Community Weave: A Vision for Our Future is an invitation for those wanting to see the Village of Spring Valley thrive. By creating color-coded woven squares, folks will get to cast their vote for the events and offerings they'd like to see happen at Memorial Park.

The final tapestry will be a visual display of our collective hopes and dreams, and the first step towards making them a reality. Please join us for a time of connection, imagination, and calming productivity as we shape the future we want to see together.

Register: www.bit.ly/communityweave314

About Us: The Spring Valley Placemakers is a local working group dedicated to the social, economic, and ecological restoration of Memorial Park and its surrounding area. 

This program is made possible with funding from the Arts Council of Rockland's Art4All grant.

Do you have a pile of clothes in need of repair? A top you never reach for? Come to Women’s Studio Workshop to mend with a friend! Join us on Monday, March 9th from 6-8PM for our second Meet & Make night and revamp your wardrobe!

🪡RSVP link in bio. While not required, this will help us best prepare the amount of supplies and snacks to provide for the event. Drop in or stay awhile!

🧵Mending supplies and simple printing methods will be available to make patches or print onto clothing. Not sure how to mend? We can figure it out together!

🧶While we will not have sewing machines available for use, we will have needles, thread, embroidery hoops, stamps, and fabric scraps, glue, and ink! Feel free to bring in additional supplies.

Please note, this is not a workshop, and no formal instruction will be given. All levels are welcome, we just ask that you come with an open mind and eagerness to learn as you go! Some informational guides will be available and we encourage skill sharing!

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. A suggested sliding scale donation of $5-20 is encouraged but no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Join the Junior League of Kingston at @maison.apres for a Sustainable Clothing Swap! Refresh your wardrobe in an eco-friendly way! Bring up to ten pieces of gently loved women’s clothing, purses, or shoes (in good condition—no stains or rips, please) and swap them for new-to-you treasures.

Enjoy refreshments while mingling with members of the Junior League to learn more about the impactful work we do in our community. ((No membership interest required—all are welcome!))

✨ Free to attend with exciting door prizes!
How it works:🔹 Arrive at Maison Apres (101 Abeel St., Kingston) between 12-1 PM to hang and display your items.🔹 At 1 PM, the swapping fun begins!

We can’t wait to see you there!
RSVP appreciated but not required by DM or email to jlkingstonny@gmail.com

Hands-on Workshop in mending and mindful handcraft with Namai Studio - Details TBA

Colorant 146 Main Street Beacon, NY 12508

Follow @shopcolorant for updates

Join us for Sip Swap Tailor Shop! A swap with a little more to offer! As usual, you’ll be able to swap clothing, accessories & beauty products with your fellow swappers PLUS we will be debuting Chambers Alterations

Bring your clothing items in need of tailoring or a quick fix. Have your items pinned and chalked by our in-house tailors for seamless size adjustments or a reimagined look.

SIP SWAP TAILOR SHOP

Hosted by @sipandswap_nyc

Friday Oct 24 | 5-7pm | $35

At Chambers Vintage| 228A Main St Saugerties NY

Join us on Friday, October 24th at Colorant Beacon for a vibrant Community Indigo Vat Dyeing session! In collaboration with NY Fibershed, we'll be offering an open indigo dipping station - just $15 to dye. Bring your undyed garments and textiles you'd like to experiment with, or even old favorites you want to give a fresh indigo life!

4-7 pm

Colorant 146 Main Street Beacon, NY 12508

Follow @shopcolorant for updates

The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, Sustainable Hudson Valley, and Circularly PBC are working on a Circular Economy Strategic Plan to keep valuable materials in use, create local jobs, and reduce landfill waste. We are analyzing new opportunities for reuse and recycling-based businesses, and for increasing coordinated waste diversion by working with a wider network of businesses and organizations. This project directly supports the launch of the ReP0WER Project Reuse Innovation Center and lays groundwork for regional action.


Don’t miss our launch party! October 23, 2025 from 6 - 8 pm at RBW Lighting, 575 Boices Lane in Kingston. Delicious appetizers catered by Stone Soup. Project Briefing. Come share your expertise and vision. 6 - 8 pm Registration required.

