Thanks so much everyone!!! We've achieved our minimum target of 600 early bird pledges.
Now's the time to join the flock, and be part of this festival of regenerative full system change.

Festival is happening!!!
8-10 May in Mullumbimby Showground (cheap and good camping available at Showground).

• YOUR ONLY CHANCE FOR EARLY BIRD TICKETS. 

• TELL YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY.

A BEAUTIFUL BOLD FESTIVAL NEEDS A BOLD ACTIVATION

Renew Fest is Australia's annual festival for ecological, economic and social renewal, held inland from Byron Bay, under the fig trees in Mullumbimby Showground on Arakwal country. Camping options available.

This year's festival is scheduled for Mother's Day weekend, 8-10 May, 2020.

But due to various government and private funding options we've been pursuing not landing in time, it's D-day for securing our baseline budget to be able to put on the festival this year.

We are excited to bring you another bold, beautiful and beneficial festival. We know Renew Fest is well loved and valued, locally and nationally.... We know the festival is a key experience for shepherding in the kinds of change we so dearly need... And we are keen to continue to support everyone to go deeper and further on the path of regenerative change...

And so we need help.

SOLUTION: PLEDGE YOUR EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW!

We are inviting everyone to help, by rapidly generating enough advanced ticket sales. We've done the numbers, and what we need is a minimum of 600 early bird tickets via our one-week-only, all-or-nothing crowd funding campaign.

Early Bird Full Festival Pass is $100 (full price after the campaign will be $150).

There are also options to "sponsor an activist", one-day passes, multi ticket / sponsorship packs, and bonus gifts from our local businesses and artists. CHECK OUT THE REWARDS ON THIS POZIBLE PAGE.

NB: Children 16 years and under are FREE!

SO MANY BENEFITS

For you...

• you get discounted tickets,
• you join the "visionary flock" that enables the festival to happen this year,
• and you ensure people far and wide get the opportunity to participate in a festival dedicated to full-system regenerative change.

For our communities and the task of full system regenerative change... helping to enable...

• the creation of an inclusive regenerative pop-up village in gorgeous fig tree grove location,
• a platform for over 100 presenters and artists,
• a connection zone for dozens of organisations and businesses,
• a meeting place for 1000+ people hungry for positive change, on the ground, in our hearts and into the future,
• a space to drop into our individual and shared grief, joy and passion around caring for the earth and each other better,
• increasing tangible connectioacross all sectors involved in regenerative change (including  biodiversity, food, housing and built environment, economics, energy, mental health and all that’s needed for humanity renewal)
• an opportunity to celebrate, inspire and participate in mass collective actions.

SO MUCH THANKS

Thanks so much to the hundreds of presenters, artists, organisations, volunteers and thousands of participants who have brought Renew Fest to life and given it legs over the previous four years.... let's now fly together!!

And a huge thank you in advance to everyone who makes Renew Fest 2020 happen by pledging your ticket now during this campaign!!

In deep gratitude,

Ella Rose Goninan
Founder and Festival Director
Renew Fest

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EXTRA INFO ABOUT RENEW FEST

Many of you love and value Renew Fest - as all the testimonials we've collated below reveal! But for those of you who have not been to the festival before, below is some extra info about the festival and what it is here to respond to in this time of great ecological crisis that is being driven by our current widespread economic and social behaviours.

Renew Fest is Australia's annual festival for ecological, economic and social renewal, held inland from Byron Bay, under the fig trees in Mullumbimby Showground on Arakwal country. Three days and evenings. Camping options available. It is held across Mothers Day Weekend, and has been running since 2016 and is led by founding director and local activist-artist-organiser Ella Rose Goninan with a core team and wider group of volunteers.

www.renewfest.org.au

Renew Fest is advised by Arakwal Bundjalung woman Delta Kay and  Minyungbal Yugambeh songman and artist Magpie Yerrubilgin. We are deeply grateful to be welcomed and hosted on Arakwal country in the Bundjalung nation. We pay our respects to their ancestors past, present and future. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

Here's a snapshot video from our previous festivals:

Introducing our Renew Fest 2020 Ambassaors and Program Advisory Team - what an awesome and generous group of poeple all passionate for regenerative change, coming from many walks of life:

Each year, Renew Fest provides the space for hundreds of people, organisations and businesses of all demographics and all sectors, to share their minds, hearts and actions for system-wide and system-deep regenerative change. It's a joyous, heartfelt gathering of activists, artists, innovators, enterprenuers, indigenous elders, young people and families. It welcomes all people from all walks of life who are deeply thinking, feeling and wanting to support, learn and respond together.

It's about embodying an innovative living example of change via deep listening, collaboration, genuine sharing and collective action. It’s a space to connect to the grief, joy and creative energy we all have for living in right relation with the earth, in a time of great environmental crisis and social disconnection.

Renew Fest spans all the interconnected sectors of our society, going "system-wide" and "system-deep" for full regenerative change. We cover biodiversity, food, economics, energy, human habitats and all forms of humanity renewal.

