Host your own local event

The Sustainable Living Festival is expanding to encompass a huge range of new events. Join in the celebrations and help promote local action for sustainability by hosting your own event in your town, city or street. Submit your application for the 2010 Festival.

What are Local Festival Events?

Local Festival events are independent sustainability-focused events, presented by organisations, groups and individuals within their own local communities.

They are a means of engaging more directly with local communities by educating and enthusing the community at large, and accelerating the uptake of sustainable living throughout Australia.

The Festival aims to expand the Sustainable Living Festival by incorporating Local Events into the two-week lead up to the Festival's Main Event at Federation Square, February 6-21, 2010.

Local Events may include, but are not limited to:

• Forums & Talks
• Working Bees
• Skills Workshops
• Community Gardening
• Conservation Activities
• Sustainable House Tours
• Green Tea Party
• Film Nights
• Green week in your office
• Swap Meets
• Clothes Swap: Recycle you unwanted clothes!
• Cooking classes: Get organic at home.
• Community gardening projects
• Eco trivia nights: test your environmental knowledge
• Reclaim your street: Get to know your neighbours
• Sustainable Street parties
• Local markets
• Tree planting/revegetation days
• Human powered sports days: School and communities competing on foot, bike, swimming, rowing…
• Get arty: Performance, theatre, stage play, comedy, visual, arts exhibition, street performance

…and other big ideas!

Submit your Local Event application for the 2010 Festival.