Parties, Bands, Performances
Tuesday
The Stop Lynas Campaign: Skype in with the fight against Australia’s toxic exports in Malaysia
Room: Spatula (HAG051) 7.30-9.30
Gem Romuld
The campaign to shut the toxic and radioactive rare-earths refinery in Kuantan, Malaysia is heating up, with two Australian campaigners recently taking part in civil disobedience against the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP). The refinery processes materials mined in Western Australia and is using lax environmental laws to do the job cheaply overseas and leave a toxic legacy for the people of Kuantan. Come to hear from Tully McIntyre and Natalie Lowrey on what’s happening and what we can do.
DIY street party hardware
Room: Whisk (HAG052) – 7.30-late
Lachlan Type
Come together to build a monster stereo for street parties / riots and leave with the skills you need to build your own.
The Chikukwa Project (with Q&A with Terry Leahy)
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-late
The Chikukwa Project is a feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an incredible permaculture project has been growing in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and high rates of disease, this community has turned its fortunes around using permaculture farming techniques. Complementing these strategies for food security, they have built their community strength through locally controlled and initiated programs for permaculture training, conflict resolution, women’s empowerment, primary education and HIV management. Now they have a surplus of food and the people in these villages are healthy and proud of their achievements. Their degraded landscape has been turned into a lush paradise. A brother and sister team travel to Zimbabwe to make this film to learn how this has happened.
Film co-producer, Dr Terry Leahy, is convenor of the Master of Social Change and Development Program at the University of Newcastle. His research expertise is in sustainable development and food security in Africa. He was invited by some of the villagers in Zimbabwe to come and visit their project and make this film.
Film Night: Saving Forests
Spaceship (MCC T5) 7.30-9.30
Three short documentaries on different aspects of the struggle to save Australia’s forests:
Still Falling (15 mins) - This inspiring short film follows the story of Miranda Gibson, who spent 449 days at the top of a tree in the fight to protect Tasmania’s ancient forests. Through Miranda’s experiences the film takes you on a journey through the battles fought, some lost and some won, to defend these forests and the battle that still lies ahead. Film by Jeff Wirth of Burning Hearts Media.
Ta Ann (15 mins) - Malaysian timber company Ta Ann are the biggest driver of logging in Tasmania’s ancient forests. Meanwhile, in their home state of Sarawak, Ta Ann are responsible for the destruction of orang-utan habitat, human rights abuses and the displacement of indigenous communities from their homelands. However, at every step along the way they have faced people willing to do whatever it takes to expose the truth behind Ta Ann’s “eco-friendly” veneer and to halt the destruction. Film by Dylan Grimwood of Still Wild Still Threatened.
Until All Are Free (20 mins) - This is the story of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, two environmental activists who are serving 20 years in prison in the United States. It’s also about a much bigger story, looking at the way in which activists have been targeted for their beliefs and actions and why this matters to everyone who cares about making a difference.
Home is where the heart is: Poetry from Australia and Oceania
Marquee - 7.30-9.30
Jeanine Leane, Jenny Munro, Valerie Bichard, Mitiana Arbon and Maggie Walsh
Oral story telling and poetry in its many forms is an integral part of many societies across Aboriginal Australia and the Pacific region. The aim of this presentation is to begin building a common understanding across a diverse range of life experience and ancestry. Exploring issues of identity, relationship to land, ancestry and family, a group of Aboriginal and Pasifika poets present an exchange of ideas that reflect what home means for them.
SOS Welcome Party!
Featuring Ungus Ungus Ungus, Jude Kohn and more
Marquee - 9.30-late
Come warm yourself and celebrate the opening night of what is sure to be another amazing SoS!
Film: Coconut Revolution
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
The Coconut Revolution is a 2001 multi-award winning documentary film about the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island. The movement is described as the “world’s first successful eco-revolution.” The movie tells the story of the successful uprising of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island against the Papua New Guinea army and the mining plans of the mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) to exploit their natural resources. The documentary reveals how the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) managed to overcome the marine blockade strategy used by the Papuan army by using coconut oil as fuel for their vehicles
Wednesday
Film: Rocking the Foundations
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-9.00
‘Rocking the Foundations’, a documentary filmed during the Green Bans by Pat Fiske, one of the first women ever to become a Builder’s Labourer. We’ll screen the film, and hear reflections from Pat on the Green Bans era, women in the Labour movement, and the making of this film.
