Renew Fest

Renew Fest Renew Fest is Australia's annual festival of ecological, economic and social renewal, held inland from Byron Bay, in Mullumbimby on Arakwal country.

Crowdsourcing for a regenerative future.

14/12/2023

Federal Greens candidate Mandy Nolan is keeping up the pressure on both NSW and federal Labor over their response to the 2022 flood recovery, with a joint protest held on Tuesday outside the Tweed offices of sitting Labor MP, Justine Elliot, and the office of Lismore Labor MP, Janelle Saffin.

We are honoured to be joined by Kimberly Sowers at Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief this weekend to read from the po...
28/07/2023

We are honoured to be joined by Kimberly Sowers at Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief this weekend to read from the poetry of her heart.

“Kimberly Sowers is a Grief Counsellor and Certified Grief Educator. She teaches The Art of Grief Care at the Byron Bay Community College as well as assists in facilitating Last Aid for the Dying with Amitayus Home Hospice. Kimberly’s professional path has been deeply inspired by her personal experience. After losing several loved ones, including both parents, she found herself needing to put her life and her heart back together time and again.”

To read more about Kimberely and her work go to www.kimberlysowers.com

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Renew Fest's 24 hour Vigil for Grief
4pm Sat 29 July to 4pm Sun 30 July
In the Fig Tree Grove of the Mullumbimby Showgrounds

An Evocative
Contemplative
Open Air Cathedral
Vigil Space

For Grief. Love. The Earth. Humanity.

With
A Labyrinth to walk through
Fires to sit around
Alters to be reverent by
A Prayer Tree for your prayers
And
Continuous Immersive Soundscape, Live Musicians, Spoken Word, Not as performances but as offerings to imbue your internal landscapes and contemplations with deep care and connection.

Entry By Donation
BYO Food and Water

Drug and Alcohol Free Event

Stay for as long as you want
Bring flowers for the Earth Mandala, what you need to be cosy and warm and a camping chair or picnic blanket to sit on if you’d like. There will also be some hay bails to sit on.

Children are very welcome if they are able to be quiet and contemplative and held in the care of their guardians.

If you live outside the Bundjalung Nation and feel the call you are most welcome.
The Mullumbimby Showground has a lovely campground for staying overnight.

For more information and to read the VIGIL FOR GRIEF 2019 - Communal Diary of Post-Event Reflections to get a greater sense of what you might experience when attending go to
www.renewfest.org.au/2023-vigil-for-grief

Presented by Renew Fest and HHUG Inc
In partnership with Mullum SEED Inc
With support from the Foundation of Rural and Regional Renewal ( )

This polyphonic human is bringing it again for Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief with his vast continuous immersive s...
27/07/2023

This polyphonic human is bringing it again for Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief with his vast continuous immersive soundscapes...

“People sometimes say that I don’t make music, instead I make the stuff that music is made of. I really like this, it makes a big warm tender feeling,,, because… how do I say it?… something like: I want to go into the beginning space of life unfolding and dying, right here, right now, in all its tender details and vastness.” Luke Jaaniste

We have invited live musicians and spoken word artists to contribute to this event not as performers as such but as fellow vigil keepers, to imbue the space with care and reverence for Grief.

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Renew Fest's 24 hour Vigil for Grief
4pm Sat 29 July to 4pm Sun 30 July
In the Fig Tree Grove of the Mullumbimby Showground

An Evocative
Contemplative
Open Air Cathedral
Vigil Space

For Grief. Love. The Earth. Humanity.

With
A Labyrinth to walk through
Fires to sit around
Alters to be reverent by
A Prayer Tree for your prayers
And
Continuous Immersive Soundscape, Live Musicians, Spoken Word, Not as performances but as offerings to imbue your internal landscapes and contemplations with deep care and connection.
Entry By Donation
BYO Food and Water
Drug and Alcohol Free Event

Stay for as long as you want
Bring flowers for the Earth Mandala, what you need to be cosy and warm and a camping chair or picnic blanket to sit on if you’d like. There will also be some hay bails to sit on.

Children are very welcome if they are able to be quiet and contemplative and held in the care of their guardians.

If you live outside the Bundjalung Nation and feel the call you are most welcome.
The Mullumbimby Showground has a lovely campground for staying overnight.

