City festival on alternatives
The first festival on alternative city living in the South Island will be held in Christchurch this week-end. The festival, which is being organised by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association, hopes to promote as many different approaches to alternative living as possible, ranging from the practical through to the theoretical. A festival organiser, Mr G. A. Harvey, said yesterday that the general idea was to promote an alternative, while still staying in the city. “The festival is about learning to grow vegetables instead of eating packaged food. It is about recycling
rubbish and arts and crafts.” The festival will cover such subjects as food, health, crafts, gardening, animalkeeping, homes, energy, transport, self-sufficiency, cooperatives, education, environmental and political issues, women’s groups, spiritual groups, cultural groups, and entertainment. For several hours each " day there will be stage performances, and film screenings at the Agricultural and Pastoral Showgrounds site, in Addington. Festival goers will also have a choice of an outdoor vegetarian restaurant or a takeaway wholefood shop.
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Press, 4 March 1982, Page 6
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