Events

What's On at RGQ

Whether we're out and about or in our Workshop space at 7 Burke St, find out what's upcoming at RGQ!

Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
06/09/2025 10:00 to 06/09/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Adult Workshop

Reveal the overlooked beauty of a variety of manufactured materials at our Salvaged Jewellery Workshop. Reverse Garbage QLD offers PCB boards, jewellery parts and industry offcuts that eagerly await new lives as necklaces, brooches, earrings and bracelets. Our workshop facilitator Yulia, has a background in contemporary jewellery - so you will be drawing on her expertise and experience to craft unique, one-of-a-kind pieces from salvaged items! This workshop is suitable for ages 13+ and adults

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
19/07/2025 10:00 to 19/07/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Adult Workshop

Leather MakingDiscover the art of leather-craft and sustainable living in our leather making workshop using salvaged materials! Join us as we guide you through the process of transforming discarded leather scraps into beautiful and functional pieces.Our facilitators will teach you the basics of working with leather including basic pattern making, tool use, and joining using saddle stitch, as well as…

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
01/10/2025 10:30 to 01/10/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

Let's get spooky! This workshop explores the dark and mysterious world of all that is Halloween. Spiders, skeletons, ghosts, and goblins! Kids will learn to craft their own Halloween Beast out of clean reuse and salvaged materials to take home and scare their neighbours and friends. With the expert guidance of our facilitators, kids can turn binding combs into skeletons, keyboards into Goblin feet, wire into witches brooms, and more!

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
30/09/2025 10:30 to 30/09/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

🕷️Still chasing the perfect addition to your Halloween outfit this year? Then unleash your inner ghoul and craft the Halloween Headwear of your nightmares! 🕷️ In this workshop, Kids will use clean re-use materials to craft haunting accessories for their next costume... Whether they want to make a traditional spooky costume piece, or just want to make a mask of their favourite character - the choice is theirs! Our facilitators are experts in re-imagining waste and they can help your kids transform our salvaged oddities into costume masterpieces. Be sure to come along and make "scary" sustainable this year!

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
24/09/2025 10:30 to 24/09/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

In this workshop, children can get busy creating their favourite furry creatures! Whether they love fluffy birds, cuddly Koalas, or friendly cartoon characters - they can use their imagination to make their next furry best-friend. They will get to experiment with our softest materials - like sheepskin, felt, and fabric too. This is the perfect workshop for kids who love soft textures and cute animals!

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
23/09/2025 10:30 to 23/09/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

Craft the perfect Tiny Home with discarded materials! In this workshop kids’ can create a home for their favourite small toys, using a variety of re-use materials such as boxes, fabrics, tiles, metal and more. They can create furniture, and characters for their tiny homes as well! Perhaps they will make a magical fairy's cottage, a grumpy gnomes home or…

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
09/07/2025 10:30 to 09/07/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

Get lost in a world of your own creation! In this workshop kids can make use of clean salvaged materials to craft their own mini world, model environment or diorama. They could focus on an Australian landscape, an Arctic scene or even make an Alien-like atmosphere - whatever they decide! They might also like to include some mini animals or humans to go with their newly crafted ecosystem. Overall, its great crafting fun and Eco-responsible too!

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
08/07/2025 10:30 to 08/07/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

Blast off into our Intergalactic Rovers and UFOs workshop! Using our collection of reuse materials, young space explorers will design and build their very own cosmic vehicle. From sleek flying saucers gliding through space to rugged rovers on alien terrain, each creation is ready for adventure...Children will discover how everyday items can transform into extraordinary spacecraft - perhaps bottle caps…

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
02/07/2025 10:30 to 02/07/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

I'm sure we could all do with a few more friends! This workshop encourages kids to make their very own 'Alien Friends' from reuse and second-hand materials. The beauty of crafting Aliens is that there is no right or wrong answer! Do the aliens have eyes or tentacles? Can they float, fly, or walk? What environment do they survive in?…

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Organized by: Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd
01/07/2025 10:30 to 01/07/2025 12:00
Woolloongabba, Australia
Children's Workshop

Last year, our team created an impressive dragon named 'Scrappy' for a temporary display at the State Library. Built entirely from reused materials, Scrappy became a wonderful showcase of how creative and effective crafting with repurposed items can be. Due to Scrappy's popularity, we thought we would give kids their very own chance to make a Trash Dragon! Dragons can…

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Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate in Woolloongabba - the Yuggera and Turrbul people. RGQ recognises their continuing sovereignty and connection to land and water, and pays respect to elders past and present.

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