Sustainable Living Armidale

SLA Pot Luck Meal and AGM at Kent House
2025-07-24 18:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Kent House, 141 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
All are welcome to attend the Pot Luck Meal and Annual General Meeting of Sustainable Living Armidale Inc. (SLA), which will be held at 6:00 pm on Thursday, 24 July 2025 at Kent House.
There is a kitchen with basic facilities. The theme is green but bring anything to share that you want to.
Participants of the AGM are invited to attend via Zoom at 7:30pm.
Wear something green, lucky green!

The formalities after the meal will be quick! A brief year in review will be presented as a slideshow (very visual) a bit like slide night.

Current members are invited to attend and new members are welcome. Join the meeting via the Zoom SLA AGM from 7:30pm.

Show your support for Sustainable Living in Armidale by taking out or renewing membership on the night.

Official documents for the meeting are listed here:

Draft 2024 AGM Minutes SLA
2025 SLA AGM Draft Agenda

Here a some random photos from 2024/25…

Markets in the Mall
2025-07-27 08:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-31 08:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-28 08:00 - 13:00 | Armidale Mall, Beardy Street Mall, Beardy Street,, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
SLA usually has an information stall in front of the City Post Office at Armidale Markets in the Mall. They are held on the last Sunday of each month from 8am–1pm with 50 plus different stalls making a regular appearance. Stalls include a huge range of street food, cafés, farm produce, quality handmade and handcrafted items, cupcakes, candles, bath and body products, skincare and makeup, handmade clothing, bags, shoes, linen, pottery, woodwork, plants, art, homewares, toys, plus so much more.
The markets are held in Beardy Street Mall, Armidale and are run by the Armidale PCYC.

Film: Turning the Ship at Armidale Playhouse
2025-07-27 15:00 - 18:00 | Armidale Playhouse, 309 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Rising Tide – a fast growing grassroots climate justice movement – is excited to announce the release of Turning the Ship, a story of the extraordinary 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port – the highs, the lows and the triumphs!
Whether you’ve been one of thousands at a recent People’s Blockade, you’re considering joining for the first time this year, or you’ve never even heard of it – this film screening is for you!

Get along to connect with your local Rising Tide community, celebrate the extraordinary success of 2024 and learn more about Rising Tide’s ambitious plans to make the 2025 People’s Blockade this November, the biggest & boldest yet.
Check out NSW Northern Tablelands crew at 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port

Film: 'No Other Land' showing at Belgrave Cinema
2025-07-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Belgrave Cinema, 145 Dumaresq Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
New England Greens are pleased to bring the 2025 Academy Award documentary No Other Land showing at the Belgrave Cinema at 6.30pm on Wednesday 30 July. It is a fundraiser to send money to Médecins sans Frontières for their noble medical work in Palestine. As it is a fundraiser, tickets must be bought by cash either beforehand from Gaynor {mobile prefix oh for}08923757 or in the cinema foyer. They cannot be bought through the cinema.
No Other Land is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, in their directorial debut. A Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists, the four conceived and produced the film in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The film was recorded between 2019 and 2023 and shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, which had been resisting forced displacement after an Israeli “firing zone” was declared on their land.

Share Your Ideas on Armidale's Open Space Strategy: Consultation BBQ this Sunday
2025-08-03 10:00 - 14:00 | Curtis Park, 75 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
You are invited to share your thoughts and feedback for Armidale Regional Council’s Open Space Strategy Consultation BBQ

Date: Sunday 3rd August 2025
Time: 10am – 2pm
Where: Curtis Park Playground, Armidale

Join consultants, @leisure, for a free BBQ and share your dreams and ideas for open spaces in our city.
All community groups and members welcome.

Peace café
2025-08-06 17:30 - 20:00 | Boobooks, 176 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
As we reflect on the 80th anniversary of nuclear weapons, this is an opportunity to share your thoughts, poetry, songs, music (or anyway you feel fit) on how we can work towards peace, not nukes.
The café and bar will be open and delicious soup available for dinner.
Hosted by Peace Studies, UNE

Armidale Farmers Market
2025-08-10 08:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-14 08:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-12 08:30 - 12:30 | Curtis Park, 75 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Armidale Farmers Market is on 2nd Sunday each month 8:30am–12:30pm at Curtis Park
One of the great advantages of Curtis Park is that many people will be able to cycle and walk to the market. We’re always working on new ideas and activities in the pipeline and are aiming to continue to provide a vibrant and quality market. Keep an eye out on our Facebook page and Instagram.
If you are a paid up member of Sustainable Living Armidale you are welcome to sell produce at the Armidale Local Food stall with a slice of profits going to paying for the stall and surplus goes to SLA which in turn propels new projects.
BYO bags + reuseables, we’re aiming for a plastic free zone!

