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SUMMARY:Altered Tides: The Gold Coast Is Your Oyster 
DESCRIPTION:Join us at dusk for an insider experience of SWELL and stories of creativity, restoration, and the wonders of oysters!\nKicking off with an immersive walk with Traditional Custodian Uncle Glenn Barry and SWELL artists among the sculptures, we then return to the Smalls Gallery at VIKA for creative and solutions-focused conversations with arts, science and cultural storytellers.\nWe explore everyday relationships, playing in our water city, and how oysters, people and places are fostering the courage, cooperation and creativity we need in a climate changing world.\n“Friends are like seashells we collect along the way.”\nThis event is for everyone in a love-affair with our waterways, ocean and bay. Register today – places limited!\nWhen | Saturday 12th September\nTime | 4.00pm – 7.00pm\nWhere | SWELL Smalls Gallery, VIKA Currumbin\nBring | Warm layer for outside\nCost | $10 Adult, $5 Concession (senior, child)\nAltered Tides storytellers…\nDr Sally Gregory, Hooked on Tallebudgera Creek, engaging community toward local oyster restoration\nDr Despina Linaraki, SWELL artist ‘Oystertecture’, Living Architect\nUncle Glenn Barry, Traditional Custodian, artist\nRobbie Porter and Erica Leal, Ozfish and oyster restorers\nKayla Finlayson, SWELL artist\nDr Marina Richardson, mapping endangered oyster reefs\n……………..\n\nMore about Altered Tides:\nAltered Tides events series are a partnership between Griffith University, Gecko Environment Council and SWELL Sculpture Festival, supported by Griffith’s Climate Action Beacon. We bring together Indigenous knowledge, climate and coastal sciences, beach cultures and the arts to support people and their communities in responding to the key theme of climate changes and our coastal way of life.\nAltered Tides: The Gold Coast Is Your Oyster brings together a collaborative group of marine scientists, First Nations knowledge holders, artists, architects, conservationists, and community members for conversations and stories that nurture our sense of belonging, reciprocity and stewardship.\nOur Partners:\n\n
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