Goodness — What a crazy, beautiful Festival!
Goodness has been GREAT, thanks to so many partners, participants and supports in Geraldton
Since the last Goodness update we’ve had the highly successful Purpose and Profit event, Naaguja cultural tour, Goodness Awards, filming for the Awards winners, judged the photo competition winners, and held a team debrief to harvest all the lessons learned.The Awards were a perfect end to the Festival, highlighting 43 organisations being Good and doing Good in, with and for our community. The full list of Award winners has been published on the website: https://goodness.org.au/goodness-award-winners/
There are so many stories to tell of amazing individuals, organisations, events and conversations that happened throughout the Festival. From Astronomy nights to supercomputing, Lego robotics to community garden tours, invasive species interrogations to biodiversity walks, cultural tours and exhibitions. Over the course of the two weeks, we estimate there were:
- 1500 people participating,
- 40 exhibitors,
- 24 community events,
- 43 award nominees,
- 11 award winners, and
- one heck of a lot of Goodness!
We’ve uploaded a selection of photos from those events:
- View all photos on the Goodness Facebook Page
- View and download high resolution versions from the web
Over coming weeks we’ll be:
- Sending out links to special ‘badges’ for winners, nominees, partners to embed in social media and online,
- Sharing short films about the award winners on social media and the website,
- Inviting expressions of interest in joining next year’s Festival.
Thankyou again to all sponsors, partners, staff and volunteers who helped make this happen, including Mark Canny (founder, adviser, fundraiser, community event and exhibition organiser), Heather Fox (project manager), Ben Horn (web developer), Emma Howell (awards coordinator), Kym Jeffries (community events), Yvette Hollings (marketing and photo competition), Katarina Smelikova (marketing and photography), Aida Aman (administration), Dave, Monica, Brodie, Prashan, and all the other generous and creative community event hosts, presenters and organisers.Final words go to Dan Clarke (2013 Award winner): “…what a crazy, beautiful thing to celebrate, I don’t want to celebrate anything more than Goodness in our town“Sincere thanks, Andrew Outhwaite, on behalf of the Goodness Festival and Pollinators Inc
- On September 4, 2014
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