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Big hART is a group of professional artists, arts workers and producers who have been making work together since 1992 - creating theatre, film, television, painting, photography, dance, new media and radio. 

Big hART works around the country, with people experiencing the effects of marginalisation in regional, rural and geographically isolated communities. Big hART experiments with the process of making art with such groups over three-year periods and in doing so, provides opportunities for participants, builds skills, assists regional development and helps foster a more inclusive Australian culture. 

'Arcadia' is currently working with Big hART on a project called GOLD.

John Peterson: vegetable grower, visionary, glitter enthusiast and more. We loved the multi-award winning film documentary 'The Real Dirt on Farmer John', described by Al Gore as "Unbelievably special", and are eagerly anticipating the DVD release later in 2007. 

To see what all the fuss is about visit the Angelic Organics website.

If you would like to buy George Main's book 'Heartland: the regeneration of rural place', published by UNSW Press, click here

This great read explores the cultural and historical dynamics responsible for ecological change and disorder across the southwest slopes of New South Wales, and was launched at 'Arcadia' in 2005.

The Strong family are part of Learning from Farmers, a network of twelve learning sites to improve agricultural productivity through the management of native vegetation. A Learning from Farmers DVD was produced in 2005 and can be obtained from the network.

'We want to share our attitudes about native vegetation and fauna management and influence whole communities through awareness raising and education. We want to be seen as productive rural businesses that understand the benefits of native vegetation and fauna in balance with rural production. We want to influence the wider community to adapt best management practices of land management for sustainability, achieving production and maintenance of biodiversity together.' (Learning from Farmers mission statement)