Sustainable Future Festival planned for October

1Coast (a Central Coast Council and Cleanaway partnership) is inviting performers, vendors, schools, and community members who are passionate about sustainability and reducing waste, to submit expressions of interest for participation in the Central Coast Sustainable Future Festival.

The festival will inspire and assist the Central Coast community to live more sustainably through a series of engaging workshops, demonstrations, speakers, performances and marketstyle stalls aimed at avoiding and reducing waste, resource management, and recycling more.

The 2023 Sustainable Future Festival will be held at the University of Newcastle Ourimbah campus on the traditional lands of the

Darkinjung people and is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15, with a day set aside exclusively for the local school community on Friday, October 13. For further information and to be involved in the festival go to www.sustainablefuturefestival .com.au or contact info@ sustainablefuturefestival.com. au

Source: 1Coast

Central Coast libraries have a huge lineup of fun activities these school holidays.

Children can celebrate NAIDOC Week and be transported with virtual reality to far north Queensland where the Pamagirri group will demonstrate songs, legends and art.

They can join in a Koori Kinnections workshop and build their own hand-held canoe, hear stories and play traditional Aboriginal games. A range of art activities includes stamp making, skateboard deck art, digital illustration workshops and creative rock painting.

The children can get crafty and learn to knit, create a beaded bookmark or even a steampunk hat.

The popular glow room activities return with sensory fun, glow games, Mario Kart, glow construction and a new galaxy glow art session.

For the STEAM lovers there is a sensational STEAM challenge, electronics fun or creating motion animation.

Cristy Burne, co-author of the Wednesday Weeks series, will her passion for science and put minds to the test to break her