Living Smart Festival
Living Smart Festival
The Living Smart Festival engages and connects the local community with all aspects of sustainability. We are pleased to be part of this festival since 2022 to help raise awareness of sustainable living in our community.
Located on the shores of Lake Macquarie at Speers Point Park, the Living Smart Festival is the region’s largest sustainability event, connecting our local community with all aspects of sustainability, from environmental to cultural.
The festival program showcases a range of hands-on workshops, demonstrations and speakers, featuring some of Australia’s most prominent and innovative personalities in the field of environmental sustainability. The festival is host to an engaging line-up of local community organisations driving change, sustainable markets, as well as live music, theatre and art.
The Living Smart Festival is a free community event, supporting residents to make easy lifestyle changes to live more sustainably.
A University representative talks to festival goers in front of a University festival stall featuring infortmational posters about frogs.
A University representative holding a cardboard cutout of a frog giving a presentation in a festival stall labelled 'Nature Zone'
A University representative behind a counter at a University festival stall talking to a festival attendee.
A small crowd of festival attendees standing in front of a University festival stall with a sign in front labelled 'Bachelor of Food Science and Human Nutrition'
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The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.