Connect with researchers, staff, students and our wider community as we celebrate sustainability initiatives, share stories and inspire action towards our goal to create a more sustainable world.
Come out and find your community with us! There's many ways to participate.
- Engage with the documentary More Than a Fish Kill and panel discussions
- Participate in a Citizen's Assembly around climate anxiety
- Investigate sustainable career choices at the iEngage Mini Career Event
- Get your bike serviced at our free Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay Bike Clinics
- Expand your mind at the Anastasia Klose exhibit, For thy sake I in love am grown
- Plant some native flora
- Learn about sustainable cooking and food insecurity
Program
Monday 2 September
Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
10am-4pm
Art Gallery, UniSC Sunshine Coast
This exhibition of new drawings, video and performance is a response to Klose’s “random, exhausting and depressing adventures in conservation” and the artist’s growing awareness of diminishing biodiversity in Queensland and imminent threats to its unique landscapes.
Tuesday 3 September
iEngage green career event
10am-1pm
The Rise, Building A1, UniSC Moreton Bay
UniSC Careers and Employability is hosting this micro career fair to link employers with students interested in sustainability-related jobs. A sample of the participating companies include Veolia, Department of Resources and Unitywater.
Socials will be sent out with additional participating companies. The careers will suit a range of students, whether studying Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Management or Business.
Screening of The Breakdown Series
2-3pm
The Rise, Building A1, UniSC Moreton Bay
The Breakdown is a Waterbear Original series that investigates some of the most tricky climate topics - capitalism, population, greenwashing, anxiety - and leaves the audience with positive motion.
Sustainability stall
10am-1.30pm
Concourse, Building A1, UniSC Moreton Bay
Stop by the stall to learn more about what UniSC is doing through its operations to achieve the 2029 carbon neutrality goal. If you're feeling inspired, make a pledge to adopt a sustainable behaviour.
Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
10am-4pm
Art Gallery, UniSC Sunshine Coast
This exhibition of new drawings, video and performance is a response to Klose’s “random, exhausting and depressing adventures in conservation” and the artist’s growing awareness of diminishing biodiversity in Queensland and imminent threats to its unique landscapes.
Wednesday 4 September
Free bike clinic
10am-2pm
Concourse, Building A1, UniSC Moreton Bay
Bring your bicycle along for a free service from 99Bikes Lawnton. While you're there, ask the bike mechanic about how to keep your bike in good working order, or how to get better cycling performance.
Community gardens networking
9.30-11.30am
Moveable Feast Garden, located next to the UniSC Sunshine Coast track
An opportunity for community gardens around the Sunshine Coast, and individuals who support them, to get together and network. The theme is around financial sustainability.
Food insecurity and cooking demonstration stalls
1-3pm
UniSC Sunshine Coast
Stop by this stall to taste, and learn how to make, some yummy and sustainable baked goods. UniSC dietetics students, Harley and Pierce, will be promoting healthy food consumption and sharing information on food insecurity and efforts to reduce that insecurity. A second student run stall will engage staff and students about prioritising a healthy, sustainable and equitable food environment. Slow Food Noosa will also run an informational stall.
Screening - More Than a Fish Kill
Includes nature sounds and projections on the UniSC water battery
5-8pm
Lecture Theatre 7, Building C, UniSC Sunshine Coast
More Than a Fish Kill, 2023, co-produced by the National Museum of Australia, Cad Factory, and Otis Filley Studios explores the aftermath of the 2019 and 2023 fish kills along the Barka/Baaka (Darling River). It is a story of how artists, First Nations custodians, fishery managers and students came together to turn ecological disasters into catalysts for connection and revival.
Join us for a screening of this powerful documentary, networking, panel discussion, question time and a twilight walk to the UniSC water battery for nature sounds and projections.
Watch the trailer
Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
10am-4pm
Art Gallery, UniSC Sunshine Coast
This exhibition of new drawings, video and performance is a response to Klose’s “random, exhausting and depressing adventures in conservation” and the artist’s growing awareness of diminishing biodiversity in Queensland and imminent threats to its unique landscapes.
Thursday 5 September
Free bike clinic and Student Guild market day
10am-2pm
Brasserie lawn and Building I facade
UniSC Sunshine Coast
Explore a range of external stallholders and student group stalls, including:
- 99Bikes Kawana
Bring your bicycle along for a free service. While you're there, ask the bike mechanic about how to keep your bike in good working order, or how to get better cycling performance. - ENACTUS
Want to make a difference? Learn how to get involved with the university student-based global movement to implement entrepreneurial projects that make an impact beyond the campus and create a long-lasting improvement in the community and the world. - Bloomhill
Need a fashion refresh? Instead of fast fashion try out threads that give back, in more ways than one.
Garden planting
11.30am-12.30pm
West of Building B, along the main spine, UniSC Sunshine Coast
Come along, get your hands a little dirty and leave your mark on UniSC! Help us improve our garden by planting some native flora. No need to bring tools as everything will be supplied. We'll even get the soil nice and loose so no need to sweat.
Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
10am-4pm
Art Gallery, UniSC Sunshine Coast
This exhibition of new drawings, video and performance is a response to Klose’s “random, exhausting and depressing adventures in conservation” and the artist’s growing awareness of diminishing biodiversity in Queensland and imminent threats to its unique landscapes.
Upskilling sustainability: sustainable night economy
6-8pm
The Cave, Building H2, UniSC Sunshine Coast
The Night Economy includes nighttime activities that feed into the economy (i.e., restaurants and bars, events and tourism, festivals and concerts). With experienced professionals (UniSC academics Dr. Lenny Vance, Dr. Vikki Schaffer and Dr. Leanda Garvie) and students, this event encourages you to join the discussion to co-shape our experience under the Dark Skies. Reach for the stars and have your say on what a sustainable night experience should look like. Event attendance qualifies students to accrue Leadership Award Points, recognising commitment to environmental stewardship and community engagement.
Friday 6 September
Climate anxiety citizen's assembly
10-11.30am
Tiered teaching space G.18, Building E, UniSC Sunshine Coast
Climate anxiety is quite real for many Australians, particularly the youth. In this workshop we will work together to develop strategies and actions to move past that anxiety and take positive action.
Included in this session will be a screening of a Waterbear Original series focussed on climate anxiety and a discussion with academics working in related spaces.
Anastasia Klose: For thy sake I in love am grown
10am-4pm
Art Gallery, UniSC Sunshine Coast
This exhibition of new drawings, video and performance is a response to Klose’s “random, exhausting and depressing adventures in conservation” and the artist’s growing awareness of diminishing biodiversity in Queensland and imminent threats to its unique landscapes.
More information
Email: sustainability@usc.edu.au