Space to share a meal, celebrate neighbourhood care and repair, and open up work on Neighbourhood Public Square and Retrofit House together.

We warmly look forward to welcoming you all back for our next Neighbourhood Supper Club on Tuesday 20th October 2026. Together we'll share a tasty meal, celebrate the creative, joyful practices of care and repair that our neighbourhood(s) are known for with a range of incredible makers, builders, artists and more, and open up progress and opportunities within the journeys ahead for Neighbourhood Public Square (https://medium.com/neighbourhood-public-square) and Retrofit House (https://civicsquare.notion.site/Retrofit-House-Open-House-28eb14daefb68062a8f4cfc8c0e2f232).

Whether you join us from near or far, Neighbourhood Supper Clubs will continue to be a key space to reconnect as we begin a new chapter of organising, learning, graft, craft, safety, care, deep reimagination and endless possibility together ahead, as we make preparations to begin construction on site(s).

This month that includes exploring possibilities for the material enquiries in our neighbourhoods, a Re_ Club Autumn marketplace, and a chance to look back at the incredible summer and it's learnings.

Whatever your interests and involvement so far — and whether you'd like to drop in or spend the whole evening with us — please know there is room for you, and we'd love to see you there.

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Activities

Welcome Foyer — The Workshop

Site as a Classroom

Drop in to the exhibition space in the foyer from 4pm to connect with our ongoing Pre-Deconstruction Audit work as well as the recent Partition Wall Co-Build at the Neighbourhood Public Square site. Sarah King & Catriona from the CIVIC SQUARE team will be around to share our processes, what we're learning and why this matters as we start to put our Design for Reuse principle into practice together on site.

Design & Construction Club Gallery Space

An update on what our young designers and builders on our Design & Construction Club have been up to since our last Supper Club. If you have a child/children aged between 10-16 and they're interested in design and construction, join this session to meet some of the MATT + FIONA (https://mattandfiona.org/) team as they share the programme so far. This will also be an opportunity to share your interest for when the next cohort of children join the programme.

Ashton Room — Retrofit House

Retrofit House Updates with Huma + Brodie

Join Huma from Material Cultures alongside Brodie from CIVIC SQUARE for an update on the Retrofit House demonstrator.This is a drop-in space for anyone interested in the design process, wanting to understand where we are in the construction timeline, or curious to contribute to the emerging strategies across materials, energy and skills.We’ll bring drawings to sketch over, material possibilities to touch and feel, and key questions to explore collectively — creating space to ask questions, share knowledge and contribute to the house as it takes shape.

Duffield Room — The Studio

Neighbourhood Public Square Updates

An oportunity to talk to the CIVIC SQUARE team to find out about the plans for the Neighbourhood Public Square and how you can get involved.

Site Culture

As we enter the construction phase for the Neighbourhood Public Square site, how are we thinking about a site that is healthy, safe and equitable for everyone who comes to site?

Simister Hall — The Market

Gadget Garage with Khushmeet & Gurdial

Gadget Garage is a community initiative that teaches basic electronic and device repair skills to local residents of all ages. Our aim is to save household devices from an early retirement, promoting self-sufficiency, reducing e-waste, sustainability and best of all saving money. Helping people build practical skills because sometimes all a gadget needs is a little TLC... and someone who knows which screwdriver to use. This session was formally referred to as BCU Repair lab.

Wear It Out: Stencil Prints with Natasha Taheem

Bring in a plain old T-shirt and transform it into something new. Learn how to make your own stencils for printmaking with fabric pigment.

Sewing Our Social Fabric with Jane Thakoordin

With our All Flourishing is Mutual banner (as quoted by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass) now complete, artist Jane Thakoordin invites you to help contribute to another banner that we will co-create throughout 2026 at our Neighbourhood Supper Clubs.

Small Furniture Repair + Kintsugi with Phil Russell

Join Phil as we tackle co-repairing some of our broken or bruised household items. These could be anything from stools, chairs , small tables, a shoe rack or even household decorative items made of wood or other small wooden household items such as ornaments or lampshades.

Textile Repair with Kam Kaur + Niranjana Patel

Armed with their sewing machines and needles in tow, Kam and Niranjana will be hosting a drop in textile repair where you can bring those items that have been in the

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