Earth Arts Forum & Workshop: Rooted in Place
Description
Rooted in Place: Earth Arts Forum & Workshop Day
An Earth Arts Forum and Workshop Day of creativity in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area - a gathering for sharing ideas in kinship, community and creative dialogue , hands on workshops and showcasing work by local artists and their creative practice.
Join us to explore your creativity and relationship in discovering your sense of connection to the natural world and the environment and come and have some fun and learn creative ways to share your passion in caring for place with community. Meet a like minded community and bring your artistic contributions to share .
Join us for this inaugural gathering and hope to see you there!
Artwork: courtesy of Dawn Mills 
Artworks
Event Partners
Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA)
Who we are AELA is a not-for-profit organisation working to increase the understanding and practical implementation of Earth-centred (ecocentric) governance, with a focus on systems change across law, economics, education, ethics and community participation in Australia. Our vision is an Australian society that embraces an ecocentric or ‘life-centred’ culture, with governance systems that enable human communities to thrive within ecological boundaries, while nurturing biodiversity and ecosystem health. Our programs provide a range of services and support for people, communities and organisations working to create ecocentric systems change.
Creative Traveller Enterprises
Designing and Living an Extraordinary Creative Life everyday through Creative Mentoring and Life Design Coaching, art classes and masterclasses and creative retreats. Promoting UNESCO World Heritage sites , sustainable tourism, nature based, community based and cultural and creative tourism overseas and Australia.
Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre
Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre: Fostering, teaching and celebrating arts and crafts within our community. Offers various art classes in drawing, water colour, life drawing , pottery and printmaking to adults and children. Beginners and new members welcome to term classes and weekend workshops by local artists. Organises members exhibitions, Blue Mountains Art Prize and the 2027 Blue Mountains Print Prize. www.bmcac.org,au creativearts@bmcac.org.au
Biography -Dr Cheryle Yin Lo
Dr Cheryle Yin Lo is an Interdisciplinary artist , photographer, arts educator and Creative Mentor and Life Design Coach and a creativity and Community Cultural Development Specialist. She has a Doctorate of Cultural Research whose major research focussed on Creative Arts as a Catalyst for Community Participation in Environmental Stewardship in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area with Blue Mountains documentation community based arts practice and projects. She teaches printmaking at the Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre and promotes non toxic printmaking and runs workshops and masterclasses. She is a member of the Sydney Printmakers and exhibits her artworks on planetary health and her environment and experiences in the Blue Mountains where she lives. She was part of the group exhibition-Disruptor and All That Matters at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. She is a volunteer with the UNAA NSW School Program promoting UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in creative based arts projects and teaches integrated Science Artist teacher (STEAM) for preserve teachers at Western Sydney University.
Biography- Liesje Barratt
Liesje Barratt is a Coordinator of AELA’s Earth Arts Program. Liesje is a Social Ecologist & Ecological Animator. She has lived in the beautiful Blue Mountains, lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples for most of her life & is passionate about her local area and connecting others with a sense of wonder & joy for the natural world. Liesje loves bushwalking, gardening and any opportunity to be in nature.
Biography- Dawn Mills
Dawn Mills is a Coordinator of AELAs Earth Arts Program. She practices a range of creative pursuits, with a focus on printmaking and mixed media art. This allows her to express her philosophical approach to her place in the wider circle of life on this beautiful planet. Her aim is to encourage others to acknowledge their inherent creativity, foster connection with our local places, each other, and our wider planetary home. Dawn has a lifelong passion for our natural world and has engaged in many environmental causes over her life. She is inspired by Indigenous cultures and spiritual philosophies based on non-duality, all for one and one for all.
Biography-Antonia Fieni
Antonina Fieni is an environmental education teacher working in hospital schools and at the Camden Park Environmental Education Centre, teaching sustainability and empowering young people to minimise their ecological footprint for a better world. She loves being outdoors, mostly on a bush walk or paddling up creeks and rivers. She is passionate about flora and fauna, sustainable practices, inclusiveness and Aboriginal spirituality.
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