Attending the Fair@Square festival

This event is free to the public.

Fair@Square fair-trade + ethical festival 2010 will provide you with the tools to broaden your knowledge about Fair Trade and Ethical Business and give you, the consumer, the opportunity to find out how you can help to reduce poverty by your purchasing choices.

Come and join us for an amazing shopping experience where everything you buy has a story or come along to experience the activities and celebrations on the day.

Fair Trading

More than 80 colourful stallswith fair trade and ethicall produced products from
around the globe exhibiting culturally diverse products and services with a variety of fair trade, organic and other products on sale. This will be a vibrant environment which will expand consumers knowledge and awareness of what is being done
by some producers to leave an ethical socially and environmentally sustainable footprint. In an attractive and relatively non didactic environment it will increase shoppers’ awareness of the implications of their decisions as consumers.

Fair Indulgence Tent

Here food lovers will be able to enjoy a delicious feast and at the same time learn about different aspects of ethical and fair trade production of food. Cultural elements of food will be shown through demonstration of ceremonies, rituals and traditions.

Fair Living Tent

Fair Living focuses on home and lifestyle choices. This tent is interactive with hands
on activities and workshops. It will encourage people to experiment with alternative methods, participate in workshops or just watch and learn. Activities in the tent will range from exploring ways to remodel old t-shirts to turn them into fashionable
pieces and making recycled soft furnishings, to participating in a natural soap making workshop.

Fair Play Tent

This tent will feature a well-designed program to encourage children to start thinking critically at an early age and to become aware of the implications that their choices have. It fosters cross cultural interest and understanding, setting children on the path to future peace building through education. It encourages participation from children of all ages, stimulates creativity via numerous workshops and provides a learning journey via engaging and fun activities.

Fair Fashion Show

The Fair Fashion show will present the work of emerging local artists and designers
involved in ethical projects. It will host works developed by students from local schools and tertiary institutions, the results of Moral Fairground’s collaborative effort with teachers to incorporate fair trade into student learning activities. This will be a culturally rich and engaging show, boasting local talent, presented within the context of broader global issues.

Fair Entertainment

A myriad of performances from new and emerging artists, contemporary and traditional, the Fair Entertainment will provide a forum for artist to express themselves via their music and song. It will provide a platform for culturally diverse artists to share their rhythms and for new and emerging artists to share their passion.

Fair Talk Tent

Speakers and presentations in this tent will give festival participants the opportunity
to learn from and interact with a variety of people actively engaged in fair trade and ethical enterprises. An intellectually stimulating tent it will enable event attendees to learn about the issues and challenges attached to production and consumption decisions and give them the information to start to make a difference with changes in their own behaviour.