Workshops & Education
- Workshops at schools and festivals
- School holiday workshops - July 2008 program
- Mini Mondays - August 2008 program
- New workshops for home schoolers
- Excursions to the Reverse Garbage warehouse - activity sheets
- School and kindy mail order barrels
- Funding Acknowledgements
Practical and creative workshops in schools and at festivals
Reverse Garbage runs practical and creative workshops in schools for any year level. We work with you to design activities and themes that fit in with
your program. We also run professional development workshops for teachers.
Reverse Garbage specialises in eco-art workshops. Our skilled workshop facilitators develop sessions that are not only directly linked to curriculum outcomes, but provide students with an insight into issues of sustainability through a range of creative activities.
Art from junk
We teach students to make useful items using a range of interesting salvaged materials. For example, we work with primary school children to make musical instruments, masks, finger puppets, pencil holders and desk tidies, jewellery, fantasy creatures, junk robots, toys and mobiles.
In our secondary school program, we
work with students on creative projects such as kinetic art, sculpture, wearable art, assemblage,
installations, paper works (including books, cards and collage), printmaking, mosaic with alternative materials, jewellery-making, collaborative works and junk-IT, using salvaged computer components.
We also offer a full day workshop on wearable art and IT junk sculpture for secondary schools.
We run workshops for children and adults at festivals and other community events so please call Julie Hauritz on 3844 9744 to discuss your event.
Environmental and social sustainability
We run interactive workshops in schools for teachers or students on sustainability issues such as consumption, waste, consensus decision-making and co-operatives. We design these to fit with your SOSE or other curriculum.
Cost of workshops
The minimum charge for a school workshop is $150 for a two-hour workshop up to $400 for a full day workshop, not including materials and transport, which are additional costs.
A typical two-hour junk art workshop for 25 - 30 students in a Brisbane school costs $270 - $370 including materials and transport, depending on the materials you would like us to bring. If we need to bring a second Reverse Garbage staff member because of the number of students involved in the workshop, this costs an extra $50 per hour.
School holiday workshop program - July 2008
WEEK ONE
Monday 30th June
Rainmakers (10am - 12pm) - Made with modern salvaged materials, you'll discover a world of ancient sounds with this unique instrument.
Junky Robots (2.00pm - 4.00pm) - Make your own non-electronic robot using a variety of salvaged materials.
Tuesday 1st July
Woven Pencil Cases (10am – 12pm) - Keep your school pencils in order in your own woven pencil case or perhaps use it to keep jewellery in. Explore a collection of found materials to create this attractive and functional item.
Wednesday 2nd July
Cars, Trains and moving wheels (2.00pm – 4.00pm) – Create your own quality toy vehicle with moveable wheels using a large variety of unique salvaged materials.
Thursday 3rd July
Crazy Critters (2.00pm - 4.00pm) - See what creatures crawl from the treasure of trash. Create a unique creature from a wide variety of salvaged materials.
Friday 4th July
Treasure Chests (10.00am – 12.00pm) – Create and decorate your own treasure chest to hide all your pirate treasure and jewels.
Musical Instruments (2.00pm – 4.00 pm) - Create your own musical sounds with an instrument from unconventional salvaged materials.
WEEK TWO
Monday 7th July
Medieval Castles (10am – 12pm) – Build and decorate your own medieval castle and create your own medieval story.
Knights and Dragons (2.00pm - 4.00pm) - Create Knights and Maidens to defend the castle from the fire-breathing dragon.
Tuesday 8th July
Bits and Bobs for Children (2.00pm –4.00pm) - Have fun making your own mini people or animals from recycled and salvaged materials. Children will make several people or animals in this class.
Wednesday 9th July
Treasure Chests (10.00am – 12.00pm) – Create and decorate your own treasure chest to hide all your pirate treasure and jewels.
Thursday 10th July
Musical Mobiles (10am – 12 pm) – Relax with the sound from the wind with your mobile creation. Using a variety of materials, you’ll discover the potential sounds of salvaged materials.
Junky Robots (2.00pm - 4.00pm) -Make your own non-electronic robot using a variety of salvaged materials.
Friday 11th July
Cars, Trains and moving wheels (10.00am – 12.00pm)– Create your own quality-moving toy with moveable wheels using a large variety of unique salvaged materials.
Junk Jewellery (2.00pm - 4.00pm) - Make fabulous pieces of wearable jewellery from unconventional salvaged materials.
