What’s On

FABRIK X ACSA

Alycia Bennett, Tony Busch, Lucia Dohrmann, Chelsea Farquhar, Yana Lehey, Khanh Mai, Julia Robinson, Sera Waters

01/08/2025 – 14/09/2025

Ervin’s Village

Ervin Janek

01/08/2025 – 14/09/2025

Mending Workshop with Mary Heath

13/09/2025

Self-Doll Workshop – a journey of self-reflection through doll making

26/10/2025

Create Your Own Leather Journal

16/11/2025

Spring Photowalk

22/11/2025

As part of our commitment to supporting a diversity of textile and related craft practices in our community, FABRIK presents a series of skills development workshops that reflect the many cultures and traditions that contribute to our rich heritage.

Find out about the stories behind our Heritage Workshop hosts click the button below.

Recent Heritage Workshop

Sashiko Stitching

16/08/2025

Introduction to Ebru Fabric Marbling

16/08/2025

Tapita Applique

29/06/2025

Tatreez Workshop

29/06/2025

Pakistani Chunri Textile Dyeing

14/06/2025

Stall Holder Call-out

Bush & Blooms – Christmas wreath workshop with Australian botanicals

20/12/2025

Festive Colour-Pop Earrings with Sue Garrard

20/12/2025

Festive Head Bands with Ellen Schlobohm

20/12/2025

Community Craft Groups

January to July 2025 Schedule

Mill Community Catch-up

A list of Workshops Hosted by Artists Hiring FABRIK Spaces

Fleeced – a Winter Words in conversation event

13/08/2025

More Winter Words Events

I Am with David Chapple

27/07/2025  9:30am – 12:30pm 

Stop Making Sense with David Chapple

27/07/2025  1:30– 4:30pm

Enduring Embroidered Words with Fiona Connel

02/08/2025  1-4pm

Little House Workshop

26/07/2025

Fabric & the Conservation of Cultures

From the collection of Mary Jose, Fabric of Life

06/06/2025 – 20/07/2025

The Etched Line – Printing on Fabric

06/07/2025

Textile Conservation

21/06/2025

Calm

Fringe Exhibition coinciding with Hooked

14/02/2025 – 08/06/2025

Eco Earrings Workshop

07/06/2025

VERWEBAN

(fur-veé-bonn): Germanic Interweaving

11/04/2025 – 25/05/2025

Paper Jewellery Workshop

25/05/2025

Flower Pounding and Embroidery Workshop

26/04/2025

Colour Pop Earrings Workshop

10/05/2025

Bestowed 

An OSCA PROJECT
by Cynthia Schwertsik
As part of Projects of the Everyday

23/03/2025

Hooked

Fringe Exhibition

14/02/2025 – 30/03/2025

Learn to Crochet at Fabrik

08/03/2025

Design @ Crochet a beanie at Fabrik

15/03/2025

100 Treasured Textiles

20/12/2024 – 02/02/2025

Making Felted Vessels

01/02/2025

Print and Stitch Cyanotypes

02/02/2025

The Passion of Collecting

An afternoon with textile collector Colleen Morrow

30/01/25  2-4pm

Crochet Clinics at Fabrik

Wed 15 Jan 2025, 2-4 pm
Wed 29 Jan 2025, 2-4 pm
*EXTRA Clinic added Wed 15 Jan, 10am – 12pm

Calm – Participation Call-out

Fringe Exhibition

Registrations Close 13/01/25

Handmade Christmas Market

Saturday 21/12/24

Australia Wide Nine

08/11/24 – 08/12/24

Stitch a Wren with Rosi Gates

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

16/11/24

Create Your Own Leather Journal

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

17/11/24

Screen-printing with Simone Tippett

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

01/12/24

Present: Project by India Flint

20/9/24 – 27/10/24

All Things are Connected

20/9/24 – 27/10/24

Connect + Create with Mindfulness and Botanically Inspired Watercolour

27/10/24

Make your own Wearable Art with Cheryl Hutchens @ the Lobethal Community Forum

19/10/24

Doors Open

20/09/24

Curator Talk: Kay Lawrence, All Things are Connected Curator

20/9/24

Commemorative Signature Cloth Signing

21/9/24 + 22/9/24

Threads of Connection: Embroider the history of Fabrik

21/9/24 + 22/9/24

Blockprinting on Fabric Workshop: Facilitated by Lottie Emma

21/9/24

Artist talks: All Things are Connected Exhibition

22/9/24

Stitching Together: Facilitated by Sera Waters

22/9/24

Fleece: Endurance Knitting Performance by Deborah Prior

22/9/24

The Understory: Postcards to Bushland Park

16/4/23

Mill Stories: museum planning afternoon

18/5/22

Fringe in the Hills

15/4/22 – 24/4/22

Connect + Create with Nature

2/4/22

Flocking Together

11/12/21 – 23/12/21

Twilight Christmas Market

18/12/21 – 19/12/21

Mill Square Music + Flocking Together launch night

11/12/21

Textile Conservation advice day at Fabrik with Mary Jose

20/11/21

Introduction to Fabric Marbling with Eda Tevrizci

31/3/23

Creative Recovery after Bushfire Workshops

Creative Community Crafting Sessions

Feb, March & April 2023

Cyanotype workshop with Donna Gordge

3/2/23

Spring Mending Circle with Mary Heath

27/10/22

Create your own Yunomi cup with Aurélie from Studio Panoply

1/6/22

Upcycled Art Journal Making with textile artist Barbara Millward

2/6/22

Ngarrindjeri Weaving and Culture with Cedric Varcoe

4/6/22

Stories of Lobethal Bushland Park

Outdoor exhibition

New Art for New Walls

1/8/22 – 21/8/22

Retelling

20/2/22 – 6/3/22

Hidden Treasures

19/5/21 – 29/5/21

Embedded Landscape

1/8/20 – 31/8/20

Solastalgia

15/2/20 – 15/3/20

Borderline: Sampling the Edge

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Swatch

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

_this breath is not mine to keep

7/11/20 – 6/12/20

Domestic Arts

26/9/20 – 1/11/20

The Museum of Domestic Botany

26/9/20 – 1/11/20

What I Hold Dear

1/8/20 – 31/8/20

About a Wall

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Soft Vessels

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Weaving Stories

3/5/19 – 25/5/19

Quiet Conversations

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Portrayals of a Pandemic

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Cards of Kindness

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Regenerate

11/12/20 – 20/12/20