Sustainable Living Armidale

Armidale Tree Group Paddock Sale
2025-05-29 - 2025-05-31 | Armidale Tree Group, 80 Mann Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Armidale Tree Group is having its annual sale of discounted hiko stock and half price to less retail plants. Full trays of hiko tubestock i.e. 40 trees will be discounted to half price or less.

We will begin the sale on Thursday May 29th while stock lasts with the final day to be Saturday May 31st. Doors open at 9 am

Film: Takayna — the Heart of Lutruwita
2025-05-29 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Belgrave Cinema, 145 Dumaresq Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Come along to a community-run screening of our film ‘Takayna — the Heart of Lutruwita’ in Armidale, NSW.
Through the power of personal stories, be taken on a journey to the vast and threatened landscapes of Australia’s largest temperate rainforest in the northwest of Lutruwita / Tasmania.
This area, known as Takayna, is one of the last wild places on Earth.
‘Takayna — the Heart of Lutruwita’ is an inspiring and hopeful film about the battle to defend Takayna from mining and logging.
From frontline activists to Tasmanian Aboriginal community members, scientists and musicians, these people are standing up for its protection, and you can join them, too.

Best Practice Native Tree Planting Workshop
2025-06-03 09:00 - 15:00 | Armidale Tree Group, 80 Mann Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Join Southern New England Landcare and David Carr from Stringybark Ecological to learn about best practice native tree planting, including:

why to plant,
where to plant,
how to plant,
aspects of design,
ground preparation,
selecting species, and
looking after your plantings.

We will also cover changing climate considerations including drier times and drought preparedness.
The event will commence at The Woodland Centre, Armidale Tree Group, 80 Mann St, Armidale followed by a site visit.
All welcome.
Morning Tea and Lunch provided.

Meet Thomas Mayo
2025-06-07 11:30 - 13:30 | Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, 96-104 Kentucky Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place (ACCKP) and the local Reconciliation group, ANTaR, are delighted to announce that prominent spokesperson for the Uluru Statement From The Heart will be speaking at an informal lunchtime event on Saturday 7th June at the Cultural Centre from 11:30am to 1:30pm.
Thomas Mayo was last in Armidale to address a packed Town Hall meeting as part of the Yes23 Campaign. Last year, in the lead up to the first anniversary of the Voice referendum he published his 5th book, “Always Was, Always Will Be” in which he talks about hope and the future we want to see – one where there is justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Lunch will be provided at this free event, and everyone is welcome.

CANCELLED Armidale Farmers Market
2025-06-08 08:30 - 12:30 | Curtis Park, 75 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Armidale Farmers Market is Cancelled for June 2025.
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!

Free talk: David Holmgren 'Weeds or Wild Nature'
2025-06-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Armidale City Bowling Club, 92/96 Dumaresq Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
David is back in Armidale to start a discussion on the night of the Strawberry Moon titled ‘weeds or wild nature’. His last presentation ‘Aussie Street’ packed the Armidale Town Hall 6 years ago promoting his popular book RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future. David Holmgren is a bit of a legend, he is the co-originator of the permaculture concept, following publication of Permaculture One, co-authored with Bill Mollison in 1978. David is a pioneering voice in sustainable design and ecological stewardship. With decades of experience and insight, his work has inspired a global movement towards regenerative living.
‘Weeds or wild nature’ presentation and discussion will start with the premise that land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to treat naturalised newcomer plants as assets that stabilise water and soil, build biomass, fix nutrients, ameliorate microclimate and provide habitat, fodder, fuel and food. While naturalised species may be given a lower value in permaculture design than species regarded as indigenous to the site and region, labelling naturalised species as ‘invasive’ or ‘environmental weeds’ is typically rejected as anti-ecological thinking.
The background and basis for this positive view of naturalised plants is not well understood, and has led to persistent criticism of permaculture by those promoting the orthodox view of ‘weeds’ as invasives. This has itself influenced the practices and teaching of many permaculturists to moderate or compromise the permaculture approach to naturalised species. Consequently the ‘weeds or wild nature’ controversy is alive and well within the permaculture movement.
In this presentation, co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren will provide his unique perspective on the evolution of this discourse and its connection to the wider debate on this issue in conservation and land management networks. David’s story is partly a historical and personal one as well as a review of the scientific literature on the subject.
Holmgren offers profound guidance for creating resilient ecosystems and communities. Holmgren’s expertise and passion for sustainable living promise to ignite transformative dialogue and empower individuals to enact positive change.
Key publications include Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002) and Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt To Peak Oil and Climate Change (2009) and RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future (2018).

It will be a great night with a visonary thinker and some passionate discussion followed by a social supper. Free talk, no need to RSVP.

