Workshop Houston and The Tipping Point Present…

A Fashion and Design Expo

with student-made “Tipping Point” themed chopper presentation.

Date: July 16, 2011

Free Admission. Donations accepted.
Snacks and Drinks will be served.

Workshop Houston is teaming up with The Tipping Point to present a Fashion and Design Expo by the students of Workshop Houston.

Events included:

Fashion Show by the “Style Shop” with music provided by the “Beat Shop.” Clothing and music will be available for purchase.

Student-Made “Tipping Point” Themed Presentation by the “Chopper Shop.”

Workshop Houston’s mission is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support, expanded opportunities and alternative definitions of success. Workshop Houston has five shops that provide resources and support for young people: the Third Ward Bike Shop (do-it-yourself bike repair), the Chopper Shop (welding and metal fabrication), the Beat Shop (hip-hop music production), the Style Shop (fashion design) and the Scholar Shop (tutoring and academic enrichment).

The Tipping Point is Houston’s first and only sneaker lifestyle store located in Downtown on the ground floor of the Historic Humble Building. We curate an eclectic collection of sneakers, books, art, apparel, music, and accessories that are a reflection of the Tipping Point lifestyle. Our ongoing mission is to expose new innovative products and ideas that reflect our beliefs to our hand picked audience. We also seek to educate our guest on the history of our products.

Check out the shirts that Halima just finished in Style Shop.  Where did she get a twin?  The miracles of Photoshop.

As part of an ongoing series about the shops,  Cite Magazine has published this great article about Arbay, one of our Style Shop participants.  Check it out!

Workshop Houston offers summer programs for students entering 6th through 8th grades. All programs are completely free. Programs are at Workshop Houston: 3615 Sauer St (between Holman and Alabama).

Questions? Call us at (713) 807-7911

Important Summer Dates

Summer Program Start Date: Monday, June 6th
Last Day of Summer Programs: Thursday, July 28th
End of Summer Party: Saturday, July 30th
Summer Holiday – All Shops Closed: August 1st – August 22rd
TBA – Camping Trip Late July- TBA

Beat Shop
2:30 - 5:30
Learn how to make beats, write lyrics, and record your own songs and album.

Chopper Shop
2:30– 5:30
Learn welding and metal working and then design and build your own custom chopper/lowrider bike.

Style Shop
2:30 – 5:30
Learn computer design, sewing, and printing while making clothes and accessories.

Scholar Shop
1:00 – 2:30 Summer Literacy Program- Interactive group readings
2:30 – 5:30 Tutoring and Homework Help

Field Trips
1:00 – 5:30
Fridays (open to Regular Participants only)
On Fridays we will be taking field trips around the city and out of town.

Bike Shop
Thursday 11:00pm – 1:00pm; Friday 2:00pm –7:00pm; Saturday 11:00 am – 4:00pm (all ages)
Come by and fix your own bike or work in the shop and earn a bike to keep.

Check out the awesome new shirts that are coming out of Style Shop. Here are a few that Arbay and Halima have been working on. Super cool shirts, not to mention super cool photo shoot!

Party of the year!

I made this poster by following  a tutorial on the internet.   I didn’t learn anything because I already knew how to do the tutorial.   My favorite part of this project was when it was over because I was finally finished with all my hard work.   It was a lot of  work but it paid off in the end.

Aaliyah and Nicole recently finished a few aprons (one of our intro to sewing projects) in Style Shop.  We already have quite a few aprons in Style Shop, so we figured they could use them over in Chopper and Bike Shop.  Here are some pics of our apron donation mission to Chopper Shop.  You can see how happy Matt and Will are with their awesome new aprons!

Wow, we have had so much fun stuff going on in Style Shop this fall that I have been too busy to blog about it.  The style shop crew has been making tremendous progress in sewing, screen printing, drawing, and computer design.  With the approach of the Holidays we decided to take a little break from our normal routine and make some custom printed holiday themed t-shirts for the students to give out as gifts.  There are some very lucky parents and siblings in Third Ward if you ask me.  Here are a few (not very good) pics from the end of the week.