After 46 years at Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, Reverse Garbage is moving to a new home.
Kirsten Junor, creative director at Reverse Garbage, is blase about the piles of human teeth casts stacked at the reuse centre’s front entrance.
After closing its doors this week, it will reopen in mid-January in a new, fit-for-purpose space on Carrington Road, also in Marrickville, in a district of artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers and theatre companies such as Erth and Branch Nebula. Junor gets emotional talking about Reverse Garbage’s history and the generations of artists, teachers, children and staff who have foraged in the aisles.“It’s a Sydney institution and it means so much to so many people,” she says. “We aren’t a specific sort of place, so we welcome everybody. We welcome everything. What makes us unique is the stories, the people who work here, volunteer, donate and shop here.
Their education programs and workshops are thriving, workplaces increasingly use the Fill A Bag section for office decorations and the phone rings hot after Vivid and Mardi Gras with people seeking donated props, costumes and parade float trimmings. “I’d never heard of Marie Kondo until I turned up after one Christmas holiday and there was just so much stuff,” Junor says. “It was, ‘I’m cleaning out, it’s not giving me joy any more.’ ”
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