Free Youth Permaculture and Social Enterprise Design Course 5 – 28 January, 2022 (3 days a week over 4 wks. Total: 72 hrs) This is a free course for young people aged 16 – 24 Bookings are essential to Lis on 0407 437 553 or via email to planetaryhealth@bmcc.nsw.gov.au Permaculture Read more…
In April, we were thrilled to be in Lithgow, at the newly re-opening WSU campus, to run another PDC+ – our Permaculture Design Course with an additional Social Enterprise Design and Mentoring component. We were the inaugural course, starting on campus even before the official opening of Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Read more…
Early in 2020, we had to cancel a full year of programming because of COVID but, thanks to the support of Blue Mountains City Council, we were thrilled to kick off again in January with an Introduction to Permaculture and a Permaculture Design Course at Headspace in Katoomba. This was Read more…
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As our Collaborative Social Enterprise Incubator Edgy BM continues to grow we’ve been creating work opportunities for young people involved in the Pluriversity. If you’d like to ‘EARN & LEARN’ we’re also sharing other job…
This Week in the Pluriversity: Podcasting Workshop – Friday 9 August Refugee Fundraiser: Chinese Dumpling Workshop – Saturday 10 August We need you for a Permablitz! – Monday 12 August Pot Luck Dinner to launch Pluriversity Program – Wednesday 14 August ‘It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To’ – 15 – Read more…
The Pilot Program for the Blue Mountains Pluriversity began with a Permaculture and Social Enterprise Course coordinated by the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute and The Big Fix with the support of a range of partners including Blue Mountains City Council, the Katoomba & Upper Blue Mountains Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank and Sydney Water. It is being followed by six months Read more…
In the past month 20 young people in the Mountains participated in the pilot program for Australia’s first Pluriversity. Pluriversity is a not-for-profit learning-by-doing platform to fill in the gaps not being filled by mainstream tertiary education. It offers work experience, mentorships, workshops and events. According to co-ordinator Lis Bastian, from The Big Read more…
The Blue Mountains has long told the story of how its young people are forced to leave the Mountains to study and work, primarily because there haven’t been enough opportunities for them there. But that story may now be about to change! Led by The Big Fix, a broad coalition Read more…