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Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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Home>Festivals and Events>Stringybark Suburban Sustainability Festival
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Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 October 2013
10am - 5pm
Rowville Community Centre,
Fulham Road, Rowville (Melway 81 K1)
You’ll find over 80 FREE kids workshops and activities delivered by community groups, business partners, Knox City Council staff and volunteers.
Activities include:
* Extensive market of Fair Trade and locally made goods.
* Handmade crafts.
* Children's fairground (with a low environmental impact).
* Roving performers.
* Native animal displays.
* Event kitchen cooking demonstrations.
* Fabulous food from around the world.
* Live music and performances across four stages – one sustainability pedal powered.
* AND… tons of ways to save money whilst saving the environment.
The festival is a PLASTIC BAG FREE event, so be sure to bring along your own reusable bag! Stringybark is a family-friendly event and we encourage attendees to leave their pets at home.
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| Stringybark Festival History | | Knox City Council’s Stringybark Festival attracts more than 25,000 visitors, the festival is one of the most significant community environmental festivals on the national calendar and is spread across five acres of the Rowville Community Centre reserve.
Established in 1984, the festival was relaunched in 2009 as the Stringybark Suburban Sustainability Festival. In 1984, Rowville sat on Melbourne’s semi-rural fringe and Stringybark was Australia’s premier conservation based environmental festival.
Today, Knox City Council is at the apex of one of this country’s largest suburban growth corridors and Stringybark now showcases a contemporary sustainability program that more accurately reflects its own current day suburban context both in practical terms and future vision. As the suburbs are where most people live, we believe they hold the key to our future.
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| Site Holder Expressions of Interest | | Siteholder Expressions of Interest are currently open. Organisations looking to have a site at this year’s Stringybark Festival are required to complete an Expression of Interest, along with submitting the necessary paperwork. Please ensure that your application is complete and submitted before 6 September 2013.
Descriptions of the types of sites available are listed below along with their criteria. To ensure that your application is considered, please make sure that you complete the appropriate application form.
Should you have any questions, or require further information about becoming a siteholder, please do not hesitate to contact Council’s Festivals and Events Team at CulturalServices@knox.vic.gov.au or on 9298 8269.
CRITERIA: Food site
The festival organisers will endeavour to reduce the duplication of food styles, with a focus on healthy eating and waste minimisation. The following criteria apply to each group:
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 | Preference will be for affordable healthy eating food styles. | | All food products and food handling must comply with health regulations.If your application is successful you will be contacted by Council’s Community Food Safety Officer - Steven Kain. | | No resellers, wholesalers or factory/mass produced goods will be accepted. | | No condiments to be dispensed in individual packaging e.g. sugar, salt/pepper, sauce. | | All food consumed in the food court area must be served on Wash Against Waste plates provided. | | All other food sites must use Wash Against Waste plates where available. | | No plastic plates, cutlery or cups to be dispensed unless recyclable/biodegradable. | | Plastic bags are not permitted to be given to festival patrons. | | No balloons are permitted on the festival site.
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| All applications will be reviewed in terms of how your business or community group actively promotes sustainable practice. See Expression of Interest application forms for more details. | | All products that you plan to sell must be listed. (You can attach an extra page if required). | | Additional products will need approval prior to be offered for display/sale and will need to be consistent with the list provided. | | Photos/samples may be required to ascertain the quality/material of items proposed on the list. | | Where necessary, the number of stalls with the same products will be limited to ensure diversity on offer to the visitors. | | The operator/siteholder is not permitted to assign or sub-let all or part of the stall. | | The use of amplifiers or loud speakers by siteholders is not permitted. | | No trash and treasure will be permitted. | | All imported goods must demonstrate meeting fair-trade criteria.
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| CRITERIA: Theme site (There are only very limited theme sites available)
To qualify as a Theme Site, you have to be a Sole Trader* or seller of self made products that also provides stage content to the event, or a stand alone interactive workshop or activity that promotes the festival theme.
In the case of Stringybark, the theme is sustainability, environment and/or biodiversity.
Council has staff that are experienced in developing theme based low cost activities that are easily resourced. We are happy to assist you in this process.
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| All products that you plan to sell must be listed. | | Additional products will need approval prior to be offered for display/sale and will need to be consistent with the list provided. | | Photos/samples may be required to ascertain the quality/material of proposed items. | | The operator/siteholder is not permitted to assign or sub-let all or part of the stall. | | No factory or mass-produced goods will be accepted.
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| Food Theme site (There are only very limited Food theme sites available.)
To qualify as a Food Theme Site, you have to be a small scale Sole Trader* offering hand made or own made healthy and or sustainable food products.
In the case of Stringybark, the theme is sustainability, environment and/or biodiversity.
Complete our online Theme/Theme Food Siteholder Expression of Interest.
* Note: A “Sole Trader” is defined by the ATO as “A person who wholly owns and operates a business”.
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| Entrance Fees |
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| Adult |
Per Person |
$ 3.50 |
| Children |
Per Person |
$ 2.50 |
| Family |
Per Family |
$ 7.70 |
| Concession |
Per Person |
$ 2.50 |
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| Free Entry (Conditions apply) |
| Free entry for groups listed below |
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| Seniors Card holders |
Free entry as part of Seniors Week |
On presentation of valid Seniors Card |
| Public Transport Festival Users |
Festival patrons who travel to Stringybark via public transport. |
On presentation of validated ticket dated 19 & 20 October |
| Shuttle Bus Users |
Festival patrons who travel to Stringybark via the FREE festival shuttle bus |
On presentation of shuttle bus token |
| Bike Riders |
Festival patrons who ride their bike to Stringybark |
Having viewed your bike at the Festival. Bike racks provided at the festival site |
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| Accessibility options | | Pro Floor Access Matting is used to create pathways throughout the main areas across the festival site. Accessible toilets are on site and a recharge point for wheelchairs and electric scooters is also available.
Limited accessible parking is available at the Rowville Community Centre car park - enter from Fulham Road.
If you cannot find what you're looking for, please ask festival staff for assistance and if you have any special requirements - please let us know!
If you have any queries regarding accessibility at the Stringybark Festival, please call the Events team on 9298 8269 or email CulturalServices@knox.vic.gov.au and we will be happy to assist you.
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| Community Transport Timetable | | So for a low cost family day out, leave the car at home, walk, use public transport, hop on our FREE community shuttle bus or ride your own bike down to the Rowville Community Centre. In the spirit of sustainability, PLEASE LEAVE YOUR CAR AT HOME and use public transport, ride a bike or walk to Stringybark 2013. The free festival bus will run from the following locations to the festival site:
1. Knox Civic Centre - 511 Burwood Hwy, Wantirna South
2. Ferntree Gully Railway Station - Station Street, Ferntree Gully
3. Wellington Village - Braeburn Parade, Rowville
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| Waste Wise | | The Stringybark Festival is a Waste Wise Event and one of only three events in Victoria that reached Gold Waste Wise Accreditation in 2008, achieving more than 80 percent waste diversion from landfill. Not only will this achievement be maintained in all future years but we will continue to work towards 100 percent total diversion from landfill.
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| Volunteering with Knox City Council's Festival and Events Team | | Knox City Council has a proud history with the success of their community events and festivals and would like to extend an invitation to you to become a member of our fabulous volunteers team! Get more information on how to volunteer at Stringybark.
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Use Less, Waste Less, Pay Less Live Smarter
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