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Help Japan, Dye Some Fabric

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If there’s one thing that can make a 9.0 earthquake more terrifying, it’s meltdown at a nuclear power plant. While you probably don’t have a spare helicopter or nuclear physicist to lend to Japan, you can help the earthquake relief effort by taking a Shibori workshop. The Textile Arts Center is teaching a few techniques of the traditional Japanese fabric dying method, with real indigo dye and everything. You’ll learn how to bind, stitch and fold cloth to make patterns of all different shapes.

The Textile Arts Center is donating all of the proceeds to Japan.

Shibori Workshop to Benefit Japan
Textile Arts Center
505 Carroll Street between 3rd and 4th Aves [Park Slope, Brooklyn]
Thursday, March 31
7 to 9pm, RVSP here
$10 minimum donation

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After years of denial, Kiley has finally admitted to baring a striking resemblance to Velma from Scooby Doo. Instead of traveling in a van hunting ghosts, she prefers wandering on foot in search of tacos, cheap beer, and fake birds. Growing up in Portland, Kiley enjoyed the balance of urban and green spaces. Then she spent her four years at Ithaca College, and found herself craving more sprawling asphalt in her life. So she moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where most of the buildings look like they're about to collapse. Kiley's favorite activities include: getting lost, crafting, sewing, biking, and geeking out at museums. Her love of taxidermy probably makes her a terrible vegetarian, but she doesn't care.