For more information and to read the VIGIL FOR GRIEF 2019 - Communal Diary of Post-Event Reflections to get a greater sense of what you might experience when attending go to
www.renewfest.org.au/2023-vigil-for-grief

Presented by Renew Fest and HHUG Inc
In partnership with Mullum SEED Inc
With support from the Foundation of Rural and Regional Renewal ( )

It’s a beautiful treat to have this fine human Beetel Miyela coming down from Meanjin to sing at Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vi...
27/07/2023

It’s a beautiful treat to have this fine human Beetel Miyela coming down from Meanjin to sing at Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief this weekend.

Here are some poetic prose she has shared about her singing...

“A life built layer upon layer.
An escape of sound to scape way for transformation.
We are collectors, constantly pocketing the relevant and irrelevant. Filing and forming to confide among the intimacy of deep intricacies. Layer upon layer.
Inspired by the eternal flow of the feminine and her relationship with life.
Balancing transformation. Birth and death.
The life force energy growing through our veins, our rivers, our trees.
A calling to wake up to this magic.
Tuning in.
Becoming at-tune.
Becoming.
In a place of no right or wrong.
Creating space for becoming. Shedding, growing, transforming.
Birthing a space of sound, to encapture the essence of growth, abundance and love.
Layer upon layer.
We tune in.”

You can listen to some of Beetle’s music here https://youtu.be/8lgQuHYLtZo

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Renew Fest's 24 hour Vigil for Grief
4pm Sat 29 July to 4pm Sun 30 July
In the Fig Tree Grove of the Mullumbimby Showgrounds

An Evocative
Contemplative
Open Air Cathedral
Vigil Space

For Grief. Love. The Earth. Humanity.

With
A Labyrinth to walk through
Fires to sit around
Alters to be reverent by
A Prayer Tree for your prayers
And
Continuous Immersive Soundscape, Live Musicians, Spoken Word, Not as performances but as offerings to imbue your internal landscapes and contemplations with deep care and connection.
Entry By Donation
BYO Food and Water
Drug and Alcohol Free Event

Stay for as long as you want
Bring what you need to be cosy and warm and flowers for the Earth Mandala.

Children are very welcome if they are held in the care of their guardians.

For more information and to read the VIGIL FOR GRIEF 2019 - Communal Diary of Post-Event Reflections to get a greater sense of what you might experience when attending go to
www.renewfest.org.au/2023-vigil-for-grief

Presented by Renew Fest and HHUG Inc
In partnership with Mullum SEED Inc
With support from the Foundation of Rural and Regional Renewal ( )

Something quiet and deep is felt here, for Brandon and Jennifer from , who are joining Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for G...
26/07/2023

Something quiet and deep is felt here, for Brandon and Jennifer from , who are joining Renew Fest’s 24 Hour Vigil for Grief this weekend to play their Death Bones.

“When we use the bone flutes in ritual we are offering a beacon to souls that may be lost or wandering, and by the sound of the breath pushed forth in prayer through this passage vessel, imprinted with human DNA, they may be guided back to the source and to ultimate freedom.
This is our prayer for the dead.”
Jen and Brandon Casidy (GalaxyStone&Cloudbeard)

We have invited live musicians and spoken word artists to contribute to this event not as performers as such but as fellow vigil keepers, to imbue the space with care and reverence for Grief.

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Renew Fest's 24 hour Vigil for Grief
4pm Sat 29 July to 4pm Sun 30 July
In the Fig Tree Grove of the Mullumbimby Showgrounds

An Evocative
Contemplative
Open Air Cathedral
Vigil Space

For Grief. Love. The Earth. Humanity.

With
A Labyrinth to walk through
Fires to sit around
Alters to be reverent by
A Prayer Tree for your prayers
And
Continuous Immersive Soundscape, Live Musicians, Spoken Word.
Not as performances but as offerings to imbue your internal landscapes and contemplations with deep care and connection.

Entry By Donation
BYO Food and Water
Drug and Alcohol Free Event

Stay for as long as you want
Bring what you need to be cosy and warm and flowers for the Earth Mandala.

Children are very welcome if they are able to be quiet and contemplative and held in the care of their guardians.

If you live outside the Bundjalung Nation and feel the call you are most welcome.
The Mullumbimby Showground has a lovely campground for staying overnight.

For more information and to read the VIGIL FOR GRIEF 2019 - Communal Diary of Post-Event Reflections to get a greater sense of what you might experience when attending go to
www.renewfest.org.au/2023-vigil-for-grief

Presented by Renew Fest and HHUG Inc
In partnership with Mullum SEED Inc
With support from the Foundation of Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR )

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Main Arm Rd & Chinbible Avenue
Mullumbimby, NSW
2482

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