Breaks & Joins Podcast
These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and Unitarian Minister, Dr Sylvan Baker, founder of The Verbatim Formula,textile dyer Liz Honeybone from the National Theatre costume department, Theatre Designer Amanda Mascarenhas chatting with Mo Sumah, host of the Mend it with Mo repair cafe, Suzi Warren, founder of Stitch it Dont ditch it, theatre academics Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell on national identities, and Rachel Ho, ceramicist and creator of the scarred pots.They're interviewed by Sue Mayo, edited by Chuck Blue Lowry, music by Bob Karperhttp://www.suemayo.co.uk/
Breaks & Joins Podcast
Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell
Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library
Chris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the charity sector 20 years ago. In 2014 he found a way to combine his dual passions of environmental and social justice by starting the first tool library in the UK, and since then it has grown to encompass multiple sites across Edinburgh, where carbon heavy DIY equipment is shared and treated as an asset for the whole community to access. From this starting point, other projects have blossomed, driven by the community around the libraries, and now include a cycle kitchen, Repair Cafe Edinburgh, a draught-busting initiative supporting people in fuel poverty, a programme of weekend volunteer builds, and an outreach programme that specifically targets individuals from groups often excluded from the workshop environment and the trades and making industries. Chris believes that sharing gives access, access gives opportunity, and opportunities can change lives.
http://www.edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk
https://www.instagram.com/edinburghtoollibrary/
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