Spring Fling Grassland Festival

The Grassy Plains Network, Iramoo Young Stewards and NatureWest say let’s get together for some grassy celebrations! Come and meet your fellow grassland lovers in the real world and catch-up on all things grassy and otherwise.

Join us for:

• A wildflower walk in Iramoo Grassland
• Checking out the Iramoo Nursery and their great propagation work
• The launch of GPN’s four grassland short films and a screening of the Grasslands Documentary by Little Projector Company, followed by a Q&A
• A moth survey
• Mural painting
• Paper wildflower making
• A plant giveaway
• Live music including cello in the grasslands
• Bike Kororoit Creek to get to the Festival (2:30pm start, the actual Festival starts at 4:30pm)

And more!

And yes there will be some yummy food and drinks provided.

This event is being run by the Grassy Plains Network with Friends of Iramoo, Iramoo Young Stewards, the Green Lab, NatureWest and Victoria University.

Please RSVP below.

Further info

Bike ride

• You can also join us for a cycle along Kororoit Creek to visit grasslands along the way to join the festival. The bike ride starts at 2:30pm, and will get to the Festival at 4:45pm, just after the Festival itself starts at 4:30pm. Please book separately.

Kids stuff

• Temporary tattoos
• Paper wildflower making
• Explore the grassland

Live music

• 4:30–5:30 – Dom Rogers and the Scray City Rollers: idiosyncratic folk-rock style meanders through themes of space and place, politics and culture, and love and loss. Influenced by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Paul Kelly, Jason Isbell, The Triffids and Weddings Parties Anything, Dom’s lyrical wanderlust, anchored within a suite of catchy melodies, will be sure to entice!
• 5:30–6:30 – Jag Shergill: Jag gets inspiration from the music of the world, natural rhythms and melodies. His style of playing is visually inspired; invoking images of old India and urban Melbourne (Australia) where he has grown up.
• 7-ish – Xiao Xiao: Cello piece inspired by the native wildflowers in Victorian temperate grasslands. Xiao made the field recordings at a grassland reserve and added live cello loops over them. Each cello motif is symbolic of a species of wildflower observed and identified.

Video

• 7:30-ish – Welcome to the grasslands: Discover the beauty and cultural significance of Australia’s unique grasslands. A series of four short-form videos for multicultural communities. Produced with a grant from Parks Victoria’s Volunteer Innovation Fund. Videography by Andrew Robb, animation by Studio Hibiscus.
• 7:45-ish – Grasslands Documentary: An 8-minute trailer for an upcoming documentary by the Little Projector Company.
• 7:55-ish – Q&A with the directors, videographers and organisers

Moth survey

• 8:30–10:00pm, please click here to book separately.