Survey Techniques: Spotlighting
Outdoors (Meet at the Rego Desk) – 7.30
David Caldwell (Goongerah Environment Centre)
Detection of threatened species has been instrumental in highlighting threats to forests, or gaining forest protection in many areas. Join us for a night walk, and get a basic guide to a variety of techniques for spotlighting the creatures of the night!
Prepare to be Unprepared!
Improvised Theatre with Nick Byrne
Marquee 7.30-9.30
A high-fun introduction to improvised theatre technique which demonstrates how honouring each other’s contributions sustains any communication or relationship, on or off stage. The workshop will be on your feet, but easy and enjoyable for any level of fitness, as well as introverts and extroverts alike. It takes the form of a series of group games that will surprise you, and you’ll leave with a kit-bag that includes; confidence in the value of your own choices, openess to change, non-judgementalism, warmth of spirit, and a laughter surplus.
Move to Canberra! Noise Music Bliss Voyage: Facepaint, Blacklight + Projections. With Fossil Rabbit & David Finnegan, Calico Cat and Reuben Ingall
The Studio - from 7.30 - late
Nothing fun ever happens in Canberra, right? Wrong. Blast off into space this evening on a Noise Music Bliss Voyage, with music from talented local extraterrestrial monsters Fossil Rabbit & David Finnegan, Calico Cat and Reuben Ingall, plus facepaint, blacklight, projections, a hole in space and time and a whole lot of love.
Film: The Crisis of Civilisation
Tank (HA T) - 9.30-late
The Crisis of Civilization is a remix documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Food Liberation 101: Get your hands dirty and save the freaking world!
Outdoors, meet @ the Rego Desk 9.00
At a time of massive global hunger, did you know that around 40% of all food that sits on supermarket shelves in Australia ends up in the bin? Roll up your sleeves and come with us on a journey through time and space, to learn the theory and art of reclaiming food! Note: This activity is an excursion and will take place off ANU’s campus; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the university.
Thursday
Tent Embassy Legacy (Session 1)
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-9.30
Documentary Screening: Ningla A-Na (1972 – 72 mins)
Jenny Munro, Ray Swan and long time members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
“Ningla A-Na” captures the events surrounding the founding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in 1972. “A rare addition to the study of Australian history.” After the screening long-time Tent Embassy supporters will share the memories and discuss the legacy of the 1972 protests. Participants will gain a better appreciation of the Embassy’s history and its significance in shaping Aboriginal political and social change.
Film Screening and Discussion: The Indonesian Farmers’ Movement Network
Spaceship (MCC T5)
Justyna and Bintang
A film screening about farmers struggle in Sumatra, with presentation and a discussion from an Indonesian and an Australian activist about working together on these issues.
Lessons from a Lifetime in the Environment
Movement: Storytime with Drew Hutton
The Marquee - 7.30-9.00
Drew Hutton
Come and learn from one of the environment movement’s greats. Drew has been an influential force behind some of the great environmental campaigns in Australia, most recently founding Lock the Gate to support farmers and communities against coal seam gas and coal expansion. Come and share in a lifetime of stories and wisdom.
Spoke Change
ANU Food Coop - 7.30-late
Local street artists live paint the wall of ANU’s Food Coop, while spoken wordists and slam poets tell stories of lyrical wisdom. You get to watch. Proudly hosted by the Food Coop.
Letters from the Future
The Studio – from 7.30 - late
Tom Swann
A collaborative writing project asking us to think further forward into our future, and to think back from that point.
Film: Mining the Truth (30 mins)
Tank (HA T) - 9.30-10.00
In 2012, 60 students and young people travelled to communities affected by mining around Australia. They heard from Aboriginal traditional owners, coal miners, doctors, farmers, parents and many others, who have experienced the social and environmental impacts of coal and gas development. Mining The Truth (30 minutes) documents their stories. In 2013, the film won ‘Best Australian Film’ at the Environmental Film Festival, Melbourne! And follow up road trips were organised in NSW and Victoria. If you haven’t seen the film, get along to this screening! It was filmed and produced by Newborn Digital Film and Media and the Australian Student Environment Network.
