Threatened Species Day 2025 | Schools Collaborative Artwork Project

Saturday 6 September | 10am–12pm

Join us for this free community event: Come and see your students’ artwork creating a vibrant public installation in the Bairnsdale Main St Gardens. Or just come and join in!

🎨Art workshops
🦇 Flying fox talk
🚶🏾‍♀️A walk to view the student artwork trail in Bairnsdale Main Street gardens

Over July and August, students from across the region worked with Areka Brown from East Gippsland Art Gallery, to paint garden stakes representing local threatened species — raising awareness through art and action. These stakes will be installed in the Bairnsdale Main St gardens

🗓 Saturday 6 September
🕙 10am–12pm
📍 East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale
💚 Free event – everyone welcome!

Celebrating young artists and their role in protecting East Gippsland’s precious biodiversity.

NOTE: Painted stakes to be installed in the Main Street Gardens need to be delivered to East Gippsland Art Gallery by 4pm Wednesday 03 September. More info call East Gippsland Art Gallery 5153 1988

You may also like the following events from East Gippsland Art Gallery:

• This Thursday, 14th August, 12:00 am, Iris Bain | Do you see what I see? in Bairnsdale
• This Thursday, 14th August, 12:00 am, Julia Trezise | The Fabric of Things in Bairnsdale
• This October, 31st October, 12:00 am, Presently, Here in Bairnsdale

Also check out other Arts events in Bairnsdale, Workshops in Bairnsdale, Trips & Adventurous Activities in Bairnsdale.