There are two home brew beer drinking events on the horizon for good causes.

First, Brew Durham 3 is this Saturday to benefit The Scrap Exchange.

Folks will have more than 60 beers to taste from the Triangle's home brewing community, including Santa's Breakfast", an oatmeal coffee stout with cinnamon and cloves by brewer Dan Caswell and "Monkey Punch" by brewer Michael Mayhew, a sour ale brewed with apricots, currants and dark brown sugar.

Brew Durham will have two tasting sessions: 1-4 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Tickets cost $30 and can be purchased online at brewdurham3.eventbrite.com/. Designated driver tickets are available for $5. The event will happen at The Cordoba Center for the Arts at 923 Franklin St., Durham.

Second, tickets are available for the second annual Homebrew for Hunger festival on Nov. 17 in Chapel Hill.

Twenty-five home brewers will be serving their beers, including a chocolate pumpkin porter and a juniper ale. They will be joined by local craft breweries Fullsteam, Carolina Brewery and Bull City Burger & Brewery. Beer distributor Harris, Inc. will be pouring beer from other local breweries, including Aviator, Big Boss, Triangle and Lonerider brewing companies. The event raises money for PORCH, a hunger relief organization in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

The event has two sessions from noon-3 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance and can be purchased online at www.homebrewforhunger.com or at Fifth Season Gardening stores in Carrboro or Raleigh. If any tickets are left, those will be sold at the door for $25. The event will be held at West End Public, an event space at 462 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill.
 

The Triangle Reuse Alliance and the City of Raleigh has teamed up to host the Raleigh Reuse Rodeo on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event, which will be held at Providence Baptist Church at 6339 Glenwood Ave., gives area residents the opportunity to bring reusable materials to one location for the benefit of several local nonprofits that are dedicated to reuse and waste reduction.

The Scrap Exchange reopened this weekend with music by the Eno Mountain Boys and more. The "creative reuse center" has a new home at 923 Franklin St. behind Golden Belt after being forced to move from Liberty Warehouse after a partial roof collapse there.

The Durham nonprofit is one of an estimated 50 such centers in 13 states, says executive director Ann May Woodward. It has an annual budget of $350,000 and 32 employees, 10 full time. A fundraising campaign is trying to raise $60,000 to help cover remaining moving costs and get through the year. The new location is bigger but lacks heating and an inside door once you walk through the garage door off the parking lot.

The affection people have for this place, where kids and adults turn scraps into treasures, was evident in the joy of performers like Dillon Shambley of the Eno Mountain Boys (above), who remembers, barely, coming to the old Scrap when he was 4 or 5 years old. He was soaked from a rousing set with bandmate Sean Garrett, but "I like being this sweaty this early in the morning," he said. "It means we're working hard."

Look for a full story on the reopening coming Wednesday in The Durham News.

The Scrap Exchange creative reuse center will have a weekend-long celebration to honor its new permanent home in the Cordoba Center for the Arts in Durham.

Weekend events include live music, free art making, sales specials, food trucks, a Swap-O-Rama Rama community clothing swap and more.

Do you have any clothing, toys, small appliances, furniture or other items that are cluttering up your house? Round up all those unused items and take them to the Cary Reuse Rodeo on Saturday, Sept. 17.

The Scrap Exchange in Durham will be kicking off its new exhibit at the Green Gallery on Friday, and this one is for the birds. Literally.

The Scrap Exchange may have been forced to move recently, but the organization is ready to celebrate 20 years serving North Carolina in the creative reuse industry.

The birthday celebration will be held in conjunction with the new Green Gallery art exhibit opening for "The Friends and Family 20/20 Show" on Friday, June 17. The exhibit features upcycled art created by artists in the community from repurposed materials.

From correspondent Virginia Bridges

The Scrap Exchange plans to reopen for business today in a building across the street from its condemned location.

The nonprofit craft store and gallery is temporarily moving from its 548 Foster St. home since 2000 in the Liberty Warehouse to the building at 539 Foster St.  Executive director Ann Woodward said.  The move is the Scrap’s “right now” solution, Woodward said.  The location, which the Scrap can use for up to 30 days, allows the organization to continue to pays its employees and hold scheduled events, such as birthday parties and art workshops, Woodward says.   

The move follows the city condemning the 200,000 square foot Liberty Warehouse building after a section of roof fell during a severe thunderstorm Saturday.  The building has about 35 tenants, which includes a mix of artists, nonprofits and businesses.  The building is also used for storage.

Woodward said The Scrap Exchange plans to continue to hunt for a permanent location.

“We are just not going back,” Woodward said.  “We can’t have people come to a condemned building.”

Meanwhile, some of Liberty Warehouse’s tenants plan to blow off some steam at Durham’s Third Friday.  

The event, billed as the “Liberty Warehouse Displaced Artist and business owners refuge,” on www.thirdfridaydurham.com, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Foster Street and in the foundry and pavilion at the southern end of the warehouse.  

“Seeing how our mothership has been condemned ...we will be gathering in the Liberty Arts pavilion for the sake of gathering,” the event information states.

Do you have stuff you've been meaning to donate, but don't feel like driving all over town to get it to the corresponding nonprofit?

The Triangle Reuse Alliance, in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity ReStore, is making it easy by bringing nonprofits together in one location for the Raleigh Reuse Rodeo on May 21.

The Scrap Exchange, a nonprofit creative reuse center, is launching the first of a series of artist tours to benefit their Capital Campaign.