Related Event: Veg Future 08 (20-23rd October 08)

Greening Australia and Land & Water Australia invite you to Veg Futures 2008 – a comprehensive, practical conference about the nation’s most pressing challenges for vegetation management in regional and peri–urban landscapes.

20th–23rd October, 2008
Toowoomba, Queensland

Spotlight on vegetation management
Veg Futures 08 tackles the big questions around vegetation management with a focus on biodiversity, water quality and landscape resilience in the face of climate change. The conference will also explore the policy environment for vegetation management, the potential role of carbon markets, the latest techniques for revegetation as well as specialist sessions on the role of art in the environment and communication for NRM practitioners.

What are the big questions, and how will we answer them?

1. What is the role and value of vegetation in the regional landscape?
2. Who pays for vegetation management?
3. How do we balance competing demands for conservation and production?
4. What are we doing about the threats to native vegetation?
5. How do we know if we are making a difference?

Veg Futures 08 will answer these questions through a combination of keynote addresses, workshops, and paddock sessions, looking from the continental scale to the paddock, and with a diverse array of researchers, practitioners and farmers

Related Event: AYCC Training

Australian Youth Climate Coalition Climate Messenger Training.

Includes skills to help you become a youth climate leader in your community:

• Presentation development
• Public Speaking
• Climate Change science and solutions
• Negotiation

The programme connects you to ongoing support from AYCC, to build climate action in your school and community.

Where Queensland Conservation, 166 Ann Street, Brisbane
(Near Central Station)

When Sunday 21st September 9am - 5pm

Related Event: Pecha Kucha Vol 07 - FREE

T'was the night before PARK(ing) Day....
and Pecha Kucha was on.

Volume 07
18 September 2008
8:20pm
Powerhouse, New Farm

*PARKers are speaking that night.

Related Events: Tank St Bridge

Here is your chance to make your mark on Queensland’s history by naming Brisbane’s most exciting new footbridge.

We are calling out to all Queenslanders to come up with a unique name for the newest footbridge across the Brisbane River.

The new bridge (currently known as the Tank Street Bridge) will link Brisbane city to the new Millennium Arts Precinct at the Queensland Cultural Centre, completing a pedestrian and cycle loop between the city and South Bank via the Goodwill Bridge.

Enter by clicking here: http://www.publicworks.qld.gov.au/showcase/namethetankstbridge.cfm or mail your entry to: Tank Street Bridge Naming Competition, Department of Public Works, GPO Box 2906, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia.

Closing date for entries is 30th September 2008.

Related Event: Harvest Festival - 14 September FREE

Harvest Festival is a partnership event between Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Multicultural Art Centre (BEMAC) and Northey Street City Farm.

Celebrating 10 years, this year the Harvest Festival is featuring the best of world music, dance and cuisine that Brisbane has to offer. Situated in the heart of Brisbane, the festival is held in the glorious community gardens of Northey Street City Farm and will be jam-packed with activities for all the family, from how to cook multicultural food to how to create a permaculture garden.

The entertainment includes an all day program of the best traditional and contemporary music from all over the world, children’s activities, forums, art, demonstrations and practical help on edible gardening.

The festival celebrates the rich and diverse cultural impact of migrants and refugees to Queensland, so come along and enjoy one of the best community festivals in Brisbane. Come early and visit Brisbane’s only organic market from 6am.

Related Events: Stencil Art FREE @ QUT

STENCIL ART EXHIBITION
OPENING TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 2008 @ 6pm
QUT Art Museum, Tom Heath Gallery
23 September – 26 October


As part of the second year architectural design studio conducted in the School of Design at the Queensland University of Technology, students explored the formal and compositional character of architectural exemplars drawn from the cannon of twentieth-century architecture. Students interrogated these exemplars seeking meaning and truth within the expression, techniques, tactics, and identity of the work, and the architect whom fashioned them. Students were introduced to stencil art as a representational technique to compliment conventional means of representation and expression at their disposal (plan, section, elevation), immersing themselves in the stencil art medium, hapticly engaging with the tacky viscous nature of the spray paint and crafted stencil cut-out compositional mask. Students experimented simultaneously with the pictorial composition of their stencil artworks whilst also exploring the crafting of the stencil masks as expressive devices in their own right, each with their own successive layer of diagramatic expression, unique spatiality, and representational character. Through this process the stencil mask used to create the stencil artwork therefore becomes as important as the final completed artwork, exposing the formal motifs, shapes, silhouettes, and iconography inherent within the architectural exemplar under investigation.


That opening night will also launch the annual 2007 Architecture Projects Review celebrating the outstanding achievements of architecture students studying design in the School of Design at the Queensland University of Technology.