School holiday workshops are held at Reverse Garbage, 296 Montague Rd, West End (cnr Ashington St) Ph: 07 3844 9744 Email: info@reversegarbage.com.au
Mini Mondays - August/ September program
Reverse Garbage is offering parents and children 3 to 5 years of age a weekly program of fun and creativity in our workshop space here in West End. Each week we will run the class twice from 10am to 10.45am and 11.30 to 12.15 giving parents an option in class time. The program is especially targeted to children 3 to 5 years and is designed for both parent and child participation.
Monday 11 August
Hand Puppets: Create a fun and colourful character to act out stories.
Monday 18 August
Paper Puzzles: Draw your own colourful image to create a puzzle to assemble over and over again.
Monday 25 August
Sea Creatures: Create a colourful sea creature to hang on your wall.
Monday 1 September
Magical masks: Become your own imaginary person and create a new face to wear.
Monday 8 September
Fairytale Finger Puppets: Create a handful of colourful characters from fairytale favourites.
Monday 15 September
Rainmakers: Create a beautiful, sound producing rainmaker that both parent and child can enjoy.
When the workshop is finished, you can continue your relaxing morning across the street at West End Park Café. They offer a special deal for workshop participants after each session. Enjoy a cup of coffee and cake or muffin for only $5.50.
With a focus on fun, environmentally-friendly activities, the workshops teach children and parents to create their own unique artworks together.
There is a maximum of six children and six adults per activity. Workshops need to be paid in full upon booking to secure a place. The cost is $15 per child.
For further information, phone Julie Hauritz on (07) 3844 9744.
New workshops for home schoolers
Reverse Garbage has decided to trial workshops for home schoolers in our workshop space on site. They will be held on the last Tuesday of the month starting on 27th May 2008.
With a focus on fun, environmentally-friendly activities, the workshops teach children to create their own unique artworks. While also providing an opportunity to make new friends within the community.
Tuesday 27thMay
Junk Sculpture (10.00am – 12.00pm) – Create an awesome new age sculpture from unusual industrial discards including plastics, perspex, rubber and computer parts.
Tuesday 24th June
Junky Robots (10.00am – 12.00pm) - Make your own non-electronic robot using a variety of salvaged materials.
Workshops cost $20 per child (six to twelve years of age) for each two-hour session, with a variety of interesting Reverse Garbage materials and tuition included. There is a maximum number of 10 children per activity. Workshops need to be paid in full upon booking to secure a place. Fees are non refundable.
Excursions to the Reverse Garbage warehouse
A visit to the Reverse Garbage warehouse is like an archeological exploration into our consumer society. The warehouse hosts an inspiring collection of low-cost, interesting materials.
A Reverse Garbage staff member will talk to groups from schools, pre-schools and other community organisations about waste, materials, the problems with landfill and what we do.
We have activity sheets for years 1 - 3 and years 4 -7 which you are welcome to print for your class and bring along.
Cost of excursions
Free but bookings are essential.
Information and bookings
For more information about workshops in schools or at festivals, please contact Bronwyn Field or Julie Hauritz at Reverse Garbage on 07 3844 9744, email or fax us. If you are emailing or faxing, you might like to use our workshop enquiry form. For visits to the Reverse Garbage warehouse, please contact Julie Hauritz or Louise Gillard.
School and kindy barrel orders
We have a multitude of materials for primary school, secondary art and kindies and childcare centres which we can send anywhere in Queensland. The cost is $70 for a small barrel, $100 for a medium barrel and $130 for a large barrel including postage within Queensland and handling. Prices vary for interstate orders. We pack a broad range of interesting materials into your barrel, which you can then re-used for storage and is great for students to decorate. We can pack the barrel to suit your needs. We also provide themed barrels which include all the materials required to make a particular art project. The payment options are cheque, credit card over the phone or direct bank transfers. Schools within Queensland can either be invoiced or pre-pay for their barrel. Outside Queensland barrels must be pre-paid. Please phone Lyn Graham on 07 3844 9744 if you would like further information. See our mail order page for other items and for further detail.
Funding Acknowledgements
Reverse Garbage recently purchased a new arts workshop van, enabling us to travel more easily to schools and community events. Funding for this vehicle was provided by the The Gambling Community Benefit Fund, who we thank for their significant contribution ($22,732) towards this new purchase .
We would also like to thank Helen Abrahams, local Councilor for Brisbane City Council, for Livability Grant funding which assisted in the creation of our new on-site workshop space.