The event starts at 6:30pm at the Millennium building on Union Street. There will be a pop-up bar by Bulletproof Brewing where everyone attending the evening can meet prior to the event starting. The bar will stay open until last orders—shortly before the event finishes. All will be encouraged to have found their seats by 7:00pm for the evening to get underway. Please note that the doors will close—strictly—at 7:00pm to meet security requirements, they will reopen after the final Q&A has finished around 9:30pm.

The event will start with a short intro from PDF, followed by Kate Pierce talking about Eat Work Art and Nudge Community Builders combined plans for the Millennium building. Around 7:30pm there will be a short intermission for 30 minutes to allow everyone to get drinks or use the facilities before Katie’s talk, which will start at around 8:00pm.

Katie will be talking about her background before reading from her new book Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World—her sixth book, with a foreword by The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades. Tackling the topic of repair, Katie explores the societal, cultural and environmental role that repair plays through five in-depth essays, before celebrating and profiling 25 artists, curators, menders and re-makers who have rejected the allure of the fast, disposable and easy in favour of the patina of use, the stories of age and the longevity of care and repair.

Finally there will be a Q&A session with Katie, which will finish around 9:00pm.

Thanks to Colossal there will be a special edition limited run of the famous PDF screen-printed beermats to take away.

Disclaimer

Photographs will be taken at the event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers, Plymouth Design Forum (PDF) full rights to use the images resulting from the photography, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images that help achieve the PDF’s aims. This might include, but is not limited to, the right to use them on PDF’s website, social media and in print. Plymouth Design Forum reserves the right to change and or update any of the information regarding the event.

The event takes place at The Millennium Building. For more information on the venue please see here.

The Millennium Building
Union Street
Stonehouse
Plymouth
PL1 3EY

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Please note, there is no parking at the venue. The nearest car park is Western Approach (Plymouth City Council owned) which is a couple of minutes walk from the Millennium.