Come along and share the love - the 'Green Love' that is! Our Pecha Kucha Night #7 features a great line-up of people who are passionate about the environment, creative expression, healthy living and sustainable lifestyles. This time we are heading back to The J in Noosa, on Tuesday 2 August, at 5.30 for a 6.00 pm start. To secure your spot on the night head to our booking page. Our line-up includes:
Dr Tamsin Kerr – Director, Cooroora Institute, Writer
Sunshine Beach State School Permaculture Garden Group
Jane Welsh – Sculptor and Painter
Andrew Maitland – Peregian Veggie Village
Samantha Nyudbi Martin – Tribal Voice – Indigenous Representative
Rachel Cuter – Photographer, Abovephotography
Robin Clayfield – Facilitator, Author and Permaculture Activist
Jamie Parkin – Boo Crew (Ephemeral bamboo structures)
Emily Cox & Elias Delphinus – Artlovers and Photographers
Leah Barclay – Interdisciplinary artist/Floating Land Curator
With our fabulous MC: Green June (aka Mary Eggleston). More about our presenters below.
Dr Tamsin Kerr – Director, Cooroora Institute, Creative thinker and Writer
Dr Tamsin Kerr works as a landscape memoirist, social and environmental researcher, editor and writer, and speaker. She specialises in cultural and social planning, art and nature, ecoregional cultural and economic development, and planning to incorporate the idea of wildness in urban and rural environments. Tamsin is committed to bringing together design, art, and environment issues using creative and innovative approaches, so as to enable us all to tread lightly and joyfully upon this earth..
Sunshine Beach State School Permaculture Garden Group
What does it take to make a seed grow? The SBSS permaculture garden was re-established in feb 2009, constructed by Leonie Shanahan, volunteers and the SBSS kids and continues to function with the help of volunteers and the kids participation. It is funded by the SBSS P&C, Slow food and grants. Approximately 220 children are involved with the garden and they participate in all activities from seed propagation, seed saving, planting (veggies / bush tucker), garden bed preparation/design, harvests, cooking, garden art, Richmond Bird Wing Butterfly Vine program, weed/ plant identification, composting, worm farming and more. The children presenting are from years 4 & 6, and will present their permaculture garden story with a creative twist! They will demonstrate the joy, learning, sustainability principles, growth, sharing, environmental awareness and fun a school veggie garden can bring. Like blueberries for the soul!
Jane Welsh – Painter & Sculptor
Jane Welsh has been passionate about caring for our precious planet for several decades. She started her full time career as an artist on the Sunshine Coast at the Eumundi Markets, and more recently promoting her paintings and sculptures through local and on line galleries. For years her business thrived on commissioned portraits of kids on the beach. Craving more creativity she returned to her first love of s
culpture in 2009, producing flowing figurative pieces in clay, based around themes of joy, love and connectedness. In creating these glazed works that require two firings using fossil fuels, Jane has struggled work with her green conscience. In her most recent work she has experimented with a range of alternative finishes to replace the second glaze firing, and has incorporated recyled and found materials in some pieces. So her fossil fuel use has halved, but she still wants to do better. She has been carving found or recycled timber, so that instead of burning carbon to produce my work, the work itself is seqestered carbon in the form of luscious rich polished timber.
Andrew Maitland, Peregian Veggie Village (Horticulturist, arborist and fanatic tree hugger)
Veggie Village is a community garden that promotes environmental sustainability, social equity, cultural diversity and community participation through growing fruit and vegetables in a friendly and fun environment.
Andrew will be talking about Veggie village through time, from 2007 to the present. He will explain how it all started from the germination of ideas and the community meeting through to planting fruit trees in Peregian Square. He’ll be talking about education, sustainability and community involvement. He’ll describe their education program from kindergarten children through to university students and international permaculturists and why they do what we do.
Samantha Nyudbi Martin – Tribal Voice, Sacred Oz, Indigenous Representative
Samantha’s background could have entrapped her into a life of insignificance,
However, her choices, her connections and rediscovery of her culture allowed
Samantha to confront her life’s directions and to consciously make healthier changes for her future. These steps are available to all who are inspired by Samantha’s presence as she shares her stories and her journey through her cultural educational documentaries based on Bush Tukka and Cultural awareness. One of Samantha’s greatest passions is working with youth. Samantha knows as well as anyone, the struggles of growing up in poverty. Sharing her life’s wisdom with young people is a huge part of Samantha’s Journey. Samantha is extremely focused on presenting her cultural presentations at schools, government departments, cultural events and communities and sharing the intimate knowledge of Traditional Healing and Sacred Ceremony she has learned from her Elders. Samantha is determined to share with others the richness and Sacredness of her Culture and to help break down the walls of ignorance.
