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On March 21st, there is a big community Harmony Feast at Maidstone Community Centre to celebrate Harmony Day and Multicultural Week.  Heaps of free food and entertainment.  Permaculture Out West will be running a drinks stall and providing info on who we are and what we do. The drinks are: Iced soy chai, Morroccan Mint, Local Lemonade and Lemon verbena / lemon balm tea, with many of the ingredients being sourced from the garden on the site.

Scott will be doing the prep on the Saturday, so people are needed to run the stall (pouring chilled drinks) from 12 PM until 3PM, plus a bit of set-up and pack-up either side of that. Scott will be running the woodfired oven as well as overseeing the food safety issues.  Could people please email Scott their availability during this time and can be scheduled in. Ideally we should have 2-3 people at a time on for about an hour each over the three hour program, giving plenty of time to enjoy the other activities on the day.

This year the Sustainable Living Festival runs from 6th to the 21st February, with its main event at Fed square from the 19th to the 21st.

Local events and workshops will run at various places around Melbourne leading up to this main event. For details, visit the SLF website. There are many talks and workshops on urban food production and much much more.  See you there!!

Living Museum West is hosting a fair, “Flavors of the West” on Sunday December 6, from 1 – 6pm. The event is a celebration of the four seasons and will focus on Innovation, Environment, Art, Culture and Heritage.

As well as kids activities and art and craft stalls, the event will showcase a range of local talent including: Vasili’s Garden – from plant to plate, La La Ville Choir, short films, African drumming, Leon Teague, Jorge Leon Rios, Fingerbone Bill and The Hall Runners! Bring a picnic and rug and enjoy the whole afternoon at Living Museum West, Pipemakers Park, Van Ness Ave, Maribyrnong. Melways ref: 28 B10.

LOCATION: Living Museum West, Pipemakers Park, Van Ness Ave. Melways Ref 28 B10

Homegrown – The Art of Gardening Sustainably

We will once again be holding an exhibition to spread the word about sustainable gardening in the community and raise funds for SGA. The exhibition will run from the 5th February to 14th of March, 2010 at the Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art & Garden. www.baag.com.au

We are asking artists to exhibit works in any medium which respond to the idea of gardening sustainably, with particular emphasis on growing our own food.

If you are interested in taking part, go to http://www.gallery.baag.com.au or contact meredith@baag.com.au. Expressions of interest due by 10 December.

Meredith Plain
Bulleen Art & Garden
meredith@baag.com.au

Location: Quang Minh Buddhist Temple Burke Road, Braybrook

Melway Ref 27 B9. Click here for map

The temple is the last building on Burke Rd before the Maribyrnong River

Times: The event starts at 10am and closes at 2pm

Vehicle Access to the Temple
There will be no vehicle access to the temple grounds between 10am and 2pm

Parking
There is a limited amount of parking in the temple grounds. These fill up quickly by volunteers who arrive early to prepare the temple’s free meals. There is lots of free parking just outside of the temple.

Access to Indoor Community Hall

All indoor exhibitors will be in the community hall.

List of Exhibitors – Indoors

Exhibit 1 – Maribyrnong City Council
Exhibit 2 – Brimbank City Council
Exhibit 3 – Organic Food and Food Co-ops – Grasslands/Urban Honey Co
Exhibit 4 – Face Painting – Suzanne Sandow
Exhibit 5 – Permaculture Out West/Permablitz
Exhibit 6 – Iramoo/ Enviro Group
Exhibit 7 – City West Water and showerhead exchange
Exhibit 8 – Mojarra (Formerly Ecosmart)

List of Exhibitors – Outdoors

Water Watch Trailer
Ceres Energy Trailer
Future Spark Bike Power Generation Trailer
SES Truck (Table and Chair to also be provided)
Origin Energy

Presentations
The timing for presentations are as follows:

12 noon Welcome from Councillor Sel Sanli12noon – 15 min
12.15pm Main presenter – Venerable Thich Phuoc Tan OAM 15-20 min
12.30pm Performance Curious legends – Ritus Mask – 30 min
1.00pm Presentation – Green Loans Program. 1pm – 15-20 min
1.20pm Performance – Kita Performing Arts Company
2.00pm Close
Master of Ceremonies for the event will be – Myly Nguyen

1.30 pmThe Quang Minh Temple’s Industrial Worm Farm will also be launched
at the
temple on the same day,by Marsha Thompson MP.

Interpreters
Interpreters for the following languages will be employed for the forum.
Vietnamese Chinese – Cantonese

Food

There are free vegetarian meals provided by the temple from 12.00 to 1.00. The temple also has a great low cost food market on Sundays with delicious vietnamese food – with all proceeds going to the temple.