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Video: Eco Fiesta 2026
A big thank you to the thousands of locals who joined us at Anderson Gardens on Sunday 7 June 2026 for Eco Fiesta, celebrating sustainability, community, and our environment.
12 June 2026
Eco Fiesta 2026
Skip to descriptionA big thank you to the thousands of locals who joined us at Anderson Gardens on Sunday 7 June 2026 for Eco Fiesta, celebrating sustainability, community, and our environment. With interactive workshops, live entertainment, kids’ activities, delicious food trucks and eco-friendly market stalls, it was a fantastic day to connect, learn and discover simple ways to live more sustainably.
Video Transcript
Event Host: Kevin Wright
What an incredible day here at Eco Fiesta 2026 here in Anderson Gardens. From the sustainability awards to vibrant dance performances, live music and interactive community drum circle, the energy lasted all day.
It's been a really beautiful day for the community. We've been learning a lot about birds and bees and habitat restoration. It's been really special to see everyone enjoying engaging with our stalls. We're here sharing some information about what goes into what rubbish bin here in Townsville. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on life in the dry tropics. We've got a Ramsar listed wetlands. We're home to over 400 of the 800 Australian bird species. One of my favourite fun facts about birds is that they navigate the world using magneto reception. They can sense the magnetic waves and magnetic fields in the earth and that's how they travel and navigate.
Eco Fiesta showed how small everyday actions can make a big difference while bringing our community together. Sustainability is really important to protect our environment and make it better for the future. Thank you for being part of Eco Fiesta and we can't wait to see you all here again in 2028. I love
New Pinnacles Gallery Exhibition!
Intimate Imaginaries is a major touring group exhibition showcasing contemporary portrait-driven practices by artists from Arts Project Australia (APA), an internationally recognised studio and gallery supporting artists with intellectual disabilities.
The exhibition brings together 13 significant artists whose work reflects the strength, diversity, and evolution of practices developed at APA over the past five decades. Framed as a dynamic and “boisterous hive of activity,” the project emphasises artistic excellence, independence, and sustained creative practice within the APA community.
Intimate Imaginaries is exhibiting at Pinnacles Gallery 20 June to 4 October 2026.
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