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Les Affutés (“The Sharpened”) is a project dedicated to all those who want to make things themselves. We offer workshops in various fields such as woodwork, sewing, leather, zero waste, etc. It’s also a makerspace, a kind of collaborative workshop, where you can come and find tools and coaching to build your own project or repair your objects.
We are here to support you in your projects and show you how to use different tools and techniques. We believe that with a little help we can all develop our manual skills and become “sharpened”.
Les Affûtés during the pandemic
Les Affûtés is open
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Les Affûtés is open, and all the activities listed on the website will take place.
Taking care of our community
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The venue has been arranged, the workshops reorganised, the number of participants limited. Everything can therefore take place in safety.
The guarantee of being able to participate
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Workshops can be modified up to 24 hours in advance, in case of concern, and no gift card or registration has an expiry date.
Our learning classes
Les Affutés offers collective classes every day, taught by an expert, to develop manual skills: woodwork, sewing, knitting, zero waste, electricity, renovation, etc.
The classes are designed to make you autonomous and ready to tackle those everyday tasks that you don’t know how to handle.
By the end of the class, you too will be a proud DIY-er. In the majority of cases, you’ll leave the class with your own creation at the end!
Make your own projects
The Sharpened is also a place to make your own projects in wood, sewing, and leather. You’ll find a variety of tools and machines, fifteen big tables, and lots of coffee and tea.
Do you feel like doing a project, but do not know where to start? The workshop manager is there to accompany you, and guide you to complete a project together, from design to finish.
And if you need it, you will find all the materials you require, that you pay by the unit (1 square foot for the wood, 30mL for the painting, a screw for … the screws!)
Join our community
Val Lan
Lory St-Laurent
Sylviane Gagnon
Anesipho Xali
Marie-Eve Parent
Céline Morvan
Saphyra Lagon
Sheila Crawford
Magda Hechema
Pascale Frenette-Gervais
Linda Ward O'Farrell
Florie Lambrey
Lisa Di Fruscia
christine gibson
Julie Lussier
Diane Labelle
Arnaud Clermonte
Damian Wyroslak
Marc-André Cright
Shahinda Eldessouki
Our battle
The project of les Affûtés is born from the fusion of two desires:
- fight against the programmed obsolescence of quickly bought, quickly thrown away objects
- give or give back to each of us the pride of knowing how to do it by ourselves.
Everything we do is organized around this battle.
And we are proud to have chosen the status that goes with this battle: B Corp. The B Corps are projects, like les Affûtés, who think that we can use the Inc status to achieve beautiful things, and put our mission before our profit.
