Sustainability Festival reimagined
Sustainability Festival reimagined
This year’s Sustainability Festival will run over six weeks, beginning on Saturday, October 23.
Entitled “Reimagined”, the festival led by the Bass Coast Landcare Network (BCLN) will run from October 23 until December 5, kicking off with an opening event including key-note speakers. It will conclude with a produce market at the River Garden in Bass.
This year’s theme of Future Homes and Farms for 2040 – Empowering People to Adapt – asks, what would a comfortable home or profitable farm look like in 2040 and what will we have to do to get there?
In place of one big event day this year, BCLN has “Reimagined” the festival to allow it to continue in a Covid safe way.
It is inviting interested groups, organisations, businesses, and individuals to host their own online or in-person events (with the ability to adapt to online formats if needed), that relate to sustainability during the six-week period.
Lisa Wangman from BCLN said the event could be a talk, tour, meeting, demonstration, movie screening, online webinar, presentation, interactive learning and more.
“BCLN will run the opening and closing events and some others in between but we want to showcase what the rest of Bass Coast and beyond have to offer!
“We have devised a series of four ‘doing’ themes for online presentations with ideas to get you started on providing exciting events that get people into implementing actions in their lives that reduce our footprints and empower us to adapt.”
Lisa said the festival was a fantastic opportunity for groups to share their ideas, product and passions.
Applications are now open via an Expression of Interest process that will be run through the BCLN event website.
Anyone interested in hosting an in person or online event, or who would like to be a part of the produce market on December 5 can fill out the forms
www.basscoastlandcare.org.au/sustainabilityfestival2021.html.
Expressions of Interest close on September 30. There is a limited number of $100 subsidies for any community-based not-for-profit groups that would like to host an event.
The festival program will be publicised on the BCLN website from early October.