Armidale Dumaresq Creek regeneration
2025-08-10 08:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-14 08:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-12 08:30 - 12:30 | Dumaresq Creek, 27 Kennedy St, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Welcome to 2025 and advice for the start of our 2nd Sunday Working Bees. Our working bee will involve planting a new area within the Weedy Wasteland to Wildlife Wetland area, some infill planting and possibly weeding as well. Access will be from the south side via Kennedy Street. Location: Park on the cleared area near the Wharf Bench / Project Signage on the southern side of the creek accessed off Kennedy Street. Turn left into the gap between the trees before you reach the house at the end of the street. Follow the AURG Working Bee signs.

What to bring: BYO long sleeved shirt, long pants and sturdy boots. Please also bring gloves, broad brim hat and sunscreen. AURG will provide equipment, morning tea and BBQ lunch for a gold coin donation. AURG Membership

For members that have provided a mobile number with their SNEL / AURG membership, I will be trialling our Text Message service closer to the working bee. The aim of this is for advising of changes closer to the event.

Please also note the membership requirements below. Membership is free but essential for public liability and insurance purposes. I will bring a current membership list, membership forms and a guide for updating via your phone.

Membership regulations: All AURG (sub-group) members & volunteers must also hold a current membership as an Individual Member, under the auspicing body of Southern New England Landcare Limited. This is to ensure everyone is covered for public liability and insurance purposes. All participants wishing to attend the AURG working bee must be a current Individual SNEL Member i.e.

Hold current membership. SNEL will provide AURG with a current list prior to each event.

New volunteers should register online via the SNEL Membership page on the website https://snelandcare.org.au/membership/become-a-member.html , prior to the event.

If a volunteer does not have internet access, they may pick up a form from the SNEL office, to complete and sign. Forms should be left at, or mailed back to, the SNEL office for processing.

A new person or non-member, who arrives on the day to the AURG working bee, must sign a hard copy Membership form, when registering “at the door”, in order to participate at the event.

Membership is current for 12 months

Rising Tide Action Camp!
2025-08-15 - 2025-08-17 | NSW
ACTION CAMP is LIVE | August 15-17
Dear friends and comrades,
You are cordially invited to Rising Tide Sydney’s Action Camp, a melting pot of activist skill- and relationship-building held together with Rising Tide’s key strategic drive: do things that build power and momentum.
The program will include trainings from the Foundations curriculum, as well as other key skill-based workshops in NVDA, spokes-council decision-making, community care, and more core Rising Tide content.
In exciting news, we’re also bringing skilled facilitators and speakers from around allied movements in Sydney to run sessions. So far, these include (not limited to):

Legal observers training and the Resisting Repression workshop from Legal Observers NSW,
Door-knocking and deep canvassing training from the Greens and Inner West for Palestine,
Activist cooking and mutual aid with Food not Bombs (also assisting our catering!),

We also have access to a podcast studio that holds a live audience, so that forums and presentations from experienced activists can be recorded for distribution, multiplying and preserving the value of the wisdom that can be shared. Sessions we’re looking towards include (not limited to):

Practical intersectional solidarity,
Union organising skills and context,
The economics of fossil fuel exports.

We’re making Action Camp a vibe with crafty spaces and relationship-building activities like:

zine-making, banner-painting, group singing workshops (and more),
a semi-facilitated “People’s Supper” on Friday night,
a concert on Saturday night (theme: Birds of a Feather)

We’re also planning a powerful action for the Monday 18th of August, which will be prepped over the weekend.

If you’re not able to go RED during this year’s blockade, but are still interested in direct action, consider whether participating in Sydney’s action may be for you.

If you are not Sydney-based, there are free camping options and billets available and we would love to host you!

Action Camp is open to everyone, and we are particularly encouraging folks to attend who are based anywhere from Canberra in the south, to the Blue Mountains in the west, to Newcastle in the north
This is an amazing opportunity to build connections between some of the largest and some of the newest Hubs in the population centres of NSW and the ACT
Folks from further afield are also warmly encouraged to attend

https://www.risingtide.org.au/action-camp
We’ve been nearly gifted Addison Road community centre for a full weekend (a cornerstone of nearly any grassroots political organising in Sydney), since the folks that run the joint see Rising Tide’s potential to bring people together as something they want to invest in.

High Country Rising Tide Meeting
2025-08-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Jacaranda Room, 141 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
This Northern Tablelands regional hublet of Rising Tide is a growing committed group deeply concerned that Australia is not serious about climate change. Rising Tide is a diverse movement demanding Australia honours our commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

We are prepared to take whatever peaceful actions are within our power to defend the climate. We’re a vibrant and welcoming community of caring people, who want a just transition away from coal for our region, that is fast, fair and forever.

