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Picnic for Nature – Yila Healing Trail Festival Finale

Sunday October 20, 2024 • 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Join us for the GRAND FINALE of the Yila Healing Trail.

We started in Nowra and we finish off on the grass of Ulladulla Civic Centre in the sunshine having spanned the Shoalhaven.

With strong involvement from many schools in this area, we have gifted clapsticks beautifully fashioned by Michael Robinson from Doolagartefacts and Gumaraa to over 500 students with Uncle Paul, Joe and Ronald McLeod teaching the Traditional song Yila to all students. They will all join us to clap in healing on this beautiful day.

We invite you to bring a picnic rug and delicious food and drink to fill your belly and be down here with us for a nourishing event to accentuate our reconnection to nature and the strong role our young people will play in bringing this about

Kicking off with a Welcome to Country by Uncle Phil Butler, Yuin man and Aboriginal Education officer at St Marys School in Milton,  Carolyn Loton will then welcome you to this chapter of Picnic For Nature,  an annual NSW-wide event happening over this weekend. She will acknowledge our young people’s role in heralding in a nature-centric world.

We will welcome to the stage an interweaving of the school communities and those nature conservation groups that will be supporting the event with engaging stalls to be the Voices for Nature up on stage.

Shoalhaven Community Preschool, Sussex Inlet School,  Ulladulla High School and the Home School and Bush School communities from around the Shoalhaven.

We will then finish up before moving into the ‘picnic’ part of the day with our grand finale Clapstick Orchestra singing ‘Yila’.

As we move into picnic mode we are graced with Hein Cooper singing his version of  Nature Boy and many other tunes besides.

We invite you to visit the Nature Champions onsite as part of this closing ceremony who have much to share with you!

PS – As a nature-loving event, we ask that you bring washable picnic gear along rather than single-use disposable cutlery, cups, plates or utensils. a proper old fashioned picnic 🙂 Don’t forget to bring your water bottle.

A young lady enjoying a South Shoalhaven Walking trail

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