It’s as if Project Runway cut their budget and auf’d Heidi Klum: See the art of trash upcycled into eco-fashion (complete with runway show) by amateur designers at the third annual Trashy Fashion Show at the Largo Cultural Center in celebration of Earth Day. Get there early to check out the Green Expo. (Pictured: Lisandra Rodriguez models a paper-based design by Meghan Fretto and Christine Spiegel) 5 p.m. Thurs., April 22, Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive, Largo, $10, largorecycles.com. —Katie Machol
Brown-bag it today and instead of waiting in line at the drive-thru on your lunch break, you can spend the afternoon on the banks of the Hillsborough with Curator of Education Gianna Russo and Curator Susan Carter. In Conservation Conversations, they give a brief history of Henry Plant and the Tamp Bay Hotel, providing a timeline of major conservation movements from 1891-1931 and discussing the architectural features and building materials, which today would be considered “green,” followed by a tour of these features in the building. Thurs., April 22, 12-1 p.m., Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa, free, plantmuseum.com.
Earth Day events are everywhere this week — even at your friendly indie bookstore. Ginny Stibolt, a naturalist with a master’s in botany, signs copies of her latest in tips and tricks for greener gardens, Sustainable Gardening for Florida. Inkwoodbooks.com. Thurs., April 22, 7 p.m., Inkwood Books, Tampa.
After the break, we resume our regularly scheduled, non-Earth Day events coverage, including Co-Motion Dance Theatre, Bright and White at the Mindy Solomon Gallery, and discussions on the “War on Terror” and sweatshops v. social justice:
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2010.
