Trashbag Rehab returns! Beards & Balaclavas: Free Pussy Riot!

It's been a long summer break for Trashbag Rehab , our infamous series of all-in craft workshops/brawls, but it's a timely return 'cause, in case you haven't heard, feminism just got SUPER-RAD, & we want in. RSVP on facebook for...

Presenting a craftivist event of revolutionary proportions; a tribute to two of our favourite international DIY feminist posses 'Pussy Riot ' & 'La Barbe ': & featuring rad local artists Shiny Shiny (NSW), Ana Nicole band , Plast her Ov Paris , Spells (formerly Lashes to Lashes), Fear Gaia, Willow J (Bottoms Up Burlesque), Kid Garrett , Emilie Zoey Baker , Rotary Hoes, crafting guidance from Crotchety Knitwits , prizes from Obus & Adventure Pants , Cunts in Space! podcast launch,a spot of face-painting & more! Come help craft the revolution at:

TRASHBAG REHAB 7: BEARDS & BALACLAVAS

Sunday May 20th

3-11pm

Fitzroy Workers Club

If you haven't heard of Pussy Riot or La Barbe we order you to google RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Start with these here & here

PUSSY RIOT are an all-female Russian art-punk band who have hollered their fierce political tunes in subways, on top of buses & buildings & at protest rallies wearing iconic, home-crafted brightly coloured balaclavas. After performing in a church three of their members were arrested & have been held FOR MONTHS awaiting charges of hooliganism which could land them in prison for 7 years. They just had their pre-trial detention extended 'till June. This is OUTRAGEOUS! Proceeds from this Trashbag will go to paying their legal fees.
LA BARBE is a Parisian born satirical collective whose members also make ingenious use of DIY facial masking. They infiltrate powerful male-dominated institutions such as the French Senate & major corporations, don crafty beards & accost the bemused gatherings with statistics highlighting gender discrepancies in positions of power.

Wanna be just like 'em? YOU CAN! Come to Trashbag Rehab, craft your own beard or balaclava, sign on board for La Barbe Australia & the Free Pussy Riot petitions & meet up with others who want to run femtastically amok too.

Order of events (will be shuffled around as more confirm, so stay posted)

3-5pm CRAFT
* Crafting led by Crotchety Knitwits
* Shorts screenings of Pussy Riot & La Barbe actions + screening of first ever La Barbe Australia action ,& Cunts In Space! podcast
5-7pm CRAFT ON, accompanied by
* Kid Garrett
* Fear Gaia
7:30 - REGISTRATION
* Down tools! & register your beard/balaclava if you want to be in the running for an ace prize from Obus

* Rotary Hoes

* Fannyist Emilie Zoey Baker presents 'Fuck You Glee'
* Spells (Formerly Lashes to Lashes)
* Willow J (Bottoms Up Burlesque)
8:30 FASHUN PARADE
* Registered beards/balaclavas & their crafters strut their stuff
* Shiny Shiny band
9:15 WINNER of the fiercest beard/balaclava Obus prize announced
9:30
* Ana Nicole band
* Plast her Ov Paris

Entrance is $8/$10 including craft supplies though you're welcome to bring your own stash (as the title suggests, our materials are rehabilitated from trash, so if you want really snazzy supplies this is advisable). The venue serves food too.

If you have any ?s or want to be added to a mailing list to get crafty tips ahead of time or a heads up about future events contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it If you want to contribute by performing or donating time or prizes or skillz contact too - feminism is for anyone who wants to get up & do it, allright? ALL RIOT!

Many thanks to RMIT Link Arts, Obus, Adventure Pants & all of the wonderful performers for their support .x.

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The Craft Cartel is a posse of radical crafters. Set up in 2007, we organise Trashbag Rehab (hands on therapy for delinquent crafters), a blog, a podcast, Flock 'n' Flogs (impromtu markets), legit markets, craftivism, street crrraft, craft talks, Craft Ins & general ace-ness. Everything is open to everyone & everything is free or cheap - we are not Capitalists, we are Craftivists.

CARTEL CHIEFS Casey & Rayna cut corporate ties

casey & rayna cut corporate ties

photo by Mark Burban

Craftivists Casey Jenkins & Rayna Fahey founded Craft Cartel in 2007.

Casey : born on a boat moored on the Yarra, Casey has been floating around Melbourne ever since. A writer & schemer she has been responsible for such pranks as auctioning Howard's integrity on eBay (pulled for being non-existant), mass-producing Howard cum-rags, managing the Julie Dunk fluoro-green electoral campaign, hooking up bicycles with bike-mating cards, spreading lady-love with cunt fling-ups and producing events such as Blasphemy by Candlelight (festive season fun for agnostics & atheists), Abort! Abort! Abort! (kids robot construction event) & Art Jam (free for all art orgy). She co-founded community activist group Capital Ideas, This Is Not Fashion street blog & Rearing Humans and blogs at cuntisnotadirtyword.blogspot.com

Rayna: Part of the great kiwi conspiracy to colonise Australia, Rayna is an afficiando of radical craft, both current and hystorical. Editor of radicalcrossstitch.com, founder of Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, activist, mother, lover and gardener. Rayna is best known for reclaiming ugly chain link fences with conscious crafty love.