Boneyard Beer – Debris Demolisher

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

The biggest way I lessen my impact on the environment is to focus my purchasing power locally. This makes my carbon footprint significantly smaller, especially if I ride my bike or walk to buy it.

Lucky for me, Boneyard Beer is walking distance from my house. An afternoon stroll in the hood often ends in a visit to the tasting room, a hole in the wall in a neighborhood industrial building. A growler only spot, no bottles, no cans, less impact.

Boneyard was started with one goal I mind: Make a great beer! To overcome the hurdle of making large quantities without large sums of money, they forged the brewery from beer rendering rubbish, a perfect fit with our Rubbish Renewed mission.

Lucky for Rubbish Renewed they have supported us since our beginning. Year two, when we ran out of beer, they hurried home to the warehouse and snatched up another keg. All the proceeds benefited REALMS! Thanks Boneyard for your generosity.

This year Boneyard is not only supporting us with beer they are entered in the Business Challenge vying for trash fashion glory! Check out Boneyard Beer at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. It’s local, uses repurposed equipment, and it’s delicious.

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!

Remember the Business Challenge 2011 & 2012 . . .

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

For the past 2 years at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show businesses have competed for the Coveted Trash Trophy in our Business Challenge. Panambi Elliott has transported 2 companies to winning the Trophy for her take on Trash Fashion. 2011 Cuppa Yo was the lucky winner squeaking past 5 other socially conscious businesses. 2012 saw the flashing lights of Sounds Fast swish away the trophy competing against 7 others. Check out the newly posted Business Challenge Gallery of compelling studio and runway garment photos from the last two years. Stay tuned for the announcement of this year’s 10 competing businesses. Remember it’s the audience that determines the winner. Who do you want to see seizing the trophy?

2011 Business Challenge Winner: Cuppa Yo

Panambi Opazo Elliot with the Trash Trophy

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.

2 Weeks to Runway Submission Deadline

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

Runway Submission Deadline

Thursday, December 5th

Hey Artists, Designers, and Eco-enthusiasts, it’s time to buckle down and get your Rubbish Renewed designs moving beyond concept into garment. Yesterday after school, we had a handful of students taking their designs to the next phase. Material fabrication. Watching budding fashion designers problem solving their way through material glitches and the challenges of concept visualization to design is awe inspiring. True grit. How gritty are you?

Cuppa Yo in progress.
Photos like these can give the jury a sense of the materials and construction.

Two weeks from today, on Thursday, December 5th, is the runway submission deadline. Complete submission packets include: completed form (back page of packet); fashion description; fee ($20 adults, $10 high school and younger); and 3 quality photos of completed garment OR your piece in progress + a detailed sketch.

Remember, you don’t need to have your garment completed, but the further along you are, the easier for the jury to recognize your vision in your photos and artist renderings.

We can’t wait to see what you create that is

transforming trash inspiring community for a sustainable earth!

Tambi Lane Photography – Refuse Remover Sponsor

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

If you’ve been eying our newly posted Rubbish Renewed galleries over the last few weeks, you have witnessed the distinctive talent of Tambi Lane. From year one, Tambi has donated her time and talents not only at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show event, but from the early stages of visioning.

Tambi’s website states, “While always about the art created, it is also about the experience creating it.” There’s no question about this if you’ve ever been to one of her photo shoots. Tambi is a master of producing a comfortable atmosphere and a mood that inspires beauty, concept, and art, both from behind the lens and working with a diverse clientele, ranging from wee ones to high school seniors to newlyweds.

For Rubbish Renewed, Tambi illuminates the vision. From her pre-event studio photography to her live capture of the runway show itself, she conveys the essence of the experience. Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show wouldn’t be the show it is today without the fashion inspired, style-capturing images of Tambi Lane.

Check out her website, Tambi Lane Photography, and even better, schedule a session. It is empowering.

Inspiration from The Unconventional Challenge

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

I’m not a TV watcher per say, but I do check out Project Runway online. Right now Project Runway All Stars Season 3 is running. A lot of drama: tears, justification, ranting . . . but when it comes to the unconventional challenge, the creativity

Designer: Viktor Luna
Materials: Cut up rulers, looks like feathers!

and ingenuity come through. This week the remaining eight designers had 4 minutes to scavenge materials from an elementary classroom. Jump ropes, binders, rulers, construction paper, crayons and other typical materials piled the room. Seize inspiration Rubbish Renewed fashionistas, and check out what these designers created.

Designer: Christopher Palu
Materials: Binder covers & magnets

Designer: Elena Slivnyek
Materials: Binder covers, ?

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!

Remember the Runway in 2011 . . .

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Rubbish Renewed

Remember year 2 . . .

When we had our first business challenge garments battling it out on the runway from ReStore, Wabi Sabi, Cuppa Yo, The Horned Hand, Utilitu Sew and the Environmental Center?
When there were 11 pieces made my middle and high school students?
When Panambi arrived on the Rubbish Renewed scene and blew our minds?
When the list of unique materials included:
- A kiddy pool
- Cone holders and spoons
- Capri Sun containers
- Maps
- Egg cartons
- Cat food bags
- Slides and photo negatives
- 45 vinyl records
- Candy wrappers
- Toilet paper tubes
- Tickets
- Window blinds
- Bicycle tubes and shop rags
- Paper bags, newspaper & magazines
- Burlap
Check out the newly posted Gallery, Runway 2011, featuring the garments from our second year!