Exercise your creativity without breaking a sweat! The Don’t Sweat Shop challenges you create, manufacture and take home your own piece of ‘Games’ merchandise without any training, drug testing or actual exercise. At the Don’t Sweat Shop, the difference between competitors is not measured by how fast, how far or how much, but by how clever. Put your brain into training and Take the Don’t Sweat Challenge!
The Don't Sweat Shop will run from the 15 - 26 March 2006 as part of the 2006 Next Wave Festival and Youth Program of the Cultural Festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Located in a shipping container in Shed 14, Docklands, the Don't Sweat Shop will act as a fully functional merchandise factory through which audience members can design their own merchandise and assist with its production within the space.
Each day, designs submitted by the public will be chosen and go into production within the container. The designs will be applied to T-shirts, tea towels, aprons and carry bags then sown, finished and packaged for sale, all within the container. Audience members will also have the opportunity to design badges and bookmarks on the spot.
The container will also house a daily "Artist in Residence" who will create a one off design for a merchandise item. These items and those designed by the public will all go on sale on site as hand crafted merchandise selling for between $2 and $25. All remaining merchandise will also be auctioned on the final day, the proceeds donated to Fairware, the peak organisation for prevention of exploitation of home-based outworkers in Australia.
The Don't Sweat Shop will run from the 15 - 26 March 2006 as part of the 2006 Next Wave Festival and Youth Program of the Cultural Festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Located in a shipping container in Shed 14, Docklands, the Don't Sweat Shop will act as a fully functional merchandise factory through which audience members can design their own merchandise and assist with its production within the space.
Each day, designs submitted by the public will be chosen and go into production within the container. The designs will be applied to T-shirts, tea towels, aprons and carry bags then sown, finished and packaged for sale, all within the container. Audience members will also have the opportunity to design badges and bookmarks on the spot.
The container will also house a daily "Artist in Residence" who will create a one off design for a merchandise item. These items and those designed by the public will all go on sale on site as hand crafted merchandise selling for between $2 and $25. All remaining merchandise will also be auctioned on the final day, the proceeds donated to Fairware, the peak organisation for prevention of exploitation of home-based outworkers in Australia.
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Download the Merchandise Design Specifications
Contact
For more information on the Don’t Sweat Shop project, contact Pip Carroll on pip@ambiguoushorse.com or on 0428 993 779.
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Each day that the Don’t Sweat Shop is open, new limited edition merchandise items will be available to buy. To stay up to date with the designs being created, and to receive information about special offers and events, send an email with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line to pip@ambiguoushorse.com
