Vancouver, WA – The 10th annual Recycled Arts Festival will be filled with entertainment, family-friendly activities and more than 150 vendors selling art crafted from recycled items. The free festival, which the Vancouver Downtown Association named its People’s Choice Favorite Event for the past two years, will be held the final weekend of June in Esther Short Park. The park is south of West Eighth Street, west of Columbia Street and adjacent to the Vancouver Farmers Market. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 27, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 28. The 2015 Recycled Arts Festival, which drew approximately 30,000 people last year, will be bigger, better and more fun than ever. The event will feature attractions for all ages, including musicians, stilt walkers, jugglers and clowns. Because the traditional gift for a 10th anniversary is tin, a Tin Man sculpture will be featured at the festival. In keeping with a story line in “The Wizard of Oz,” artists have been asked to create hearts for the Tin Man, and attendees can vote for their favorite. The hearts will be donated to the American Heart Association for its money-raising efforts. “We are proud of the success of the Recycled Arts Festival and excited to have reached this 10-year milestone,” said Don Benton, Environmental Services director. About 160 artists will display and sell items such as metal and glass garden art, recycled paper books and cards, album cover handbags, turned-wood sculptures, furniture and birdfeeders, and bicycle parts wall art. Other attractions include: • Music on Esther Short Park’s main stage, starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. • Do-it-yourself recycled art and instruments. • Environmental education activities from local organizations, including tours of the Tiny House, a home on a trailer that measures 84 square feet and highlights a simplified lifestyle. • People who show their reusable mugs or water bottles at the information tent will be entered into two drawings for gift cards. Clark County Environmental Services organizes the two-day festival, an official event of the Portland Rose Festival. The Recycled Arts Festival is a great opportunity to emphasize the importance of reducing and reusing waste in an informative and fun event. Event organizers ask visitors to bring school supplies to donate to the Children’s Sharing Project, a local nonprofit that distributes back-to-school supplies to Clark County youth. For more information about the Recycled Arts Festival, visit RecycledArtsFestival.com.