Tickets for the film screening of The Nettle Dress have sold out, but you can still join us for free activities before the film. If you can, donations to support our work are gratefully received.

Join us for an evening of free activities with Vicki Aimers and Claire Stockings-Baker, plus a screening of The Nettle Dress, a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

6.30pm - activities and tasty food
Free activities include: 
Clothes swap
Make a needle case with Vicki Aimers using beautiful fabric donated by Seasalt
Nettle pasta demo with Aneta Staciwa
Communal weave with Olga Owczarek

A warming soup and bread will be served by Stones Cafe for £6pp.

8.30pm - a screening of The Nettle Dress (12A)
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft. Beautifully filmed by award-winning documentary maker Dylan Howitt, The Nettle Dress follows Allan along the whole seven-year journey. The challenge of making near zero carbon clothing sourced within a few miles of his home means re-learning ancient crafts and recalls Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale ‘Wild Swans’. From early experiments making nettle thread, through foraging, processing, spinning, weaving and cutting the cloth. Finally, a vision of the dress back in the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters.