THE PEOPLE WANT TO BE EMPOWERED
AND THIS INCLUDES FOOD EMPOWERED!!!
The Kitchen at Occupy Melbourne has freely fed hundreds on a daily basis, including the poor and homeless. This was achieved via generous donations of food and some money from the community. The experience of personal responsibility was also facilitated, especially at City Square prior to eviction, with bins for compost, recycling, rubbish, and cigarette butts being provided and the means for people to wash their own dishes/clean up after themselves. People helped each other, which is extremely important as service to life is the new currency and the hope of the future of life on this our abundant planet.
Flowing on from the success of the Occupy Melbourne Kitchen, we’ve decided to make the most of this amazing opportunity to encourage personal responsibility, direct action and empowerment, and hereby announce the first:
_Permaculture in Action & Food Empowerment Festival
@OCCUPY MELBOURNE
Be empowered by sharing knowledge of how to grow food at our
Official Launch Sunday 22nd January, 2012
Near Exxon Mobile Building & Southbank pedestrian bridge, Southbank
From 10:30am (set ups from 9:30am) to 9:30pm
Further mini workshops popping up around the city from 23rd-25th January.
Food Empowerment Community Building continuing until food is freely available for all!!
We are also very happy to promote the
Sharing the Spirit Festival
Thursday, 26th January, 2012
See website for more info
http://www.sharethespiritfestival.com/SHARE_THE_SPIRIT_FESTIVAL/Share_the_Spirit_2012.html
********NOTE: ALL TO TAKE PLACE ON A BASIS OF********
BARTER/EXCHANGE/SWAPPING/
SHARING/DONATION/SYMBIOSIS
@OCCUPY MELBOURNE
Be empowered by sharing knowledge of how to grow food at our
Official Launch Sunday 22nd January, 2012
Near Exxon Mobile Building & Southbank pedestrian bridge, Southbank
From 10:30am (set ups from 9:30am) to 9:30pm
Further mini workshops popping up around the city from 23rd-25th January.
Food Empowerment Community Building continuing until food is freely available for all!!
We are also very happy to promote the
Sharing the Spirit Festival
Thursday, 26th January, 2012
See website for more info
http://www.sharethespiritfestival.com/SHARE_THE_SPIRIT_FESTIVAL/Share_the_Spirit_2012.html
********NOTE: ALL TO TAKE PLACE ON A BASIS OF********
BARTER/EXCHANGE/SWAPPING/
SHARING/DONATION/SYMBIOSIS
_
Many hands make light work for ALL.
This is OUR festival. It will be what we make it. By getting involved, we are celebrating what brings us life in the first place and should be freely available to all life to enable it to thrive. Please be a part of and contribute to OUR festival. In doing so, we are of service to ALL, including ourselves. :-)
Many hands make light work for ALL.
This is OUR festival. It will be what we make it. By getting involved, we are celebrating what brings us life in the first place and should be freely available to all life to enable it to thrive. Please be a part of and contribute to OUR festival. In doing so, we are of service to ALL, including ourselves. :-)
_ _These are some of the
workshops we would like to run and these will happen if we are ALL part of this event. If you have any knowledge, or experience at all in any of these
(or know anyone who does) and would like to share this with others, please see our WISH LIST, including both people power and materials. Click on the headings to be taken to our Action page where there is a form. Thanks!
INTENDED & ENVISIONED WORKSHOPS:
INTENDED & ENVISIONED WORKSHOPS:
- Guerilla Gardening
- Dumpster Diving
- Wild Foods & Edible Weeds
- Composting & Worm Farming Made Easy
- Companion Planting
- Hands-on Seed Planting
- Moss Graffiti
- Kid's Area & Workshops
- Food Growing, for yourself & for ALL
- Sprouted Foods
- Balcony & Small Space Food Growing
- Mini lunchtime food growing workshops for city workers with free seedlings given out!