Boonah World Environment Day Festival

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Saturday, 4th June 2016
9:00am till 4:00pm

The Outlook, Boonah
Queensland

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Call: Julie Jackson on 0435 992 798.
Email: Julie Jackson at boonahboss@hotmail.com.

Cost: gold coin

family friendly event with free creative workshops, displays & demonstrations, artisan stalls, live entertainment, plants, art, wildlife, organic food & produce

there’s lots of inspiration and celebration for everyone. With live entertainment, free creative workshops, displays and demonstrations, a moving traditional acknowledgment ceremony will begin the day 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 and cigar boxes, 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. 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. 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 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. Workshops include drumming with Talkin’ the Drum, and a children’s creative recycled critter workshop, the junk orchestra, community crochet, as well as native wildlife and koalas to pet and learn about. 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, raw and wholefoods. Watch papermakers, jewellers, spinners and weavers, and learn how to make plarn – plastic yarn from the dreaded plastic bag. Entry is a gold coin donation. 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.

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Address:

The Outlook

4001 Boonah-Ipswich Road, Boonah, Queensland, 4310, Australia

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