Townsville SOE - State of the Environment Report

EcoFiesta 2005

First Sunday in June, 12 Midday - 5pm (5th June 2005)
Queens Gardens - Cnr Gregory and Paxton St, North Ward

[ Environment & Sustainabilty Awards ] [photos of the day]

Eco Entertainment - with a folk/world fusion flavour

Eco Cafe - with global tinge

Eco Expo - diversity and sustainability in over 40 displays

Eco Workshops - a taste of the arts with an eco bent

Eco Kids - Come in costumes and make and parade wondrous creations from the recycling box

Artists: register now for The Great Eco Fiesta T-Shirt Art Challenge! Get ready to take your place in the challenge arena to transform a plain T-Shirt into an environmental statement!

Join the circle of artists in a 1-hour long challenge to embellish your T-Shirt in your own unique way. Festival visitors will be able to watch as each T-Shirt emerges into a finished artwork.

Choose your tools from the supply cupboard and bring your own special ingredients, use any technique you want – paint, stitch, print, draw, trim or sculpt to make your T-Shirt into ART: wearable or not! Finished works will be displayed and can be offered for sale by artists.

Registration is free and must be received by Monday 23 May 2005. For details and registration information, please contact: Community Development, Townsville City Council

Mandy Wildeheart, ph. 4727 9649
email. asw@townsville.qld.gov.au

or Justine Wilkinson, ph. 4727 9685
email. jew@townsville.qld.gov.au

Council Displays

Come along and see our new Greening, Urban Stormwater, Total Water Cycle Management and Sustainability Displays.

Come and see the friendly Environmental Management staff at Eco Fiesta and be part of our interactive displays and learn more about the importance of maintaining water quaility in a tropical urban environment and how to create a water saving garden in your own backyard using local native species and some simple water saving techniques.

Find out more about Council projects including Greening Townsville, School Shade Trees Program, Creek to Coral, local Envirofund projects, partnerships with local community groups, environmental management systems, habitat management and the importance of making use of local native trees and shrubs in your own gardens.

Billabong Sanctuary display in 2003