Altered Tides: The Gold Coast Is Your Oyster 

Join us at dusk for an insider experience of SWELL and stories of creativity, restoration, and the wonders of oysters!

Kicking 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.

We 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.

“Friends are like seashells we collect along the way.”

This event is for everyone in a love-affair with our waterways, ocean and bay. Register today – places limited!

When | Saturday 12th September

Time | 4.00pm – 7.00pm

Where | SWELL Smalls Gallery, VIKA Currumbin

Bring | Warm layer for outside

Cost | $10 Adult, $5 Concession (senior, child)

Altered Tides storytellers…

Dr Sally Gregory, Hooked on Tallebudgera Creek, engaging community toward local oyster restoration

Dr Despina Linaraki, SWELL artist ‘Oystertecture’, Living Architect

Uncle Glenn Barry, Traditional Custodian, artist

Robbie Porter and Erica Leal, Ozfish and oyster restorers

Kayla Finlayson, SWELL artist

Dr Marina Richardson, mapping endangered oyster reefs

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More about Altered Tides:

Altered 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.

Altered 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.

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