‘Costa’s Garden: Flowers’
Book Launch Tour - Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
with Costa the Garden Gnome, Brenna Quinlan, Formidable Vegetable and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
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Everyone's favourite garden gnome, Costa Georgiadis and permaculture illustrator Brenna Quinlan have written a book for young green-thumbs everywhere all about flowers!
Come celebrate with them, permaculture dance band Formidable Vegetable and GRAMMY winning kid-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo as they launch it right down the east coast of Australia from ECOSS in Victoria and Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland to The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania on a travelling musical garden-party extravaganza!
All events are family friendly and tickets/info can be found below.
Tickets & Event Info
Find all you need to get tickets for the ‘Costa’s Garden: Flowers’ book launch. Remember to make it extra fun by dressing up as a garden gnome or your favourite flower (or even a garden gnome covered in your favourite flowers!?)
TOUR DATES:
DEC 20: YARRA VALLEY ECOSS TWILIGHT MARKET - WURUNDJERI/WARBURTON, VIC
DEC 27 - JAN 1: WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL - JINIBARA/WOODFORD, QLD
ON SALE
JAN 3: FOOD CONNECT SHED - MEANJIN/BRISBANE, QLD
JAN 4: MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL - BUNDJALUNG/MULLUMBIMBY, NSW
JAN 5: BELLINGEN MEMORIAL HALL - GUMBAYNGIRR/BELLINGEN, NSW
JAN 6: AVOCA BEACH THEATRE - DARKINJUNG/CENTRAL COAST, NSW
JAN 7: THE CALYX (ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS) - GADIGAL/SYDNEY, NSW
JAN 9-12: CYGNET FOLK FESTIVAL- LUTRUWITA/TAS
FEATURING:
Costa the Garden Gnome
About Costa
The gardener who needs gnome introduction, 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 Quinlan
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_quinlan Web: brennaquinlan.com
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.
Listen/Stream Music | Instagram:@formidableveg
Web: formidablevegetable.com.au Youtube: youtube.com/growdoit
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.
Listen/Stream Music | Instagram: @secretagent23skidoo Web: secretagent23skidoo.com Youtube