Festival will focus on art and music to build stronger communities

Music and art will take centre stage at Tatura Transition Towns third annual Environmental Film Festival later this month.

The Saturday, August 27, festival – “Communities shaping the future: Engaging your community through music and art” – will feature The Simon Kerr Perspective’s Music for a Warming World, Nathalia artist, and world recognized peace advocate, Bill Kelly, and Rushworth’s Louise Costa, who played a significant role in the creation of the art-like “Weaving Garden” at the Shepparton Botanic Gardens.

Arrangements have been made for the showing of all ten posters from Climarte 2016 Poster Project.

CLIMARTE CEO and co-founder, Guy Abrahams, said, “The CLIMARTE Poster Project is about provoking public dialogue, and influencing public and political opinion, by creating the empathy needed to bridge the gap between knowledge and action.”

Tatura’s Hogan St Galley Café will be the venue for the festival and a special area has been set aside to display to 10 large posters.

University of Melbourne assistant professor, Peter Christoff, who teaches and researches climate politics and policy in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, has said, “Poster art is well equipped to surprise and provoke us to confront a future that is avoidable and to suggest others we might prefer.”

Tatura Transition Towns’ Ross Musolino has organized an array of films that consider the importance of both art and music in building strong and resilient communities able to cope with the unfolding environmental challenges.

The festival starts with registration and morning tea at 9:30am and the $35 ticket includes lunch, afternoon tea, nibbles and bottomless cuppas.

Tickets can be secured through Ticketbooth and more information is available from Ross at 0407 845 247.