Transition Guelph is looking to boost attendance at this year’s Resilience Festival, a two-day community celebration of social and environmental resilience taking place March 22 and 23. But the organization is relying on community support to help spread the word about the event.
In 2011, the festival’s inaugural year, festival events were well attended, and organizers attribute the success to the printing of festival guides.
Last year, organizers were unable to print the guides, and numbers were down because “Guelphites simply weren’t able to easily navigate their way through the festival without a printed guide on hand,” a news release said.
This year, organizers have devised a crowd-funding strategy in hopes of once again printing a program of all the things the festival has to offer.
These include keynote speakers Richard Hienberg, author of The End of Growth, and Helena Norberg-Hodge, producer and co-director of The Economics of Happiness; health and sustainable building symposia; a skill-building demonstration market; an Eco-Market; a Stuff Swap cash-free market; and an Earth Hour candlelight potluck. The goal is to print 1,000 guides, which will feature not only festival programming, but also success stories of local community members and inspiring information about how to lower your carbon footprint.
For more information about the festival, visit:
guelphresiliencefestival.ca,