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January/February 2012
Greetings from Our DirectorGreetings January 2012!Dear Friends, Thank you for all of your wonderful support in 2011—from board to staff to community volunteers to donors, we are truly grateful. It was quite a year for us, moving and then moving again, and finally landing in a space that we feel very much at home in. In the few short months we've been here, the 22,000 square feet of space we occupy has seen events and programming ranging from the BrewDurham Homebrew Festival to SmashFest to a Swap-O-Rama Rama to our regular Third Friday openings with food, music, and fun.We've started a design center, increased our workshop space to accommodate up to 60 students working simultaneously, and are drawing more visitors than ever, every day of the week. And we're just starting to get settled. In 2012, look for expanded store hours, new programming, exciting new features (like a woodshop!), and more classes, to name but a few of the things we have in the works. For a full list of upcoming classes and DIY open studios, keep reading. And then sign up, show up, and start making things! (One that's coming up soon is the open studio I'll be hosting on Friday, February 17 from 6 to 9 pm in the Design Center—stop by to alter a sweater or make a hat or scarf from an old sweater, $5 gets you in the door -- five dolla no holla. You can bring a sweater of your own that you'd like to deconstruct or use one of ours. All ages welcome!) And this week of course is Third Friday! We're excited to host our inaugural 2012 Green Gallery exhibit Xiucutil: The Origin of Beautiful Species, featuring paintings and burned images on discarded wood by Joe McDonough. Come on out to the opening on Friday, January 20 from 6 to 9pm, for the usual food and drink, music, and art. (And if you're interested in joining our Gallery Committee, to help select shows and make sure everything goes off without a hitch, just let us know!) Thank you again for such a dedicated community, we look forward to serving you for another exciting year, and for many years to come. With gratitude and love, Ann May Woodward Executive Director The Scrap Exchange
Make a Donation Want to know how you can help The Scrap Exchange move forward and continue its mission of promoting creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse? Financial support is needed, now more than ever. Make a secure, online donation through Network for Good, mail us a donation, or stop by the store to drop off a contribution by cash, check, or credit card.
Donate through PayPal
Up-to-the-Minute News on the WebFind out up-to-the-minute news and happenings from The Scrap Exchange by following us on the web! Whether you are a fan of Facebook, a Twitter Tweeter, an avid blogger, or an Ebay shopper, we are there.
Now on YouTube and Etsy!We’ve added a YouTube channel to our mix of online media venues. Visit us on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ScrapExchange. And we are selling on Etsy! Visit our Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/scrapexchange
Store NewsParking ReminderComing to shop at The Scrap Exchange? Please take note of this update to our parking situation. Visitors to The Scrap Exchange are asked to please park only in spaces marked Reserved for CC&W in the central parking lot. (Unmarked spaces in that lot belong to Golden Belt/Scientific Properties and are not to be used by Scrap Exchange patrons.) You may also park in any spot in the large lot at the end of Belt Street with the orange sunburst metal sculpture, and the metal PARK sculpture, at the entrance. If you are dropping off donations, you may use the loading and unloading zone directly in front of our main entrance. Visit the Directions page for more information. Thanks in advance for helping us be good neighbors with other businesses using the parking lots in the Golden Belt complex!
2012 ~ New Year with New Organization!If you haven’t stopped by the store over the last few weeks, you are in for a surprise! The aisles were a bustle of activity over the holidays as we worked hard to restock, reimagine, and rearrange our retail store. The emphasis has been on organization, organization, organization.... And we've got to admit, the results are pretty amazing!Of course, the organizational work is never-ending here at The Scrap Exchange, but we’re proud of the progress we’ve made. Stop in this week and check it out. It's easier to shop than ever before! And we’re not finished yet... 2012 is going to be a year of continued growth and change. Just wait till you see what we have planned next!
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 Audio/Visual VHS Videotapes Bookcases full of videos at $1 each |
 Cases of Glass Bottles on Pallets Small bottles, only $10 per case of 56 |
 Crates of National Geographic Mags 1930s to current, priced by decade |
 Racks & Racks of Vintage Vinyl Rows of record albums, still 50 cents |
 Frame Moulding Huge Selection Make your own picture frames |
 Stacks of 3M Laminate Rolls Huge industrial rolls for $25 and up |
 Shelves Full of Science, Labware Huge selection of science, medical |
 Rolls and Rolls of Wallpaper Neatly arranged in buckets, still $1 each |
 Industrial Size Duct Work Shiny and silvery, build a space ship |
 A Library of Craft Booklets 25 cents each, pull up a chair & browse! |
Wish List of Items We Need
Our big move to an even bigger space has highlighted our need for many items that we can use to make our new home the best nonprofit creative reuse center in the US. Here's a list of what we're immediately looking for. Take a look and see if you can donate any of these items! As always, all donations are tax-deductible.- Industrial fans, house fans, swamp cooler
- Working AC window unit
- Shopping carts
- Tall file cabinets
- Industrial shelving (under 12 feet tall)
- Extension cords (long, heavy duty)
- Music equipment/sound system
- Overhead track lighting
- Power tools in good working order
- Sewing machines in good working order
- Hand tools
- Hand Trucks/Dollies
- Pallet Jack
- Big rolling carts such as mail carts c-bins or gaylord boxes (large cardboard boxes, heavy duty)
- Radiant floor heating
- Volunteer carpenters to help us build shelves and walls
- Roller skates!
- Old cribs
- Dressers/Chests of drawers
Used Printer Ink Cartridges Wanted!
