CrossCurrents Art & Environment Festival

   

Georges River celebrates environmental and artistic diversity with CrossCurrents Art & Environment Festival

It was a great year for the CrossCurrents Art & Environment Festival, celebrating the environmental, artistic, recreational, and cultural diversity of the Georges River catchment. For a copy of the flyers,click here  FINAL2 CrossCurrents flyer (1,008.22kB)  

The free, all-ages Festival was held at Garrison Point in Georges Hall on Saturday 17 November, 2012.

Attendees were treated to a wide array of environmental activities and cultural performances, including: live music from the Stiff Gins and My Sauce Good; dance and performances from Aboriginal, Samoan, Torres Strait and Chinese groups; art workshops by Reverse Garbage; delicious food and an art exhibition.

Festival-goers also experienced:

• Tim Silverwood  discussing his first-person account with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating swirl of plastics in the Pacific Ocean   
• Professor Heather Goodall 's work and experiences with with Aboriginal people in Sydney and their history on the Georges River  
• Lesley Diver discussing the SMCMA Healthy Waterways Program, which is all about safe and environmentally responsible boating and fishing on Sydney’s rivers.  
• Local Indigenous elder John Lennis holding bush tucker walks around Garrison Point
• Crafting river creatures with Reverse Garbage
• Building kites, weaving Samoan baskets & learning Chinese calligraphy 
• Watching live dancing and performances from local Aboriginal, Chinese, Samoan and Vietnamese groups
• Viewing and touching live native Australian creatures
• Eating a delicious variety of food
• Interactive artworks and displays

Partial funding for the festival was provided by the NSW Environmental Trust's Water in the Landscape initiative.

For more information on the festival, contact info@georgesriver.org.au