We meet face-to-face monthly.third Sunday 3pm at the Jacaranda Room is located at 141 Faulkner Street, within Hughes House.

Volunteers Needed for Koala Food Tree Plantings
2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:30 | Acacia Park, Roseneath Lane, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Southern New England Landcare and Armidale Tree Group are looking for volunteers to help with upcoming Koala Food Tree plantings.
Meet at 10am 500m along Roseneath Lane off Dangersleigh Road, Look out for Armidale Tree Group White 4WDs.
We need help with:
• Assembling tree guards
• Planting
• Watering
Tools provided.
Please bring:
• Drinking water
• Snacks
• Sturdy shoes
• Hat and gloves
Your time will help support habitat for local koalas.

NPA Invitation to share a cosy evening in honour of the Styx Forest
2025-08-28 17:00 - 20:30 | Armidale Tree Group, 80 Mann Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
[IMAGE: Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) in a Eucalypt taken by Sam Horton in South East Queensland for the Wildlife Queensland and the Glider Network – @sam.the.ventura CC BY-SA 4.0]
Armidale Branch NPA invites you to share a cosy evening in honour of the Styx Forest
Come join Thelma Kelly of Gumbaingarr & Dunghutti Nations, Dave Carr & Kevin Rothschild from Stringybark Ecological and other folk caring for nature, in protection of our old growth forests and rivers:

5:15pm Armidale Branch AGM and meeting until 5:45 – All welcome
6:00pm Winter warming homemade soups
6:30pm Thelma Kelly shares Cultural stories
6:45pm Ecologists Dave Carr & Kevin Rothschild share their Greater Glider observations & nature’s values
7:30pm Sharing – Questions, Discussion, Participation until 8:30

Friends of Black Gully Walk, Talk and Plant
2025-09-06 10:00 - 12:30 | New England Regional Art Museum, 106-114 Kentucky Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Friends of Black Gully are keen to host interested members of the community at Black Gully, share their past achievements and future plans and plant some local native plants.
Since 2000, a collective of individuals and organisations (Friends of Black Gully) have worked to improve the natural environment and social amenity of the section of Black Gully behind the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM).
Friends of Black Gully host the Black Gully Festival, a free, family friendly celebration of Armidale’s vibrant spirit, with live music, art installations, makers’ markets, and various community activities. The yearly festival is known for its focus on art, music, environment, and community.

Film: Mothers of the Revolution
2025-09-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Armidale Playhouse, 309 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
This film will tell the moving true story of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and how it changed the world.
Following the film will be a panel discussion:

NIKKI ROCHFORD Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!
BAR FINCH Pine Gap women’s peace camp 1983
TRACI TRAVERS Northern territory and off shore processing

Art exhibition: 2019 Not Forgotten
2025-09-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Armidale Art Gallery, 149 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Art opening for ‘2019 Not Forgotten’ at 2pm on Saturday 20 September at the Armidale Art Gallery in the Beardy Street Mall. If however you prefer to quietly contemplate exhibitions drop into the gallery and have a browse after the opening. This exhibition runs for 4 weeks and the gallery is open Monday to Friday: 10am – 4pm, Saturday: 10am – 1pm, Market Sundays: 8:30am – 12:30pm. The artist Terry Cooke is on the front desk on Friday afternoons if you would like a chat.

International Day of Peace Picinic
2025-09-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Curtis Park, 75 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Join UNE Peace Studies for International Day of Peace for a community picnic at Curtis Park!

Sunday 21 September
2pm – 3:30pm
Curtis Park, 75 Faulkner Street, Armidale

Bring your own afternoon tea and picnic supplies, connect with your community and make new friends.
We encourage families to come along and will be stationed near the children’s playground to accommodate this.
We hope to see you there!

Spring Pilliga Tag-a-long Tour
2025-10-10 - 2025-10-12 | NSW
The Pilliga Tag-along tour is a not-for-profit tour. It is an activist tour aiming to educate and highlight the dire impacts of coal seam gas. It is tour that contrasts the beauty of the Pilliga with the visible impacts of mining.
Car sharing is encouraged, as fuel is the largest cost. Self-catering is an option; costs are kept to a minimum.
Three Day Mid Week Discovery Tour
Start with a full tank of fuel in Coonabarabran or Narrabri
Day 1 We will visit either the Barradine Forest Discovery Centre, the Sculptures In The Scrub or Fire tower and Salt Caves and the Sandstone Caves. From the top of the fire tower enjoy extensive views of The Pilliga, with views of the Warrumbungles and Mount Kaputar. If time permits we will visit Dandry Gorge; take a 3 km walk to see the beauty of this rugged country and the amazing sculptures, then a 1.7km walk to view the beautiful colours and Aboriginal art in the Sandstone Caves.
Day 2 we tour the coal seam gas fields: visit ‘produced water’ spills; and see poorly rehabilitated areas on old exploration sites, gas pipelines, pilot production wells, and previously unlined produced water ponds. Santos’s infrastructure and hear about the risks to the Great Artesian Basin.
The Santos leasehold in the Gunnedah Basin includes 53 current wells in the Pilliga and 850 proposed wells in the Pilliga and adjoining farmlands.
Pat Schultz, National Parks association, Armidale Branch
Bookings essential Phone or message Pat {mobile prefix oh for}28725852

