After a successful performance in Sarajevo, fashion performance “Waste is taste” was also held last night in front of the cultural centre Abrašević in Mostar.
It is a performance by the Ballet Ensemble of the Association of artists “Bellarte” whose main goal is to show costumes and designs made of packaging waste and other materials that would otherwise land up in landfills. The designs were created last year at the “Waste is taste” workshop in the Association for the promotion of cultural creativity “Mlaz” in Počitelj.
The president of the Association “Bellarte” Nadža Pušilo commended the Mostar audience and added that this project is, besides being fun, also greatly educative.
“We used old and discarded objects to make imaginative designs e.g. dresses young ballet dancers wore and which made them look very attractive” – said Pušilo, besides mentioning that this project will continue in the future as well.
The goal of this project is to remake old materials so they could serve a fashion purpose. In this way, “Bellarte” and “Mlaz” in cooperation with “Ekopak” (first and leading system operator of packaging waste management in B&H) raise awareness of different possibilities of using packaging waste.
Besides the Ballet ensemble of “Bellarte” and ballet artiste Nadža Pušilo, musicians of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vanja Rupar (trombone) and Faruk Jahić (percussions) also participated in this event.
The founder of this project is a young B&H designer Jasminka Hadžimehmedović. The exhibition held covered works of Katarina Bogdanović (Belgrade), Jasminka Hadžimehmedović (Sarajevo), Ivana Lazarević (Belgrade), Nevena NIkolić (Sarajevo), Merima Mujkanović (Zenica), Altijana Salispahić (Sarajevo) and Edina Sipić (Bihać).
The project’s friend, Ekopak Company, supplied during the performance in Mostar appropriate cans for collecting packaging waste so every visitor would have the chance to separately throw his waste in an appropriate can and support in that way the recycling of the packaging waste.
(Source: Fena)
