Four Corners: The Four Corners Weekend

Date: From Saturday, 25 July 2009 to Sunday, 26 July 2009 | 10:00am - 6:00pm

Location: the Bluecoat.

Ticket Prices: Free

A weekend of environmentally focused information sharing, family activities, food and films.

Explore

Sat & Sun, 1.00pm - 4.00pmEnjoy creative family activities such as Suitable for children of all ages. 

Dr Carbon

Wed 22 July 6.00pm-9.00pm, Sat 25 July 12.00-6.00pm, Sun 26 July 12.00-6.00pm

Visit Dr Carbon for a tailored prescription for a carbon reduced lifestyle.

Workshops

 

SATURDAY 25 JULY

12.00pm Healing Herbs.

An introduction to herbs and their medicinal value including making a lavender pillow, a scented salt scrub and tea tastings with Medical Herbalist Vanessa Chellembron

 

1.30pm Reuse!

Learn how to make your own wallet, gift box and other useful items out of tetrapac containers with Marie-Louise Williams 3.00pm Recycle! Learn how to recycle crisp packets, thread waste and telephone cable into a lacey, paper-like material to make a decorative gift basket with Beccy Williams

 

4.30pm How to Make a Worm Bin.

The ultimate in composting! Learn how to make a worm bin for inside or outside using recycled materials with Samuel Bautista-Lazo

SUNDAY 26 JULY

12.00pm Mend-it!

Make an iron-on patch from recycled fabric remnants and embellished with embroidery with Beccy Williams 1.30pm Windowsill Gardening – sprouting and shooting! Learning about culinary uses and nutritional benefits of sprouts and how to make a D-I-Y kit to use at home with Squash Nutrition

3.00pm Re-use!

Learn how to make your own wallet, gift box and other useful items out of old tetrapac containers with Marie-Louise Williams

 

4.30pm Healing Herbs 

An introduction to herbs and their medicinal value including making a lavender pillow, a scented salt scrub and tea tastings with Medical Herbalist Vanessa Chellembron

  

Eco Fool

Various times

Meet the Eco Fool who’ll make you laugh and cry about the future of the planet

  

Swap Shop

Sun 26 July, 12.00pm – 4.00pm

Drop in with your surplus items; clothes, books, seeds, veg patch produce and swap them (electrical items cannot be accepted).