This spring, Melbourne’s iconic Fed Square welcomes back RESET – a month-long festival, focusing on environmental sustainability, connecting with nature, and promoting easy, enjoyable and useful ways to reduce our impact on the world.
RESET is a free series of family-friendly interactive events and workshops designed to make sustainable living both fun and practical for families and individuals. Learn about waste minimisation, sustainable home solutions, conservation and backyard ecology, and the art of reducing, reusing and recycling through a range of immersive experiences.
Running from 1 September to 6 October, RESET will feature a range of markets, artworks, film screenings, talks and participatory installations – free and catering to all ages – across Fed Square.
Highlights include:
- The vegan market, Plant Based Paradise, returns to the Atrium at Fed Square on 7 September with a selection of plant-based food, drink, and vegan-friendly fashion, beauty products, and other goods.
- The much loved Zero Waste Festival also returns the following Saturday, 14 September, with talks, panel discussions and hands on activities for valuable tips and tricks from experts to lead a waste-free lifestyle. Fed Square’s resident beekeepers Rooftop Bees will be giving guided tours of the beehives, high on top of Fed Square.
- Local theatre ensemble Rawcus and the FAST FASHUN Collective team up to create a fascinating live installation, All The Rage, that spotlights the impact of the fast fashion industry on our environment and challenges conventional notions of beauty. Over two days, 11 and 13 September, performers with diverse abilities will transform old sets and costumes into high fashion outfits and participate in a fashion photo shoot. The final garments and photos will be exhibited in the Fracture Gallery in the Atrium from 15 September.
RESET Program
- 1 September – 6 October: Bupa Seek & Find
- 7 September: Plant Based Paradise
- 11 – 22 September: All the Rage by RAWCUS
- 13 September: Greenline Project Walking Tour
- 14 September: Zero Waste Festival
- 14 September: Rooftop Beehive Tours
- 17, 18, 19 September: Our Environment film program (Koyaanisqatsi – 17 September, Ponyo – 18 September, River – 19 September)
- 20 September: Clean Up Australia and Bupa on World Clean Up Day
- 22 September: Our Birrarung: Past. Present. Future. World Rivers Day
- 23 September – 6 October: RESET school holidays program
- 23 September – 6 October: Slow Art Collective
- 23 – 26 September: The Plants by Playable Streets
- 24 September: Bupa’s Take Action for Nature bike event
- 2 October: Big Toy Swap + Young Earth Protectors