Film: How to Survive a Plague
Spaceship (MCC T5) - 9.30-late
Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and ‘90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
Food Liberation 101: Get your hands dirty and save the freaking world!
Outdoors (Meet @ the Rego Desk) - 9.00-late
At a time of massive global hunger, did you know that around 40% of all food that sits on supermarket shelves in Australia ends up in the bin? Roll up your sleeves and come with us on a journey through time and space, to learn the theory and art of reclaiming food! Note: This activity is an excursion and will take place off ANU’s campus; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the university.
Friday
Tent Embassy Legacy (Session II)
Tank (Film Space) - from 7.30
Documentary Screening: “Fire of the Land” (2001 – 43 mins)
“Fire of the Land” is an eloquent and passionate documentary that captures an important moment in recent Aboriginal protest history. Set at the time of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the film tells the “behind the scenes” story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s peace camp in Sydney’s Victoria Park. Sovereign Rights campaigner and long time Tent Embassy resident Isabell Coe of the Wiradjuri Nation brought ashes to Sydney from the Sacred Fire for Peace and Justice at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. After the screening the audience will have an opportunity to participate in a discussion with long-time Tent Embassy supporters reflecting on the life and work of Isabell Coe and the issues the film raises. What lesson can we learn?
Dancing in the Dark! Featuring Creamcrop DJs Set
The Marquee from 7.30 - late
Hell yeah.
Open Mic Night! Featuring Word of the Future: SOS Writers’ Anthology Zine Launch, plus much more, plus YOU!
The Studio 7.30-late
Come along tonight to take the stage, or just to watch the amazing array of talent that SOS has to offer. All mediums, all people welcome. Featuring the launch of Word of the Future: The SOS Writer’s Anthology.
Film: Guarda Bosque (Forest Defenders)
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
In “Guarda Bosques” (Forest Keepers), you will learn about a Purepecha community’s efforts to reclaim and defend itself from organized crime thugs teamed up with the logging industry and different government agencies. Film is in Español with English subtitles.
Saturday
Film: Rise of the Eco-Warriors
Tank (HA T) 7.30-9.00
A group of passionate and adventurous young people leave their known worlds behind to spend 100 days in the jungles of Borneo. Their mission is to confront one of the great global challenges of our time, saving rainforests and giving hope to endangered orangutans. Their task is enormous and the odds are against them. This is a story about what it takes it be an eco-warrior, an individual willing to step up and take action to avert a global catastrophe taking place before our eyes. The eco-warriors represent a new generation, ready to face what is happening on our planet and willing to do something, no matter how small, to build a more humane and balanced world. For them, every individual matters, every action counts.
Survey Techniques: Spotlighting
Outside (meet at the rego desk) – 7.30
David Caldwell (Goongerah Environment Centre)
Detection of threatened species has been instrumental in highlighting threats to forests, or gaining forest protection in many areas. Join us for a night walk, and get a basic guide to a variety of techniques for spotlighting the creatures of the night!
Theatre of the Oppressed Theatre Piece
The Studio 7.30-9.30
There have been five Theatre of the Oppressed workshops in preparation for this performance. Theatre of the Oppressed is a radical approach to using theatre for social change developed by Augusto Boal in Brazil and Peru in the 1970s, and now used around the world. The culmination of a week’s hard work, this piece will be a performance not to be missed. If you’ve been wanting to go along, or wondering what the heck its all about, come along and see what the peeps have been working on.
Film: Declaration of War
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
Declaration of War is a 2011 French film directed by Valérie Donzelli, and written by and starring Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm; it is based on actual events in their lives together, when they were a young couple caring for their dangerously ill son.
UTOPIA OR BUST!
SOS Afterparty Fundraiser + Collective Danceoff, with Raio de Sol Samba Band + Riff Raff + more
Saturday @ the Marquee from 7.30-late
Bookend your Festival with the epic SOS Afterparty! Bands, performances and the annual, hotly contested dance-off to determine which Enviro Collective will host SoS in 2015 will see enviro kids breaking out their funkiest moves! THEN Heading into civic for a RECLAIM THE CITY mobile dance and music party!
