Creative Collaborations

  Connecting Nature and the human experience through creative collaborations to create awareness of sustainable living practices.
​All collaborative projects include an environmental education and community engagement element leading to an eco-art creative expression.
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GRATITUDE MANDALA - 2019
The Gratitude Mandala was an eco-art project facilitated Deb with the assistance of Karen Hopkins. It included a series of 4 workshops and a mandala creation day to celebrate with gratitude participants and volunteers of Elwood and St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre
Open Day
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WHOLENESS MANDALA - GASWORKS 2018
Karen Hopkins and Deborah Punton
From Nature exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park, Port Melbourne.
​The Wholeness Mandala was a gratitude-focused eco-art project initiated and facilitated by Karen and Deb. 
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TREE IS LIFE  - 2019
Artist and Treesister Ursula Dutkiewicz had a creative concept for a travelling art installation to aid Treesisters with tree planting.
​She worked with 4 other artists to create Tree Is Life.
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INSECT HABITAT TABLE DECORATIONS - SLF 2017
Carolyn Cardinet and Deborah Punton
Public eco-art workshop and Insect Habitat table decorations for the National Sustainable Living Festival. The Great Local Lunch is a community collaboration meal and celebration.
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THE THRESHOLD - SLF 2019
Carolyn Cardinet and Deborah Punton 
National Sustainable Living Festival 2019 
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The Threshold sculptural walkway represents a reflective pause between our current planetary trajectory and visions for a safe future. 
​Many of these projects are unfunded and all donations less expenses go to fund Greensong projects, Project NatureConnect/Eco-Art Therapy and TreeSisters ​and/or the organization involved.