Join us at an event at Kawalang….
Upcoming Events
Kawalang is a place to relax, recharge, greet old friends and make new ones, connect with the land.
We host workshops and events that strengthen personal and community resilience, and cater events with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Whether it is a workshop, retreat, community event or corporate getaway….
Come visit us at Kawalang. Enjoy whatever adventure this land brings!
Experiencing Kawalang: Connect with the land and living sustainably
Experience Kawalang over the January long weekend! Connect with the land, enjoy the bush, wildlife and see what we are growing, how we go about it and how we preserve food to enjoy throughout the year! Meals with food grown organically at Kawlang.
Share What's Spare, Food & Conversation: Musical Workshop, a free community event
Connect with friends, enjoy a fabulous musical experience!
Josh is a big-hearted performer who brings people together through music, using the West African Djembe (drum), Yidaki (didg), guitar and voice. Join in or just enjoy watching the magic! No musical ability is required. Bring neighbours and friends, pre-loved items (optional), food to share. Registration is essential.
Share What's Spare: Food & Conversation - Party Time!
It's been a big year! Let's celebrate together.
Bring something you are happy to recycle...treasures are found among things once cherished by others...
And a plate of yummy food to share....!
Enjoy time with neighbours and friends...and let's muse about what we'd like to do together next year....
Some ideas that have been raised include presentations on bush tucker, simple cheese making, salami and charcuterie, making vinegar and mead, making beer, cider and ginger beer, smoking food, dehydrating and preserving food, plein air painting, bush craft, introduction to leatherwork, patchwork hand stitching, seed starting, cutting and grafting.
RSVP so we have a sense of the numbers....email if any questions...yum@kawalang.com
Looking forward to kicking back and together getting ready for the silly season....!
Christmas Market and Soirée in Sydney
Celebrate the season with produce organically-grown at Kawalang! Tasting, light refreshments and produce available to take home or give as gifts to family and friends!
Spring Yoga Retreat
Relax, rejuvenate and replenish! Join inspiring yoga teacher Harriet Sciberras for a nurturing program of yoga, bushwalking and meditation. Harriet teaches from the heart...for all abilities, energy levels and needs...for new and experienced practitioners.
Creating a First Aid Kit with Pat Collins
Join herbalist Pat Collins to learn about the plants in our region.
Make and take home a kit of remedies to address stings, bites, colds and stress! Have fun creating capsules, creams, ointments, tinctures, rescue remedy, sel salts. Remedies include Comfrey, Cayenne & St. John’s Wort, A.R. Cream, Chilli Capsules, Hypericum and Calming Tea.
Enjoy morning and afternoon tea, lunch made with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Contribution: $125 | Local residents: $110 | Youth (12-15): $85 Registration essential.
https://events.humanitix.com/creating-a-first-aid-kit-with-herbalist-pat-collins-6krnw87n
Share What's Spare, Food & Conversation: Botanical Art Workshop
Penny Walton invites us to look at ways of rendering a plant drawing in pencil and through watercolour washes, and how to apply them to botanical studies.
Catch up with friends at Share What’s Spare from 10am onwards, bring something to share and a plate of food, relax and enjoy; participate in the workshop at 11 or just hang out!
Share What’s Spare is a free community event.
The Botanical Art workshop has a materials charge of $25 and is limited to 20 people. Registration is essential for both events so that we can provide updates about these events. https://events.humanitix.com/share-what-s-spare-food-and-conversation-botannical-art-workshop
Creative Art & Play for Wellbeing II
Soaring Within: Finding our sense of purpose, feeling connected, at home in our own skin. Enjoy an immersion into the self! Through art therapy, play and creativity, expand your sense of wellbeing as we explore using animals, landscape, symbolism and storytelling. Enjoy connecting with self and place.
Share What’s Spare, Food & Conversation: Learning About and Caring for our Birds
Catch up, have lunch with friends, share ideas, pre-loved items, build resilience in our magical Valley! Join Judy Harrington in learning learning about the birds in our area, their calls, habitats, how to support them through all seasons and weather events.
The Art of Journaling
Experience journaling as a road to creativity, exploring creative ways to record and share travels or simply the day-to-day. Facilitated by Sandra de Marchi who has enjoyed journaling for the past 15 years, carrying a sketchbook wherever she goes, traveling, in the bush, or in the garden. Light refreshments served with food organically grown at Kawalang.
Share What’s Spare: Food & Conversation: Making Sausages at Home: Yum! - Free Community Event
Join Rod Forsythe as he demonstrates how to make sausages, with ‘craftsmanship in the kitchen, care from the cook, and devotion from the eater. ’ Vegge options explored. Stories of successes and failures will be shared, and proceeds of the demonstration enjoyed by all!
Bring neighbours, friends, pre-loved items, food to share.
Autumn Women's Yoga Retreat
Join long-time practitioner and teacher Harriet Sciberras in an inspiring program of yoga, bushwalking and meditation with delicious food organically grown at Kawalang.. Perfect for those new to yoga and for experienced practitioners. Connect with wonderful women, be inspired and nurtured! Retreat limited to 8 participants.
Share What's Spare, Food and Conversation: Making your own Wicking Bed
Join neighbours, share ideas, pre-loved items, learn how to grow vegetables throughout summer without frequent watering. Bring a plate of food for lunch. Strengthen resilience in our magical Valley.
Planning for an Inspiring 2024!
Planning for the New Year….check our calendar for upcoming events! Have a restful, peaceful break and to a healthy, fulfilling 2024!
Kawalang Festive Market in Willoughby
Join us for a Festive Soirée / Market in Willoughby, featuring organically-grown produce from Kawalang to taste and purchase, including Honey, Garlic, Marmalades… light refreshments provided.
