Our community includes a range of external event organisers running amazing community music festivals in our park over summer. This month we would like to introduce Peres Zapfack, co-founder of Sounds Of Africa Festival (SOA FESTIVAL), a community festival being held on Saturday 16th December 2017. What is The Sounds Of Africa Festival? The [...]
Media Release: Cath Newell CERES has won the Education category in this year’s Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards for their 35 year commitment to community-based learning and action. CERES is the largest deliverer of environmental education in Australia. Programs benefit participants, their families, the community and the environment based on the adoption of sustainable practices, [...]
In amongst the lines of traffic, the car horns and rows of apartment buildings in Melbourne’s Brunswick East, there is a small nursery nestled into the banks of the Merri Creek. It’s a little refuge filled with crisp air, bright foliage and friendly faces. In a time where you can buy garlic from 12,000km [...]
Help CERES plan for flexibility CERES Community Park in East Brunswick covers 4 hectares and is packed with activities, users and structures. To guide its evolution in a manner that best uses our finite space and avoids constraining future opportunities as activities thrive or change, there is need for a guiding plan for the [...]
Our community includes a range of independent organisations running their own programs, events and workshops on a regular basis in various venues across our park on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis. This month we would like to introduce Naoko Inuzuka, founder of Aozora Shokudo. Please introduce yourself. I am Naoko, director of the [...]
The following poem was written by Naomi Van Boxtel whilst in Chile, 2017. All content created, and all images taken were by Naomi whilst on tour with CERES Global, for more of her work click here. "I left with the direction to 'expand my awareness of the struggles facing Indigenous people in modern societies' [...]
Media release 13 September 2017 CERES announced as finalist in 2017 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards CERES has been announced as a finalist in the Education category for this year's Premier's Sustainability Awards for their Sustainability and Alternative Pathways program. The interim Chief Executive of Sustainability Victoria, Stephanie Ziersch, praised the team for their creative [...]
The ATA office, known now as the Dig office, is being renovated. Here is Simon Harvey, an early member of the ATA, who volunteered his time to design the original building all of those years ago. Standing next to him is Mark Romei who has designed the renovation of the building. Simon told us [...]
By Lucy Dowling-Brown, CERES Communications Intern It is Friday morning and the sky is a slate grey ceiling above the swarming primary school children. They are buzzing with excitement, running past each other in a sea of mustard yellow and navy blue uniforms. Today is excursion day for grade two at CERES Environment [...]
Our community includes a range of independent organisations running their own programs, events and workshops on a regular basis in various venues across our park on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis. This month we would like to introduce Gillian Lee, founder of The Rhythm Tree. Please introduce yourself. What do you do? My [...]