The Stop Lynas Campaign: Skype in with the fight against Australia’s toxic exports in Malaysia
Room: Spatula (HAG051) 7.30-9.30
Gem Romuld
The campaign to shut the toxic and radioactive rare-earths refinery in Kuantan, Malaysia is heating up, with two Australian campaigners recently taking part in civil disobedience against the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP). The refinery processes materials mined in Western Australia and is using lax environmental laws to do the job cheaply overseas and leave a toxic legacy for the people of Kuantan. Come to hear from Tully McIntyre and Natalie Lowrey on what’s happening and what we can do.
DIY street party hardware
Room: Whisk (HAG052) – 7.30-late
Lachlan Type
Come together to build a monster stereo for street parties / riots and leave with the skills you need to build your own.
The Chikukwa Project (with Q&A with Terry Leahy)
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-late
The Chikukwa Project is a feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an incredible permaculture project has been growing in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and high rates of disease, this community has turned its fortunes around using permaculture farming techniques. Complementing these strategies for food security, they have built their community strength through locally controlled and initiated programs for permaculture training, conflict resolution, women’s empowerment, primary education and HIV management. Now they have a surplus of food and the people in these villages are healthy and proud of their achievements. Their degraded landscape has been turned into a lush paradise. A brother and sister team travel to Zimbabwe to make this film to learn how this has happened.
Film co-producer, Dr Terry Leahy, is convenor of the Master of Social Change and Development Program at the University of Newcastle. His research expertise is in sustainable development and food security in Africa. He was invited by some of the villagers in Zimbabwe to come and visit their project and make this film.
Film Night: Saving Forests
Spaceship (MCC T5) 7.30-9.30
Three short documentaries on different aspects of the struggle to save Australia’s forests:
Still Falling (15 mins) - This inspiring short film follows the story of Miranda Gibson, who spent 449 days at the top of a tree in the fight to protect Tasmania’s ancient forests. Through Miranda’s experiences the film takes you on a journey through the battles fought, some lost and some won, to defend these forests and the battle that still lies ahead. Film by Jeff Wirth of Burning Hearts Media.
Ta Ann (15 mins) - Malaysian timber company Ta Ann are the biggest driver of logging in Tasmania’s ancient forests. Meanwhile, in their home state of Sarawak, Ta Ann are responsible for the destruction of orang-utan habitat, human rights abuses and the displacement of indigenous communities from their homelands. However, at every step along the way they have faced people willing to do whatever it takes to expose the truth behind Ta Ann’s “eco-friendly” veneer and to halt the destruction. Film by Dylan Grimwood of Still Wild Still Threatened.
Until All Are Free (20 mins) - This is the story of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, two environmental activists who are serving 20 years in prison in the United States. It’s also about a much bigger story, looking at the way in which activists have been targeted for their beliefs and actions and why this matters to everyone who cares about making a difference.
Home is where the heart is: Poetry from Australia and Oceania
Marquee - 7.30-9.30
Jeanine Leane, Jenny Munro, Valerie Bichard, Mitiana Arbon and Maggie Walsh
Oral story telling and poetry in its many forms is an integral part of many societies across Aboriginal Australia and the Pacific region. The aim of this presentation is to begin building a common understanding across a diverse range of life experience and ancestry. Exploring issues of identity, relationship to land, ancestry and family, a group of Aboriginal and Pasifika poets present an exchange of ideas that reflect what home means for them.
SOS Welcome Party!
Featuring Ungus Ungus Ungus, Jude Kohn and more
Marquee - 9.30-late
Come warm yourself and celebrate the opening night of what is sure to be another amazing SoS!
Film: Coconut Revolution
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
The Coconut Revolution is a 2001 multi-award winning documentary film about the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island. The movement is described as the “world’s first successful eco-revolution.” The movie tells the story of the successful uprising of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island against the Papua New Guinea army and the mining plans of the mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) to exploit their natural resources. The documentary reveals how the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) managed to overcome the marine blockade strategy used by the Papuan army by using coconut oil as fuel for their vehicles
Wednesday
Film: Rocking the Foundations
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-9.00
‘Rocking the Foundations’, a documentary filmed during the Green Bans by Pat Fiske, one of the first women ever to become a Builder’s Labourer. We’ll screen the film, and hear reflections from Pat on the Green Bans era, women in the Labour movement, and the making of this film.
