Global Permayouth Festival
Event description
[pr]activism discussions • visioning • music • poetry • art • film • garden tour
Join us in this new series of free online events especially for youth into permaculture.
Each month we'll bring together great speakers, spark discussion, share music and art, take tours of youth gardens around the world, screen a short permaculture film, and see what emerges.
A huge thanks to David Holmgren (co-originator of permaculture), Brenna Quinlan (permaculture artist/activist) and Charlie McGee (permaculture musician/educator) for being our special guests this month.
W H E N
We have created 2 different times to suit most people across the globe. Join one or both of sessions! We've included a few times here, but also a link so you can find exactly what time it will be in your location.
PERMAYOUTH FESTIVAL SESSION 1. Ideal for AUST/PACIFIC/AMERICAS
Friday 25th Sept
- 1-3 pm Hawaii time
- 4-6pm West Coast USA
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7-9pm East Coast USA
Saturday 26th Sept
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7-9am Philippines time
- 9-11 am East Coast Australia
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11am -1 pm New Zealand time
Click here to check the event time in your local timezone.
PERMAYOUTH FESTIVAL SESSION 2. Ideal for AFRICA/ASIA/UK/EUROPE/AUST
Sunday 27th September
- 8-10am UK time
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9 - 11am Europe Time
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10 - 12am East Africa time
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12:30 - 2:30pm India time
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3 - 4pm Philippines time
- 5 - 7 pm East Coast Australia time
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7 - 9 pm New Zealand time
Click here to check the event time in your local timezone.
W H E R E
Online - register for a ticket and we will send you the Zoom link!
P R O G R A M
- Permaculture panel & discussion hosted by Maia, Permayouth Australia - guests David Holmgren, Brenna Quinlan and Charlie McGee
- Permaculture song from Kakuma Permayouth, Kenya (they're working on writing and recording it now!)
- Garden tour by Sophia in Philippines
- Slam poem by Eve, Permayouth Australia
- Permaculture How-to Film with Rwamwanja Permayouth, Uganda
- Permaculture Art with Ellenie, Permayouth Australia
- and more
David Holmgren is the co-originator of the permaculture concept following publication of Permaculture One, co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. David is globally recognised as a leading ecological thinker, teacher, writer and speaker promoting permaculture as a realistic, attractive and powerful alternative to dependent consumerism. His most recent book, RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future, shows how Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and, above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future.
Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and educator who strives to make the world a better place through her art and her actions. For the past four years she has lived a low-impact lifestyle at Melliodora, a permaculture demonstration site in Central Victoria, Australia. There they grow food, milk goats, build soil, engage with community and regenerate the land around them.
Charlie McGee is lead singer of Formidable Vegetable - the first band to ever turn down a show at the Glastonbury (the world’s biggest festival) due to the ecological impact (but they ended up playing anyway when the entire festival went online during the COVID lockdown!). Formidable Vegetable have been praised by the United Nations for “singing about the important issues of our time”, and for using their unique musical permaculture activism to de-pave problems and grow fertile, community-scale solutions in their place. Over the past decade, they have become a favourite on the Australian and international music scene, having played at some of the biggest events in the world alongside Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Tame Impala.
Both Charlie and Brenna are Permaculture ambassadors sharing another way forward through their art and music. They live together at Melliodora, the home of David Holmgren and his partner Su Dennett. What a household!!!
C O S T
This is a free event, but we certainly welcome your donations when you checkout. In the August festival we raised $400 - 100% was sent directly to the Permayouth groups in refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda to support their permaculture education and action.
W E A C K N O W L E D G E
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet and pay respect to elders past, present and emerging. We support Black Lives Matter, permaculture, regenerative and climate action movements.
S U P P O R T E D B Y :
Permaculture Education Institute
N E X T E V E N T
Join us again for the next event: 24/25 October. Details to come.