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Swimgreen HQ Sydney...Our Mish Mash, North Bondi.

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Our Hood... A final stroll around Malate before returning to Australia soon highlights the colour and charisma of the streets that we walked each day. Such a source of inspiration and often frustration, this area soon developed into a little local community for us. From the street vendors down to our daily grocer, life emerged in a foreign land.  Wandering through this retro vacuum the influence

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Mmmmmmmmmm Manila...

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'Fair' Well...After two and a half months of congregating five days a week in a humble little workshop on Taft Ave to thaw out the logistics of 6o’s polyester fabrics and the mastery of the fan ‘flick’, we bid farewell to DAWN and in particular Rose, Rosalie and Juanita. On our departure we ponder the term ‘fair’ and question what is ‘fair’ about these alternate trade partnerships that we have

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Third World Thrift.Time always allows for one to indulge in a rummage or two in the seas of second hand treasures. In filipino to rummage is Ukay Ukay, which can also be translated to the street just as UK. We take a day (or maybe a few in all honesty) to scour the hidden pockets of Manila for some fun little finds. These vintage threads and specs not only fill the void that screams when time has

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Moving on.This is an intimate excerpt from the ‘Moving On-Stories of DAWN Women Survivors’, a publication produced by the Development Action for Women Network to advocate ‘protection and promotion’ of migrant women’s rights. In her own words this is the life story of Rose, a member of the Sikhay project and one of the three women working along side us here. With Roses permission we are sharing

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Sweet Treats.Here are some of the fruits of our labor mixed with the colour and flavor of Manila's streets. Green mango goodness.Fish balls and other fine fried delicacies.Street vendor.Todays news.Rep it brotha!

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Santo Niño de Cebú (The Holy child) Festival.A Sundays break from the garish colours of the workshop see's us swarmed in a sea of saints,candles, candy and once again colour. The festival painted our neighbourhood with colour and cultural charm.Filipino fiesta on Roxas Blvd - Curb Side.

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Song of the day:

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We are slowly but surely finding our way. Some predicaments we are discovering along the way have been a.) We are not fat cats nor smelly sharks b.) We rather just create and make 'art' and c.)Girls just want to have funWe are half way through our fan making project and so far things are looking good.

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Its Official, Swimgreen will be sharing treasures at the Laneway Festival on Feburary 8. Stay posted for more information! We are super excited! Yay! 

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Our next challenge.... We must find a solution for the finishing touch that does not mess with the girth and flick. 

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You will always be shining bright with me. You will live on. Fly, fly, fly my love. I will miss you. Your soul food sista - The Tree. xxx

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Here’s a little sumthin, sumthin from our colourful workshop in Manila. Slowly but surely we are mastering the folds and flicks of fan making with our first of five different frame designs. Slowly being the operative word here, they are not yet refined but the magic between the vintage fabrics and aged wood is exciting. The newest in a long series of challenges is finding the right edging to seal

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Welcome to the new year people or perhaps we should say the lump in heart that is 2009...so far. After concluding a positive start to the first phase of our project and celebrating the festive season with everyone here at DAWN, we must say January has certainly arrived with a kick in the teeth. Christmas was more than festive and celebratory in this overly catholic country. It was all good times

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We are a day late. Blame the food coma. 

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After rummaging many nooks throughout the world for vintage fabrics for the past couple of years, a first attempt prior with another project and the numerous fundraising events put on, we have finally begun our collaborative fan-making project with DAWN (Development Action for Women’s Network). In this project we are aiming to create handcrafted ladies fans made from vintage retaso (off cuts) and

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Photo Credits: Jake Verzosa www.matanglawin.ph At the end of chaotic beginnings with catering movie madness, cultural differences, climatization and basic human emotion, Swimgreen was served a sweet surprise with our featured article in this months YEN magazine. Many thanks to Gabriel Knowles for the kind words on our past, present and future endeavors. It was nice to see the Curly Ones

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We are on the road to our dream project. Here we come. 

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We are having another crazy vintage sale. This time we are pairing up with the lovely ladies at MishMash for an event full of fun, vintage threads and beats. This is our last crazy sale before we head to the Philippines and start our social project in December. 

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