The Festival of Busselton in collaboration with the City of Busselton hosted the 2017 Battle of the Bands event to support local youth music. Local soloists and bands with members aged from 12 – 25 competed for the chance to win recording time at a local studio at the two-day event.
BDEC set up an activity stall at the event that had the following:
Event objectives
BDEC set up an activity stall at the event that had the following:
- Boomerang Bags activity – kids, youth and adults were invited to colour in & and write positive quotes on pre-stamped boomerang bags that will get donated to supermarkets to promote the reduction of plastic bag consumption (please refer to previous Boomerang Bag event for more information)
- Forest for Life campaign including campaign information & selling t-shirts
- Promotion of BDEC and its annual planting day in 2017
Event objectives
- Create an environmental project for youth/children to help our local community to promote the use of re-usable bags when shopping
- Raise community awareness on the environmental impact of plastic
- Promote BDEC’s annual planting day
- Promote Forest for Life campaign