Sacrededge: our annual arts and diversity festival
is taking place during the first weekend in May 2-4, 2025!
Featuring:
Welcome to Country
Art, Music, Storytelling, Movement
Keynote Speakers
Interactive Workshops
Art Exhibition
All-age activities
Food
Community
This year’s theme is:
“Stories of the Edge: Listening to Story – Discovering our Own”
An intentionally open, inclusive, fluid and exploring communal gathering, listening to voice that call us to a deeper awareness of our humanity and universal life.
Understanding our connectedness is core to our personal, communal and environmental wellness.
Curating a listening story through talks, poetry, song, dance and movement, image and art – listening for a wisdom.
This will be a sacred time of spirit, truth, compassion and grace to dive deep into your own Wisdom.
Focusing:
First Nations
All Abilities
Environment and Climate
Refugee and Immigrant
LGBTIQA+
Food
Community
A Celebration of Diversity for ALL
Sacrededge is our response to a sometimes harsh and fearful world. It is an opportunity to connect with people from diverse backgrounds. Rather than debate and argue about issues Q&A style, this unique festival listens to people from the edge… their stories, music, poetry.
Our presenters, artists & performers come from a range of backgrounds – First Nations, Refugee, LGBTIQA+ folk, Carers for the Earth and Ocean. They are the voices from the edge who are vulnerable and not normally heard.
With a bunch of people from different spiritual traditions and none, people who love stories, justice, ideas, music and the arts, community is created.
Sacrededge is a lived experience of how we can treasure each other in all our glorious diversity and find our hearts and minds expanded and enriched.
What People Say about Sacrededge...
Here are some comments from previous festivals:
Wowsers, what a festival!!
Kerryn Fields, Presenter.
There is no other single event that has had such a transformative impact on us and we would not miss it. To have an opportunity to meet those beyond our experience changes us in ways we could not have imagined.
Don and Helen Bartlett, Participants
I wanted to deeply thankyou for this weekend. It was such a beautifully filling time for me as well as pouring out. I really loved it. … I think everyone was really moved by it. THANKYOU!!!
Joel McKerrow, presenter.
I was moved by the deep sense of community created by the festival, and how attendees brought a genuine desire to inquire and learn. … (One participant…) said the festival “felt like a hug”. What a wonderful space to have created for people at such a challenging time in our collective histories.
Isabelle Tolhurst, Participant.
Thank you for all your magnificent work for Sacred Edge. Your vision and commitment are truly profound. We are all the richer for being part of the weekend. I learnt so much, and feel quite restored. I know many people contribute to the success of such events, we are indeed blessed. Thanks again, it truly was a celebration. -Maryann Brown
Just wanting to say I had a wonderful and life changing weekend with you all . It far exceeded my expectations amazing speakers and a loving and warm atmosphere. I can assure you I will be back next year. -Janette James
Brilliant weekend. So many highlights the tremendous speakers, fantastic music (especially watching the Wilsons with Sam and Maeve) great venue, such a welcoming group of people, the homemade chocolate hedgehog, great place to stay. -Jon Graham and Belinda Jack
For all the talk of diversity, inclusion and welcome, rarely have I experienced the unique mix that this festival, in its fifth year, offers…There’s a little bit of magic happening down by the water…xxx… – Daniel Witthaus
