The Nelson Arts Festival team has come up with a unique way to repurpose the 2021 banner that hung on the clock tower of Civic House during the festival.
The festival’s head of creative and communications, Annie Pokel, says the festival is always looking for ways to be more sustainable. Now they have used the banner to create individual bags.
“Every year we print this big banner and so it’s really great to be able to repurpose that for people to be able to take a little bit of the festival away with them.”
Each of the 46 bags are completely unique, with each one hand-cut from the almost 13-metre-long banner by The Green Collective’s Emma Saunders.
The straps have also been repurposed from car seats recycled at Nelson’s Baby on the Move.
With the material being largely waterproof they can be easily used as a beach bag, overnighter or simply to lug around a lot of belongings, says Annie.
Check out the bags here.
