SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY 4 - 8PM

get creative, consume less, choose preloved and locally made

LIVE MUSIC from 4pm

FREE Workshops Schedule

4.30 - 6.30pm Ella Knight - Assemblage (age 12+)

I work in the exciting and unpredictable world of recycled and found materials. From my own and my friend’s homes, businesses, schools, second hand shops and markets I collect discarded packaging, unwanted toys, gadgets, and ‘useless’ things like empty pens and broken sunglasses, and take them to my workshop in West Hobart where they take on a new life. These gleanings from my society become the materials from which I select colours, shapes and textures, in my endeavour to create jewellery which is vibrant and ethically sound. For me this work incorporates personal stories of connection, perception, and joy in the unexpected.

Join Ella and make some magic. Material supplied but bring any special items you would like to incorporate into your making.

4 - 7pm Bronwyn Zemanek (age 12+ or with an adult)

Bronwyn is passionate about waste, about not wasting precious resources and currently her focused is fast fashion. Australia is now the second highest consumer of textiles per person in the world, after the USA. Each Australian disposes an average 23 kilograms of clothing to landfill each year.

Join Bron and learn how to upcycled old and unwanted fabrics into colourful rugs as gifts or for your home, work, and car. Materials provided but feel free to bring some of your own.

3 - 5.30pm Amy Brown

Amy is a photographer, maker and explorer of new ways to be creative.

Let’s make visually compelling art with man made waste! 

In this workshop we consider our role as custodians of the natural world in an exploration of the beauty and power of symmetry and colour theory. We will collaborate to create eye catching mandalas with non-biodegradable rubbish collected from the much loved Hobart Rivulet - a high traffic, public space but also a natural ecosystem and home to platypuses, birds and other wild fauna and flora.

The art we create together will be a beautiful and sober reminder to remain conscious of how our human choices affect the natural world.

More info - IG @meditate.on.this