A speaker at last year’s Trash Tales event.

WHEELER — An event reimagining household waste as the subject of runways and gallery walls will return for a 25th year this weekend.

The Trash Bash Art Festival, a project of the Wheeler-based waste repurposing group Heart of Cartm, will open with a show of art made from recycled materials at the White Clover Grange in Nehalem Valley.

An art reception begins at 5 p.m. Thursday and the art remains on display over the weekend.

At 5 p.m. Friday, storytellers will interpret this year’s event theme, “Rising From the Trashes,” with stories up to 7 minutes long about people and their belongings — tales of dumpster diving, things lost to time or treasures found.

On Saturday, dumpsters empty onto the runway at 4 p.m. for the Trashion Show, an annual event that began in 2007 and has since gained a reputation for bringing forth elaborate creations.

Festival buttons are $20. For details on how to be an artist, storyteller, designer or model during the event, visit www.heartofcartm.org.