Nationwide March for Palestine
2025-10-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Central Park, 125 Dangar Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Join people from around the community to ask the government to take greater action with regard to the unfolding tragedy and humanitarian crisis in Palestine and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Specifically, the protest is asking the government to:

Sanction Israel
Place an arms, and arms components, embargo on Israel – end the arms trade
Vigorously promote diplomatic solutions to this crisis, using its leverage in the international scene to bring about change, including by ending diplomatic relations with Israel

Hear the perspectives of members of the community on the issue and have your say.
This is a family friendly event and activities will be available for children. There will also be music and poetry on the day.

Black Gully Festival at Creative Streets Festival
2025-10-17 17:00 - 21:30 | Armidale Mall, Beardy Street Mall, Beardy Street,, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
The Black Gully Festival is part of the inaugural Creative Streets event to be held and opened this Friday 17 of October from 5.00pm to 9.30pm. This will take place along Marsh Street (which will be closed), in the East Mall (where we will be) near Armidale Copy Centre, and in Confetti Lane (that new brightened up parking lot behind Reader’s Companion).

Black Gully Festival will have three decorated stalls promoting the Festival with three interactive art/music/environment activities:

Black Gully Printers with DIY Magpie print on a postcard press!

Nature Art with Sue Elliott Nature Play and Ephemeral Picture Framing

An interactive Ultra Sound Magpie Instrument by Iain Mackay

See you there!

Volunteers Needed for Round 2!
2025-10-18 10:00 - 12:30 | Acacia Park, Roseneath Lane, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Southern New England Landcare and Armidale Tree Group are looking for volunteers to help plant more Koala Food Trees.
Meet at 10am 500m along Roseneath Lane off Dangersleigh Road, Look out for Armidale Tree Group White 4WDs.
We need help with:
• Assembling tree guards
• Planting
• Watering
Tools provided.
Please bring:
• Drinking water
• Snacks
• Sturdy shoes
• Hat and gloves
Your time will help support habitat for local koalas.

Tree Propagation Workshop
2025-10-19 09:30 - 14:00 | Banded Bee Farm, 192 Dumaresq Road, Saumarez Ponds, NSW, 2350, Australia
As part of ZNet’s Heritage Fruit and Nut Tree project, we are offering a free workshop to help you grow your own trees and shrubs. Book in soon, as places are limited!
Come and learn about the different methods home gardeners can use to propagate their own trees and shrubs. We will mainly focus on fruit and nuts.
It’s easier than you think!
Optional tour of our agroforestry tree plantings 2–3 pm
Bookings essential – contact Jane {oh for mobile prefix}13 725 386
Tea/coffee provided, please bring packed lunch
Sponsored by ACEN Australia

Rising Tide kayaking at Dumaresq Dam
2025-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Dumaresq Dam, 458 Dumaresq Dam Road, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Join us at a gathering of the High Country Hub of Rising Tide at Dumaresq Dam, for kayaking and to share afternoon tea!
This Northern Tablelands regional hublet of Rising Tide is a growing committed group deeply concerned that Australia is not serious about climate change. Rising Tide is a diverse movement demanding Australia honours our commitment to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

We are prepared to take whatever peaceful actions are within our power to defend the climate. We’re a vibrant and welcoming community of caring people, who want a just transition away from coal for our region, that is fast, fair and forever. We meet face-to-face monthly.third Sunday 3pm at the Jacaranda Room is located at 141 Faulkner Street, within Hughes House.

Who is listening to First Nations peoples and why the ABC is so important
2025-10-23 17:30 - 19:30 | Armidale Playhouse, 309 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Public talk on Thursday 23 October, 5:30 for 6:00pm start
Armidale Playhouse (309 Beardy Street)
Free Admission
As the inaugural Elder-in-Residence at the ABC, Jackie combines a knowledge of media with an illustrious track record. A few of her previous roles and achievements include Member of the Referendum Working Group, Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia, Co-Commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (Stolen Generations inquiry), and Co-Chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. Jackie is currently a Director of Indigenous Research at the University of Queensland. She is also the author/co-author/co-editor of 5 books and an engaging speaker.
Everyone is most welcome.