Survey Techniques: Spotlighting
Outdoors (Meet at the Rego Desk) – 7.30
David Caldwell (Goongerah Environment Centre)
Detection of threatened species has been instrumental in highlighting threats to forests, or gaining forest protection in many areas. Join us for a night walk, and get a basic guide to a variety of techniques for spotlighting the creatures of the night!
Prepare to be Unprepared!
Improvised Theatre with Nick Byrne
Marquee 7.30-9.30
A high-fun introduction to improvised theatre technique which demonstrates how honouring each other’s contributions sustains any communication or relationship, on or off stage. The workshop will be on your feet, but easy and enjoyable for any level of fitness, as well as introverts and extroverts alike. It takes the form of a series of group games that will surprise you, and you’ll leave with a kit-bag that includes; confidence in the value of your own choices, openess to change, non-judgementalism, warmth of spirit, and a laughter surplus.
Move to Canberra! Noise Music Bliss Voyage: Facepaint, Blacklight + Projections. With Fossil Rabbit & David Finnegan, Calico Cat and Reuben Ingall
The Studio - from 7.30 - late
Nothing fun ever happens in Canberra, right? Wrong. Blast off into space this evening on a Noise Music Bliss Voyage, with music from talented local extraterrestrial monsters Fossil Rabbit & David Finnegan, Calico Cat and Reuben Ingall, plus facepaint, blacklight, projections, a hole in space and time and a whole lot of love.
Film: The Crisis of Civilisation
Tank (HA T) - 9.30-late
The Crisis of Civilization is a remix documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Food Liberation 101: Get your hands dirty and save the freaking world!
Outdoors, meet @ the Rego Desk 9.00
At a time of massive global hunger, did you know that around 40% of all food that sits on supermarket shelves in Australia ends up in the bin? Roll up your sleeves and come with us on a journey through time and space, to learn the theory and art of reclaiming food! Note: This activity is an excursion and will take place off ANU’s campus; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the university.
Thursday
Tent Embassy Legacy (Session 1)
Tank (HA T) – 7.30-9.30
Documentary Screening: Ningla A-Na (1972 – 72 mins)
Jenny Munro, Ray Swan and long time members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
“Ningla A-Na” captures the events surrounding the founding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in 1972. “A rare addition to the study of Australian history.” After the screening long-time Tent Embassy supporters will share the memories and discuss the legacy of the 1972 protests. Participants will gain a better appreciation of the Embassy’s history and its significance in shaping Aboriginal political and social change.
Film Screening and Discussion: The Indonesian Farmers’ Movement Network
Spaceship (MCC T5)
Justyna and Bintang
A film screening about farmers struggle in Sumatra, with presentation and a discussion from an Indonesian and an Australian activist about working together on these issues.
Lessons from a Lifetime in the Environment
Movement: Storytime with Drew Hutton
The Marquee - 7.30-9.00
Drew Hutton
Come and learn from one of the environment movement’s greats. Drew has been an influential force behind some of the great environmental campaigns in Australia, most recently founding Lock the Gate to support farmers and communities against coal seam gas and coal expansion. Come and share in a lifetime of stories and wisdom.
Spoke Change
ANU Food Coop - 7.30-late
Local street artists live paint the wall of ANU’s Food Coop, while spoken wordists and slam poets tell stories of lyrical wisdom. You get to watch. Proudly hosted by the Food Coop.
Letters from the Future
The Studio – from 7.30 - late
Tom Swann
A collaborative writing project asking us to think further forward into our future, and to think back from that point.
Film: Mining the Truth (30 mins)
Tank (HA T) - 9.30-10.00
In 2012, 60 students and young people travelled to communities affected by mining around Australia. They heard from Aboriginal traditional owners, coal miners, doctors, farmers, parents and many others, who have experienced the social and environmental impacts of coal and gas development. Mining The Truth (30 minutes) documents their stories. In 2013, the film won ‘Best Australian Film’ at the Environmental Film Festival, Melbourne! And follow up road trips were organised in NSW and Victoria. If you haven’t seen the film, get along to this screening! It was filmed and produced by Newborn Digital Film and Media and the Australian Student Environment Network.
