and here's a list of festival participants
With live entertainment, free creative workshops,
displays and demonstrations, quality organic food and local produce, loads of
plants, artwork, native wildlife, recycling bays and there’s so much more for
the whole family to get involved in.
The day will start with a moving traditional
acknowledgment ceremony before the live entertainment gets underway.
There’s always a big focus on repurposing, with
artwork, workshops and displays most worthy of the eco- conscious visitor.
There’ll be a wonderland of original designs
created by eco-artists from materials which normally make their way to
landfill. They can successfully transform trash into treasure, combining
recycling and creativity to show innovative ways to save our resources.
Visitors will see guitars created from hubcaps,
bunting made from grain bags and baling twine, letterboxes and garden ornaments
from old gas bottles and garden tools, and precious digital jewellery created
from computer parts,
Lorenzo from noosa-artisan-upcycle-unique at the
Eumundi Markets will be selling his upcycled silver jewellery and will also
help people make their own spoon ring in one-on-one workshops. This will be popular and people are
encouraged to register their time with Lorenzo early in the day. It’s also
possible to bring a favourite silver spoon for the purpose.
A highlight of the day will be watching Terina
Smith create art from landfill bound materials – in this case old electricity
crossbeams, insulators and all fittings and fixtures. The piece will become a candelabra
and will be a prize in the multi prize raffle.
Terina has also put out the challenge to create
something on the spot. She’s welcoming people to bring along four items -
china, glass, enamel ware, cutlery, even small old car parts - anything long
lived, but of course no plastic, and she will create at least one piece on the
spot using those items.
The event is a plastic bag free event, and visitors
are encouraged to bring their own bags or purchase from the array of innovative
bag available on the day. These range from bags handmade from upcycled jeans
and tshirts, grain bags and rice bags, tablecloths and curtains.
The junk orchestra will again feature, and on the
entertainment stage, instruments include a petrol tank bass, a petrol tank
slide guitar and a hub cap guitar.
Visitors can learn about chickens, composting, worm
farming, wicking beds, aquaponics and permaculture with great displays and
information. There’ll be a huge range of plants to choose from too, as well as local
mushrooms to take home and farm.
And there’s a lot to learn about new solar and
energy innovations.
Demonstrations include acrobatics, Zumba and Outback
Wing Chun, and performances include the Boom Boom Boonah Drummers and local
entertainers.
Workshops include a free drumming circle with
Talkin’ the Drum, and a children’s creative recycled critter workshop, as well
as native wildlife and koalas to learn about and pet.
With a big focus on organic, there’s loads of
things available to purchase with organic natural haircare, cleaning and skincare
products, as well as great local organic produce including local mushrooms, and
tasty raw and whole foods.
Watch papermakers, metal workers, spinners and weavers, and learn
how to make plarn – plastic yarn from the dreaded plastic bag.
Entry is via a gold coin.
The global theme for this year’s World Environment
Day celebrations promotes zero tolerance of wildlife crime with the slogan ‘Wild
for Life’, which visitors will see on specially screen printed tshirts.
The United Nations Environment Program encourages everyone
to celebrate species under threat and take action to help safeguard them for
future generations. The message is that whoever you are, and wherever you live;
show zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife which erodes precious
biodiversity, robs our natural heritage and threatens the survival of species.
The killing and smuggling also undermines
economies, fuels organised crime, and feeds corruption and insecurity across
the globe.
Over the years World Environment Day has grown into
a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100
countries around the world. It serves as the people’s day for doing something
positive for the environment, inspiring individual actions that collectively
can generate a hugely positive impact on the planet.
It’s a day where we can we put aside our
differences and celebrate the achievements we’ve made towards protecting the
environment.
