December e-news

An early treat for you all - the December Newsletter for your reading pleasure, before the silly season kicks in and you've no time to think!

We hope you'll try and make this Christmas a reuse affair on all fronts - Those of you in the market for furniture sized christmas presents should be sure to come along to Finders Keepers at Carriageworks this Friday night 6-10 or Saturday 10-5 and pick up a genuine Curb Collective refurbished wonder.

A quick reminder also that we will be closed 24th Dec - 2nd Jan inclusive so hold on to your donations till we get back please!

Newtown Festival 2011

Curbside Collective (Our TAFE Group) will be sharing The Bower Tent at the Newtown festival this year!

With more than 80,000 visitors each year, the Newtown festival is unmissable for a large part of the Inner West population, so it was unmissable for us too! Curbside Collective will show the public the pieces of furniture they have amazingly been restoring for the past four months, as well as demonstrating a few tricks of the trade.

Be amongst the first ones to admire them: come and say hello to Fiona & Emmanuel who will be there all day. Fiona will explain how she and the others managed to transform ugly or broken furniture donated to The Bower  into amazingly beautiful ones ready to be be presented at the Finders Keepers Market, one of the most popular markets in town!

The festival will be in the Camperdown Memorial Rest Park on Sunday November 13^th, from 9.30am to 5.30pm. The Newtown Neighbourhood Centre asks only a gold coin donation as an entry fee - it's their major fundraiser, and with your help they can continue the many community programs they offer in the Newtown Area.

The Bower and Curb Collective will be sharing a tent in the Local Vocal Village - you'll find us on the Newtown Festival official maps - and on the Australia Street side of the park just past the stage. We'll be next to other social enterprises and community groups including ex TAFE students, Hobo Gro, PLACE initiatives, Salvation Army Groups and many, many more

Don't miss this opportunity to realise how to transform trash into treasure and to learn one tip or two to try it yourself at home!