Friday July 12, 2024 5pm - 9pm ET

Saturday July 13, 2024 11am - 7pm ET

Located on Turner St. in Old Town Lansing (extending from E César E. Chávez Ave. to Beaver St.)

Here’s an exact address of a great restaurant right in the middle of that area for reference:

The Creole Burger Bar & Southern Kitchen

1218 Turner Rd, Lansing, MI 48906

And here’s a map to help you with way-finding! There’s free parking in the Cesar E. Chavez Plaza on the corner of Turner Rd and Cesar E. Chavez Ave. as well as on the many side streets in Old Town. You may also park at Friedland Industries.

Sculpture Competition

In early May, around 35 teams get an hour to pick up to 500 lbs of scrap metal from Friedland Industries Inc. and then get one month to make a sculpture.

There is a Large Piece category (500 lbs) and a Small Piece category (250 lbs) of sculptures that will be on display this year.

The sculptures are juried (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and People's Choice) and auctioned off at the festival in mid July. ScrapFest began as a competition only, and has evolved into a full repurpose-focused art festival, with eco-art booth artisans, live music, family activities, and food!

70% of the proceeds from sculpture sales go to the artists, 20% to ScrapFest to help put event on each year, and 10% to our charitable partner this year, which is Lansing $AVE!

The sculptures will be sold via a silent auction, in which the artist will decide the minimum bid price, along with a Buy-It-Now price if they want to add one.

Friday July 12, 2024

5-9pm — Sculptures on display and silent auction is open!

Saturday July 13, 2024

11am-7pm — Sculptures on display and silent auction open until 5:30pm ET!

4:30pm — 1st, 2nd, 3rd & People’s Choice awards for both Large & Small Piece categories announced! One of our Titanium Level sponsors, Lincoln Electric, is adding to the prizes, and we couldn't be more excited and grateful for their support!

Eco-Booth Artists

Friday July 12, 2024 5-9pm

Saturday July 13, 2024 11-7pm

There will be eco-art booth artists on both days of the festival! ScrapFest booth artists are unique in that the work they showcase at the festival must be made from at least 75% up-cycled or repurposed materials. We love them and their repurposing artistry!

Music Lineup

Friday July 12, 2024

6-9pm — Ozay Moore and Y’z Council from AOTA Creative will be DJing!

Saturday July 13, 2024

11-11:45am ET — Jonathan Watt

12-12:45am ET — Dylan Tolbert

1-2:30pm ET — Pinter Whitnick

3-4:30pm ET — Mark Lavengood Trio

5-7pm ET — Darin Larner Band

Family, Educational & Other Activities

ScrapFest is for all ages! Every year, we have great family and educational activities to help showcase the importance of reuse, and how it can be fun!

Friday July 12, 2024

5-9pm — Our charity partner this year, Lansing $AVE, will have a booth with information about their program! Click here to learn more about their mission in providing Lansing School District students with bank accounts they can use toward post-secondary education. We will also have invited our previous charity partners to have a booth as well so the public can still learn about the great work they do.

5-9pm — Lansing Community College will have a booth for information on their welding program, along with some projects from their students!

7pm — The ScrapFest Refashion Show is back! This is a scrap fabric-focused addition to the event, where teams picked scrap fabric and had a month to make something wearable! Models will showcase the apparel on the music stage. Click here for more info!



Saturday July 13, 2024

8am — The Great Scrap Run! We're so excited to incorporate an 8k into ScrapFest this year! The starting location will be on the River Trail in Old Town Lansing. The Preuss Pets Kids Fun Run begins at 8am, with the 8k Run/Walk beginning at 8:30am. The proceeds from the run will go to our charitable partner The Davies Project! Sign up and more info here!

11am-7pm — Our charity partner this year, Lansing $AVE, will have a booth with information about their program! Click here to learn more about their mission in providing Lansing School District students with bank accounts they can use toward post-secondary education. We will also have invited our previous charity partners to have a booth as well so the public can still learn about the great work they do.

11am-7pm — Lansing Community College will have a booth for information on their welding program, along with some projects from their students!

