Looking for engaging, creative, interesting and fun activities these school holidays?

Join the team of Reverse Garbage artists and educators in our series of creative reuse workshops!

Reverse Garbage workshops are an opportunity to put the principles of sustainability – and specifically reuse - into practice through fun and creative projects.

All of our workshops aim to teach about waste reduction through the reuse of materials and waste minimisation construction techniques (the majority of our workshops are tape and glue free!).

Participants are given an opportunity to develop important problem solving skills in visual art and design and are encouraged to learn co-operatively through sharing their skills and discoveries with each other.

Reverse Garbage workshops teach valuable skills and techniques that are just as important as choosing reuse materials for a sustainable future.

WHERE?

Workshops will be held on site at

Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville.

WHO?

Workshops are for children aged 5 – 15 years.

Children 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

COST

Workshops are $10 per child and include a $10 gift voucher to spend in-store, payment must be made when making the booking.

Places are limited, so book today! Bookings can be made by phoning: 9569 3132

We look forward to seeing you soon!

The RG Education team

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CREATURES AND CHARACTERS| Thursday 4 July | 10.30am – 12.00pm

Make: Make your own toys, puppets and dolls from re-used materials. Be inspired by materials that were destined for land-fill to bring your favourite characters to life!

Develop: Design and construction problem solving skills with re-used materials. An open ended workshop.

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LOOK AT ME| Monday 8 July | 10.30am – 12.00pm

Make: Imagine yourself with wild paper hair and bottle tops for eyes! Explore different approaches to portraiture and create your own self-portrait masterpiece with fabulous reused materials.

Develop: Visual realisation and construction problem solving skills with re-used materials. ___________________________________________________________________________________

SPECTACULAR SCULPTURE| Thursday 11 July | 10.30am – 12.00pm

Make: Learn sculpture secrets from contemporary artists and turn waste into wonderful works of art. Create your own artwork through a process of experimentation with everyday discards.

Develop: Innovative waste minimal construction techniques – this is a tape and glue free workshop, an understanding of material manipulation, experimentation and repetition. Problem solving skills in art, design and visual realisation. An open ended workshop.

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Photo: The Nudl God at the Refugee Camp talking about the plight of refugees and the need to make detention centre’s history.

As part of the activities to raise awareness about the issues affecting refugees across the world, The Addison Road Community Centre, Reverse Garbage and members of the local community have rallied together to erect a refugee camp and ‘Wall of Oblivion’ at the Centre as part of Refugee Week, Sunday 16 June to Saturday 22 June.

Refugee tents, protest banners and a desolate environment depict the state of refugee camps around the world and confronts onlookers with the harsh reality about refugee displacement and the loss of human rights, privileges and resources while enduring devastating conditions brought about by war and famine.

In an act of empathy for refugees, Reverse Garbage CEO Narelle Mantle will be at the camp to bring attention to the plight of refugees and to support the initiative’s call to make detention centre’s history.

“The refugee camp we have built from reuse materials is but a very small reflection of the harsh conditions faced by refugees across the world in camps and detention centres,” said Ms Mantle. “Men, women and families have faced death to flee their countries to find freedom and safety, only to be imprisoned behind fences like prisoners. As many of the banners at our installation proclaim, these refugees are people, not prisoners. It’s time we made detention centres history.”

In addition, a reflective Wall of Oblivion has been created at the Centre, filled with the faces of children supplied by local families and primary schools – a small, but significant reflection of the thousands of children held in detention centres throughout the world. Under different circumstances it could be us and our children behind these fences, stripped of our security and freedom.

The refugee camp and Wall of Oblivion can be viewed at The Addison Road Community Centre until the conclusion of Refugee Week.

www.arcco.org.au

John Howard is currently at The Addison Road Community Centre!

Donated to Reverse Garbage by Australian artist Stan Ghys, the 2.4m x 4m high image of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard is made from 10,000 reused beer bottle-tops and travelled Australia in the late 2000′s in protest against, amongst many things, the then Prime Minister’s ‘children overboard’ debacle and the war on Iraq.