Weaving Death into Life : Coffin weaving and Mortal Reflections
2025-06-21 09:30 - 2025-06-22 15:30 | Old Uralla Courthouse, 9 Hill Street, Uralla, NSW, 2358, Australia
This weaving workshop uses the dolichandra inguis catsclaw feral weed to make a woven casket. The weekend is facilitated by Zimmi Forest and Emma who will guide us through weaving and mutual exploration into our mortality.
A deeply immersive exploration of death, dying and grief
Explore mortality loss and grief through sensory process of weaving. Working collectively we make a life size woven coffin and lid. This tactile experience invites you to drop into your hands. Ancestral weaving merges with reflections on lifestyles and liminal spaces. Coffin making invites you to consider your relationship within nature and how we hold and are held in death and allows us to explore the inevitably of death which releases deep gratitude for this precious life.
The weaving material is cats claw which is an invasive creeper impacting native vegetation in the subtropical rainforest. The removal of the vine from the forest protects and enhances native vegetation.
The weekend will be facilitated by fibre artist Zimmi Forest (Weaving Nature). Zimmi has been teaching and creating for the last 42 years and has exhibited both locally and internationally.
Emma Beattie (Before and after Life) is a death doula and works with Paperbark funerals. Her personal experience around death and dying gives her a poetic and creative lens to caring and griefwork.
Sponsorship of this workshop has been generously supported by Sustainable Living Armidale and Uralla Arts to keep cost as low as possible for participants to attend.
Cost of workshop is $220 for the weekend with 24 places available.
Look forward to sharing this journey
Maxine
Sustainable Deathcare New England

Sustainable House Tour '25 this weekend
2025-06-21 10:00 - 2025-06-22 16:00 | NSW
There are 7 houses this year plus a factory tour of Uniplan.
To get on the self-guided tour you need to buy the Sustainable House Tour Booklet in advance. Booklets are $20, for a car full of people.
Booklets will be available from 10th June at Boobooks in the Mall and Double Drop cafe in the East Mall, for $20 (cash only)
Are you looking for ideas to save energy at home, create beautiful spaces to live in, adapt or extend your present house or just to meet other locals and see how they’ve incorporated sustainable ideas into their house or renovation?
Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) is holding its 7th Sustainable House Tour, an opportunity to look at a range of local houses, showcasing a variety of sustainable features, and have conversations with their owners and with each other.
Opening times are set out in the booklet, together with details of each house, mud maps to locate the eight houses, short articles on aspects of sustainability.
We’re so lucky, yet again, to have generous people willing to open up their houses so that we can all learn from each other, and we’re sure people will be delighted with the variety of houses in this year’s Tour.

Winter Solstice in Uralla
2025-06-21 16:30 - 20:00 | The Glen, Barleyfields Road, Uralla, NSW, 2350, Australia
Come and celebrate the shortest day of the year under Oralla’s starry sky!
Lantern Parade ~ Bonfire ~ Live Music ~ Naked Eye Stargazing ~ Delicious Food Stalls
Presented by Uralla Arts Supported by Uralla Shire Council
Programme

4:30 pm — Smoking Ceremony

Ongoing Activity: Releasing the Old And Welcoming in The New

5:00 pm — Lantern Muster
5:30 pm — Lantern Parade
6:00 pm

Welcome to Country
Lighting of The Bonfire
First Nations Astronomer
Naked Eye Stargazing
Live Music by Rockybottom Girls

For more info visit facebook.com/urallaarts
This event is weather dependent
Uralla Arts is in the final stages of planning the schedule for this exciting new event on Saturday, 21st June.
We are particularly enthusiastic about embracing the Constellations of the South Sculpture Park at The Glen, something we are proud to have initiated so many years ago and have now completed with the assistance of Council.

“It seems entirely fitting to be hosting a celebration of the Winter Solstice in this space which also celebrates the cycles of the night sky”, Uralla Arts President Maxine Ross said.

The schedule includes many exciting and interesting events, with something for everyone in the community.
Gates open at 4.30pm with a variety of food stalls offering tasty delights.
The Uralla lantern parade will kick off soon after dark. We always welcome helpers to carry lanterns, so stop in to the Lantern Muster point as you enter The Glen.
Everyone will be invited to write their hopes and aspirations for the future on cloth strips and tie them to a string that will be wound around a giant bonfire ? a symbol of optimism and renewal as we mark the shortest day.
Kamilaroi man Len Waters will be giving a guided tour of the southern galaxies from an Aboriginal perspective.
The enchanting night will be rounded out with live music from the Rocky Bottom Girls.
So don’t forget to brush off your old lanterns, spruce them up and get along and be a part of celebrating the longest night of the year and the coming of the light.
Andrew Parker

Markets in the Mall
2025-06-29 08:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-27 08:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-31 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.

Rocks, water, past and future — Water resources around Guyra and Armidale
2025-07-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Kent House, 141 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Armidale Branch of National Parks Association invites you to join us for an evening of hearty soup and to hear about Resources around Guyra and Armidale.
How geology affects the movement of ground and surface water, a critical resource for both natural ecosystems and human activities in relation to our local area.