Rachel Cutler – Photographer, Abovephotography
Rachel Cutler has been a photographer for the past 10 years, photographing anything from landscapes, events/weddings, portraits, sports, lifestyle and now aerial. She works for a company called "Above Photography" based on the sunshine coast in Coolum Beach and they fly all over Australia shooting aerial photography of many different sites. Rachel will present some examples of "The Earth's Artwork" in the words of Above Photography. Aspects of Mother Nature’s garden are coupled with artworks of suburban gardens and landscapes. For Rachel, flying up in the air inspires feelings of love and admiration for "Earths Artworks" and a longing to contribute to protecting it. Viewing things from above makes things that are usually large seem so small in comparison to the other things around them. Rachel will show a combination of her images and some by Mike Swaines to share her awareness and love of the Green Earth.Rachel is an aerial Photographer and work for a company called Above Photography. An interesting point is that their aircraft, called the Pipstrel Virus, won a NASA Prize of best miles per gallon which makes it the world’s most green aircraft.
Robin Clayfield - Facilitator (DynamicGroups), Author and Permaculture Activist
Robin Clayfield is a facilitator, trainer, author and musician with a passion for creative, interactive group work, permaculture, deep ecology, ceremony and empowerment work. She is the founder of 'Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning', a holistic learning methodology and workshop program and runs the business 'Earthcare Education'. Robin facilitates at conferences and festivals and offers her consultancy work and courses all around Australia and by invitation in other countries. Since the 80s she has taught permaculture design courses, advanced permaculture facilitation courses and more recently led Wild Women's Wisdom weekends and co-trained the Cert IV for Permaculture teachers. Robin's current programs include 'Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning' trainings for teachers and group leaders, a 'Creative Community Governance and Decision Making' training for community groups and organisations. With her partner Mark she also facilitates a 'Permaculture Meets Creative Design' weekend and 'The Love Feast', a retreat for deepening and (re-)energising Relationships.Robin has birthed three books, several kits and training resources and a CD of guided journeys set to music. She lives at Crystal Waters Permaculture Eco-Village and finds time to be active in the community, play in a band (Jambezi), potter in the garden, home educate her teenage son and be a Grandma.
Jamie Parkin - Bamboo Crew
Boo Crew is a collective of designers, artists and craftspeople from earth who specialise in the creation of ephemeral bamboo structures for shade, interaction and inspiration.
Bamboo, the distinctive component of their work, is able to be applied to any shape; it is the strongest (by weight) building material available; its lightness, flexibility, abundance and grace provide limitless opportunity for functional and creative expression. Growing to maturity in 3 to 6 years, it is a truly renewable resource and is ecologically friendly in its production and use. We are challenged and inspired by the awesome potential of bamboo and aim to explore this potential through our work together.
Emily Cox & Elias Delphinus – artlovers & photographers
Emily Cox and Elias Delphinus are a professional couple that share a common interest and appreciation for the arts. Elias is attaining his PHD in Biomechanics from the University of the Sunshine Coast and lectures at both USC and Bond Universities. My backround includes study at The School of Design RMIT Melbourne as well as being involved in corporate Australia for the last 13years. We are based out of Noosa and resided on the Sunshine Coast for the past 15years. Emily and Elias wish to share some of Elias’ photographs which they hope will prompt reflection and inspiration. They believe that beauty that inspires can act as a catalyst for others to awaken the artist within, andalso offers the observer an opportunity to experience a sense of appreciation, hopefully fostering love.
Leah Barclay - Interdisciplinary artist, Floating Land 2011 Curator
Leah Barclay is a multi- award-winning Australian interdisciplinary artist & curator recognised internationally for her distinctive sonic language. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, India, China and Korea. She creates immersive performances and multi- sensory installations at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. Leah’s dynamic work has resulted in numerous awards, including the Premier of Queensland’s inaugural National New Media Scholarship, the Asialink Performing Artist Residency for South Korea and the HELM Award for Environmental Art. This presentation will profile a series of innovative Green Art projects including; Sonic Babylon, a global project planting interactive gardens of sound; Blue Gold, a hybrid performance installation by Ros Bandt exploring water as the commodity of the 21st Century, and ‘Ear to the Earth’; a worldwide community where people interested in Green Art can exchange ideas, information and sounds.
This event is being co-sponsored by Noosa Biosphere Social Board,
The Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance and
Sunshine Coast Council Creative Communities SmartArts+ program
