Green Earth Festival Competition winners announced

This Saturday Brisbane’s newest environmental event, Green Earth Festival will be making its mark by showing the winners of the Green Earth Festival Short Film, Art and Green with Envy Fashion competitions at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.

The short film competition was judged at a film viewing and voting night by the general public last Tuesday night. Shiny Alumina was clearly the crowd favourite with the short film exploring the controversial issue of bauxite mining at Steve Irwin's Wildlife Reserve in Cape York. Shiny Alumina was made, filmed and written by a group of youngsters including Luisa Randall (9, Producer & Writer), Darcie Mudd (10, Writer & Presenter), Alexia Guifre (10, Editor), Emily Wiliamson (10, Director), Nicholas Clough (10, Camera Operator). Shiny Alumina will be shown at 11am and 1pm in the Video Zone at Green Earth Festival followed by a Q&A with the cast and crew.

Another clear winner chosen from online voting on greenearthfestival.net, is Angela Ryder’s Under the Fig Tree a piece that like many of her paintings, started life out as an entirely different piece. This piece once depicted an alien landscape! But after layer upon layer of acrylics, spray paint and permanent marker, a fig tree emerged staring out from what was once a barren planet. Angela Ryder (aka A M R) is a self taught Brisbane based artist. Born in Redcliffe and raised in North Brisbane, she formed the punk band Shoot Down The Angels in 2003. After a long hiatus, she started painting again while pregnant with her first child Lola, who was born in 2009. Angela’s winning entry will be on display in the Art and Fashion Zone at Green Earth Festival.

Velvet Pesu from Kangaroo Point is the winner of the Green with Envy Fashion competition with her wearable art piece made entirely of recycled materials. Entitled Concentric Circles On Red Velvet’s piece is a woven recycled film skirt. Velvet will also perform at Green Earth Festival in the Film Zone at 5:30pm her spontaneous improvised expression through voice, sound, light and image featuring her highly distinctive decomposed texture based recycled art, woven film costume and the hand cranked projection of her Gutter Trash Films. Velvet describes her art and life as inseparable, each process informs the next, mapping her ephemeral collaborations with the temporal.

Green Earth Festival is being organised by the fledging, not-for-profit environmental awareness group, Green Earth Group Inc that began early last year when like-minded friends of singer/poet and author Leigh-Chantelle saw the need for the uniting of environmental and animal rights groups.

This wide-ranging festival will comprise live bands, performers and roving entertainment; green cuisine, demonstrations, speakers, children’s zone, video zone, art and fashion displays, plus stalls from many companies including local not for profit organisations.

Green Earth Festival is a free, family orientated, drug and alcohol free community event which aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye; and encouraging people to make simple changes in their everyday lives to help our environment and the world we leave for generations to come.

“My goal is to encourage all people from all backgrounds to be involved in a positive way to help our environment and to meet other like-minded individuals,” says Leigh-Chantelle. “Anyone can get involved with helping each other, our animal friends and the universe. It doesn’t matter what age, sex or colour you are, what job you do, what your hobbies are, if you are willing to you can change yourself and others by your example.”

It’s easy being green and Leigh-Chantelle and her comrades are here to show you how.

See www.greenearthfestival.net for more information.

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