Related Events: Living Landscapes Forum on Sept 10-12

Wednesday 10 September to Friday 12 September

The 2008 SEQ Living Landscapes Forum is being hosted by the Regional Landscape and Open Space Advisory Committee and presented by the Queensland Government Department of Infrastructure and Planning and the Council of Mayors South-East Queensland.

The event will be held in the country town of Boonah which is approximately one hour drive South West of Brisbane.

The objectives of the Forum will be to raise the profile of key regional landscape issues, to examine their policy position within state and local governments in Queensland, and to disseminate the SEQ experience of managing the regional landscape and rural production areas to a wider audience.

Youth Environment Society is offering three people (15-25 years-olds) who are interested in attending the 2008 SEQ Living Landscapes Forum to pay your registration to the conference. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please contact Paul (paul@yes.org.au)

Related Event: Paddington Green Precinct - 22 August 6pm

Urban Grind might not be there anymore, but Paddington is still the spiritual home of the original Brisbane PARK

You are invited to the Paddington Green Precinct launch

Australia’s first Green Living Precinct
Drop in between 6pm - 9pm
FRIDAY AUGUST 22
Sowelu Centre
83 Latrobe Tce, Paddington

A showcase of green businesses with samples & examples of organic food & wine, fair-trade gifts, organic clothing & skin care, sustainable transport, organic gardening & green homes.

The Green Precinct is home to Bliss EcoWear, Sol Breads, Sowelu Naturally Different Fitness, Fundamental Foods, The Paddington Plug, Vitale Natural Skin Care, My Organic Garden, Biome Eco Store, Spiros Bottleshop, Epic Cycles and GWhiz Car Share.

Related Event: Riverfestival 29 August- 1 Sept MOSTLY FREE

Riverfestival is a celebration of our River and the life all around it. More than just the fireworks, see the website for the jammed packed program


My program picks -

• RiverSunday
• Subtropical Cities Conference
• Green Screen (films)

Transforming Eagle Lane, Brisbane CBD

Have you seen what they've done to Eagle Lane? This is part of the Inhabit exhibition by the Museum of Brisbane. Read more about it here. This shot was taken on a Friday lunchtime and about 20 minutes earlier the seating was nearly full with office workers, bus drivers and others taking a break in what is normally a very anti-social space.

Related Events - IN PRACTICE: place makers talk series - August 22

Organised by yArchQ (Royal Australian Institute of Architects Group) and SONA (Student Org of Architects). First of in series of 8.

Related Events: Green Screen - GOMA September

Green Screen is a survey of recent and new release environmental documentaries showcasing national and international eco-stories. From the horrifying impact of the manufacturing industry to the beauty in the Australian wilderness and the everyday responsibilities of consumers, the program uncovers the arresting work of filmmakers committed to important environmental concerns.

Curated by Rosie Hays, with accompanying film notes. Presented in conjunction with Riverfestival 2008 at GOMA, South Brisbane

The 11th Hour 2007 PG
Wed 3 Sept 4.00pm / Cinema B

Manufactured Landscapes 2006 G
Wed 3 Sept 6.00pm / Cinema B and Fri 5 Sept 5.00pm / Cinema A

Weather Report 2007 All ages
Thu 4 Sept 12 noon / Cinema B

Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home 2007 All ages
Fri 5 Sept 12 noon / Cinema B

The Franklin: Wild River 1980 All ages
Sat 6 Sept 2.00pm / Cinema B

Wilderness 2002 G
Sat 6 Sept 3.00pm / Cinema B

The Islands Project 2007 All ages
Sun 7 Sept 11.00am / Cinema B

Slow Food Revolution 2003 All ages
Sun 7 Sept 3.30pm / Cinema B

Related Events: Inhabit Lunch Time - FREE

Please see the following lunch time events in the CBD, presented in conjunction with 'Inhabit: Ideas for better living'.

12.30pm Thurs 31 July and Friday 1st Aug
Post Office Square
FREE
'Compostism: the art of layering compost'. A performance demonstration in compost by Perth artist Rodney Glick.

12.30-2.30pm Thurs 31 July
Market Street
FREE
Jazz by Sidewalk Trio.

For more information about 'Inhabit', visit, http://www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/

Related Events: Greenfest, Southbank - 10-12 October 2008

Greenfest (at Southbank) is about attracting a critical mass of positive energy in one place at one time through creativity, innovation and working together to win the race against climate change.

Greenfest is free, outdoors, participation based and experimentally presents tomorrow’s leaders to share the stage today.

