All Together Now
A day on the green celebrating connection, collaboration and community.
Proudly presented by Candelo Arts Society (CAS) and Candelo-Go as a FREE, all-ages, all-welcome gathering, All Together Nowfeatures a series of low waste living workshops, collaborative art making projects, poetry, storytelling, community stalls (like Side Pocket Clothes Swap and Candelo Food Share) and a whole lot more with a heap of good vibes.
Low Waste Living Workshops
‘Wearable Pieces of Art’ Textile Waste Workshop with Janine from Mabel and Maimie
10am-2pm
Help us use fabrics cut from pre-loved garments to create new ‘wearable pieces of art'. This extended collaborative workshop will explore how we can change our thinking around textile waste in Australia while focussing on mending and upcycling the fabric and clothing we already have at hand.
‘Wilde Harvest’ Personal Care Products Workshop with Phoebe from Wilde Harvest Botanicals
12pm-2pm
Come along to learn about how you can make own personal care products at home using natural ingredients. Not only are homemade products better for you, but they can also be more cost effective and better for the environment too! Making your own personal care products is exactly that, personal. Together we will cover some simple, basic recipes to make creams, balms, deodorant, hair products and toothpaste; giving you the confidence and knowledge to recreate your own products at home for yourself, your family and friends.
‘Natural, Chemical-free Cleaning Products’ Workshop with Katrina from Sage Clean
10am-12pm
This workshop aims to create awareness around chemicals found in household items and how to reduce/swap them for healthier, safer alternatives. This workshop will cover what chemicals to look out for, and why? The main focus of this workshop will be around cleaning products specifically. I will discuss how to make your own toxic free cleaning products, including some recipes.
‘Homesteading 101’ Food Preserving
Workshop with Nikki from Nikki Wagner Nutrition
12pm-2pm
This workshop will be focussed on food preservation from items grown in gardens or wild foraged with demos on ways to reduce food, plastic, glass and chemical/agricultural waste by growing/foraging. Nikki will show you how to preserve your harvest in shelf-stable ways like bottling, canning, vinegars, hard cider, juice, fruit leather/dehydrating, and more.
'Grow Oyster Mushrooms at Home'
Workshop with Josh from the Fungi Feastival
10am-12pm
Why toss out coffee grounds and sugarcane mulch when you can use them to grow delicious, homegrown oyster mushrooms? These fungi thrive on recycled organic materials, making them a sustainable, low-cost, and rewarding crop. With just a few simple steps, you can transform everyday waste into fresh, flavourful mushrooms – perfect for cooking, reducing waste, and even starting a small-scale urban farm. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned grower, this method is an eco-friendly, fun, and rewarding way to cultivate your own gourmet mushrooms at home!
How to Make a Backyard Composting System
Workshop with Robyn from PIP Magazine
11.30am
Every household generates food scraps (and every event) and what better way to manage it then to create a backyard composting system. Join Robyn while she demonstrates how to convert food scraps and other plant materials into nutrient-rich compost for your home.
Unordinary Avenue/ Community Art
Dear Love
10am-2pm
To all the bursting and bleeding hearts, drop into Dear Love and pop those feels on paper. Love is a million different things and spans beyond human connection. Put words to this beautiful and complex experience, then drop your letter into Candelo’s only letter box. Don’t leave love left unsaid.
Mud & Seed
10am-2pm
Led by Sierra McManus & Erika Watson. Make magic from Bega Valley found clay to seed a new beginning. Holding deep intrinsic knowledge, connection in perpetual place and time, seed and clay combine to make a sculpture that will be given to the land, becoming a blessing from the maker’s hand.
The Story Saloon with Ailsa Wild
10am-2pm
A cosy corner for wordsmiths, poets, lyricists and story-lovers; an all-ages space ripe for dreaming up tales and writing new worlds. Make and publish a mini-art book with us; build and rebuild our wall of poetry; and enter the cavern of words at your own risk ... if you dare! While you’re here pull up a chair and explore the Candelo Village Publishing House library where the shelves are lined with brilliant pocket-size books written at our 2023 Festival!
Short Order Poetry
11am-1pm
Order up! Bring a memory, a story, a confession, a dream, an unanswerable question, a curiosity – share it with one of our Short Order poets who will cook it up into a hand-typed poem that you get to keep!
Tell Us Everything
10am-2pm
A sneak peek of a new story gathering project by Campion Decent and Rae Kennedy recording and presenting the lives of people in Candelo and the surrounding areas.
The Poet Tree
10am-2pm
There’s an old tree that loves to speak in rhythms and rhymes, reciting verse after verse, voice as varied as the birds. When you find it, spend some time with it. Sit under, lay down, lean back, listen. Let its poems float over you, drop seeds, make home in you.