If you are in Cairo, don’t miss these fun and fabulous recycling and upcycling workshops at Darb 1718
Following what looks like a very successful Recycling Art festival at the end of August, Darb 1718 are hosting a set of four recycling workshops this month. With sessions on the 9, 10, 16 and 17 of October from 7 to 9pm, you now have lots of opportunity to brush up on your creativity skills. According to the organisers, “the re-art workshop will teach you to use the unused stuff at your home and gives you the skill to look at it with different perspectives. You will learn to create a life full of art pieces.”
Participants are asked to bring unused materials like old newspaper, magazines, plastic bottles, cartons, soda cans, CDs, cassette tapes, jars (and anything else you can think of!) to the workshops. Darb 1718 is an Egyptian non-profit organization founded in 2008. Its premises includes a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that host different art mediums and cultural events. It is located the historic Old Cairo. If you want to attend, you will need to reserve your place by filling in this booking form and pay a deposit. The workshop fee is 200LE.
02 23610511
:: All photos via Darb 1718’s facebook page
For more on recycling in Egypt see:
Festival in Cairo Promotes Recycling and Public Literacy
Egypt Makes Recycling A Priority
Where do Cairo’s Zabaleen Garbage Sorters Stand Under Morsi
Author: Arwa Aburawa
Arwa is a Muslim freelance writer who is interested in everything climate change related and how Islam can inspire more people to care for their planet and take active steps to save it while we can. She is endlessly suspicious of all politicians and their ceaseless meetings, especially as they make normal people believe that they are not part of the solution when they are the ONLY solution. Her Indian auntie is her model eco-warrier, and when Arwa is not busy helping out in the neighborhood alleyway garden, swap shopping or attempting fusion vegetarian dishes- with mixed success, she’d like to add- she can be found sipping on foraged nettle tea.
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