Be creative and Green this year

Jan. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- MEDIA RELEASE   
4 January 2011

Be creative and Green this year

Brisbane’s newest environmental event, Green Earth Day (previously Green Earth Festival) will take place once again in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens on Saturday 12 March. Green Earth Day is organised by the not-for-profit environmental awareness group, Green Earth Group that began early 2009 when like-minded friends of Founder and President, Leigh-Chantelle Koch saw the need for the uniting the public to become more environmentally aware.

Green Earth Group is looking for artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and other creative types to create a masterpiece for Green Earth Day’s Art, Short Film and Green with Envy Fashion Competitions. These competitions help to raise awareness of creative and artistic types, especially in Brisbane and to give a great platform for their creations. The theme for all the competitions is anything related to environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable practices.  “This is a great opportunity for the artistic community to participate in reaching the mainstream with their work,” says Organiser Leigh-Chantelle.

Artwork must fit into one of the following categories: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture or Photography.  Fashion entries must fit into one of the following categories: Wearable art, Casual wear, Bridal or Evening wear, Menswear, Children’s wear.  Film entries must be a maximum of 10 minutes long, in any genre with no minimum length.  

Public voting for the Art and Green with Envy Fashion competitions will take place on the Green Earth Day website (greenearthday.net), and the Short Film competition will be voted at a viewing night open to the public. Entry fee for each competition is $20 per entry with no limit to the number of entries a person/group can enter, competition entries accepted from anywhere in the world.  Entries must be submitted by Sunday 27 February 2011.  Winners of the Art competition will be on display at Green Earth Day, Fashion competition winners will take place in the Green with Envy Fashion Parade and the winning Short Film will be shown at Green Earth Day.

Shiny Alumina won the Short Film competition in 2010.  The film was made, filmed and written by a group of youngsters including Luisa Randall (9, Producer & Writer), Darcie Mudd (10, Writer & Presenter), Alexia Guifre (10, Editor), Emily Wiliamson (10, Director) and Nicholas Clough (10, Camera Operator).  Angela Ryder won the Art competition with her Under the Fig Tree Painting and Velvet Pesu won the Fashion competition with her Concentric Circles On Red Wearable Art piece, made entirely of recycled materials including woven recycled film.    

Green Earth Day is a free, family orientated, drug and alcohol free, grassroots, community event which aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye; encouraging people to make simple changes in their everyday lives to help our environment, our animal friends and the world we leave for generations to come.

This wide-ranging festival will comprise live bands, performers and roving entertainment; green cuisine, demonstrations, speakers, children’s zone, video zone, art and fashion displays, plus stalls from many local businesses not for profit organisations.  

See greenearthday.net for more information on the competitions and festival.  Green Earth Group is currently looking for Sponsors, Stallholders and Volunteers.

Media/PR enquiries:
Leigh-Chantelle
Founder & President
Green Earth Group
Email: info@greenearthday.net

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Green Earth Group is a not-for-profit environmental awareness group who aim to promote a better way of living – for us, for our animal friends and for our planet.
Green Earth Group is a group of like-minded people who aim to raise awareness to the environmental problems we are currently facing and to provide simple but effective ways in which every individual can make a positive change. Seeing the potential for educating and inspiring others to the environmental and cruelty-free lifestyle in Brisbane, Leigh-Chantelle started the Green Earth Group with a group of like-minded friends.
One of the ways the Green Earth Group is aiming to educate the mainstream to all things green, sustainable and cruelty-free is via Green Earth Day (previously Green Earth Festival 2010) in March 2011. The Green Earth Day will encourage people to make simple changes in their everyday lives to help our environment and the world we leave for generations to come.