The art installation is currently secured to the Gumbramorra Hall within The Addison Road Community Centre.

Thank you to Stan for choosing reuse and donating the art installation to Reverse Garbage.

For further information: http://www.alertactive.blogspot.com.au/

As a thank you for choosing reuse, we’re offering customers a 2 for 1 pass to see the new film Satellite Boy with purchases $10+ of reuse materials from Reverse Garbage!

Satellite Boy follows Pete (Cameron Wallaby), a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who lives with his grandfather, Old Jagamarra (David Gulpilil), in an abandoned outdoor cinema in the outback. When it is threatened with demolition, Pete sees his world in jeopardy and sets off for the city on a quest to save his home, joined by his best friend Kalmain. Together the boys travel through epic and stunning Kimberley country, where Pete must remember the old Aboriginal bush skills his grandfather taught him for them to survive.

Fable-like in its storytelling, Satellite Boy shows a world torn between old and new, tradition and progress, nature and technology, and celebrates the importance of family, true friendship and cultural identity.

In Cinemas June 20.

Sydney cinema locations: Dendy Newtown & Palace Verona.

Please ask for your 2 for 1 pass when paying at our front counter.

Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUDx1eCye6k

Our Reverse Garbage store ‘RG ReStore’ stocks quality, reuse items which have been made using every day materials found at Reverse Garbage. Each item is made entirely of reuse by our skilled RG Team and sales from these items directly help Reverse Garbage’s mission to divert thousands of valuable resources from landfill each year.

RG ReStore seeks to restore, reuse, repurpose and reduce by using existing and discarded materials.

Items displayed below can be ordered by calling us on 02 9569 3132 or emailing info@reversegarbage.org.au Arrangements for custom sized items (e.g. specifically sized carry bags or surfboard covers) can be arranged. Please note that as some items are made to order, there may be a 7 day wait time depending on quantities ordered.

More RG ReStore items to come – check  back at http://reversegarbage.org.au/rg-restore/ or click here!

Vulture capitalism is the ideology of our age, supported by the vast bulk of the political and media elites. The corporation has become more powerful than the state. And yet its work is often done by stealth. Privatised war and outsourced detention centres. Mining companies pillaging precious land in developing countries. Struggling nations invaded by NGOs and the corporate dollar.

From 17 August to 15 September 2013, The Addison Road Community Centre will present a range of films, music, discussions, art and public engagement on vulture capitalism. Profits of Doom month will open with the launch of bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein’s new book Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World and his accompanying photo exhibition. Loewenstein has travelled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and across Australia to reveal the reality of the largely hidden world of vulture capitalism. Who is involved and why? Can it be stopped? What are the alternatives in a globalised world?

Information about Profits of Doom month and the range of planned activities will be released via www.arcco.org.au

Profits of Doom Art Prize – you could win $1111.11 and have your artwork exhibited at The Addison Gallery! A call for entries is now open for art works of any format that reflects vulture capitalism (or otherwise known as disaster capitalism) and the effect it is having on our global community.

For details, visit www.arcco.org.au

Click here to download a PDF Profits of Doom Art Prize Entry Form

Would you like to win a $50 Reverse Garbage Gift Voucher? Well, we’d like to see your REUSE in action!

Reverse Garbage will give away a $50 voucher each month to the winner of the best/most creative example of a reuse project you’ve made using reuse materials sourced from our Marrickville warehouse. Be as creative as you like, but be as honest as you can – projects must utilise Reverse Garbage materials to go in the running. Honesty is the best policy!

Photo entries can be posted to our Facebook wall, tweeted or emailed to us:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RevGarb

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ReverseGarbage

Email: info@reversegarbage.org.au

Winners will be contacted via reply to their entry submissions. One winner will be chosen at the end of each month by Reverse Garbage.

Terms & Conditions: Multiple entries are permitted. The voucher is not redeemable for cash and cannot be used on Global Paint & Craftworks branded items. Voucher redeemable at Reverse Garbage Marrickville only. Winners will be notified by Facebook, or via reply to their original entry. Reuse projects must utilise resources and materials from Reverse Garbage Marrickville