Cultural Projects

Crops for Community to Market Overview ‘Crops for Community’ is educating and empowering volunteers of all abilities to create food crops to be available at our weekly produce market. This initiative marries the ECOSS Community Garden and all abilities program with the weekly Market, enabling opportunities for connection, and greater food security in

Reconciliation Week Event 2018 What an amazing Reconciliation Day at Ecoss! We embraced the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the Wayapa Wuurrk, and had the chance to ask Aunty Kim Wandin and Michelle many questions. Thanks to MCV for sponsoring Aunty Kim Wandin for a beautiful Welcome to Country. Thanks to Cire Services

Koori Cubby The third cubby in our Cultural Homes of the World demonstations- funded by The Andrews Foundation, is our Koori Cubby. Eastern Health Indigenous Students have worked on the beginning of this project from design phase.  Koori Architects from Melbourne kindly came and helped design the cubby to represent local indigenous linework,

Cultural Homes of the World Healesville High School year 8 Art Students have almost completed an Earthbag ‘Home of the World’- the first of a series of cubbies that will be constructed funded by a small grant from The Andrews Foundation.  This first one was introduced and led by Alvyn Williams from Soft

Bunjil the Eagle At this year’s Reconciliation Day event, we asked 3 questions: Where do I sit with Reconciliation? What do I see is the way forward for Reconciliation? What role do I play in Reconciliation? Mt Lilydale Mercy College Students will be building a sculpture of Bunjil the creator, with feathers depicting

Woi Wurrung Signage Project We were lucky enough to recieve an Australian Government Indigenous Languages and Arts Grant in 2019. This grant enabled us to undertake a very special Cultural Audit with HICSA (Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association). We have gained a deeper understanding of how to honour and respect our Indigenous Families,

Reconciliation Fire Pit Together with the local indigenous kids from EACH, we have created a space to prompt conversation about reconciliation.  This space will be a fire pit area, that can be used by school groups, or any groups of people to consider what reconciliation means to them. It’s an acknowledgement space of

Native Bee Wall We are committed to looking after our Native Bee’s here at ECOSS.  Wesley Mission clients are attending ECOSS every Monday, and their project is to build a Native Bee Wall similar to the above images.  Wesley friends are also working in the community garden.

Earth Building Demonstration Walls. We are working with Cire Community School year 9 students to progress on our Earth building Demonstration Walls. Currently they are building a poured earth wall.  We already have Hemp Crete and Straw Bale demonstration walls available to see. They will also be building bottle walls, earthbag walls and

Earthship As part of our Cultural Homes of the World representations we are building a small demonstration Earthship. This will serve the purpose of a Sound Engineer space for mixing the stage at festivals and events.  So far Healesville High School Students and Mt Scopus College Students have worked on creating this beautiful