Rethread Boston

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Location: 1 City Hall Square, Boston

Right Next to Government Center Station on the Green Line. Parking and parking validation available at Quincy Market across the street.

Do you love clothes with soul, immersive art, skilled classes, and community?

Join us for Boston’s largest-ever clothing swap, where you’ll update your fall wardrobe with special finds curated by your neighbors. Bring your favorite clothes with holes that need patching or stains that we can cover with silk screen printed logos and plant dyes to bring your favorite fits back to life.

There will be delicious soul food, coffee and tea too!. As well as hands-on classes, live artists and exhibitions: a grand opportunity to meet people who share your passion for fashion and a livable future. See the full schedule and featured artists below!

Fun for all ages and stages, including kiddos - and calm, leashed companion animals.

Beginning at noon until 2pm, our attendees will be welcomed to mix and mingle as they bring up to five pieces of clothing they love and want to give away to the exchange (in addition to a few items they want to rejuvenate). Our stations for plant dying, silk screen printing, repairs, and a bioplastic jewelry-making table will be available for you too, and perfect for all ages!

Attendees are welcome to take away as many articles of clothing as they want!

However, we ask that if you bring clothes to give you keep it to 1-5 pieces.

And for the repair-mending station, the limit is one piece of clothing!

However, you there is no limit (just a line potentially) for plant dying and silk-screen printing!

From noon to 6pm, our attendees are welcome to join interactive presentations about the future of sustainable fashion, biotechnology with mushrooms and fruit leathers, and revolutionary textile solutions to keep our city cool in the future. All of our stations will be buzzing as you enjoy live artists painting, view original exhibitions by local artists, and of course find and fix your new favorite clothes

Bring a friend or two or five and please reserve your spot here to let us know you're joining and to sign up for notifications of similar events near you in the future.

This event is complimentary thought you can donate here if you want to support our work hosting nature walks, mushroom festivals, and art meet-ups and providing peer counseling.

Please feel free to join anytime and depart anytime as it useful for you.

Bay Staters for Creative Well-Being

Building healthful community through creative art and nature education

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