The Recycle Challenge
Dykes With Drills is proud to partner with The Recycle Challenge for their second annual parade and festival in 2023! Join us on January 7 to learn some basic woodworking skills while we build the Queen’s float for The Recycling Challenge Parade and Festival. The build event will take place from 11am-5pm at Beanlandia. We have broken the day up into 2 three hour shifts so we know how many volunteers we expect to have throughout the day but all volunteers are welcome to come early or stay and help after their shift. The more, the merrier!
Date & Time
Saturday, January 7, 2023 from 11:00am-5:00pm
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Timeline
11:00am Welcome shift 1 participants
11:15am Overview of tasks
11:30am Tool Training and Safety
12:00pm Build
2:00pm Welcome shift 2 participants
2:15pm Overview of tasks
2:30pm Tool Training and Safety 3:00pm Build
4:30pm Cleanup/tool reset 4:45pm Closing Circle 5:00pm Goodbye
Shifts are set so we can get an idea of how many volunteers we will have throughout the day. Volunteers are welcome to come early, leave early or stay past their shift to help out. There will be plenty of opportunities to break and we will have a closing circle at the end of each shift that are not indicated in the schedule above.
Pre-requisites
Ages 18+
No woodworking experience necessary
Location
3300 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70117
What to Bring
Water and snacks
Wear closed toed shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty
Sunscreens, hats, sunglasses, etc.
So what is the Recycle Challenge Parade and Festival?
The Recycle Challenge addresses a serious global need to reduce waste, and transform waste into viable products or vibrant works of art. The annual event intertwines culture and collaboration with paying homage to historical connections. Artists will be on site to demonstrate both on location and virtually, ways that trash can become anything and proceeds from the event will go to support "Whose Magazine: A Youth Publication".
“Our group has introduced a fun, and educational way to showcase the circular economy model,” states organizer & Founder, Madera E. Rogers-Henry. “We are generating opportunities for partnerships with volunteers, and non-profits for youth and adults with special needs thereby, providing valuable learning experiences."
These experiences rely solely on working with unwanted trash such as plastic, paper, fibers and etc. The Recycle Challenge have begun over the past few years, to craft costumes, to lampshades, to even create throws with a heart.
With the assistance of Dykes With Drills members and volunteers, The Recycle Challenge will collectively extend the life cycles of unwanted rubbish that would ultimately end up in landfills. Let's take this recycling theme further and invigorate the spirits and celebrate the skills of our volunteers.
An important aspect we've incorporated is gifting back to non-profits a percentage of any sales assists us with sales of VIP Tickets
Location Partners (New Orleans):
St. Roch Market, JAMNOLA, AllWays Lounge & Cabaret, Beanlandia
Location Partners (Lagos, Nigeria):
La Mango Restaurant
Sponsors:
Health NUTT SYSTEM (New Orleans), djimi-djama (Mali), and VENDORZS (Texas).
Community Asset Partners:
Dykes With Drills, Community Workshop Nola, Fngi, Kut UpKrewe/Skate Exclusive skating instructors, and Balthazar Electriks (New Orleans, La.), Elevated Circus (Denver, Colorado), StudioVisceral (Atlanta, Ga.) Media Partners Gambit, Where Ya’ At Magazine, and Whose Magazine? A Youth Publication.
As a partner, the Dykes With Drills community will be holding several community builds and carpentry camps between November and April to build the Queen's float for the parade and will be using reclaimed and recycled materials to build the vendor booths and stalls for the festival.