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The Future Tasmania showcase will centre around five themes:

> Creativity and Innovation (includes art installations, films, creative performance and new inventions)
> Compassion and Inclusion (includes talks on the refugee story, a new ethos for the physically challenged and social empowerment)
> Health and Recreation (includes presentations on healthy living, neuro-plasticity and positive aging)
> Democracy and Citizenship (includes ethics, leadership and participatory democracy)
> Community and Sustainability (includes workshops on carbon, community resilience and change, economic democracy and more)

Workshops, art installations, talks, music performances, children’s programme, yoga and movement, short films (presented by Wide Angle Tasmania), lucky door prizes from Gould’s Naturopathica and Australian Geographic and more

Plus, the launch of Future Tasmania’s Carolyn Parsons Youth Award on Environmental and Social Justice Excellence, to be launched by the Hon. Lisa Singh, MP at 2:30 PM.

Special evening programme 5:30 PM: 

“Q & A” Panel: 5:30 - 6:30 PM, Main Hall

Hosted by Peter Boyer,
Journalist and Volunteer Presenter, Al Gore’s ‘The Climate Project’

Your chance to participate!
Please feel free to put your questions in the question box, located just inside the entry foyer, on any aspects of Tasmania’s future, including: Governance, ethics, participatory democracy, environment, climate change, sustainability, education, community well-being, creativity, planning, recreation, health, industry, auditing…

Panelists

· Rob Adams, Director, Urban Cities and Sustainable Design, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne.  Rob has won over 100 state and national awards for excellence in urban projects and strategies, and is a passionate believer in good city design and the role played by all levels of government in this.

· Cam Parsons, student and community advocate. Cam works to promote an end to poverty and discrimination and contributes ongoing commentaries on the role of Generation (WH)Y in building our local and global future.

· Dr. Wynne Russell, researcher and development consultant. Wynne holds a PhD from the Australian National University and works with humanitarian assistance programs, including work related to governance issues.

· Dr. Elaine Stratford, Associate Professor and Head, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart.  Elaine works in the borderlands of cultural geography and political ecology, and has a passion for island studies, sustainability and community and interface with performing arts.

· Dr. Nick Towle, Northwest Tasmania-based doctor.  Nick works as a lecturer in rural medicine at the University of Tasmania Rural Clinical School in Burnie,.and for several years has been actively engaged in sustainability.  He recently trained with Al Gore as a volunteer Climate Change presenter.

· Giselle Wilkinson, a founding member of the Sustainable Living Foundation in Victoria and author of The Conscious Cook:  Conscious Living and Eating, Giselle has been a social activist for over 30 years and is a driver behind the sustainability movement nationwide, a mother, gardener and creative cook.

· Kiros Zegeye, new Tasmanian from Ethiopia, formerly a community project officer at the Migrant Resource Centre and now a Project Manager, Department of Economic Development, Hobart, Kiros is also a member of The Tasmanian Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs.

We are looking for innovative exhibitors and speakers, who will share a vision for a sustainable Tasmania. These might take the shape of floor space for a stall, addressing a seminar, installations, film previews and public talks. If you would like to be a part of this event, please contact .

To register for a stall or presentation, please click here (word document)

For more information about submitting an art installation for the showcase, click here (for word document) or click here (for pdf format)

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