REUSE-A-PALOOZA is a free community event that celebrates creativity, sustainability, and community connection!
It is hosted by The Things Lab, an artist-led socially-engaged participatory project. It is a reuse center.
According to their website, “The Things Lab emphasizes creativity as a resource for resiliency and adaptability centering on three complementary aspects: the collaborative, ever-changing immersive art installation/reuse center where one determines the pricing, paying what they value items to be worth within their budget; a lending library of things that meaningfully benefits the neighboring communities; and a series of arts & community workshops and events that serve as a meeting place connecting creativity, sustainability, memory, shared knowledge and compassion.”
It’s basically like a thrift shop of really cool stuff.
The Things Lab was born out of Prelude to 2100, a Live Arts Miami event in 2022.
According to founder Susan Caraballo, “out of that project, we opened our immersive art installation that doubles as a mash-up of a pay what you value thrift store and creative reuse center earlier this year. We are now hosting our first major community event.”
Join The Things Lab for REUSE-A-PALOOZA – on Saturday, November 9, 12-4pm.
At REUSE-A-PALOOZA you can:
- FIND things in their CREATIVE REUSE CENTER
- SWAP things at the CLOTHING SWAP
- MAKE CREATIVE PROJECTS using random things
- REPAIR your things at their REPAIR and MENDING Stations
- CAPTURE a memory with a cherished thing at a PHOTO BOOTH
- FIND wordy things at BOOKLEGGERS LIBRARY TRAILER
- AND SO MUCH MORE!!
More than just an event, REUSE-A-PALOOZA is a chance to connect. You’ll find booths from local community organizations centered on environmental sustainability, as well as a meeting space where creativity and shared knowledge come together to build stronger, more compassionate neighborhoods.
Whether you’re curious about our lending library of things or want to join one of our upcoming arts & community workshops, this is your chance to experience how The Things Lab blends sustainability, memory, and connection into everything we do.
Participants include Bookleggers Library, A Cleaner Planet Operation, Compost for Life/ Glass for Life, Debris Free Oceans, Miami Artist Census, Miami Time Swap, Miami Waterkeeper, Recircle Society in collaboration with Shop Alexina and Taryn Hipwell, Reliance Earth & Biodiversity, Sneaker Impact, Sustain the Culture, Volunteer Cleanup, Zero Waste Miami Coalition and more. Plus, artistic activations led by artists Nicole Combeau, Kerry Phillips, Lauren Reilly, Pangea Kali Virga, among others. The Things Lab is supported in part by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to our supporters OM Properties, Cervecería La Tropical, Open Water, Locust Projects and ArtSeen365.
PARKING: There will be limited parking at Ironsbend where The Things Lab is located.
