{"id":11329,"date":"2019-09-21T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11329"},"modified":"2019-09-21T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:16:44","slug":"needham-is-matting-change-helping-the-homeless-is-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/event\/needham-is-matting-change-helping-the-homeless-is-in-the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Needham is Matting Change &#8211; Helping the Homeless Is  &#8220;In The Bag&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by a recent high school graduate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mattingchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MattingChange<\/a> aims to reconfigure single-use plastic bags into comfortable and durable sleeping mats for people experiencing homelessness. By putting a spin on a traditional textiles technique, these mats can be made by anyone and provide critical relief, especially in the colder months. The mats will be donated to Needham-based Generic Ministry to support their work with individuals experiencing homelessness in Boston.\u00a0 This labor-intensive project needs the help of many hands, ages 11 to 111.<\/p>\n<p>Join the community in giving back, while keeping bags out of the waste stream! A series of workshops will be held from 2:30-5pm on the early-release and no-school days of Wednesdays Sept. 25, Oct. 9 Oct. 23\u00a0and Nov 6. For more information and to sign up, please contact Aicha Kelley at The Center at The Heights at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:akelley@needhamma.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">akelley@needhamma.gov<\/a>\u00a0or 781-455-7555.<\/p>\n<p>Making a single mat requires 600 bags! If you have clean,\u00a0<em>flimsy<\/em>, plastic checkout bags (#2 HDPE) to donate, please drop them off in the Matting Change bin at the Center for the Heights or at 20 Chestnut St (south of Harvey&#8217;s) inside the front door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by a recent high school graduate, @MattingChange aims to reconfigure single-use plastic bags into comfortable and durable sleeping mats for people experiencing homelessness. By putting a spin on a traditional textiles technique, these mats can be made by anyone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2019-10-09 14:30:00","_EventEndDate":"2019-10-09 17:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2019-10-09 18:30:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2019-10-09 21:00:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"http:\/\/www.needhamma.gov\/537\/The-Center-at-the-Heights","_EventCost":"0","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"$","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[11334],"_EventVenueID":[11333],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[145],"class_list":["post-11329","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-uncategorized","cat_uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}