CEN's Wildplant Community Nursery will be holding their second Winter Solstice this year, celebrating the change of seasons was a success last year and we have decided to hold it again this year.
DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR FOLD UP CHAIR and CASH for raffle and stalls
***PLEASE NOTE This is an over 18's event due to the alcohol service***
Speakers at the Solstice will be
Paul Craig will be joining us this year and will be preforming the Welcome to Country as well as present a short talk on the significance of the stars and moon to Guringai.
Jackie Pearson is a poet and publisher who lives and works on the NSW Central Coast. She has worked as a journalist, content producer, editor and executive producer since 1988. Her career has included senior editorial roles with CHOICE Magazine and the Australian Financial Review Smart Investor Magazine. In 2020 she made a conscious decision to spend the remainder of her productive years as an activist writer and publisher specialising in environmental justice, human rights and democracy. Her first collection of poetry, Mother’s Song, was published in 2022 and she now publishes an ESG News Site called www.thepoint.net.au. Jacquelene works part time as Community Liaison officer for the CC Community Environment Network (CEN).
Dr Robert Fuller (Bob) is a late returnee to academia after a 45-year break for a career in first, the military, and then, industry. He was tertiary educated as an anthropologist/archaeologist, and much later, after retiring, did a research MPhil at Macquarie University, Sydney, on Indigenous astronomy, publishing on the cultural astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples of New South Wales. He has now completed a PhD at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of NSW, researching the cultural astronomy and songlines of the saltwater Aboriginal peoples of the New South Wales Coast, under the supervision of Duane Hamacher (University of Melbourne) and Dan Robinson (University of NSW). He has been active in outreach to the non-Indigenous community through lectures and non-academic articles and was the instigator of the successful documentary on Euahlayi astronomy, “Star Stories of the Dreaming”. He is now an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Science, Western Sydney University, working with Dr Ray Norris, astrophysicist and early Australian cultural astronomer.
Event date | 23-June-2023 3:30 pm |
Cut off date | 23-June-2023 6:00 pm |
Individual Price | Sign in to recieve Members Discount |
Speaker | Dr Bob Fuller, Paul Craig and Jackie Pearson |
Number Hours | 2-3hrs |
Location | Wildplant Community Nursery |
Attachment | Registrants.pdf |
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