Don’t throw away your used or discontinued printer ink cartridges ~ bring them to us!
The Scrap Exchange is resuming a used printer ink cartridge collection program as part of our increased-capacity fundraising campaign. We’ve placed a barrel at the front of the store near the cash register for you to drop your cartridges into.
Your donation of ink cartridges is yet one more easy way you can keep discarded materials out of the landfill and help The Scrap Exchange raise much needed funding.
Please pass this information on to
your friends, neighbors and local businesses!
Outreach Event News
Do you need a fun, hands-on activity for your upcoming fair, festival, company or school event, conference, or party? Call The Scrap Exchange’s “Events by the Truckload” program! We provide a vanload of fascinating materials and trained staff who set everything up, help facilitate the creativity, and clean it all up afterwards. There’s nothing else like it.Here’s a look at where the Scrap Exchange white vans will be...
If
you’d like to book an event or get more
information, call Jessica Moore at
919-213-1278 (program office number) or email her at
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New in the Green Gallery
About Our GalleryThe Green Gallery at the Scrap Exchange is dedicated to showcasing artists who are using repurposed materials in their work. Gallery openings feature beverages and snacks and free art-making in our open studio room.Openings are held on the third Friday of every month, from 6 to 9 pm, in conjunction with Downtown Durham’s Third Friday gallery walk events. The public is always welcome to attend any opening. Our gallery receptions are sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon ~ thanks PBR! If you can’t make it out to an opening on Third Friday, then stop by and tour the gallery any time our retail store is open. |
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This Month’s Show(Our 91st Third Friday Opening!)Xiucutil: The
Origin of Beautiful Species
January 20 - February 11 |
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Next Month’s ShowLeaving
Liberty
February 17 - March 10 |
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Classes at The Scrap Exchange
January/February Class Schedule Now Available
Are you ready to take a class in creative reuse? Our events coordinator Jessica Moore has been busy scheduling classes to take full advantage of our new design center. You've asked for classes spanning a wider variety of topics, days and times, and we are delivering!
Check out the February schedule of classes below and sign up for one today. You can register and pay for classes online; a dedicated registration link is provided for most classes. And stay tuned for even more classes to be offered in March and April.
Complete details for each class including dates, times, instructors and descriptions are available on our classes page.
Just look at this fun lineup of classes we have scheduled!
How to Channel Your Creative Energy in 2012
All Art is Scraps
Beginning Crochet
Yoga for Kids
Beginning Sewing for Kids
Beginning Knitting
Altered Sweaters
Sock Monkeys
T-Shirt Re-Make
Funky Pet Food Totes
Cape it Up: Discover your inner super hero
Collage Cards
Visit the Classes page for complete descriptions and registration information.
More Scrap Exchange News and Events
Triangle Reuse Alliance News: New Chapter Coordinator Needed
Are you interested in helping promote reuse in the Triangle region? The Triangle Reuse Alliance is looking for a new person to take over as chapter coordinator.
The Triangle Reuse Alliance is a local chapter of the Reuse Alliance and is working to increase awareness of reuse by educating the public about the social, environmental, and economic benefits of reuse. The Chapter Coordinator is a volunteer position, key to the continuing growth of our chapter. The coordinator works closely with the Triangle Reuse Alliance Steering Committee to move the chapter forward in its goals of marketing, data collection, and public policy. Responsibilities have previously included scheduling bi-monthly meetings for the chapter, keeping the chapter updated on news and events and partnering with local groups on the Reuse Rodeos.
Please email Jessica Moore at if you're interested.
Introducing: The Take Apart Station!
Ever wanted to take a machine or gadget apart and see what makes it tick ... or beep, or wiggle...? Do your kids like to dismantle your expensive gizmos to make “robots?” Well now you can breathe easy, the Scrap Exchange is busy preparing a new program to assist you.The Scrap Exchange is proud to introduce our new Take Apart Station! We provide the gadgets, the tools, the safety gear and some simple guidelines so you can tinker to your heart’s content. Just like our Open Studio make-and-take program, the Take Apart Station costs only $5 per participant for 90 minutes of tinkering Don’t worry about making a mess in your living room and being stuck with a pile of e-waste, let us provide the space and the recycling. You can keep any parts you want, and we’ll deal with the rest.
The Take Apart Station is for kids or adults; kids under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. You can bring your own item to take apart or you can purchase something here in the store and use the Take Apart Station to harvest the useful parts.
Questions? Call the store today at 919-688-6960 to find out more!
Open Studio at The Scrap ExchangeDid you know you can visit our Make-N-Take room and participate in self-directed creative arts projects? The cost is $5 per participant and you can make whatever you want out of the materials in the room, and take home whatever you make!Please note that open studio participants should call ahead to check on availability and schedule a time to come in, as the room is often in use for birthday parties and workshops. |
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Support The Scrap Exchange with GoodShop and GoodSearch
Would you make one extra click to help The Scrap Exchange?
More than 700 name-brand stores are now participating in GoodShop.com—including iTunes, Amazon.com, Expedia, and Best Buy, to name but a few—and will donate to up to 30% of each purchase to the charity or school that you select. The next time you buy a new pair of shoes, book, computer, birthday present, flowers, plane ticket or just about anything else, go to www.GoodShop.com and then click over to your favorite store.
Yes, it’s that easy! Just one extra click can change the world. Who will you GoodShop for?
And don’t forget to use www.goodsearch.com the next time you search the Internet. This Yahoo-powered search engine donates about a penny per search to The Scrap Exchange when you register us as your charity of choice!
