After a week of over 90 events, the Wyndham Learning Festival is over for another year.
The Wyndham Learning Festival successfully wrapped up with a diverse range of engaging events and impactful outcomes run over 1-7 September. The Festival featured a variety of workshops, seminars, and interactive sessions designed to enhance community learning and personal development. Over 2,500 registered attendees enjoyed hands-on activities, insightful talks from industry experts, and networking opportunities.
Key highlights included sessions on digital literacy, creative skills, and career development at the Learning for Business expo; dancing; cooking; car care; cultural immersion; inspiring young scientific minds; mindfulness workshops, AI tools; art therapy, the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Green Living Series with Hannah Moloney and so much more.
This year’s Festival was generously supported by sponsors Victoria University, Melbourne; Pacific Werribee; Borrowbox; Southern Rural Water; Kip McGrath Werribee, and ME Bank.
The Festival fostered a vibrant atmosphere of learning and collaboration, leaving participants with new knowledge and skills to apply in their personal and professional lives. Overall, the Wyndham Learning Festival achieved its goal of promoting and celebrating lifelong learning and community engagement.
The Wyndham Learning Festival is a key signature event of the Wyndham Learning Community Strategy 2024-2029.
More details here https://www.wynlearnfestival.org.au/
2024 Wyndham Learning Festival
The 2024 Wyndham Learning Festival, held from 1 to 7 September, celebrated lifelong learning with the theme "Empowering Communities Through Lifelong Learning." Featuring over 90 free events across diverse categories such as Arts, Wellbeing, Biz & Tech, and Families, it offered something for everyone. A highlight was the WynTalk Launch with Dr. Karl on 31 August, where his keynote on sustainable science and climate change captivated and inspired the audience.
2023 Wyndham Learning Festival
With the theme of “Our Thriving, Creative Wyndham”, the FREE festival offered something for all ages and interests from 1-7 September and celebrated and encouraged lifelong learning with a range of activities from across the Arts, Sports & Recreation, The World of Work and Tech, Environment & Sustainability, Wellbeing & Self-Care, History, Culture & Diversity, Food & Cooking, and Families & Children.
Events were as varied as a Young Scientist of Wyndham Competition; Vietnamese Cooking, a ChatGTP workshop, Financial Wellness, Drumming, Indian Dance, Job Seeking skills, Fitness classes or learning CPR and many, many more!
The Wyndham Learning Festival’s signature ‘WynTalk: Celebrate the Magic of Storytelling with Mem Fox was held on Friday 1 September at the Wyndham Cultural and featured acclaimed author and educationalist Mem Fox reflecting on her career and celebrating 40 years of Possum Magic, as the audience discovered the magic of literature, learning and creativity.
An exciting evening was had with the launch of the Festival including the new Wyndham Learning Festival showbag, music from local school performers, a celebration of Festival Sponsors Victoria University and Pacific Werribee Shopping Centre, and some lite refreshments.