Zero Waste Victoria presents the Zero Waste Festival online - a festival of hope, action and regeneration!

Our Zero Waste Festival vision is to connect a community of changemakers who are inspired, passionate and empowered about a waste-free future. We generate inclusive conversations to inspire zero-waste actions.

Zero Waste Victoria present The Arts Panel exploring how the arts inspire, move and empower people for change.

The Arts Panel brings together five individuals creating memorable art with powerful messages inspiring community connection and environmental regeneration. Learn how the arts inspire, move and empower people for change from Charlie McGee (musician of sustainable living inspired band, Formidable Vegetable), Karin Ecker (filmmaker fighting plastic pollution), Khory Hancock (environmental scientist aka the ‘Environmental Cowboy’), Carla Scotto and Brenna Quinlan (two illustrators using drawings to change the world).

Followed by a screening of Karin Ecker’s film ‘Plastic Alarm’ featuring her son, Plastic Free Boy.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

HOST: CHARLIE MCGEE, musician, Formidable Vegetable

Growing up in a tin shed with a veggie garden, a composting toilet and one solar panel for power in the south-west of Western Australia, Charlie lived the low-impact lifestyle from a young age and realised early on that you don’t need a lot to be happy in life.

Nearly a decade ago, Charlie formed Formidable Vegetable – a new kind of band based entirely around principles of sustainable living with the hope of inspiring people everywhere to grow their own food, raise chickens and generally make the world a better place.

He has toured nationally and internationally in the festival scene and made guest appearances in and played alongside various well-known acts including The Cat Empire, Blue King Brown, Bomba, Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Rap News, Thom Yorke and The Rolling Stones (actually!)

CARLA SCOTTO - Illustrator, designer, animator

Carla is a Melbourne based illustrator, designer, and animator. You may know her from such instagram handles as @carladrawz and her eco-sassy artworks, on the screen and on walls, imperfect typography, and her incredible work on Zero Waste Festival's logo and banner designs! Thanks Carla, we love your work!

BRENNA QUINLAN - Permaculture illustrator and educator

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 three years she has lived a low-impact lifestyle at Melliodora, the permaculture demonstration site created by permaculture co-originator David Holmgren and his partner Su Dennett in Central Victoria, Australia. There they grow food, milk goats, build soil, engage with community and regenerate the land around them.

KARIN ECKER - Film Producer

Karin is an international film maker. She gets help from her friends in the ocean as soon as she is doing something for them. We are all in this together. Her passion is on social and environmental issues. In 2004 she made a documentary called 'Children of the Sea' with children in the Bahamas. (Funded by the Department of Education in Austria), Greenpeace was a partner in the film and used for the International Ocean Conference in Italy. This film has been used as an educational resource in Europe since 2005. Karin is also the mother of Arlian, Plastic Free Boy. Together they have created Plastic Alarm, a 22 minute film presented by 12-year-old Arlian which has been shown to thousands of kids in schools globally inspiring kids around the world about the solutions to plastic pollution and what they can do to make a difference! They become empowered global citizens of the world who create a sustainable future together.

KHORY HANCOCK - The Environmental Cowboy

The Environmental Cowboy is a media persona created by Australian Environmental Scientist, Khory Hancock. An adventurous young scientist, Khory is passionate about the future of the planet and the people on it and truly believes humanity is the solution; the people will drive the innovation and creativity that is needed to regenerate our forests, oceans and soils to ultimately reverse climate change.

Using social media channels and speaking engagements, The Environmental Cowboy educates the audience on current and future environmental challenges, identifying the solutions to influence behavioural change and empower young people to become better leaders for our future.

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