When you say “funk,” we say Sly, George, or Mr. Brown, or the artist once and always known as.
The word comes up in the rhymily named Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest happening this weekend. Here we’ll put the “funk” in quotation marks and the word “fashion” as well. In actuality, Junk to Funk is both open-ended creative exercise and rally for sustainability (with its reduce, reuse, recycle catchphrase). Saturday night, November 17, 26 entries of what the organizers call, “wearable art and fashion made out of found objects, recycled materials and things you normally might find in the trash” will compete for a $500 prize.
Commissioner Sam Adams for the second year will likely don an uncharacteristically trash-y outfit to host, there will be performances as well as mini runway shows of non-trashy sustainable fashion by Sharon Blair, students from the Art Institute, and a number of labels carried by Aysia Wright’s eco-boutique The Greenloop.
Oh, and you’re invited to come in costume, so they say. Could you recycle your Halloween pumpkin costume? Junk to Funk is this Saturday, November 17 at the Wonder Ballroom (128 NE Russell). Doors at 7:30, show at 8:30 PM. $20.
But take this opportunity to revisit the real:
(…and big gratitude to the uploaders, the preservers, the archivists.)
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