Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

INSECT HABITATS  WORKSHOP The first creative collaboration is making Insect Habitat table decorations as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2017. The Great Local Lunch is a community collaboration held on Sunday 12th February 2017 at 12.30pm. Carolyn and Deb will conduct a free workshop on February 6th to engage the public in creating functional and interesting table decorations for The Great Local Lunch guests. Come meet like-minded people and create Insect Habitats to be used as table decorations for The Great Local Lunch on Feb 12. http://www.slf.org.au/event/great-local-lunch/ Suitability: Max 30 people. 16 y/o – Adults (minimum supervision) Register: Facebook invite  https://www.facebook.com/events/346612949065222/?ti=icl or email Carolyn: carolyncardinet@gmail.com Deb: dpgreensong@gmail.com WHY WE CHOSE TO CREATE INSECT HABITATS We are inspired to create habitats and increase public knowledge due to the worldwide news that bee...

Volunteers are needed at a workshop to help create new habitat  for our diminishing insect population Keep the date and come along on Monday 6th February 7-9pm St Kilda eco-centre (St Kilda Botanical Gardens)  Please bring some organic material and manmade containers to assemble these habitats  Start gathering material for the event such as: dry organic matter              leaves       twigs       pine cones       grass       nuts        flowers newspaper       corrugated cardboard       plastic/metal containers       plastic straws    sticks The Great Local lunch this year will be another amazing lunch served along the Yarra river. For this Debbie Punton from Greensong and I will be working together again to create some table decoration for this event which will take place   ...