Clean out your closets...
Chapel Hill's SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA is Here!
http://www.swaporamarama.org
($10 and any sized bag of your clean unwanted clothing required to enter)
Pass it on:
April 10, 2010 from 12pm - 5pm
Earth Action Day @ Southern Community Park
email Chela Tu for more info on how to get involved
Swap-O-Rama-Rama by Wendy Tremayne is an international network
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Swap-O-Rama-Rama is proud to be sponsored by Yudu
"There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness." -Gandhi
Join in the communal process of reuse and celebrate our collective creativity at Earth Action Day! You are invited to Swap-O-Rama-Rama, a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which our community explores reuse and creativity through the recycling of used clothing with the Scrap Exchange.
It's easy to make the move from consumer to creator - and it's fun. At this Swap-O-Rama-Rama you'll find a host of talent brought together to teach you how to transform your new/used duds into works of your own. Together they bring you: DIY Stations where you can learn many wonderful ways to create out of textile reuse, Sewing Stations where local designers will teach you fresh clothing mod tricks, on site Silk Screeners & Stencilers with a host of original designs.
Of course the core of the swap is the piles of free clothing sorted into categories: pants, shirts, skirts, sweaters etc. These piles are the collective total of each guest’s contribution of any size bag of unwanted clothes so clean out those closets and let go of what's no longer inspiring. Take home as much clothing as you can carry. Remainders go to a charity.
Wondering what to bring? Visit Swap-O-Rama-Rama's homepage for some ideas.
Swap-O-Rama-Rama - Artist Open Call
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is seeking artists of all calibers, recyclers and creatives of all kinds for the following roles: artist taught DIY workshops, designer run sewing stations, silk screening, reuse designers for a recycled fashion show, sorters (get first dibs on clothes) and general help. Contact Parks & Rec to get involved!
DIY Workshops: If you have a unique skill that transforms would be trash into a wearable item (clothing/jewelry/handbag etc.) please consider bringing this to Swap-O-Rama-Rama in the form of a DIY workshop.
Sewing Station/Fashion Show: If your a whiz behind a sewing machine and work with reuse, consider being a Swap-O-Rama-Rama designer helping people learn how to mod the used clothing they find at the swap.
Silk Screen Crew: If your a silk screener and would like to join the silk screening crew, offering your fresh designs to bring used clothes back to life, please get in touch!
When You Wanna Know More. . . See previous Swap-O-Rama-Rama's