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Love Letters to Trees

This workshop is about expressing and spreading appreciation for trees. Stop and marvel. Share the awe. Give others a reason to pause and notice.

Without trees we don’t have oxygen to breathe. The soil washes away, the rain patterns change, the koala disappears.

We will go for a walk among the trees in Dorrigo’s parklands. Along the way we’ll listen to odes to trees and recite some together. You’ll be asked to notice and admire the trees and choose your favourite and write a love letter, some words of appreciation, a poem or use an already existing quote or poem, and write these onto paper with a waterproof marker. We’ll tie or wheatpaste these Love Letters to the trees so that passersby will also notice and appreciate these trees.

Love Letters to Trees

Date: Sunday 22 April 2018
Time: 1.30-3.30pm
Location: Dorrigo High School, as part of the Dorrigo Writers Festival

I live and work on the beautiful lands of the Gumbaynggirr people. These lands were stolen. Sovereignty was never ceded.
I do my best to offer love and respect to all their Elders; past, present, and future.
I extend this respect and reverence to all Indigenous Elders across all nations throughout the world.
Let’s look after them and the old stories they hold from the land. We all need them more than ever.