Features -

1. Green Street Mall (greener fashion, technology, personal care, home improvement, travel, white goods and leisure products)
2. Green Motor Show (cars concepts)
3. Green Career Show (promotes greener opportunities for careers across all industries - lawyers, engineers, teachers, public servants)
4. Green Bake (organic food and growers; greener drinks, cooking, sampling and tasting.)

*Opportunities to participate/exhibit are still available

http://www.greenfest.com.au/festival

Related Events: QUT Living Green Seminars FREE - 13 July - 9 November 2008

QUT 'green guru' Dr Wendy Miller will present a series of informative, educational, and practical seminars on Living Green. Topics for the sessions include:

• information about green renovating and building practices for the home handy-person
• green gardening and food production
• green water management - what's happening in south-east Queensland
• how to make sure that your investments and superannuation are ethical and green
• solar power for the home
• green shopping opportunities - just in time to start your Christmas shopping.

Click here for more info

Free
2nd Sunday of each month from June to November
10:00am - 11:30am
@ The Village Centre, Kelvin Grove (above Blue Lotus) at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.

Related Events: Free QUT Design Lecture 29 July

Tuesday 29 July
Lectures commence at 6.30pm in Auditorium 1 (Level 2) at the State Library of Queensland, and will be finished by 8pm. Drinks at Tognini’s from 5.45pm.

Jim Gleeson
Jim Gleeson, a director of Plan C, is an advocate for the use of new media in the community engagement process and developing new ways of engaging diverse groups in public space development and activation. His lecture is entitled “A recipe for collaborative public space development and activation”. www.planc.com.au

Phillip Thalis
Philip Thalis, is principal of Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, which actively promotes the culture of architecture and city making, combining practice with teaching, research, publication and public lectures. Phillip will be discussing recent projects under the title of “The Public Project: Architecture and the City” www.hillthalis.com.au

Place Makers @ GOMA (August- November)

The work of 22 contemporary Queensland architectural practices will feature in a major new exhibition exploring diverse design responses to our climate, changing lifestyle patterns and population growth.

‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’ spans residential, public and institutional projects built in the last 15 years and incorporates several generations of architects.
Architects will include: Rex Addison, Andresen O’Gorman, Arkhefield, Bark, Bligh Voller Nield, Bud Brannigan Architects, Lindsay & Kerry Clare (Architectus), Cox Rayner Architects, Donovan Hill, Richard Kirk Architect, JMA Architects, m3architecture, Ian Moore Architects, Owen and Vokes, Phorm Architecture + Design, Gabriel Poole, Riddel Architecture, James Russell Architect, Brian Steendÿk, Jennifer Taylor and James Connor, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Wilson Architects.

The exhibition runs from 2 August – 23 November 2008

Related Events: Peaks to Point (19 July to 3 August) mostly FREE

The Peaks to Points Festival aims to bring the community together to celebrate the diverse ecosystems of greater Brisbane’s southern region through a program of interactive, informative and fun-filled events.

Held over two weeks from 19 July to 3 August 2008, Peaks to Points shines a spotlight on the community's efforts to care for the creek catchments and natural areas on the south side of Brisbane.

Previously known as the Oxley Creek Water Festival, which focused on the Oxley Creek catchment area between Beaudesert and Oxley, Peaks to Points will for the first time in 2008 also encompass the catchment groups of Wolston/Centenary, Bulimba Creek, Bayside Creeks and Eprapah Creek, an area of approximately 750 square kilometres.

Related Events: QUT School of Design "Food, Country & Design" FREE (July to October)

The QUT School of Design invites you to attend its weekly public lecture series, this year held in conjunction with the State Library of Queensland. The lecture series brings together two speakers per week, one local, the other interstate, from the core disciplines of the school (industrial design. landscape architecture, architecture, and interior design), but will this year also include other creative folk including fashion designers, consultation consultants and sound designers.

Speakers are asked to discuss their work in terms of the ideas that run through it, together with the SLQ curatorial framework of “Food, Country & Design”.

6.30pm @ Auditorium 1 (Level 2) at the State Library of Queensland

Tuesday 22nd July 2008, Roger Wood, Alex Lotersztain
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, Phillip Thalis, Jim Gleeson
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, Thierry Kandjee, James Russell
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, Tim Black, Glenn Bevan
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, Susie Dimasi, Beth Wilson
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, Ian Weir, Gini Lee
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, Keith Deverell, Stephen Cameron
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, Marc Pascal, Splinter Society
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, Rowan Opat, Linda Marie Walker
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, Tanya Court, Craig Moursey
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, Joanne Jackovich, Kirsten Bauer

Related Events: Public Spaces- Public Life FREE 2/4 August 2008

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