Craft-O Holiday Bazaar at The Old Ironworks Arts District – Debris Demolisher

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

This weekend throngs of discerning holiday shoppers will flood The Old Ironworks Arts District for the third annual Craft-O Holiday Bazaar. This is the perfect opportunity to shop local and support artists in your gift giving this year! The Workhouse, Cindercone Clay Center, Studio 3, Stuarts of Bend and Cement Elegance will all house dedicated artisans and craftsman who have bulked up their locally crafted inventory for our purchasing pleasure. Browse, socialize, snack, and buy on this Saturday and Sunday at Craft-O! As a bonus, Rubbish Renewed will be on hand creating the community garment and offering the first glimpse at this years show!

2012 Business Challenge

Stop by the Old Ironworks Arts District not just at Craft-O, but any day. Quickly becoming Bend’s hippest arts district with a collective of artists, makers, and businesses. “Built in 1912 to service Bend’s Lumber Mills and Railroad, The Ironworks Arts District is now home to Cement Elegance, Cindercone Clay Center, Modern Fab, Stuart’s of Bend, The Sparrow Bakery, Studio 3, Sunlight Solar, AND The Workhouse.”

Participating in Rubbish Renewed from the early days, this year The Old Ironworks Arts District is supporting REALMS as a sponsor, competing in the Business Challenge, and will have a spot in our marketplace!

Part 2: Remember 2012

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

Remember year 3 . . .

When Coffee refuse was the base for 3 outfits: 2 students and one of Panambi’s?
When one designer made the only pants of the show. 1 of bicycle tubes and 1 of only discarded zippers?
When plastic bags were woven into a fine twill fabric that was unrecognizable?
When bowling shoes were a stable corset?
When our MC walked the runway in an auction item?
When there were 2 umbrellas made into garments?
When comic book pages were manipulated into beads for an intricate dress?
When Pokeman cards transformed into samurai armor?

Check out the newly posted Gallery, Runway 2012 Adult Designers, featuring the rest of the garments from last year!

Create the 2012 Community Garment

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Rubbish Renewed

Designer: Karen Holm

How would you react to a friend wearing a paper grocery-bag couture dress adorned with trash ornaments on a runway? In 2010 this fashion-forward piece graced our runway, making an aesthetic statement for the environment. Conscientious residents of Bend created the Community Garment, making their often unconscious choices conscious by pledging to reduce their consumption and waste. In 2011, we were inspired by the sterile hospital dressing that protects surgical instruments and is later tossed into our landfills.

Designer: Karen Holm

These are the types of fashion statements that don’t cost a lot of money, but move down the runway delivering a provocative message; A clear message to rethink waste, our habits, and to decrease our impact on the planet.

This weekend Rubbish Renewed invites YOU to come out, rethink your habits, and make a pledge to decrease your consumption and waste. Join us at Bend’s downtown Fall Festival to create the 2012 Community Garment. Find the Rubbish Renewed crew near the junction of Oregon & Wall in downtown Bend 11-5pm Saturday & Sunday.

Create the 2011 Community Garment

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Rubbish Renewed

2010 Community Garment, created during First Friday last year.

I love this time of year! More time with family, friends, holiday parties, and the 2nd annual Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show is upon us; just 10 days away. Along with the season’s merrymaking, we can not ignore our increased production of holiday trash. The facts about holiday waste are staggering…

From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, household waste increases by more than 25%. Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons – it all adds up to an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills. (EPA and Use Less Stuff)
In the U.S., annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons. (Use Less Stuff)

We believe in the power to educate, change, and inspire and want to invite you to come out on Friday night (December 2nd), during the First Friday festivities, to create the 2011 Community Garment. To have a hand in this “show-stopping” number, stop by TBD Loft (upstairs at 856 NW Bond Street), and make a pledge to reduce your consumption and waste this season and for a lifetime.