ReStore – Refuse Remover Sponsor

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

2012 Business Challenge
Materials: Leather from de-constructed chair, tire chains.creativity.

Transforming trash, inspiring community for a sustainable earth. Some might say this tag line is a little grand for a fashion show motivated by trash creativity. But in fact our goal is to educate, inspire,entertain and take action to help create a more sustainably minded community.

Our first year, when we started planning Rubbish Renewed, we searched for like-minded organizations to collaborate with. We immediately encountered The Bend Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Like us their mission is to engage the community, not just thinking about their impact on the environment, but acting on it.

Shop. Donate. Volunteer.
ReStore: 740 NE First Street, Bend, Or

If you’ve never been, the ReStore is the ideal place to find treasures of used and surplus home improvement items. Donate your no longer needed building materials, appliances and home furnishings or discover that special object you were looking for. All proceeds benefit Bend Area Habitat for Humanity, providing home ownership, home repair & weatherization services for hard-working, low-income local families and individuals.

2011 Business Challenge
Materials: Blinds, Screening & Plastic Light Covers

Treasures

With an eye on the environment and the support of an important community cause, ReStore is the go to place for all your home improvement needs. Check out their offerings including a new “line” of up-cycled merchandise.

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!

Part 1: Remember 2012 . . .

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

Remember year 3 . . .

When we had 19 inspiring garments designed and made by students?
- 3 by elementary school students
- 12 by middle school students
- 4 by high school students
When 2 of the 8 business challenge garments were made by 2 of our talented student designers?
When the list of student materials included:
- Lots of candy wrappers
- Bubble wrap
- Race bib numbers
- Award ribbons
- Window screen
- Shower curtain
- Newspaper
- Tissue paper
- & Bags & bags
  - Canvas grocery bags
  - Plastic grocery bags
  - Ramen bags
  - Dog food bags
  - Paella bags
  - Coffee bags

Check out the new Gallery, Runway 2012 Student Designers, featuring all the student garments from last year!

Submission Forms Now Available!

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

Submission Forms are now available! Remember to read the paperwork carefully for criteria, dates, and deadlines.

2013:14 RR Runway Submission Paperwork

2013:14 Student RR Runway Submission Paperwork

2013:14 RR Business Challenge Runway Submission Paperwork

With the announcement of our new date, the response from artists is overwhelmingly positive. A little extra time and not backed up with the holiday frenzy seems, from a designers point of view, delightful. The extra 6 weeks not only gives more time for artists, and time to solidify and prep the space, it also gives us added time to get the word out!

Have you ever imagined . . .?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Rubbish Renewed

Necklaces, zipper pulls, and earrings are the creations made by “Just A Little Charm” out of copper salvaged from the old Bend Bulletin’s roof.

Bend, Oregon is an incredibly cool place to live. Although the community has grown substantially since I moved here in 2000, it still has a small town feel. Walking downtown, I always bump into someone I know eager to engage in a meaningful discussion. People here not only hold “important” conversations, like how to make a difference in their community, they take action. One approach comes from the willingness, no, eagerness to think about waste, and to do something about it in an ingenious way. I’ve never met so many creative, capable, motivated and sustainably minded people in a small area (accept maybe Lopez Island – but that’s another story).

So have you ever thought about tiny speakers built into reused ALTOIDS tins? Sculpted bowls formed from old records? What about bold jewelry and accessories created from vintage Formica or salvaged roof copper? These are just a smattering of the imaginative and well-crafted offerings available this year in the Marketplace at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show on December 6th. Check out these pieces for a taste of what’s to come.

N. Spekktor specializes in handmade treasures created from household items, journals, and old vinyl records.

Connect the Minty Blaster to the headphone jack on your portable music player and its built-in amplifier will provide a roomful of curiously strong, curiously hip mono sound.

Marketplace spaces are going quickly, so if you are interested, checkout the vendor submission info and grab a space before they’re gone.

Rubbish Renewed at the Bend Fall Festival

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Paris in Allison Murphy’s Kiddy Pool Dress. Photo by Tambi Lane

Amazing day at the Bend Fall Festival! Kids and adults alike, made pledges for a sustainable earth in tyvek “paper-cut” snowflakes for the Rubbish Renewed Community Garment. And six garments from the 2011 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show were showcased on the main stage in a runway snapshot of talented clothing artists.

Olivia creating an ornament for the Community Garment. Photo by Karen Holm

If you didn’t make it today, or even if you did, come out tomorrow (Sunday) for another day of fashion forward fun. We’ll be on the main stage at 2:30 and our booth is open from 11-6pm. Come create an ornament to symbolize your pledge for action and help spread the message on December 6^th at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, making a community shift for a better more environmentally conscious world.

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.

Get Involved!

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Get Involved!

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Rubbish Renewed

Save the date and come to the show or become more involved! The deadline for being a part of the event is NOVEMBER 10TH. Don’t miss out! Whether you are excited to share your fashion on the runway, promote your business and environmental practices, share and sell your creative gear in the marketplace, or support REALMS’ art education and sponsor the entire event; there are multiple ways to get involved. Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show is a fundraising event, hatched by two teachers, for the art program at REALMS Charter School. All of the information can be found in “pdf” files on the sidebar.