We celebrate and activate inner processes and outer actions, by the community, for the community. We do this through a rich array of interweaving activities including:

• workshops, round panels and keynote presentations
• demonstrations and project launches
• indigenous elders and cultural sharing
• youth discussions and jams
• little peoples garden of activities 
• immersive music, interactive arts and live performance
• waste-free food, info and eco stalls.

Previous presenters have included: Stephen Jenkinson ~ Orphan Wisdom (Canada), Jillian Hovey ~ The Sustainable Living Network (Canada), Robin Grille ~ Parenting for a Peaceful World (Melbourne), Erfan Daliri ~ Newkind (Hobart), Robert Pekin ~ Food Connect (Brisbane), Helena Norberg-Hodge ~ Local Futures (Northern Rivers), Aidan Ricketts ~ The Activists Handbook (Northern Rivers), Hugo & Treats (Melbourne), Nicole Gibson ~ Love Out Loud (Gold Coast), Eshana Bragg ~ Joyality (Northern Rivers), Lee Rhiannon ~ The Greens... and many more.

Previous presenting and collaborating organisations have included: COREM, Santos Organics, Byron Shire Council, Bay FM, Culture Aware, Local Futures, Kindred Youth, Sustainable Futures Australia, The Byron Shire ECHO, Enova, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, Joyality, Mullum Cares, Mullum Music Festival, First Light Mullumbimby, #Stop Adani, Dream Bigger, This is My Brave Australia, Brunswick Valley Landcare, Luminous Youth, Wild Space, Mullum SEED, Positive Change For Marine Life, Rainbow Power Company, Life Cykel... and many more.

Renew Fest is proudly zero waste, powered by renewable energy, a Culture Aware indigenous protocol accredited event, and is drug and alcohol free event, catering to the breadth of our humanity.

Overnight camping options at the showground is available.

THE BUZZ

“RENEW FEST couldn’t come at a better time this year. It provides a meeting place for those who want to discuss and shape a new story for humanity and how we interact with all living systems."

Damon Gameu ~ film director "2040: Regeneration" and "The Sugar Film"

“Until we understand how to live in harmony with each other and the planet, suffering will remain. Through gatherings like RENEW FEST, we are able to unify and educate ourselves on more effective solutions to a spectrum of global challenges, that requires a much different level of thinking than institutionalised thinking. Ella is creating something truly profound, Renew is not to be missed.”

Nicole Gibson ~ CEO of the global movement Love Out Loud

"RENEW FEST is challenging us to look at the bigger picture, and at the same time asking us what we can do right here, right now. I love that it recognises that we all have a role to play in this – that each perspective is valuable. It’s challenging, eye-opening and a lot of fun!" 

Helena Norberg-Hodge ~ Local Futures / Economics of Happiness 

"We really need RENEW FEST – the world needs it! In a world where regular media dominates the mindspace with horrific news, conditioning people into learned helplessness, the good news about all the initiatives that are working well and growing, seems to get disappeared. Renew Fest brings that ecstatic sense of dynamism, possibility and realistic idealism right to the foreground. I love the environment, I love the ‘yes, we can!’ attitude that permeated, I love the zero waste commitment, I love the vibe and the human warmth. Renew Fest makes me feel that a loving and harmonious human society is not only possible it might just be inevitable. Let this grow bigger and wider."

Robin Grille ~ Inner Child Journeys / Parenting for a Peaceful World

"RENEW FEST is a potent opportunity for community from near and far to share and inspire about change they are creating in the world. The festival offers great substance over a broad range of topics into living responsibly and renewably, for ourselves and future generations. The inspiration factor is HIGH and I’m so excited to see what it offers to community in future years!"

Erin Young ~ Social Permaculture / Thriving People, Better World

"RENEW FEST is a brilliant initiative. People standing empowered by their actions for a better world, also going deep into what holds us back. Thank you. Couldn’t ask for more." 

Gwilym Summers ~ Inner Journey Conversations, River FM

"The regenerative theme of RENEW FEST is exactly what we need right here right now. We are facing dark times and the only way forward will come from the application of our collective intelligence and connectivity to life, our planet and the whole. As activists we have tried for many years to turn the ship around, and that is still important but we also need to be launching the lifeboats, the multiple regenerative experiments that can help propel  a rapid reorganisation of our lives, the economy and our societies."

Aidan Ricketts ~ Author, Social Change Trainer, Activist

Renew Fest is hosted by COREM (Community Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby) and is a not-for-profit incorporated volunteer-run organisation.

The $60k we are asking for is the amount needed to cover the baseline budget for all the core elements, personnel and costs associated with pre-festival planning, programming, promoting, producing and post-festival wrap up.

Other festival technical and production costs will be covered by all sponsorships and ongoing tickets sales that will be secured in the wake of the success of this Early Bird Ticket blitz crowdfunding campaign.

NOTE: If Renew Fest 2020 goes ahead and makes a surplus via its total ticket sales, 10% will go to COREM's general operations fund, and the remainder will be shared between seed funding for next year's festival (Renew Fest 2021) and local regenerative projects managed through a 2020 Vision fund.