Launch of Treecreate Studio

Treecreate Studio is a new gallery and co-design space in Yarun Bribie Island.

Treecreate Studio is a place for collaboration and connection across disciplines and cultures. It provides a working space for research and creative work and a place to present and share work with Treecreate’s collaborators via online and in-person presentations and exhibitions. It is located in Bellara Arcade on Benabrow Ave behind the Bellara Newsagent.

Treecreate is a social enterprise focused on connecting the dots between art, science and cultural knowledge with a focus on ecosystem restoration and community engagement. Treecreate has been actively co-creating symposia and events internationally for over 10 years and is now based on Bribie Island after first being established in Canberra in 2019.

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We believe in future focused actions framed with a sentiment of hope, addressing the need for achieving enduring benefits.

2. Knowledge: Sharing across cultures and disciplines. We believe in the interconnectedness of all things and that relationship is the pathway to knowledge.

3. Integrity: Social justice and equity for all living beings. We believe in the rights of nature, the value of social contracts and ethical ways of working together

4. Awareness: The interconnectedness of all things human and more-than-human.

We believe that social action is enhanced by an awareness we ‘are the earth.’

5. Wellbeing: Embedding a culture of care.

We believe through inclusive indoor and outdoor hands-on education programs facilitates wellbeing.

6. Respect: for Indigenous knowledge, culture and language. We believe in working with sovereign people and reconnecting through ancestral pathways to the land.

7. Inspire: collaboration through deep listening creativity, innovation and shared purpose.

We believe in creating opportunities to learn, make and grow in ways that enhance wellbeing of all life.

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8. Regenerative: Projects to build healthy community locally and internationally.

We believe that the definition of community includes rivers, creatures, places and people.

9. Connect: Use appropriate technology to support social and environmental justice.

We believe that responsible development and use of technologies can enhance the growth and knowledge of communities of care.

In support of Black Lives Matter

Treecreate fully support the Black Lives Matter movement in all its forms across the globe. We believe that it is time to create new systems of inclusion, empowerment and connection through acknowledging the past, truth telling and ally-ship.

In the spirit of collaboration, community and connection the launch of the Treecreate Studio will include a smoking ceremony and acknowledgement of Country by the PIEEC jarjums, a talk by Artist Trail coordinator Ange Venardos and some music by local artist and change leader Rebecca Thompson.

Following the launch of the studio, on Saturday 25 March, Treecreate Studio will host their first workshop Kinship Water, facilitated by Wiradjuri researcher, educator and artist Nola Turner-Jensen. You can still register at https://www.eventbrite. com/e/570673719457

Treecreate Studio is part of the Artists of Bribie Artist Trail (#6) https://www.artistsofbribie.art/artists/treecreate-studio

For more information about Treecreate check out www.treecreate.org

8/25 Benabrow Ave, Bellara 6pm Friday 24 March

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