UNITY Festival - Overview

The 2011 UNITY festival is held at the historical Murwillumbah Showground on Saturday 22 October.

Finding your way around the UNITY festival:

ANZ Main Stage - music performances

Essential Energy Dance Stage - dance performances

Little Unity- activities, entertainment and workshops designed for young people and youth and proudly sponsored by YWCA Communities for Children.

Around the festival - interactive performances and creative art installations

The UNITY market bazaar - a cultural feast of food, wares and interesting locally produced arts, crafts and home-wares. Local Mount Warning  Spring water will be for sale.

A History Display of how Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities arrived in the Tweed.

PLUS the Tweed Regional Fire Brigade.

The Murwillumbah Showground is set amongst the lush sub-tropical cane fields with the stunning Border Rangers looming protectively in the distance and the iconic Mount Warning commanding a prominent view.  As the sun sinks behind the ranges, the valley illuminates in a gentle golden glow and all that is alive is vivid, calm – almost surreal.  And here we are, at the UNITY festival – bought together in this magnificent part of the world to celebrate all that is… as it is.  We are in UNITY. We are commUNITY.


The Waste Management Hierarchy outlines the actions we all must follow in order to achieve a more sustainable future.
Avoiding, reducing, reusing and recycling are the simple actions that we can all practice to minimise waste.
Avoid - Avoiding waste altogether is a great place to start. Do I really need this item? Avoidance is also about selecting a product that has the least packaging or required less resources to produce and therefore impacts our our environment less.
Reduce – Consuming products with less waste is the most effective means of minimising waste. Buy less rubbish when you are shopping and become aware of what you will end up discarding in the bin. Always look for recyclable or reusable packaging.
Reuse – Reusing means to find another use for an item so it reduces the cost of buying a new one, and saves on energy and resources needed to make a new product. A lot of household items can often be repaired, reused, sold or given to charities. Residents can also reuse food scraps, garden clippings and leaves by composting or worm farming.
Recycle – Recycling involves collecting and sorting discarded goods so that they can be remade into products with much less impact on our environment than when making them from raw materials.