REGEN (not-for-profit) would like to inform others of our activities and to investigate opportunities for collaborative partnerships and support in our Community Education, Restoration and Entertainment Festivals. We offer the opportunity for individuals and organisations to be part of a best practice sustainable event whilst simultaneously being involved in restoring land and supporting the neutralisation of carbon for now and beyond.
REGEN: Random Evolution of Growth, Entertainment and Nature.
"Responsible for organising the revegetation of 47 900 Native Plants to date…….and counting"
REGEN is an incorporated, not-for-profit collective of environmentally concerned individuals and is coordinated by both environment, music and event organisation professionals.The collective became active at the end of 2004 and includes members with tertiary qualifications in environmental science as well as significant experience in the fields of environmental management and bush regeneration. These skills are combined with those of professional music event organizers to create a unique team with a broad skills-base, and the capacity to achieve environmental objectives through creating an atmosphere that encourages community involvement and awareness.
Our Mission:
To link communities and individuals with the natural environment through combining environmental on-ground works with music, performance and art.As an independent not-for-profit association, REGEN IS:
i. COMMITTED to "thinking globally and acting locally" by raising the communities' awareness of the need for worldwide ecological sustainability while focusing on the active defense and improvement of the environment;
ii. INTENT on showing individuals of Australia that its associated bioregions are not a random series of areas, but an integrated and dynamic unit, with complex ecosystems whose many values are seen to increase the worth of every part of it, so that everyone gains from preserving all aspects of our natural systems and that everyone is aware that they can make a difference;
iii. SUPPORTIVE of other associations and institutions that are perceived to be acting positively towards the environment;
iv. DEPENDENT on financial support of members and friends of REGEN and on funds raised by providing services to the community and government bodies, through improving culturally rich events; and not least,
v. AWARE of our link to the land and that of the original indigenous custodians of Australia.
Brief Outline:
REGEN is an event organiser, environmental promoter and native tree planting organisation that has three years of experience in organising elaborate music-environment fusion events. The events generally consist of the following three parts:1. Land Care activities
- Summary: Day-time land care activities consisting primarily of native re-construction and re-vegetation works.
2. Environmental Awareness
Environmental stalls and environmental workshops offer the opportunity for organisations and the public to teach/learn and share information.
3. Music/Performance/Entertainment and complete event organisation
- Summary: The atmosphere promoted is that of an outdoor festival, where eclectic music in combination with organic decor, performance, art and healthy food creates a communal, festive ambience.
Roles and Responsibilities:
REGEN is responsible for organizing all facets of our events. Entertainment for the festival, promotion, food and support infrastructure and services along with surveying, planning, coordinating and liaising to actualize the re-vegetation works. REGEN has public liability insurance appropriate for our events, and we execute our festivals with best practice in relation to health, safety and environmental footprint.
Our Partner's role's are broad and help towards sustaining a multi-faceted community event. Networks made with organisation's, council’s, landcare group’s, public land trust’s and private property owner's are extremely important to REGEN. Organistion’s assistance with the development of our goals through support further the cause, and demonstrate those organization’s care and commitment to the rehabilitation of the region.
REGEN is always welcoming partners and supporters to become involved in our Community Education, Restoration and Entertainment Festivals.
Please contact us for more informationYou can make a difference.
Who is RE>GEN?
RE>GEN (Random Evolution of Growth, Entertainment and Nature) is an incorporated, non-for-profit environmental festival and event management organisation. We are committed to linking individuals and communities to the environment through creating sustainable musical festivals and cutting-edge environmentally sustainable events.
With a focus on Interweaving diverse music, performance and art with environmental consciousness and on-ground native re-vegetation works, RE>GEN has developed the connection and understanding of nature within the broader public and is responsible for organising the planting of 47, 900 plants since March 2005.
What does RE>GEN do?
RE>GEN’s primary focus is on creating environmentally focused musically diverse festivals and events for all-ages.
Our Premier event, The ‘REGROWTH’ Festival is currently building towards the fourth installment to be held on the ANZAC day long weekend from 24th to 26 April 2010. This multi-staged environmental festival will continue its natural organic growth as a musically/artistically diverse, educational, sustainable, community driven event with the help of partners and supporters. If you are interested to become involved please contact us.
Since our inception we have also worked with other organisations to create small events that focus people’s energy and make people aware of their surroundings (eg. National Tree Day and Anvil Hill Awareness event). If you wish to make us aware of any other events that you would like RE>GEN to bring a focus to, please contact us.
RE>GEN also offers its skills as event managers to other organisations that wish to be at the cutting edge of environmental sustainability. We have worked with peak bodies such as Greening Australia to house, feed and entertain participants and are always interested in assisting other organisations to present their events in a fresh and sustainable manner. If you want more info please contact us. .jpg)
Why does RE>GEN create this space?
RE>GEN identifies that our busy lives often leads us to forget the intimate connection that we have with nature.
Nature has a sheer beauty and creates a sense of wellbeing that is undescribable. The environment also performs a number of essential ecosystem processes that sustains human life.
Nature is the lungs, liver, kidneys and circulation system of our landscape - it purifies our air and water so that we can breath and drink, makes the soil that grows our food, and provides the resources to make all our material goods.
Our actions of broad-scale habitat clearance and the manipulation of scarce water resources to provide for human settlements has led to devastating environmental impacts such as erosion and land degradation, soil salinity, water pollution and biodiversity decline. At the same time we have introduced unsuitable farming and land management practices and hundreds of exotic and feral species to a landscape that has evolved in isolation over millions of years.
Within a meagre 200 years, the blink of an eye in geological time, humans have altered a sacred balance that has led to the degradation and pollution of our Australian environment. We want all to see that something clearly must be done.
With over 6 billion of us now sharing this precious Earth, we are placing unsustainable stresses on the ecosystems that sustain us and all life on our planet. To feed our energy and transport needs, we have begun to gradually warm our climate, which will accentuate already existing problems and further threaten life on this planet.
RE>GEN understands that despite the feeling of helplessness that these problems can create, .jpg)
there are things that we can do as individuals, as communities and as members of the human race.
It is just a matter of choice.
We can choose to do nothing and allow our planet to decline and render us to extinction, or we can choose to make a difference.
There is no doubt that people enjoy and care about our environment. Limited awareness of the nature and the scale of environmental problems and of what to do about them is a major limiting factor in finding solutions. Providing opportunities for collective learning and participation is a positive 'RE>GEN' way of treating the afflictions facing our beautiful planet.
Simple actions such as planting trees can and do make a difference.
Please feel free to contact us for more information.
REGEN Inc. ABN: 42654503952