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Costume Pardi Mardi Gradi Celebrate Mardi Gras with glamorous upcycled garments

24 February 2024

In the Centre for Creativity

Workshops

From jeans, to recycled tote bags, to your own personal creation! Join sustainable fashion designers Sally Jackson and Gary Bigeni in decorating your own recycled tote bag at the Sydney Opera House Centre for Creativity to celebrate this years Sydney Mardi Gras!

Celebrate Mardi Gras with glamorous upcycled garments

To celebrate Sydney Mardi Gras 2024, sustainable fashion designers Sally Jackson and Gary Bigeni will facilitate a weekend of workshops for adults and kids to create unique and custom-made tote bags for your Mardi Gras celebrations.

Workshops designed by Sally Jackson, alongside queer designer Gary Bigeni, attendees work with recycled and sustainable fashion materials, generously donated by Upparel, to repurpose material offcuts into glamorous costume accessories.

Participants will receive an upcycled denim bag lovingly hand-dyed in Gary Bigeni's bold signature colourful style. Each bag is constructed from upcycled garments painted separately, creating an original work of art on each bag. Bigeni's slow hand dyeing techniques achieve brilliant colours that are ready to wear.

In this workshop, participants will customise these accessories using fringing, beading and other textile manipulation techniques to create a bespoke to flaunt wherever they celebrate Sydney Mardi Gras, as well as learn the essential and dynamic history of upcycling textile waste with handy tips to incorporate this thinking and making into your everyday life.

Of course, no workshop is complete without the necessary catwalk and photoshoot to proudly display your creations with friends.

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