12-5pm — REACH Studio Art Center will have their mobile unit open! Families can make things using scrap material and tool the mobile unit has available.

12-5pm — Waverly Robotics will be showcasing a number of robots built by their students!

Food

Friday July 12, 2024 5-9pm

Saturday July 13, 2024 11-7pm

Old Town establishments open, and we’ll have both Picnic Food Truck and From Scratch Food Truck on site at the festival. Old Town is also now designated as a Social District, so patrons can order food and beverages at participating establishments and walk/sit within the boundaries of the festival. We're adding more umbrellaed seating for this purpose!

A BIG Thank You to our sponsors for making ScrapFest possible,

we couldn’t do this without your tremendous support to our Lansing community!

 

Titanium Sponsors

Give it up for our Titanium Sponsors! Without Friedland Industries, there wouldn't be a ScrapFest. Lincoln Electric provides welders for the prizes, consumables like welding wire for all of the teams, and more. Render Studios provides us with a mind-boggling discount for making the ScrapFest Documentary (link above!). We're so grateful to all of them for their support, go check them out!

 
 
 

Copper Sponsors

Give it up for our Copper Sponsors! Rathbun Agency / Auto-Owners Insurance has been supporting us since the beginning. They give back to the community in so many ways. The Lenick Company is an amazing scrap brokerage company that supports us tremendously. Michigan Creative has given us an incredible discount on making our sponsorship packet, press releases, photos/video coverage at the various aspects of the festival. We can't thank all of these companies enough for their support, go check them out!

 

Aluminum Sponsors

Give it up for our Aluminum Sponsors! Alro is an amazing metal and plastics company with a location right in Lansing. Omni’s collaborative efforts with Friedland go back many years, and they’re an incredible scrap-recycling company. They have a major history here, and we appreciate their support. Markal makes innovative products like markers that can withstand heat for welders/fabricators, and they've provided all of the teams with them. Loc Performance is another incredible metals fabrication company that not only has employees that compete in the sculpture competition, but we provide all of the teams with bases to help with stability, and they made the bases this year. We're so grateful to all of these wonderful companies for their support, go check them out!

 

STEEL SPONSORS

Give it up for our Steel Sponsors! Plante Moran is a great audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management company. University of Michigan Health - Sparrow is providing us a with first-aid at the festival. We're so grateful for both of their support, go check them out!

 

Great Scrap Run Sponsors

Give it up for our Great Scrap Run Host sponsor, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC! For more than 100 years, Foster Swift has provided outstanding client service and legal excellence.

McPhee Electric & Telecommunications is also sponsoring the Great Scrap Run this year! We're grateful for their support, and more info on them below.

 

Refashion Show Sponsors

Give it up for our Refashion Show Host sponsor, Granger Waste Services! Granger is an incredible, longstanding local company that provides a full range of waste collection services; recycling services; solid waste landfill services; energy recycling services; waste hauling; recycling and landfill disposal services; recycling of waste; and energy recycling services, namely, capturing, processing and conversion of waste into energy. We’re so grateful that they love the concept of the Refashion Show and want to support us in this way!

McPhee Electric & Telecommunications is also sponsoring the Refashion Show this year! We're grateful for their support, and more info on them below.

 

Supporting Sponsors

Give it up for our Supporting Sponsors! McPhee Electric & Telecommunications is a phenomenal electric and telecommunications company that has been in the Greater Lansing Area since 1989. They are contributing to both the Great Scrap Run and the Refashion Show this year, and we're grateful for their support. MessageMakers is an incredible local company that tells the stories of businesses/organizations with video production, audio production, and much more. They give us a generous discount on the stage and sound. Edge Welding Supply makes an incredible niche product - glass welding cups that help make for a more precise and cleaner weld. Choice Painting is a wonderful interior residential and commercial painting company right here in Lansing. We're very grateful to all of these companies for their support, go check them out!

 

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Major shoutout to the incredible individuals who are also sponsoring ScrapFest 14!

  • Gary & Emily

  • Nancy