Vancouver, WA – Live entertainment, family-friendly activities and vendors selling art using recycled and reused materials will highlight the Recycled Arts Festival on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. The event is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More than 60 artists will display and sell art designed from reused and reclaimed materials. Some examples include metal, glass and porcelain garden art, recycled paper books and cards, reclaimed wood turned sculptures, jewelry and clocks made from old vinyl records and reclaimed bicycle tires and gears, and tin can lanterns and birdfeeders. A new festival feature will be Artists Recycle signs to explain how the artists reuse recycled materials for their creations.
Main stage performers include Portland Taiko Drums, Fools in Paradise and White Rhino marimba bands, Trash Can Joe and the Stumptown Jug Thumpers country bands and Pete Krebs Trio Gypsy swing. Marimba Mania will end the festival Sunday at 3 p.m., with more than a dozen local youth playing handmade marimbas. Another first this year is a Junk to Funk Fashion show on stage Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
The Family Entertainment Tent will host puppet company performances by MudEye Puppets on Saturday and Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre on Sunday, and a MudEye puppet making workshop Saturday. Eartha the Ecological Clown will bring her cockatoo and other animal guests. Heather Pearl, a recycling, juggling comedic stilt walker will be roaming the park both Saturday and Sunday, and Wild on Wildlife will join the festival with three of her raptor friends on Sunday.
The popular Tossed and Found Tent will return to the festival. The tent will hold good reusable treasures rescued from the transfer station just before they went to the landfill. Items will be on display all weekend, and at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, festival-goers can tag an item of their choice to take home Sunday afternoon.
Other guests will represent Leave No Plastic Behind, the new Vancouver CREAM e-waste Recycling Center and the new RE Store, Canines for Clean Water and the Oregon Electric Car Association. Waste Connections will display huge bales of recycled cans and plastic bottles.
Furry Friends, experts at re-homing rescued homeless cats, will have a variety of kittens and cats available for adoption. On Saturday, the organization will offer pet identification chips for a suggested donation of $20 each.
The Clark County Public Works Solid Waste Program is the major sponsor of the Recycled Arts Festival. Waste Connections is a valued partner, and Columbia Resource Company, Waste Connections, Inc. and US Fish and Wildlife Service are supporters.
For more information, see www.recycledartsfestival.org or e-mail diane.huff@clark.wa.gov.
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