Stringybark Festival 2015

Stringybark Festival 2015

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Posted 2015-09-27 by Tamara Spargofollow

Sat 17 Oct 2015 - Sun 18 Oct 2015

The Stringybark Festival is one of Australia's longest running—and much loved—sustainability festivals, and this year, the celebrations will be even bigger. The festival, to be held on the 17th and 18th October 2015, is in its 30th year and the weekend's events promise to commemorate this wondrous occasion in sustainable style.



The festival has been a premier family event on the Knox City Council calendar since its inception in 1985, and is held in the perfectly fitting grounds surrounding the Rowville Community Centre. The centre itself will be the main hub of activity and the fun spills out in the fabulous playground, the beautiful treed reserve and the adjoining basketball courts in the Rowville Community Centre Pavilion.





The festival's premise is to celebrate, educate and promote conservation and sustainability within this wonderful community, in a fun, vibrant and entertaining way. This year's festival will again feature all the regular attractions that have made the festival such a popular event over the last 30 years, as well as some extra special additions to celebrate this magical milestone with a bang.



Interactive and educational displays will capture your attention as you learn about all things sustainable, and hands-on workshops will give you and the kids a chance to get your hands dirty and get involved. There'll be three stages with live entertainment, with professional performances as well as acts from local schools and community groups (don't forget your camera!). Bring some cash along in case something takes your fancy at the market stalls (there'll also be an ATM on site), and the food court will feature a bazaar of international food and of course, good old fashioned fundraising favourites (chocolate crackles and homemade cupcakes anyone?). And in true sustainable fashion, the Stringybark Festival is proudly plastic bag free, so remember to bring some reusable bags to take all your goodies home with you (if you don't eat them all at the festival of course!).



The Herbivore also returns for the 2015 festival, Knox City Council's pop-up café selling all manner of healthy food treats, and this year, its theme is edible art. Pop on by to get a glimpse of eggplant penguins and water dragon cucumbers, vegetable instruments and an army of celery, and maybe even have a go at the 'make it, eat' workshops.



The Young Inventors Hub is arts and craft taken to the extreme. Huge tables will be set up with all things crafty—baskets, buttons and bottle tops, straws and sticks, glue and ceramics—for the little people in your life to get creative, and of course a little messy! Watch as they go wild pasting and cutting and sticking and stapling as they make and create, invent and discover.

StringyARK will bring this year's festival alive, with a real, live zoo—yep, a zoo! Big animals, small animals, birds, bees and lizards will intrigue and delight as children touch and feel and pat—and perhaps squeal and squirm a little too! For the older kids, the Knox Environmental Ambassadors Program will be reaching out to the youth of Knox as the next generation of potential leaders and visionaries. Local students are encouraged to bring their big ideas to discuss, debate, converse and create a plan for the environmental future of their community.



New for this year's festival is the Tribal Stage, with dances and performances to highlight the importance of sustainability within our local environment. Customs and rituals of first nations peoples will also demonstrate how families and the local community can continue to live sustainably. Also new for this year is the Past Glories exhibition, which pays tribute to the festival's history with working dog demonstrations, alpaca parades, wood chopping and whip cracking.



But perhaps the most exciting addition to this year's festival, which is fitting of its fabulous 30th birthday milestone, is the Lantern Parade, to be held on the Saturday evening. As the day's festivities begin to wind down, the evening's entertainment is just beginning. The parade, led by the CFA, commences at 5.30pm, with local pre-school, kindergarten and primary students parading their very own handcrafted lanterns, all completely made with recycled materials. The street party continues until 9pm with live music and entertainment, and hawker-style street food.



The festival opens at 10am both days, and entry is $5 for adults, $2.50 for children and $10 for families. Entry is free for Seniors Card holders and those who ride the Community Bus to the event. And if you and your family feel like taking the concept of sustainability that little bit further, you'll also get free entry if you ride your bikes to the festival. And with a bike valet service also available, it's the perfect opportunity to add a little extra activity to your weekend.



The 2015 Stringybark Festival is set to be the biggest and best yet, and let's hope it continues for another 30 years. The gum trees and green grass that surround the Rowville Community Centre makes for the perfect setting to showcase the best in sustainability and community, and it's an event not to be missed. Get the family together and come and join in the fun, get involved and perhaps learn a thing or two as well...and of course, treat yourself to a chocolate crackle and a homemade cupcake!



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