Clothes, jewellery, plants, bric-a-brac, and more: Soho Arts ReUse Night Market gearing up for big weekend
From clothing, jewellery, and art to plants, gardening tools, and bric-a-brac, there will be all sorts of recycled and upcycled gems for sale at the Soho Arts ReUse Night Market this Saturday.
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Eco-conscious Hobartians will peddle their recycled wares at a highly anticipated community market this weekend, eager to prove that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
The ReUse Night Market is organised by Soho Arts and will feature 17 stalls offering everything from clothes, jewellery, and artworks to plants, gardening tools, and bric-a-brac.
Taking place on Saturday in South Hobart, the market will be held inside the Soho Arts hall if it rains.
Soho Arts manager Lucinda Toynbee-Wilson said the purpose of the market was to encourage people to cut back on purchasing new things and therefore reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
“We’re wanting to encourage people to think outside the square and to buy good quality second-hand, upcycled things and encourage people to fix things, or, if not to fix things, to pass them on to people who do like to fix things so that ultimately we are using less of everything,” she said.
The market is supported by the Hobart City Council and Ms Toynbee-Wilson said stallholders were only required to pay a small fee to help Soho Arts cover the cost of running the event.
“[Stallholders] sign a commitment to the environmental ethos of what it is that we’re trying to promote,” she said.
Soho Arts is a space for arts and cultural organisations to call home and some of its tenants include Ten Days on the Island and the Unconformity.
Lyn Wallace, the chair of Soho Arts, said arts organisations around the country had been struggling due to federal funding cuts and so it was important they were given opportunities to rent work space at an affordable price.
The ReUse Night Market runs from 4-8pm at 14 Weld St on Saturday, February 15.
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