It's Not Too Late - A Celebration of Climate Hope

Jamboree - Sunday February 26, 2023

Come celebrate climate hope. Gain inspiration, rejuvenation, and skills to boost meaning and creativity in your life. Join award-winning writers, authors, and a renowned artist for a day of learning and joyful connection.

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Jamboree Masterclasses - Sunday February 26:

9:00 - 9:50 Express Yourself with Feeling

Do what great artists do, immerse yourself in nature. Join Niki Kouklatzis to awaken your creativity. Meander along the Altona Beach foreshore, relax by the sea, and wander in Logan Reserve. You’ll draw or write, engaging your five senses to express what you see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Let inspiration come from your sixth sense, what you feel. Free.

Niki Kouklatzis is an educator and creative. She enjoys writing, watercolour painting, and teaching.

10 - 11:00 Climate Poetry Cafe

Join beloved spoken word poet and performer Gabriela Georges for a transformative writing masterclass. Inspired by environmental poetry, you’ll be prompted to write your own words and explore the therapeutic benefits of writing. Leave feeling lighter and inspired by the healing power of the written word. Bring writing materials, tablet or laptop. Kids free. Adults $20.

Gabriela Georges is a poet, performer, and musician. She explores transformative grief and loss, love, and nature. She is regularly hired by therapeutic and community organisations to support people to express themselves and improve their wellbeing.

11:15 - 12:15 Flights of Passion

Come together for an enchanting conversation with award-winning designer and wildlife artist Rob Mancini. Learn how Hobsons Bay’s rich biodiversity inspires his life as an artist and creative professional. Known for his passion, Rob will also share why wetlands matter and how we can protect our wild spaces. Free.

Rob Mancini is a globally respected artist and designer. His work appears in international natural history publications and with respected conservation organisations.

1:00 - 3:00 How to Start and Finish A Book That Matters

Join award-winning author and community development innovator Louise Karch. Learn how 300 people from 41 countries wrote The Carbon Almanac, a global best seller in six months. That beauty won best data-visualization book for 2022. Gain 7 tips to start to write and finish a book that matters. Bring writing materials, tablet or laptop. Kids free. Adults $20.

Louise Karch, MEd, is a multiple award-winning author (Word Glue.co). She gets noble brands noticed over the noise by partnering with agencies, founders, creatives and serial entrepreneurs around the world. A community initiator, she co-led the publication of the global bestseller The Carbon Almanac, winner of Data Literacy prize for 2022.

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Australian Premiere Launch Party: Wednesday Feb 22

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Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre
5 Sargood St, Altona VIC 3018, Australia

For information on workshops for primary school children,
contact 9398 4511 admin@ljac.com.au

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PRESS RELEASE

Why did we do the Carbon Almanac - Background information

Almost 9 Out Of 10 Aussie Kids Fear Bleak Future Due To Climate Change

Nearly nine out of 10 children in Australia suffer from moderate to acute eco-anxiety that is negatively affecting their daily life, according to recent research carried out by independent medical journal The Lancet.

The study asked 10,000 children worldwide, including from Australia, how they felt about climate change and what they could do to counter the effects of global warming.

“The feedback from the research was shocking, with the overwhelming majority feeling sad and anxious, but most notably fearful over what they believe is a bleak future ahead,” best-selling author and educator Louise Karch said.

“In a time where we are subjected to daily news stories of once-in-a-generation style climate disasters, it’s not hard to understand why kids believe that we’re too far gone to stem the carnage already caused.”

Karch said this is what drove her to team up with New York Times best-selling author Seth Godin, along with 300 other volunteers, to create a fact-based resource for adults and eco-anxious kids with actionable solutions for restoring the planet.

Published by Penguin Random House, The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late is already a worldwide bestseller, winning the Most Insightful Data Literacy Award for 2022.

The book explores the impact of carbon on agriculture, the economy and health, using illustrations, cartoons, quotes, and articles to break down what climate change is so people can talk and lead.

“We can’t solve a problem if we can’t talk about it. We needed a factual resource to allay people’s fears that all is not lost. We’ve also created a free children’s almanac called Generation Carbon, available in 20 languages, an educator’s guide, lessons plans on Seesaw, and a podcast made by and for kids."

"We did this so educators could incorporate climate education into their curriculum in a way that doesn’t alarm students. We wanted to empower kids so instead of feeling hopeless, they feel inspired to play a role in the planet’s recovery,” Karch said.

“Australia was well represented in the core team of volunteers worldwide that built the Almanac. The ravages of a changing climate increased the urgency we all brought to the project, and giving parents, teachers, students and citizens a way to understand the climate is already beginning to pay off,” said Seth Godin, one of the editors of the book.*

A free copy of The Carbon Almanac is available to members of the media on request.

Media queries: Louise Karch, M.Ed. - 0466 510 300

Website Link: https://thecarbonalmanac.org/

Podcast: The Carbon Almanac Network - Children’s Podcast is Generation Carbon

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