Last thursday we had the opportunity to enjoy in the Naturkosmetiks workshop, creating homemade lip balm and body butter. Luna explained us detailed how to make this sweet and natural cosmetics, and Jorge made a short introduction about the industrial cosmetics. All this made a great evening sorrounded by nice people, so we expect to repeat really soon!
Thanks to Luna, and to all the participants!
Tau made this nice pictures!
Organic DIY natrual cosmetic workshop!
Feb 28, 2012 – the Café Dritter Raum was turned into a big clothing party. Trial&Error was there with the Kiezmobil, as a mobile freeshop.
It was a joyful get-together where everybody, from babies to older people, were walking around in search of great clothes to swap. A baby walked towards me and gave me a plastic bag with a banana peel inside – even he was taken over by the spirit of swapping!
A sewing corner was set up to let creativity flow, so that nobody would have to go empty-handed (unless they really wanted to!) if they couldn’t find their perfect fit. Some decided to make bags out of clothes, others made pillows - everybody had fun while doing it!
Everybody got their chance to get rid of clothes they no longer wanted and to bring “new” clothes home without having to spend money.
Check out www.richardkiez.com and www.cafe-dritter-raum.de for more upcoming events.
Why shop when you can swap?
Words by Federico Fusco, a lovely trial&error volunteer
Creaction - Exchanging creative solutions for social change
A fun team coordinated by the Kulturlabor Trial & Error, traveled the last 7th of February to the city of Avilés (Spain) with the goal of exchanging creativity ideas for social change with young people from Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Italy and from the local community in Asturias.
The exchange was hosted by the asturian association Ye Too Ponese. For 7 days we dived in the theory and culture of creative activism, we listed concerns and problems we would like to change and we put in practice some actions in the public space to create awareness about them.
We documented many of the actions and the results can be found soon in www.mastazine.net
Open call for participants!
Stream for change - Let’s take action and create our own media!
Kulturlabor Trial&Error is building a local action team in Berlin to do regular actions for the next months. Do you want to express your opinion about the world? Do you think that the media doesn’t represent you and your ideals? We want to create our own media
Join our team for an international project with partners in Greece, Austria, Spain and facilitated by a team in Czech Republic.
We will have a meeting in Berlin the 2nd week of March to discuss what topics we want to work on and what actions can we make to improve awareness.
Contact Tau through email@trial-error.org for more information and joining.
Trash of the Month > Clothes Swap & Coconuts!
This moths Trash of the month —Tuesday 14.2— was a beautiful collaboration with the Kleidertausch event from the neuköllner Tauschring and Café Dritter Raum and 60 something drink-coconuts we happened to save from the bin and shared with friends and Kiezbewohner. The coconuts were sponsored by KULAU a really nice berlin-based organisation.
For comming swap-events look at www.richardkiez.net and www.cafe-dritter-raum.de
It was great fun swapping and sipping away and warming our cold feet on the cosy fire in the Dritter Raum.
On the 28th of February there will be the next Clothes Swap event co-organised with the Dritter Raum and Trial&Error> 15:00- 20:00 > Hertzbergstraße 14
Our lovely Kiezmobil will also feature again, this time with a mobile swap-remake-station!
Hope to see you there!
Your Trial&Error team
January 21st. and 22nd., Trial&Error was invited to Köln, to take part in the “Messe der Meister von Morgen” (M.M.M.). We were invited by Büromacht to this event, developed inside the activites of the Passagen 2012, and it was a pleasure to make a workshop and spend time creating some stuff from “real trash” (carefully collected) with the very nice people from Jack in the Box (amazing works!) and all the visitors!
We enjoyed a lot with all workshops that took part there, and is really nice to meet so many upcyclers to create together.
Thank you to all the people were there, specially to all the crew from Büromacht and Jack In The Box!! We hope come back to Köln soon!
Pictures and text: Jorge Vilar
Recycled creativity festival 2011- Photobook!
Thank you again to all visitors, workshopgivers, bands and organizors who made the festival so cozy, energetic, lively and nice!
Photobook made by tau’mh.
Trashion über alles
