Come celebrate Greenpop’s Trees for Zambia action event with Earth Fest – a two day music and sustainability festival on the banks of the Zambezi River and under the spray of the Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Zambia!
Greenpop will be in Livingstone 7 - 28th July for the second year hosting Trees for Zambia – a three-week action event based on getting people active about making sustainable changes with the main event, a music and sustainability festival, Trees for Zambia Earth Fest 2013 on 19 - 20th July,
About Earth Fest
The first of its kind, Earth Fest is more than an ordinary music festival – it aims to highlight the tree-mendous musical talent that graces Southern Africa while also bringing together like-minded, forward-thinking individuals who hope to see a greener future for Africa.
The weekend will start off on Friday 19th July in the evening with a party Train Ride from Livingstone train station to the Victoria Falls Bridge (DJs and all drinks included). Fest goers can meet at the Livingstone station at 16:30 sharp.
On Saturday 20 July, the festival will move to the Greenpop Village at Livingstone Safari Lodge where, from 15:00, attendees can participate in sustainability workshops. They will have the chance to learn more about what Greenpop is doing in Livingstone and get a taste of a full week’s activities. Music starts from 18:00 and will include performances by Jeremy Loops, Chikenbus Band, Yes Rasta, Black Light Panda, Pat McCay, Tribute Mboweni and more.
Pricing and Details
Fri 19th Train: $40 or ZKR 230 (Zambian Kwacha Rebased)
Sat 20th Concert: $15 or ZKR 80
Double deal (Fri and Sat parties): $50 or ZKR 270
Early Bird Saturday Special: $10 or ZKR 50
Camping at Greenpop Village at Livingstone Safari Lodge on Fri 19th and/or Sat 20th: $10 or ZKR 50 per night (bring your own tent & dinner will be on sale)
Book by calling or emailing: zambia@greenpop.org / +26(0)96 954 0817
Tickets on sale at:
Victoria Falls Steam Train (Victoria Falls)
Zimbabwe Tourism office (Victoria Falls)
Shoestring backpackers (Victoria Falls)
The Spot (Livingstone)
Zambian Tourism Office (Livingstone)
Livingstone Backpackers (Livingstone)
Shearwater Adventures Bridge and Main office (Victoria Falls)
About Greenpop:
Greenpop is a social enterprise that believes greening and sustainable living can be fun, POPular and accessible for all. They believe in inspiring a greener, more conscious, inclusive movement and do this through tree planting projects, green events, education, social media, voluntourism and activating people to start DOING!
Since its inception in September 2010, Greenpop has planted over 24,000 trees in over 230 beneficiary schools, crèches, orphanages, old-age homes, community centers, and deforested areas. Creative tree-care programs have been implemented and children, community members, corporates and volunteers are getting their hands dirty, learning a lot and loving it.
About Trees for Zambia:
Zambia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world and this issue affects the whole of Southern Africa – climate change and deforestation are not country-specific challenges. In 2012 Greenpop launched Trees for Zambia, a reforestation and eco-awareness project which began with a 3-week tree planting event and was followed by an ongoing campaign to inspire awareness about deforestation, climate change, tree planting, environmental sustainability and alternative energy sources.
Trees for Zambia 2013 will be the second action event hosted in Livingstone to boost the project and plant 5,000 trees in schools, on subsistence farms and in reforestation sites. Again we’ll host educational workshops for school children, subsistence farmers and volunteers. Trees for Zambia is a holistic awareness campaign based on getting people active about making sustainable changes.
Activities at the project include planting indigenous and fruit trees, working to set up micro-nursery enterprises in surrounding communities, implementing conservation education at local schools, promoting conservation farming techniques and fire prevention among small-scale subsistence farmers, promoting alternative energy sources such as solar cooking in order to reduce the region’s dependence on unsustainable charcoal burning, and a radio and video awareness campaign.
If you would like more information on the Earth Fest event or Trees for Zambia as a whole or would care to request to cover the event in your publication, please contact Lauren O’Donnell via lauren@greenpop.org or +27 (0) 21 461 9265/+27 (0) 83 412 8006/+26 (0) 96 954 0817. We greatly appreciate all promotions and coverage. For other queries about Greenpop or this particular Trees for Zambia event, please email zambia@greenpop.org, and we’ll make sure to answer your message promptly or pass on your message to the appropriate department.
Read more from the Zambezi Traveller:
Planning to re-green a country(ZT, Issue 12, March 2013)
Planting for a greener future(ZT, Issue 10, Sept 2012)
Read more about the region in our destination guide:
Livingstone
Victoria Falls
Website:
Greenpop
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