June 20: Stop ‘N Swap

Have stuff that’s too good to toss? Bring it to the Stop N’ Swap! Leave clean, working, reusable items you no longer want and take home something new-to-you. Portable items only please, no furniture! Saturday, June 20, 11am-3pm at the Shabazz Center, 3940 Broadway at 165th Street. Click here to download the flyer.

* Saturday
* North Manhattan
* Recycling

Details:
June 20, 2009 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
3940 Broadway at 165th Street, New York, NY (Map)

Fashion Swapping: Give And Take This Sunday

Fashion Give Take

Get ready to scuffle over vintage Chloe and more, all while donating to Housing Works.
Join the mayhem at Give & Take,  at White Box (329 Broome Street between Bowery and Christie).

Sunday June 7, 3-6PM

White Box

329 Broome Street

$5 with clothes/$10 w/o clothes

Give &Take encourages sustainability by providing our peers with an outlet to donate clothes they no
longer use and exchange them amongst themselves. The event is an effort to promote recycling within the community, while serving as a clothing drive for Housing Works’ clothing bank.  And boys don’t get scared, there are plenty of Men’s clothes too, designer suits and more.

Official Site: http://www.sauvagestudio.com

May 30: Score! Free Swap in Gowanus

This Saturday, The Yard hosts a free swap of hundreds of records, clothes, household items, and regretful “impulse buys” will find new homes. This one-day event celebrates the joys of finding treasure in someone else’s trash.

11am – 6pm
FREE! * ALL AGES

BKLYN Yard
388-400 Carroll St.
Brooklyn, NY 11231

HOW TO GET TO BKLYN YARD

Take the F or G trains to Carroll St. South on Smith. Left on President. Right on Hoyt. Left on Carroll. You can also take the N, R trains to Union. West on Union. Left on Nevins. Right on Carroll. Just over the bridge.

HOW SCORE! WORKS
1. Attendees bring their old Twisted Sister albums, ill-advised sample sale purchases, dog-eared graphic novels, and get to leave with something new.
2. BKLYN Yard will be split into departments, each “curated” by different individuals and organizations….

APPAREL – Amy & Leslie
BOOKS – The Desk Set
KITCHEN PRODUCTS – Natalie Kamei
MUSIC – MeanRed Productions

3. Volunteers will sort donations, a roving stylist will be available to make wardrobe suggestions, the Treats Truck will be on hand to satisfy sugar cravings, and local DJs will provide the background music for a lazy Spring day at BKLYN Yard.
The event is free and open to the public. Donations can be dropped off prior to the event, or left at the door. All left-over items will be collected by Rock and Wrap It Up – an anti-poverty “think tank” that distributes donations to worth non-profits throughout the city.

NYU Swap-A-Palooza: Sunday, April 26

NYU is having a swap this Sunday, April 26 2-6PM

Swap-a-Palooza is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops which feature creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. Bring a bag of old clothing and get ready to swap and alter with the help of local artists. We hope to feature many do-it-yourself stations run by local artists and a recycled clothing fashion show. The idea of the swap-a-palooza is to celebrate community creativity while allowing the NYU community to put their personal touch on a stand against consumerism.

Kimmel Center for University Life

60 Washington Square South

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, 4th Floor

RSVP here.

Tax Day Swap On April 15

From the Five Boroughs Clothing Swap Meetup Group:

Finished your taxes yet? Need a little motivation to get going?
You may have to pay the IRS but you’ll never have to pay for clothing at one of our parties! So get those forms in and celebrate the end of tax day with a drink, a munch, and some wonderful new gladrags for spring!

Entrance fee: minimum one bag of great condition, high quality clothing to swap and $3.00 to be donated to our site, St. Margaret’s House which is H.U.D. housing unit for low-income seniors and disabled adults.

As always feel free to bring any size items and as always please refrain from bringing any stained, ripped, obviously damaged, shrunken, very worn or otherwise undesireable items. Please bring only items you would be proud to give a friend! IT’S NEVER AN EVEN EXCHANGE. So bring a lot, take a little, or vice versa.

RSVP by Tuesday, April 14.

Feb 25: Almost Spring Swap at St. Margeret’s House

LAST DAY TO RSVP: Tuesday at 6:30PM

FEE: $3 general admission, FREE if you bring an unopened bottle of wine! We do not need soft drinks or water as those are provided by St. Margaret’s (49 Fulton St)    Snacks are also appreciated.

SCHEDULE:
Arrival – Feel free to wait in the atrium or outside, but no admittance to the swap area before 6:15
Setup – we put our own items out at this swap. Setup will be from 6:15 to 7:15
Start time – 6:30 PM People will continue to arrive and set up until 7:15
Last arrival – no one will be admitted after 7:15
End time – 8:00

INFO FOR NEWBIES
This swap is a seasonal swap – please save your heavy winter items for donation to your fave charity
This swap is organized by item type, not size. You will put your own stuff out accordingly.
There’s never an even exchange, give a lot, take a little or vice versa – let your conscience be your guide.

Jammin January Swap Tonight at The Breathing Project

The Five Boroughs Clothing Swap Group is having a swap tonight.

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Breathing Project is at 15 West 26th between B’way and 6th Ave. Ring buzzer 10R
Do not arrive before 6:00 as there is limited waiting room area
Fee is $3 payable at the front desk before the swap.
Swap starts at 6:30PM and ends at 8:00PM
No one admitted after 7:15PM

Sunday January 4: GEMS Benefit Clothing Swap and Screening

Author Janice Erlbaum alerted me about this clothing swap event this Sunday.

Please join me for a clothing swap and screening of the Showtime documentary “Very Young Girls,” to benefit GEMS , an organization that helps girls who have been commercially sexually exploited.

Under St. Mark’s Theater
94 St. Marks Place, between First Ave. and Ave. A
Doors at 5PM
Screening at 5:30PM
Clothing swap and cocktails 7-8:307PM

Suggested donation: Whatever you can afford. Seating is limited — please RSVP to get on the list. Note: Because we will be getting undressed, as well as smashing the patriarchy, this is a women-only event. Tell your girls!

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Suggestions for the clothing swap:
Please bring only clean, gently-worn clothes, shoes, and accessories in bags; the kind of clothes you’d be happy to pick up and wear.  We’ll have stations where you can quickly sort your items by size and function when you arrive; after the screening, you’re free to browse the piles and take home as much as you brought! (Of course, if you take a little less than you brought, we’ll have more great clothes left over to give to the girls of GEMS.)

Sunday Swap at St. Mark’s Church (November 30)

Tomorrow (Sunday Nov 30th)  FREE SWAP at 6PM
St Mark’s Church (10th St & 2nd Ave)

Free food too!

Bring anything and everything you would toss out anyway:.
Clothes
Books
CDs DVDs Videos
Kitchen ware
Linens
Towels
just about anything you don’t want anymore.

Let’s Go Green this holiday season … re-gift – recycle – pass it on!

Greenpoint Swap: Friday, November 14

Hosted by Adena

Date: Friday, Nov 14 starting at 6:30PM

$5 admission (donated to the church)

The Greenpoint Church of the Messiah at 129 Russell Street between
Nassau and Driggs.

Take the G to Nassau and walk 7 blocks to Nassau and turn
right, the church is located in the middle of the block across the street from
McGorlick Park. Or take the L train to Lorimer Street and the B48 bus to Nassau
and Russell Street and turn right.