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Costa's Garden Book Launch at The Botanic Gardens

When

Tuesday 7 January from 4pm to 6pm

Cost

Adult: $30Child: $10Family: $80

Come celebrate with Costa, illustrator Brenna Quinlan, permaculture dance band Formidable Vegetable and GRAMMY winning kid-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo as they launch 'Costa's Garden: Flowers' at The Royal Botanic Gardens 'Calyx' venue in Sydney on their travelling musical garden-party extravaganza!

About Costa

Costa Georgiadis is the multiple Logie award-winning host of ABC TV's Gardening Australia and Gardening Australia Junior as well as the much-loved garden gnome on DirtGirlWorld's Get Grubby TV. For over a decade, he has been planting seeds of community abundance all over Australia and has now written his first kids book Costa's Garden: Flowers with permaculture illustrator, Brenna Quinlan.

About Brenna

Using her art to inspire positive action in the world, Brenna has been drawing and walking the walk of regenerative living for over 10 years. Living in sustainable communities around the world and riding a bike across two hemispheres, she eventually settled into illustration, which she shares on her social media and in books such as RetroSuburbia, Milkwood, Costa's World and now Costa's Garden: Flowers

Instagram: @brenna_quinlan

About Formidable Vegetable

A permaculture dance band equipped with a wheelbarrow-full of tasty swingfunk beets, brass, strings and the ukulele of abundance, Formidable Vegetable enrich the soil of our minds and plant seeds of inspiration at every festival, fair and farmer’s market they perform at. Having toured to over 20 countries and with seven records under their belt, the band is paving the way for an entirely new kind of creative action for composting problems and growing abundant, community-scale solutions in their place. Over the past decade, they have become a favourite around Australia and on international festival circuits, having played at some of the biggest events on the planet such as Glastonbury and the UN's World Food Forum alongside monumental acts such as Radiohead, Tame Impala, Dolly Parton and The Rolling Stones.

About Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

GRAMMY winning kid-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo from Asheville, North Carolina in the USA has been captivated crowds with his funky brand of positive half pint party music combining deft wordplay, great storytelling and pure positivity for over a decade. 23 Skidoo's beets n rhymes speak to kids and parents alike by bumping up the volume & kids’ self esteem, while setting the family music bar higher than a hidden cookie jar.

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