Film: How to Survive a Plague
Spaceship (MCC T5) - 9.30-late
Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and ‘90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
Food Liberation 101: Get your hands dirty and save the freaking world!
Outdoors (Meet @ the Rego Desk) - 9.00-late
At a time of massive global hunger, did you know that around 40% of all food that sits on supermarket shelves in Australia ends up in the bin? Roll up your sleeves and come with us on a journey through time and space, to learn the theory and art of reclaiming food! Note: This activity is an excursion and will take place off ANU’s campus; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the university.
Friday
Tent Embassy Legacy (Session II)
Tank (Film Space) - from 7.30
Documentary Screening: “Fire of the Land” (2001 – 43 mins)
“Fire of the Land” is an eloquent and passionate documentary that captures an important moment in recent Aboriginal protest history. Set at the time of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the film tells the “behind the scenes” story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s peace camp in Sydney’s Victoria Park. Sovereign Rights campaigner and long time Tent Embassy resident Isabell Coe of the Wiradjuri Nation brought ashes to Sydney from the Sacred Fire for Peace and Justice at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. After the screening the audience will have an opportunity to participate in a discussion with long-time Tent Embassy supporters reflecting on the life and work of Isabell Coe and the issues the film raises. What lesson can we learn?
Dancing in the Dark! Featuring Creamcrop DJs Set
The Marquee from 7.30 - late
Hell yeah.
Open Mic Night! Featuring Word of the Future: SOS Writers’ Anthology Zine Launch, plus much more, plus YOU!
The Studio 7.30-late
Come along tonight to take the stage, or just to watch the amazing array of talent that SOS has to offer. All mediums, all people welcome. Featuring the launch of Word of the Future: The SOS Writer’s Anthology.
Film: Guarda Bosque (Forest Defenders)
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
In “Guarda Bosques” (Forest Keepers), you will learn about a Purepecha community’s efforts to reclaim and defend itself from organized crime thugs teamed up with the logging industry and different government agencies. Film is in Español with English subtitles.
Saturday
Film: Rise of the Eco-Warriors
Tank (HA T) 7.30-9.00
A group of passionate and adventurous young people leave their known worlds behind to spend 100 days in the jungles of Borneo. Their mission is to confront one of the great global challenges of our time, saving rainforests and giving hope to endangered orangutans. Their task is enormous and the odds are against them. This is a story about what it takes it be an eco-warrior, an individual willing to step up and take action to avert a global catastrophe taking place before our eyes. The eco-warriors represent a new generation, ready to face what is happening on our planet and willing to do something, no matter how small, to build a more humane and balanced world. For them, every individual matters, every action counts.
Survey Techniques: Spotlighting
Outside (meet at the rego desk) – 7.30
David Caldwell (Goongerah Environment Centre)
Detection of threatened species has been instrumental in highlighting threats to forests, or gaining forest protection in many areas. Join us for a night walk, and get a basic guide to a variety of techniques for spotlighting the creatures of the night!
Theatre of the Oppressed Theatre Piece
The Studio 7.30-9.30
There have been five Theatre of the Oppressed workshops in preparation for this performance. Theatre of the Oppressed is a radical approach to using theatre for social change developed by Augusto Boal in Brazil and Peru in the 1970s, and now used around the world. The culmination of a week’s hard work, this piece will be a performance not to be missed. If you’ve been wanting to go along, or wondering what the heck its all about, come along and see what the peeps have been working on.
Film: Declaration of War
Tank (HA T) 9.30-late
Declaration of War is a 2011 French film directed by Valérie Donzelli, and written by and starring Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm; it is based on actual events in their lives together, when they were a young couple caring for their dangerously ill son.
UTOPIA OR BUST!
SOS Afterparty Fundraiser + Collective Danceoff, with Raio de Sol Samba Band + Riff Raff + more
Saturday @ the Marquee from 7.30-late
Bookend your Festival with the epic SOS Afterparty! Bands, performances and the annual, hotly contested dance-off to determine which Enviro Collective will host SoS in 2015 will see enviro kids breaking out their funkiest moves! THEN Heading into civic for a RECLAIM THE CITY mobile dance and music party!