Learn how to upcycle your clothes and help the environment!

Name: Learn how to upcycle your clothes and help the environment!
Start: 2023-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

1:30 pm –

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1:30 pm –

Bradford Industrial Museum

Come along to this inspiring talk with Kwamena Boison, Co-Founder of The Revival, Ghana, to hear more about their solution-focused approach to the fashion waste that travels from the UK to Ghana. The talk will be followed by an upcycling workshop – please bring along some clothes that you are tired or bored of to get some ideas for how to breathe new life into them.
Join us on Thursday 2nd November at 1.30 pm at Bradford Industrial Museum to learn the art of clothes recycling!
Please call 01274 435900 or email: industrial.museum@bradford.gov.uk to book a free place.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Address

Moorside Mills, Moorside Road Eccleshill, Bradford, BD2 3HP

Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 4pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 4pm

Bank Holiday Opening Times: 11am – 4pm

All sites closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Good Friday

By car

Signposted from Bradford Ring Road and Harrogate Road (A658). Bus 645 from Market Street or Hall Ings. All buses stop at Moorside Road. On the museum site there is free car parking and disabled car parking.

By public transport

From Bradford City Centre, the 660 bus departs from Drake Street stop D1, (alight at Moorside Road), and the 645 departs from Hall Ings stop H11, (alight at Harrogate Road then an approx 10 min walk).

For help in planning your journey by public transport, please visit www.wymetro.com

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