Sorrento Watertowers

I'll leave you with memories from last years SSF, inspiration by the super talented Marty O'Brien. You'll love it! You're a talent Mr O'Brien! Well done team. This is why we do it:

https://vimeo.com/225192052

Been a bit busy, work and stuff.
Looking towards the beach clean January 2018.
Pic of Kane by Josh Morgan

Looking forward to seeing all of the Sorrento Watertowers crew on the 8th!

Seaside Scavenge Festival has been thrilled to be working in collaboration with Sorrento Watertowers​ - a local, grassroots group of creative individuals based on the Mornington Peninsula, dedicated to uniting our local and global communities thorough a love of the ocean and our environment.
With a team rich in skills, knowledge and experience, Sorrento Water Towers is united in the desire to educate, inspire and support individuals of all ages and needs whilst strengthening ties in our local and global community through creating social, environmental and educational initiatives and enabling community ideas to be realized.
Community members can approach the committee to ask for support for ideas that require a not for profit organisation to sponsor them and be run in collaboration. We believe that there are hundreds of fantastic, positive and progressive ideas on the Mornington Peninsula that require a hand to get off the ground. We provide a space and a broad community network to realise your ideas.

Lionel Lauch - Living Culture
Seaside Scavenge Festival, Rye 8th January 2017

We are honored to have Lionel Lauch Living Culture opening our Seaside Scavenge event at 10am with an Acknowledgment of Country, followed by a traditional smoking ceremony.

Lionel Lauch is a gunditjmara kirrae wurrung-bundjalung man, who lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Passionate about his cultural heritage and people, Lionel embraces the opportunity to share his knowledge of the land and educate others about his culture through guided walks 'on country', didgeridoo healing meditations, smoking ceremonies and talks.
"I teach people about the importance of the land. The land can live without us, but we can't live without mother earth"
"I teach respect and healing and i help other people, black or white, to get through their problems, as I have experienced a great deal of what life can throw at you".

Empower, Educate and Engage

"Without oceans life on earth can not exist"

If you have any pre loved clothes that are in need of a second home, especially men's and children's, we would love to have them for the seaside scavenge festival on the 8th of Jan at Rye Foreshore!

Please let us know if you have any and could drop them down to us this week! They will be exchanged for rubbish collected on the beach and will help promote awareness about plastics and marine debris and how it can impact our beautiful environment 💗

The Seaside Scavenge Festival is working in collaboration with the A M A Z I N G Tangaroa Blue Foundation ~a charity that, since its establishment in 2004, has supported volunteers in removing more than 616 TONS of rubbish from the Australian coastline!

Thanks to charities like Tangaroa Blue, there is now an on-ground network of volunteers, communities, organisations and agencies around the country monitoring the impacts of marine debris along their stretch of coastline - including our very own RYE Beach area.

We can so easily forget the impact that one single piece of rubbish can have on our environment, with most plastic items remaining on the earth long after our lifetime. A critical part of the clean up process developed by Tangaroa Blue is to identify and record every single piece of rubbish that is collected. This information is entered into the Australian Marine Debris database, enabling us to better understand the issue of marine debris in localised areas. Stakeholders, including all levels of government, CSIRO and educational institutions can use this information to develop source reduction plans and other creative solutions that will prevent marine debris from entering our waterways and oceans in the first place.

Tangaroa Blue Foundation has generously provided the Seaside Scavenge Festival with support for this event in the form of training, clean up materials and logistical support, educational resources and analysis of the rubbish removed from Rye Beach. The data we collect will be invaluable in determining the types and amounts of marine debris that are impacting this section of coast, and help us to plan how we can prevent this in the future.

Big blue whale kisses to Heidi Taylor and the entire Tangaroa Blue team for all the inspirational work they have done and their ongoing support for the Seaside Scavenge Festival. We couldn't be doing it without them!!

http://www.tangaroablue.org/