Get ready for a night of dancing, celebration and sustainable art!
Join us at CCB Plaza in downtown Durham for an evening with Mongo, The Scrap Exchange’s beloved blue mascot, brought to life by Jeghetto’s Entertainment (Tarish Pipkins) with live music from Emma Jane and also DJ MARRS spinning tunes.
Mongo the puppet is crafted with materials diverted from the landfill. Tall, newly mobile Mongo will bob and sway, waving his red yarn arms to indie-pop and alternative jazz fusion sounds, creating a playful, larger-than-life performance in the heart of downtown.
We’ll also celebrate The Scrap Exchange’s birthday -- saluting 35 years of nurturing creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse.
Don’t forget to explore the incredible galleries and artists throughout downtown Durham during Third Friday.
Here are the performers:
Tarish Pipkins of Jeghetto’s Entertainment
Emma Jane
DJ MARRS
Here are our partners:
🥗 Neomonde Mediterranean has created a Scrappy Salad in honor of The Scrap Exchange’s 35th Birthday.
🍧 Pelican’s SnoBalls brings a special Mongo Berry SnoBall to the party.
🔮 Fate & Folklore will give Tarot readings in the plaza.
🖼️ The Artisan Market at 305
Pop-up Art Installation | “The Ministry of Cardboard” by Jason Lord
After four months of transforming The Scrap Exchange's Cameron Gallery, artist Jason Lord brings a pop-up version of his immersive installation, “The Ministry of Cardboard,” to The Artisan Market at 305 for Third Friday.
Built entirely from reclaimed cardboard, this modular installation invites visitors to see an everyday material in a completely new way—as architecture, sculpture, and a catalyst for imagination.
"When an individual starts cutting against the grain, the box stops being a product and starts being a different way of thinking and building—it grows into the community as a way to practice collective dreaming. The Ministry of Cardboard transforms a scrap pile into a base of operations for the construction of new worlds that we build together."
— Jason Lord, Artist-in-Residence, The Scrap Exchange