On October 14, Microsoft is ending free support for Windows 10. This decision lead to an enormous increase in electronic waste. As a result, this year's International Day of Repair which takes place on October 18th focuses on this issue. The Open Repair Alliance, an international group of repair advocate organizations including Repair Cafe International, is helping community groups around the world save laptops from landfill by either keeping them running on Windows 10 or helping upgrading them to a Linux operating system. This international group effort will then collect data to show just how large scale this movement can be when working together to save electronics from premature obsolescence.

On October 18th, there are many repair cafes taking place throughout the Hudson Valley - find the one nearest to you on the list below:

Can’t make it to this one? Repair cafes happening monthly throughout the Hudson Valley. visit https://www.repaircafehv.org/ and follow @repaircafehudsonvalley for more information!

Mid-Hudson Valley DSA & Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley are hosting a community Clothing Swap at teh Kingston Farmer’s Market:

Come find your new favorite sweater just in time for these chilly nights! Think pumpkins, skeletons, and the fall community clothing swap! Hosted by MHVDSA and Trans Closet at the Kingston Farmers Market on October 4th.

Do you have a winter coat you don’t need? Consider donating it to start off our inventory for our winter coat drive.

285 Wall Street, Kingston NY

More information available on their Instagram Page

Fall Clothing Swap at Capital Vintage

Tuesday, September 30th at 11am - 5pm

at Capital Vintage

54 N Front Street, Kingston NY

Please bring your own bag: Bring what you want & take what you need!

We are forever grateful we get to host this amazing event in the gorgeous @senategarage and thank you to @coworkkingston for their ongoing support of our swap!

**As usual, the swap will be free to attend and free to take. But we encourage resellers to donate if they plan to come to the event and take as the event is meant to be a swap. Please be considerate of the effort that goes into this event and the generosity of the community overall who take the time to clean out their closets, pack up their goodies and make this swap such a success!!

Join us for our 3rd Annual Organic Runway Show is Friday, September 26th, at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, NY.

Run of show:

Doors + Taproom open at 4pm

Music by Ginger Winn from 5pm - 5:45pm

Parking lot closes at 5:50pm

Show starts at 6:00pm

Parking lot reopens at 6:30pm

Meet the Designers, Eat, Dance 6:30pm - 9pm

Our Designers:

Caitlyn Kiara Couture // la vie après l'amour //  Mixed Color // MLE // Olga +Ella // Slow Process // So Vicki // Touch Threads // The Marist Collective

Rose Hill Farm
19 Rose Hill
Red Hook, NY 12571

Tickets are available now:

Join NY Textile Lab for the 2025 Carbon Farm Tour:

Experience a hands-on, educational event exploring how textile sourcing can positively impact climate change and regional economies.

DATE:

Saturday, September 13th, 1pm-5pm

LOCATION:

Faraway Farm Alpacas
1307 Baptist Church Rd
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Watch the 2024 Carbon Farm Tour film

About New York Textile Lab :

NYTL is a design and consulting company offering products and services that support Carbon Farming practices, creating yarns and textiles that link designers with local fiber producers and mills. We help build a diverse, regenerative textile supply ecosystem, empowering designers to make socially and environmentally responsible choices.

Our textiles are made with fibers grown on healthy, climate-beneficial soils in our region and crafted by transparent, ethical, and local mills.

We believe textile production should thrive through regenerative, collaborative systems, not extraction or scarcity. Connect with NY Textile Lab and be part of a regenerative textile economy.

Join us on Friday, August 8th from 5-7 for a PLUS SIZE, GENDER FREE clothing swap. Please bring clean, XL+ clothes, shoes and accessories of wearable, sharable quality to exchange or give away. You don't need to bring clothes to take clothes home! All clothing left behind will be given to local clothing resource centers. Please contact @xxtrare with any questions.

Unicorn Bar

224 Foxhall Ave
Kingston, NY 12401

Community Clothing Swap Friday July 18th at Little Loaf Bakeshop in New Paltz 2-4pm!

No donation required to participate - Come pick out you new favorite summer fit :) Or catch up on that spring cleaning and drop off a donation.

PLEASE only donate clean, freshly laundered clothing in good condition.

Organized by the Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley

Clothing not swapped will be donated to Thrift 2 Fight

Little Loaf Bake Shop

218 Main St, New Paltz, NY 12561

Community Clothing Swap Organized by The Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley at the Kingston Farmer’s Market. Free & open to all.

Email transclosethv@gmail.com to donate or volunteer.