6pm Winter warming Homemade soup
7pm Talk by Ian Reeve and discussion

RSVP appreciated for catering purposes npaarmidale@gmail.com
Ian’s professional experience includes research in geology, soil science, soil and water conservation engineering, adult education, water resource management, environmental and agricultural policy, environmental sociology, demography and social impact analysis.

Webinar: Unpacking the NSW State of the Environment Report
2025-07-08 13:00 - 14:00 | NSW
The NSW State of the Environment report is the Premier’s scientific report card. Released every three years by the NSW Environment Protection Authority – the report tracks the health of our land, waterways, wildlife, air and climate over time.
From a tripling of the number of annual fish kill events, to the ever-growing list of endangered species – it’s clear that we all need to take urgent action to turn these startling findings around.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority is joining us to unpack the report and three nature leaders will analyse what the findings mean for the environment movement in NSW. And we will share some practical actions we can all take from here.
Here are the registration details:
What: Webinar: Unpacking the NSW State of the Environment Report
When: Tuesday 8 July, 1-2pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
RSVP: Register for free
Report expert Darcy Welsh from the NSW Environment Protection Authority will join us to break down the key findings from the report.
You will also hear expert analysis from two environmental leaders and myself:

Jeff Angel, Executive Director from Total Environment Centre
George Woods, Head of Research and Investigations from Lock the Gate, and
Jacqui Mumford, Chief Executive Officer from Nature Conservation Council of NSW

Our Policy and Advocacy Director, Dr Brad Smith will facilitate the discussion.
There will be time during the webinar for a Q&A session. Please email questions beforehand to our Biodiversity & Habitat Campaigner Candice: cbartlett@nature.org.au.
This is a unique opportunity to learn what the State of Environment report is, why it’s produced, what it tells us and how we now influence change in NSW.
Register today

Renewable Energy Battery Storage for the Home
2025-07-10 17:00 - 19:00 | NOVA, 122 Faulkner Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Date: Thursday 10 July 2025Time: 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm (refreshments from 5:00 pm)Location: NOVA, 122 Faulkner St, ArmidaleRegister for in-person or online attendance: Register here
This free community event in Armidale comes just days after the launch of the federal government’s $2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which will provide around 30 percent upfront discounts on battery installations for eligible households and businesses. The session will help locals unpack what battery storage means for homes, electric vehicles, and the wider community.
Whether you are a renter, homeowner, installer, or simply curious about the future of energy, this event will offer clear and practical insights. It will cover the benefits and challenges of battery storage and explain how systems like Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) work. You will also hear how storage links with community-scale projects and electricity networks.
Expert speakers include:

Geoff Bragg (Smart Energy Council): How home batteries work and what the new federal incentive means

Bridie Schmidt (NRMA): How EVs can store and supply energy with technologies like V2G, V2H and V2L

Sally Hunter (Geni.Energy): How communities can co-own and benefit from energy storage

Alistair Fletcher (Essential Energy): How batteries integrate with the broader grid, including pole-top and neighbourhood-scale options

“This event is all about empowering locals to take control of their energy future,” said Trevor Brown, Convenor of Electrify Armidale. “We want to make it easier for people to understand their storage options, reduce bills, and participate in the energy transition.”

“Battery storage is often described as the missing piece in the clean energy puzzle,” added Heidi McElnea, Regional Partnerships Coordinator at Community Power Agency. “But it can be complex. This event brings together leading experts to explain how national policy connects to local opportunities.”

This event is part of a broader program of practical, hands-on learning across the New England region. Covering solar, electrification, energy upgrades, electric vehicles, and large-scale renewables, the series connects communities with expert advice, financial incentives, and trusted local suppliers.
Supported by:This event is made possible through funding from the Paul Ramsay Foundation via the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal’s Community Led Climate Solutions grant program.

Wasted exhibition opening — junk re-imagined
2025-07-12 14:00 - 17:00 | Armidale Art Gallery, 149 Beardy Street, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia
Exhibition Dates: Sat 12 July – Sat 9 August — We have 82 entries from 33 artists
The Opening extravaganza will be on Sat 12 July at 2pm with a few entertaining surprises in store.

Junk Re-imagined music, some special junk dancers and the Wasted Trashy Fashion Prize

Our fashion judge, Eve Kennedy, will select the best dressed wearable art or upcycled fashion at the opening event. Simply turn up in your trashiest best for a chance to win. It is free to enter and has a $250 prize.

There is over $3000 in prize money for our discerning multi-talented judges, Patsy Asch & Bar Finch, to select the numerous prize winning pieces from. All will be revealed at the Opening.

This exhibition is proudly supported by the Armidale Regional Council and ACEN Australia.

Armidale Farmers Market
2025-07-13 08:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-10 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!

High Country Rising Tide Meeting
2025-07-19 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-08-16 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.

SLA Pot Luck Meal and AGM at Kent House
2025-07-24 18:00 - 21:00 | 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…

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 Dumaresq Creek regeneration
2025-08-10 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.

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.
