It's on this Saturday, so come along and celebrate the spring equinox with us! Local band Island Time (Michael Kinnear, Ricki Thavenot, Ed Barker and Terry Stapleton) will be providing music throughout the day and we're so happy they'll be playing again. Visitors to our last festival enjoyed them so much and many people have been asking if they'll be back. So yes. Yes they will! Island Time certainly have a loyal and dedicated fan base! Understandably so, because they are rather awesome!
A Star Weave Jam will be running on the day in support of the One Million Stars to End Violence project, so get your weave on and make some stars...
All materials and assistance will be provided to weave your stars and we will be recycling materials rather than weaving with ribbon. Junk mail, packaging and even chicken feed bags... #zerowaste
The lovely Eileen Lawson commenced a collaborative rag rug making activity at our very first Infinite EarthFest event back in March and will be back this Saturday. So if you'd like to learn the art of rag rug making and join in on the large community rug being created look for the ever-so-charming vintage tent for some crafty fun!
There will also be some cool activities for the little ones happening
such as painting sweet designs on rocks with Brook, making juggling
balls with William, and Ayla & Leah will be coordinating some fun
activities and games between 10am and 11.30am as detailed in the image below to keep the kids well and truly entertained! The Retro Farmyard Obstacle Relay sounds like a blast!
And huge thanks to our friends from Food Connect for loaning us these super cool old rustic bee signs to display at the festival! As you may have guessed, we really really love bees!
Artist Val from Russell Island will be demonstrating her beautiful dot painting skills. Below is the completed piece Val was painting at the previous festival. The gorgeous cabinet Val very kindly donated to local not-for-profit youth program Running Wild as a raffle prize for fundraising. The winner of such a prize was very lucky indeed! This time Val will be dot painting a native stingless bee hive box. Lucky bees!
There will be a great variety of market stalls selling things such as arts and crafts, local honey, garden products, crystal items, tarot readings, community group info stalls and loads more! Our Facebook Page is a great way of keeping up with festival info as we've been sharing many of our stall holders and other details there regularly. And you may wish to view the album of fabulous photos taken by stall holders and visitors at our previous Infinite EarthFest event right here.
And of course what would a little festival be without food? Plenty of yummy food will be available on the day. The popular wood-fired pizzas will be on offer again, Byron Gourmet pies, homemade quiche served with fresh garden salad, Mai will be selling very tasty asian treats at her MI Street Food stall and Kellie will be there with her fairy floss machine selling organic/natural fairy floss! The market coffee bar will have all your favourite hot beverages with a selection of sweet treats available and the organic market will have plenty of cold drinks, organic snack foods and of course fresh produce, deli goods, dairy items etc for all your shopping needs!
We'll be offering courtesy pick ups and drop offs for our mainland and neighbouring island visitors throughout the day. So look out for the little market bus below at the Macleay Jetty when you hop off the ferry. The bus will be there to meet all incoming ferries on the day. See you this Saturday!
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