📍The Kingston Farmer’s Market
285 Wall Street, Kingston, New York 12401

Capital Vintage Clothing Swap

Thursday, May 1st

Senate Garage, 4N Front Street, Kingston NY

bring what you can - take what you need

Early drop off is on! Starting March 6th you can drop your clothing donations for the swap to Capital Vintage during shop hours at 54 N Front Street. We STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EARLY DROP OFF BUT YOU CAN BRING GOODS ON SWAP DAY.

***We will be limiting quantities this time around. 1 large IKEA-sized bag/equivalent per person to take home. You are welcome to return after 3 pm if you would like to do a second pass of shopping. The purpose of this event is for a free, inclusive shopping experience to help keep clothing out of landfills. Please be respectful of the event.

More Info at www.shopcapitalvintage.com

Bring clothes that need mending, a chair or blanket, and your sewing kits! Station Square lawn is right on the Rail Trail, join neighbors, friends, and new acquaintances! An annual day of collective action during Fashion Revolution week, stitch in protest against disposable fashion.

📍Station Square by Pasquale’s Restaurant in Gardiner, NY

Clothing Swap at the Newburgh Farmer’s Market. Celebrate Earth month with your neighbors! Meet us on the stage on the Safe Harbor Green for the second annual community clothing swap. Details & drop-off locations TBA

📍The stage on the Safe Harbors Green, Corner of Broadway & Liberty Street in Newburgh, NY

Michelle Zelena + maison après are pleased to invite you to a clothing swap + stitch event where you can swap your old items for something 'new-to-you', and also add any quick embroidery or mends on the spot!

We are also accepting new childrens clothing (with tags are a bonus) + accessories (no toys please) at this one. Sliding scale - pay what you can! BYO B(AG)

MAXIMUM TEN (10) ITEMS! RSVP REQUIRED

Noon - 1pm, arrive + drop off items, 1pm - 4pm swapping + stitching

101 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY

Don’t have anything to swap, but still wanna shop + embroider? Please join us! 

Drinks sponsored by Kingbird | Treats sponsored by Spring & Mulberry

Monthly Mending & Crafting Night

Thrift 2 Fight, Tivoli, NY

48 Broadway, Tivoli, NY 12583

Watching something come together at the slight of (your) hand is an empowering experience. The confidence to create a visible repair, the ability to fix something so carefully that no one would know it's been broken, the freedom to make a decision of bringing an artwork to life... let's build it together.

We're hosting a casual gathering for clothing mending and upcycling. We will supply materials, including lots of extra fabric to use for patching. Feel free to bring extra materials to share! If you don't have anything in your closet that needs repairing but want to engage in the loving act of mending, come anyway: we have a project bin of cool clothes that need TLC so maybe you'll find one you like to repair and take home for free xx

Wednesday, March 5th 6-7:30pm

Bring: yourself, your project, and fixing materials (optional)

Learn More about Thrift 2 Fight Here

Go even Greener this St. Patrick’s day at this Mending Workshop at the Marlboro Library. Free to attend - all materials are provided.

Bring a piece of clothing that needs some repairs (small holes, stains, missing buttons etc.), and let's artfully mend them together! Mending supplies will be provided, as well as snacks and refreshments. All skill levels welcome. $1 off any cafe drink for mending participants!

*We are also partnering with Brunette Wine Bar! All mending participants receive a 15% off coupon for wine, beer, + food, to be used on any Thursday or Friday evening! 

Tickets are $10

Saturday March 15th, 1pm - 3pm

101 Abeel St, Kingston NY 12401

 Join us on March 1st from 12-3 PM at Maison Après (101 Abeel St, Kingston) for a fun and sustainable clothing swap! Bring up to five gently used women’s clothing items, shoes, or purses (free of stains or rips) and trade them for some fabulous new-to-you finds.

 While you’re there, enjoy a complimentary glass of wine or prosecco and mingle with Junior League members to learn more about our mission and the impact we’re making in the Kingston community. 

A stylish way to refresh your wardrobe—for a great cause! If you’ve ever been curious about joining the League or learning more about what we do- now is the time! 

We look forward to seeing you! RSVP appreciated but not required: By DM or email to jlkingstonny@gmail.com 

In honor of Valentine’s Day, give your wardrobe some TLC. During this free community mending workshop, you will also have a chance to learn a simple monogram embroidery technique using hot glue!