Swap-O-Rama-Rama @ Maker Faire- HUGE CLOTHING SWAP (Event Over)

Hey earthlings!  This weekend will be FUN!!

Clean out your closets!

THIS IS THE BEST SWAP OUT THERE!!

The Maker Faire 2008 Spring SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA is Here!
http://www.swaporamarama.org
http://www.makerfaire.com
Pass it on!!

May 3 11am to 5pm
May 4 11am to 4pm
Recycled Fashion Show 6pm Saturday
at the San Mateo Expo Center

Free Admission to the swap with any sized bag of clean, unwanted clothing.
***Admission to the Maker Faire ($25 at the gate, parking around $5) is required to enter the swap (just think of the free clothes and fun times!)****

"There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness." Gandhi

Join in the communal process of reuse and celebrate our collective creativity! You are invited to Swap-O-Rama-Rama, a giant clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores reuse and creativity through the recycling of used clothing.

It's easy to make the move from consumer to creator - and it's fun. At this Swap-O-Rama-Rama you'll find a host of talent brought together to teach you how to transform your new/used duds into works of your own.

Together they bring you: DIY Stations where you can learn many wonderful ways to create out of textile reuse, Sewing Stations where local designers (including HOMEYGROWN) will teach you fresh clothing mod tricks, on site Silk Screeners & Stencilers with a host of original designs and extraordinary local designers who'll show off their work in the Swap-O-Rama-Rama reuse fashion show.

Of course the core of the swap is the gigantic piles of free clothing (several thousand pounds!) sorted into categories: pants, shirts, skirts, sweaters etc. These piles are the collective total of each guest?s contribution of any size bag of unwanted clothes so clean out those closets and let go of what's no longer inspiring. Take home as much clothing as you can carry. Remainders go to a local women's shelter.

Wondering what to bring?

Have a look at previous Maker Faire Swap-O-Rama-Rama's:

This is homeygrown's third year at the Maker Faire Swap-o-Rama-Rama, which means....we'll be making Trashlings again!


don't worry, we can help you make a pair of jeans into an apron, or a bedsheet into a dress too!