Barung Landcare – Figs in the Forest

Event date: 1 Mar 2010 - 2 May 2010

 

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Barung Landcare is a leading community based organisation working to develop ethical solutions for a sustainable future. It supports local and regional community empowerment to conserve and enhance the rich diversity of natural resources of the Blackall Range and the environs. Environmental and conservation education is a key component of all Barung’s activities.

Figs in the Forest

Figs in the Forest to be feature exhibition at 2010 Expo

Barung Landcare’s Figs in the Forest project will form the feature exhibition at the 2010 Maleny Wood Expo.  It is part of TreeLine – a Sunshine Coast Council initiative to celebrate trees and their stories and inspire others to take action for the environment through art.

Although coordinated by Barung, Figs in the Forest is a true community project with more than 30 artists and craftspeople busy creating artworks for the exhibition in early May. Works range from paintings to online presentations, from glassware to prints and from children’s stories to sculpture.

Students from several Blackall Range primary schools are also busy creating their versions of Figs in the Forest and we await their artworks with excitement.

Figs in the Forest aims to increasing local awareness of the important role that our magnificent native figs perform in the sub-tropical rainforests of the Blackall Range.

Projects like this allow Barung to reach out into the community and involve people who may not otherwise come into contact with landcare and/or environmental issues. It is also a wonderful opportunity for Barung to build strong relationships with schools and school children by involving them in environmental artworks.

We are honoured to welcome Corrie Wright, Maleny based artist and one of the TreeLine lead artists, to the Expo on Saturday. She will be doing a performance piece on the urban tree - sewing leaves with her pedal-powered sewing machine in the TreeLine marquee. The TreeLine team will also have other art activities in which Expo visitors can participate.

Thank you very much to Ken Munsie, local artist and ex-owner of Maleny Artworks Gallery for offering to hang the exhibition, and to Sunshine Coast Regional Council and the TreeLine team for their assistance with Figs in the Forest.

Please visit the Maleny Wood Expo website for more information and for directions to the Maleny Showgrounds.

http://www.malenywoodexpo.com.au/woodexpo/index.html

Please download the Figs in the Forest PDF below the map for more information and contact details.

PDF Downloads

Figs in the Forest Brochure.pdf

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