Make adorable little dolls from upcycled champagne corks! About this event Join ACR for a morning of reuse imagination! Champagne corks make the perfect doll base - from warrior to bride, a chef to a sheep you can literally make anything out of these! Fun...
National Thrift Store Day (August 17) is an annual holiday that celebrates shopping secondhand. The Circular Economy Program is hosting an informational and collaborative workshop for local reuse and thrift stores and interested entrepreneurs led by Terry McDonald, Executive Director of St. Vincent de Paul...
Learn how to build, buy or remodel a green home to improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort and reduce maintenance. Austin Energy Green Building team members will provide insight and experience on sustainable building practices including guidance on selecting materials with health in mind. The webinar series provides a choice of topics...
Join the chicken keeping community! Keeping chickens is a great way to keep your food waste out of the landfill. Chickens can recycle your food scraps. Chicken keeping and composting methods go hand-in-hand to keep food waste out of the landfill while creating healthy soil....
For August Craft Night, we'll use a show and tell approach to share ideas for the deceptively difficult task of organizing your craft area. Attendees should come ready to share examples of organizing strategies that have worked for them (pictures would be a big bonus)...
Join ACR and @TheFashionAnonymous this Saturday, August 28th from 11am-1pm to create a 5″x5″ quilt square that captures a moment from the past year. All materials will be provided by ACR. Free to attend though donations are greatly appreciated! RSVP at the event link! Find...
Who doesn’t love some brightly colored flowers!? Make your own eternal spring wildflowers in this workshop out of crepe paper. While no one can match the beauty of nature, these come pretty close and last a long while. You can use these to jazz up...
Join ACR volunteer, Audrey, on a card making adventure. Choose your favorite papers, stickers and embellishments and let them inspire your next creation. The purchase of your ticket gets you enough materials to make 4-5 cards, plus guidance and instruction from Audrey. You will learn...
In this workshop, participants will learn about the history of collage and collage artists. They will then make at least four collage pieces, including one 3-D collage and one advocacy postcard that will be flown on a rocket to space (with Blue Planet) and then...
*Live Spanish interpretation will be available for both workshops / Habrá interpretación simultánea al español en ambos talleres Event Info: Austin Resource Recovery presents Fix-It at Home!, a free online and interactive series. Learn repair and maintenance skills from the comfort of your home. This...
