Events
Salvaged Jewellery Adult Eco-Art 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
Leather Making Adult Eco-Art 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…
Halloween Beasts School Holiday 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!
Halloween Headwear School Holiday 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!
Furry Friends School Holiday 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!
Tiny Homes School Holiday 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…
Tiny Worlds School Holiday 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!
Intergalactic Rovers + UFOs School Holiday 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…
Alien Friends School Holiday 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?…
Trash Dragons School Holiday 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…