, preloved stalls, gourmet produce & more, featuring a host of sustainable initiatives!
Friday 24th May 2024
9am – 11.30pm, Hive & Gobbler Dungog
Be introduced to the magic and beauty of natural dyeing. Learn which plants and kitchen waste to used, how to mordant protein and cellulose fibres and the technique of extraction dyeing.
Saturday 25th May 2024
10.30am – 3.30pm, Hive & Gobbler Dungog
This workshop will give you the opportunity to use fabric scraps, clothes or old linen and learn how to turn them into a rug. Learn a technique that requires no equipment!
Sunday 26th May 2024
10am – 3pm, Hive & Gobbler Dungog
A free entry market day with 30+ stallholders for the market trader’s day.
Sunday 26th May 2024
9am, Croation Wickham Sports Club, 20 Albert Street, Wickham
Note – This is not a comprehensive page of all events in the area. This is a free community service by Renewy Living. Information is correct at publication time. Contact event hosts for availability, bookings, tickets, or more details.
Saturday 1st June 2024
9.30am – 11.30am Starts at the Newcastle Repair Cafe at Wallsend Library
The guided op shop and preloved trail gives you confidence to step into the preloved shops and learn how to op shop with purpose. With your guide Mardi Lee from ReNewy Living, discover the best tips for how to op shop, delight in the affordable pricing, and learn about the uniqueness of second hand shopping, in addition to the advantages of shopping at more than one op shop.
Saturday 1st June 2024
9.15am – 11.30am, Belmont Library
Can you sew a straight line or use an iron? Do you have fabric you can donate? Do you want to help prevent used fabric going to landfill and being part of the circular economy? Join us for a social sewing morning at the Belmont Library “Make and Mend Space”. We’ll be making bags from rescued fabric to share with others. Sewing machines provided.
Saturday 1st June 2024
9.30am – 12pm, Wallsend Library
Bring your much-loved broken items back to life at the Newcastle Libraries Repair Café! Now held on the first Saturday of every second month at various library and community locations across Newcastle.
Sunday 23rd June 2024
9am, Croatian Wickham Sports Club, 20 Albert Street, Wickham
Note – This is not a comprehensive page of all events in the area. This is a free community service by Renewy Living. Information is correct at publication time. Contact event hosts for availability, bookings, tickets, or more details.
Saturday 27th July 2024
10am – 2pm, Club Macquarie (Argenton)
The Early Childhood Resources Market provides early childhood professionals, families, our local community and beyond with the opportunity to shop in the comfort of a free indoor, air-conditioned market area.
Note – This is not a comprehensive page of all events in the area. This is a free community service by Renewy Living. Information is correct at publication time. Contact event hosts for availability, bookings, tickets, or more details.
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