Soak up all the ☀️RE’s at the ultimate SUMMER☀️ event with as much REuse, REpair, and REpurposing as you can stuff in an XXL beach bag. We are celebrating Chicago’s first ever city-wide Climate Week!
Our junky jamboree features artisans who transform reclaimed materials into one-of-a-kind goods. Shop for home goods, art, garden accessories, fashion, body care, stuff you've never seen before… and more.
There is no better way to show love for our one-and-only planet than to gather together as a community! We have nowhere else to go, so let’s go nowhere together.
For this special edition, we are stuffing as many RE's into your experience as possible.
⚙️ Repair:
Working Bikes' mechanics will spruce up your wheels for summer joy-riding.
Create unique patches with Mi Rayo de Sol to bring your fave garments back to a loved state.
👛 Repurpose:
Bring your plastic bags to Anna's "plarn" crochet station and learn how to turn it into a functional pouch.
Chicago Creative Reuse Exchange is guiding a make-n-take with reclaimed supplies from their warehouse.
💡 Reimagine:
As always, you can shop transformational goods handcrafted by 30 of our local REmakers. Bring your not-yet-trash materials from home to our Trash Smashing Artisans for their next line of upcycled wares. Stay tuned for their wishlist!
🧵 Reuse:
Hand sew scrap fabric onto a community-created quilt by Chicago Textile Center.
🎤 Reculture:
Enjoy an upcycled art exhibition, poetry by Kroetry, trashy puppetry by Always Sometimes Maybe,and live music by Loony Is Normal.
If you need one more reason to head over to Logan Square that day, hit up the Farmer's Market to stock your fridge with local produce.
🌐 Check back soon to meet our Trash Smashers!
🌎 WHY THIS? WHY NOW?
Because the best things aren't always made from new stuff — they're made from the right hands meeting the right scraps at the right moment. The Trashy Markets exist to celebrate exactly that: the joy, the ingenuity, and the genuine thrill of transforming what's been cast aside into something worth keeping.
This is your chance to level up among the most supportive, conscientious, and craft-obsessed community around. Nowhere Collective delivers handmade magic that proves everything and everyone has unearthed potential.