Art on the Wind, Currimundi Lake, June 5th
Event date: 5 Jun 2010
The Currimundi Lake (Caloundra) area is well known for its community and school commitment to the protection of the ecological values of the coastal lake and surrounding ecosystems.
Primary and Secondary school groups will explore the TreeLine objectives through community groups, Council staff, and an indigenous consultant delivering site-specific science/cultural activities within the Currimundi catchment. Students will then create an artwork based on their personal response to the ecological values and issues of the lake.
A permanent interpretative art installation, based on personal/community group designs created during the community event, will then be created on the shoreline of Currimundi Lake in an appropriate location.
After studying your school grounds or local bushland remnant you are invited to create an ecological artwork on a kite which can be flown on the sandbanks at the mouth of Currimundi Lake.
Why kites? As identified during our field activities manmade materials such as balloons and plastics are carried by wind or stormwater into the Lake and from there into the ocean. This marine debris is responsible for the death of many hundreds of aquatic wildlife and birds every year. This form of pollution also impacts on the scenic quality of our environment. In using kites for the artworks we offer an ecologically sustainable, colourful alternative to release of balloons for celebratory and memorial purposes.
To celebrate World Environment Day 2010 we will join together with all the creative owners of kites made during the Art in the Park event and the “Space out, Space up” schools project to fly our kites on the sandbanks at the entrance to Lake Currimundi.
Date: June 5th, 3pm
Location: Currimundi Lake entrance sandbanks. Please download the PDF Education Kit Birdwings and Swings for activities and to see how you can get involved in this project.
This project was a partnership between the Currimundi Catchment Care Group, Caring for Our Country Coastcare Grant Program and the Sunshine Coast Council.
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