BENDIGO SUSTAINABILITY FESTIVAL

KITCHEN TABLE TALKS PROGRAM

The Bendigo Sustainability Festival Kitchen Table Talks Program will literally happen at kitchen tables in marquees at the Garden for the Future on Sunday 30th March 2025. The program features some incredible local and visiting speakers who will share their ideas to encourage conversation with the community.

The three big topics of talks and conversation will centre around Community Leadership and Empowerment, the “Me.We.” Idea about what we can do as individuals as compared to what we can do as a community, inspired by Muhammad Ali’s two-word poem, and sustainability as it pertains to a person and community’s health and wellbeing, divided as follows:

TIMES AND TABLES

11AM COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP (Table 1)

  1. Professor Kate Auty

  2. Susan Fayad

11AM “ME.WE.” (Table 2)

  1. Dr Greg Moore

  2. Aiden & Kaley

  3. Sally Pymer

11AM HEALTH & WELLBEING (Table 3)

  1. Ronni Kahn AO

  2. Sophie Bickford

12PM HEALTH & WELLBEING (Table 3)

  1. Julie Fisher

  2. Samantha Wittenberg

12PM “ME.WE.” (Table 2)

  1. Ivy Sheng

  2. Yashashwi Karki

12PM COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP (Table 1)

  1. Ian McBurney

  2. Jimmy Stanton-Cooke

1PM CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO’S COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM

2PM HEALTH & WELLBEING (Table 3)

  1. Cindy Hurley-Leister

  2. Claire Wu

  3. Michelle Richardson

2PM “ME.WE.” (Table 2)

  1. Aparajitha Arunachal

  2. Jess Price

2PM COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP (Table 1)

  1. Cr Karen Corr

  2. Dr Stevie Carnegie

11AM: KITCHEN TABLE TALKS & CONVERSATIONS

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Professor Kate Auty

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Susan Fayad

  • TABLE 2: "ME.WE."

    Dr Greg Moore

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Aiden and Kaley

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Sally Pymer

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Ronni Kahn AO

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Dr Sophie Bickford

12PM (NOON): KITCHEN TABLE TALKS & CONVERSATIONS

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Ian McBurney

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Jimmy Stanton-Cooke

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Ivy Sheng

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Yashashwi Karki

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Julie Fisher

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Samantha Wittenberg

1PM: CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO’S COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM LAUNCH (ALL THREE TABLES)

  • ALL THREE TABLES

    The Community Empowerment Program is about …

2PM: KITCHEN TABLE TALKS & CONVERSATIONS

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Dr Stevie Carnegie

  • TABLE 1: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

    Cr Karen Corr

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Aparajitha Arunachal

  • TABLE 2: “ME.WE.”

    Jess Price

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Cindy Hurley-Leister

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Claire Wu

  • TABLE 3: HEALTH & WELLBEING

    Michelle Richardson