Seek and Connect Festival
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Seek and Connect Festival

Come to a family fun day with engaging conversations and solutions on strengthening local disaster resilience.

By Mr David Cant

Date and time

Sunday, November 3 · 11am - 4pm ACDT

Location

The Vale - Watervale Community Centre

Horrocks Highway Watervale, SA 5452 Australia

Agenda

11:15 AM - 3:50 PM

Speakers Corner

Clare and Gilbert Valleys RediCommunities

Presented by the Clare and Gilbert Valleys RediCommunities Facebook Group, there will be speakers and presentations of all types on how we can can come together as a community during times of adversi...

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Community Emergency Resilience - What is all the fuss about being resilient?

David Cant

David is a retired emergency manager and has a wealth of experience in major emergency management and community safety. This short presentation outlines what community emergency resilience is and ho...

11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

Your part in helping the State Emergency Service

Heidi Grebe

Heidi is the volunteer SES Unit Manager at Clare. Heidi will outline how you you can play a vital part in supporting SES response to the wide range of emergency incidents its attends across our dis...

12:05 PM - 12:15 PM

Opening the Seek and Connect Festival

Penny Pratt MP

The Seek and Connect Festival welcomes our very active local Frome Member of Parliament, Penny Pratt to open the day. Raised on the farm near Blyth, Penny is a product of this enterprising Mid-North...

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Your 5 Minute Bushfire Plan

Bindi Hawky

Bindi is the Regional Community Engagement Officer from the SA Country Fire Service. Bindi will present to us a simple way on how we can quickly prepare a plan of action for a bushfire. Why not tal...

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

The Pillowcase Program at Watervale Primary School

Kel Barnes

Kel is the Principal of the Watervale Primary School. Kel with the help of students from the school, will present the Pillowcase emergency kits the children have prepared. Delivered by Australian ...

1:50 PM - 2:00 PM

Lions Club Impromptu Choir

Clare Lions Club

Listen to the Lions Club of Clare's Impromptu Choir perform! Being part of the choir brings together a love of music, fellowship and senes of metal wellbeing. Have a chat to member and Watervale re...

2:05 PM - 2:35 PM

Disaster Recovery with Australian Red Cross

Bernadette Boag

Bernie is a member of the Australian Red Cross EmergencyRedi team presenting their valuable workshops around the State. Bernie will share her experience being part of the recovery team after the dis...

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM

Landscape Regeneration as part of Resilient Community

Sarah Castine

Sarah is a Watervale resident and highly regarded environmental consultant working on projects across South Australia. As we experience major climatic events impacting our communities, Sarah will re...

3:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Disaster Ready Insurance

Jasmine Dallimore

Jasmine is the Community Engagement Officer and Paralegal with the Disaster Legal Support Program with Community Justice Services SA. A really important subject is how insurance companies treat and ...

About this event

  • Event lasts 5 hours

The Watervale Community Association invites the Clare and Gilbert Valley communities to a family fun day, engaging conversations and solutions on strengthening local disaster resilience on Sunday 3 November at the Vale Community Hub, Watervale.

A resilient community is a connected community and the Seek and Connect Festival is the start of how we can look out for each other during adversity.

There will be a Speakers Corner with a diverse range of topics presented by experts in their field. They will share their experiences on how you can become more resilient to the events that may impact you.

Inside the Vale Community Hub, we will have a range of exhibitors helping us as a community connect, grow and prepare. Outside there will be equipment displays by CFS, SES plus see the latest in equipment to help you prepare for bushfires. CFS will also bring the UniSA Virual Reality bushfire simulator so you can experience being impacted by a bushfire at home!

If you're a farmer or a landholder why not bring the family and join the Farm Firefighting Unit Muster! This informal gathering is to bring our landholders who help with local fires, to show what they have, share information with fellow farmers about what works best for them, and mingle with the townies!

Frequently asked questions

What is Seek and Connect all about ?

The Festival is about how as communities, we can connect and work together during adversity. This could be a major emergency, power and IT outages, to a personal medical emergency. Acting alone is sometimes not enough and you may need support, this is where your community can step in.

Who can go?

Everyone is welcome. The Watervale resilience group welcomes anyone from the Clare and Gilbert Valleys communities to attend. We hope it may be a springboard for other communities to form a resilience group to help your community to become resilient during adversity.

What is this Farm Firefighting Muster all about?

As an idea by our resilience group, it is an opportunity for local landholders and farmers to come together informally to talk about the coming fire danger period. You can come and share ideas on what works best on your property and see other ways of doing things.

What is Community Resilience about?

Resilience these days is a bit of a "buzz" word like sustainable. Simply it means what can we do together as a community after a crisis, to get us back to a normal state as soon as we can. Nothing more than that! If we aren't resilient recovery takes longer. All in together quickens the process.

Will there be food and drinks available?

Although not finalised we plan on having a sausage sizzle and cold drinks, and possibly local food and coffee trucks.

Can I bring my pet?

Although pets like dogs are okay outside the Vale Community Hub, it probably best they are left at home as you will miss all the good stuff going on inside!

Organized by

Mr David Cant