
Gaiafest interweaves seminars, practical demonstrations and workshops on such diverse themes as global warming, clean energy, biodiversity, martial arts, dance, arts and crafts, animal welfare, complementary therapies and nutrition with stalls selling organic food, natural health products and services and fair-trade goods. In short a one stop educational, informative, entertaining and yummy experience in the big Mediterranean summer outdoors.
Feelings run high as 'emotions' become the leitmotif behind this year's workshops and talks. A mood, a heartbeat, an outlook, a pulse. Our right brain takes over and sets the tone colouring Gaiafest 2007
Watch this space for more details on participants, stalls, demonstrations, talks and themes
Stalls:
- The Gaia Foundation: Traditional and organic Maltese preserves, gluten free products, health books, organic food and ecological cleaning products
- Good Earth: Natural and organic foodstuffs
- Aw Tribu: Bamboo furniture and ethnic arts & crafts
- Ayurveda Kempinski Hotel San Lawrenz: Ayurvedic wellness treatments and massage
- Massage and Beauty Stall: Hands on holistic treatment
- Forever Living Products: Aloa Vera products
- Welleda: 100% Natural Products and Homeopathic Remedies
- Himalaya Herbals: Natural body and beauty ayurvedic products
- Olden Wisdom: Aromatherapy crystals and esoteric items
- Heretika: Alternative and ethnic clothing
- Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust (L-Arka): Fair Trade Products
- Health Promotion Department
Entertainment: Entertainment will be provided by demonstrations of martial arts, flamenco, belly dancing, theatre, a brass band, and on going film show and an impressive bill of live bands and musicians.
Talks / Workshops / Seminars:
Kicking off from 6.30pm each evening there will be a series of talks and workshops every hour, on a variety of holistic themes such as meditation and inner insight, homeopathy, yoga, healthy cooking, bodytalk, psychotherapy, electromagnetic therapy, the art of conscious eating and alchemical transformation. International expert Peter B Loyd will be giving a talk on ‘Exploring the Megalithic Mind’, whilst Maria Arpa Chairperson of the UK’s National Mediation Organisation will be giving a talk on ‘Conflict Resolution’.
For the more artistically inclined there are workshops on the use of colours, chakras and art, working with dreams, drawing on your emotions, and expressing yourself through singing.
Several environmental NGO’s have lent their support yet again by contributing talks on Marine Conservation (Bicref), Green Parenting (Friends of the Earth), Global Warming (Graffiti), The EU LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project (Birdlife), The Environment in our Lives and Work (Nature Trust), Fair Trade in Cambodia (KKG) and Sustainable and Experiential Tourism (Ager Foundation). There will also be talks on global citizenship, (GAIA) permaculture, first aid for the planet, and the history and uses of olive oil. For more information please click on to programme.
Kids Corner: Arts and crafts using recycled items. Hand painting on t-shirt.
Live Bands: Renzo Spiteri Latin Jazz Quintet, Indigo, Paul & Jes, Charlene & Natasha, Norm Rejection, Happy Hour, The Playground Project, NV, The Areola Treat, Dario Mifsud Bonnici, Gianni & Friends, Deborah Harris Jazz Band
Food: following the inauguration of CineCafe on May the 11th, this year we now have a fully fledged club bar and restaurant serving a buffet selection of mainly organic tantalizingly tasty and spiced dishes, salads, fruit smoothies and melt in your mouth cakes: all super healthy, and nutritious of course, dairy and gluten free too. Relax by the bar or lounge on a hammock in the breeze in our revamped outdoor eating area overlooking Golden Bay
During the Festival, visitors may visit 'Midas' our Organic and free trade shop and walk around our 'Elysium' tree and shrub nursery, the only one on the Island specialized in the propagation of Endemic and Indigenous trees, plants and shrubs.