Creative Art & Play for Wellbeing with Art Therapist Eva Vani Kaufman
Where am I now, Where am I going and How do I get there? Enjoy an immersion into the self! Through art therapy, play and creativity, explore and expand your hopes, dreams and goals.
Reflect, relax and enjoy light refreshments with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Facilitated by Eva Vani Kaufman. Eva is a qualified Sensorimotor Art Therapist and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker based in Melbourne. Contribution $35
https://events.humanitix.com/creative-art-and-play-for-wellbeing
Sculpting with Wool: Wet Felting with Textile Artist Katarzyna Niedzielak
Textile artist Katarzyna Niedzielak (Kasia) has worked with wool and plant fibres over many years, turning them into 3D shapes, sculpture, wearable art and textiles using the ancient technique of wet felting. Kasia invites you to learn how to make (and take home) a decorative felt pod (bawl) and how to felt over the resist, bringing wool into 3d form without cutting. https://www.artbyamoeba.com/
Creating a First Aid Kit with Herbalist Pat Collins
Make remedies to address pesky stings, bites, colds and stress, including Comfrey, Cayenne & St. John’s Wort, A.R. Cream, Chilli capsules, Hypericum and Calming Tea. Identify plants, make samples to take home, enjoy morning and afternoon tea, lunch made with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Nurture, a women's gathering
Join Helena Blazina-Elms and Kayla Tome for a day of nourishment, regeneration and whole body healing through yoga, mindful movement, femine-based Qigong, writing, drawing, clay and Yoga Nidra. Register using the QR code. Book early. Space limited to 12 women.
Share What's Spare, Food & Conversation: Our Wildlife Needs Your Help...Here's How
Deb Breen, with over 35 years experience as a wildlife rescuer and carer engaged in wildlife rehabilitation, will talk with us about how to help our wildlife: how to rescue, contain, transport to carer / vet, treat for shock and who to call for help. Deb will also bring mange treatment kits for those interested and explore with us how to live with wildlife in our beautiful surrounds.
Join neighbours, bring pre-loved items and a plate of food for lunch to share with others. Registration essential.
Strengthening Mental Health with Herbalist Pat Collins
Address stress, anxiety, or depression through diet, lifestyle, rebalancing and herbs and essential oils that strengthen our health and wellbeing. Identify special plants, create a kit of samples to take home, enjoy morning and afternoon tea and lunch made with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Share What's Spare, Food & Conversation: Getting to Know Minibeasts
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
Share ideas, stories, pre-loved items (books, tools, clothing, plants, whatever!), meet old friends, make new ones, have a cuppa and lunch together, and learn about the environment we are living in.
Lifelong entophiles Kathy and Dennis Collins will present on ‘Getting to Know Minibeasts’, the world of macro invertebrates in our environs: an overview of their ecological significance and how we can live better with them. Their presentation will include static and live display.
Bring your neighbour, things to share, your stories, questions, ideas, and something yummy for morning tea/lunch. Registration essential.
Boosting Your Respiratory and Immune System with Herbalist Pat Collins
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Identify weeds and herbs that can boost your immune system and relieve respiratory ailments such as coughs and colds. Make ointments, rubs, lozenges, syrups, teas and capsules, and learn simple home healing techniques to improve health, circulation and overall wellbeing. Identify plants, make remedies and enjoy morning, afternoon tea and lunch made with food grown organically at Kawalang. Registration essential.
With special thanks to Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network and Wollombi Valley Progress Association.
Share What's Spare - Food and Conversation: Preserving What's Growing
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Reconnect with neighbours and friends as we share what’s extra, learn from one another about becoming more resilient and explore preserving, pickling, drying, freezing what's growing in the garden!
With special thanks to Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network and Wollombi Valley Progress Association.
Natural Skin Care with Herbalist Pat Collins
Create a natural cosmetic range! Learn about the ingredients in common cosmetics and how you can replace them. Make and take home clays, scrub, cleanser, toner, creams, body butter, nourishing oil and hydrating lotion. Lunch, morning and afternoon teas with food grown organically at Kawalang.
Free Wollombi, Laguna & Bucketty Community Cultural Burn Workshop
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Join us at a Community Cultural Burn Workshop at Kawalang with Koori Country Cultural Fire Aboriginal Corporation. Learn traditional Aboriginal methods of using cultural fire to care for Country. Lunch at Kawalang is included.
Spaces limited. Early registration recommended.
With special thanks to the Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund (BCRRF) and Cessnock City Council for making this event possible.
Delicious Gluten and Dairy-Free Meals
Learn how to make delicious gluten and dairy-free meals!
Nathan will share tips, techniques, recipes and simple substitutions to make healthy, nutritious meals for family and friends.
Spaces limited. Early registration recommended.
Autumn Yoga Retreat
Join Harriet Sciberras for yoga, meditation and relaxation, walks in the stunning bush and Kawalang gardens where food is grown organically. Nourish mind, body and soul with delicious food, yoga and conversation.
Inspiring Vegetarian Meals with Chef Nathan Cooper
Develop a repertoire of delicious vegetarian meals with the help of a gifted chef!
Share what's Spare, Food and Conversation - Making Bread
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Reconnect with neighbours and friends as we share what’s extra, learn from one another about becoming more resilient personally and as a community. Learn how to bake bread!
Making Natural Soaps, Shampoos, Cleaning Products with Herbalist Pat Collins
Join Pat, friends and neighbours in learning how to make natural soaps, shampoos and cleaning products using herbs, clays, natural colours, base oils, honey, essential oils and milk.
Up Your Pasta Game with Chef Nathan Cooper
Learn how to do Restaurant Quality pasta at home by spending the afternoon getting hands on with Nathan, as he guides you through the process, teaching you Chef tricks of the trade & accumulated knowledge of over 20 years of cooking Internationally.