I love that there are many fashion designers worried about over consumption.
Source: Eco Fashion Talk
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2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative
This project gives me hope for future similar projects here in Cairns. This Such project aims to change perceptions through eco-conscious public art.
2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative
Source: 2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative
Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air
I am always thinking about different ways I could re-use the little electric things inside big electric things! This exhibition looks like fun, I wonder if it is taged-and-tested?
Taking the all-fan casemod to the next (il)logical extreme, Dutch art concerns Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fa
Source: Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air
Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks Art Centre Photos by Colyn Huber
And finally, after many workshops, collaborations, and much making the day of the Cairns Children’s Festival came around.
Over 2000 people came through the labrynth, many added their own names, drawings and artwork. Children played in the boxes, speeding through the many twists and turns.
Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks by Ruby Bou
Cairns Festival – On the Esplanade
Location: next to Muddy’s.
10am-4pm: the Creation Space has free art and craft activities. Try your hand at wire sculpture, printmaking, recycled art and paper craft.
Cairns Show – ARC Dragons
Cairns Children’s Festival – Waste Not World
For the first Cairns Children’s at the Tanks children from Edge Hill State School were invited to make life sized silhouettes of themselves to populate a cardboard maze world. The child was the creative director and the adult was the technical coordinator, who does the cutting and enabling the imagination. The child then decorated the cardboard silhouette with old clothing and oil pastels. The negative cardboard offcuts were used to create a growing multidimensional Waste Not World in the Tinker Tank.
Sustainablity Symposium at James Cook University
JCU declares war on waste
Video tape dresses and moulded plastic costumes will be paraded by the ARC Ensemble at James Cook University on April 11.
The parade and performance by the ARC Ensemble will be a feature of JCU’s Sustainability Symposium and Fair, Challenging Consumerism: The War on Waste, at the Cairns campus.
Artist and student Ruby Boussard said the costumes which were made from 100 per cent recycled and reclaimed materials including packaging found in rubbish bins, were an ideal way to show how these materials could have another life.
After marching through the courtyard and around Founders Green in their recycled costumes, the ARC Ensemble will be on stage at JCU’s Cairns Institute on April 11 for their performance of Sprucing Shakespeare.
Sheridan Lawton of ARC Disability Services said Tropical Arts has been bringing ARC members into ‘Shakespeare at the Tanks’ for the past four years.
For the 2013 production this was further supported by a JCU Action for Sustainability Fund, allowing Ms Boussard to conduct 100 per cent recycled costuming workshops with the ARC Ensemble.
“This ensured all the participants were comfortable in their costumes, participated in their making and had the opportunity to consider the advantages of using second hand materials and clothes,” Ms Boussard said.
“The Parade and Performance at the upcoming Sustainability Symposium is the final celebration of this process.”
In addition to the program of speakers, the free event incorporates workshops including recycled craft, a clothes swap, food, live music and stalls featuring the Kuranda Seed Savers and the Saltwater Creek Basketry Group. To register go to alumni.jcu.edu.au/2014SusSympFair
The ARC Ensemble will also be participating in this year’s Tropical Arts production of “Much Ado About Dragons” at the Tanks Arts Centre in October.