Music & Community Program

PermEco Inc. brings people from all walks of life together with music, arts and community events as part of their People Care ethic.

As the world becomes more challenging it is essential that people not only focus on creating solutions for a warming planet, but also become more closely connected to one another. Music and the arts have a way of connecting people by having fun and creating together. Science has now found that music has a range of positive benefits to people, and can improve health conditions like depression, alzheimers and a range of other conditions.

Events are run at the Kendall Permaculture Farm in the Noosa Hinterland town of Kin Kin, Queensland, Australia. We also visit schools (with the Hitty Hitty Bang Bang! project, click here for more info) and do workshops in other areas on request (click here to see our music workshops page). Events range from short workshops in music to multi day events with a range of workshops and performances. The music workshops we run enable people with no previous experience to create uplifting music as part of a group. Performances at the events are entertaining and uplifting and most aim to get people up to dance, another art form which encourages individual expression and communal bonding.

We have found that people form beautiful connections by bonding over music. It enhances the community being able to create uplifting music together with no previous experience required. Tribal communities always had a music and arts component to their every day life, a life which was as fulfilling as it could be challenging. We aim to create stronger, more resilient communities by providing them with the space and opportunity to bond over music and the arts.

Participants in our community events will be given feedback forms at the end of the event, asking what they got out of their participation, how we can improve and suggestions for other events. The information will be compiled and used to determine what events to run in the future and how to run them.

If you would like to support our community events, or you have a suggestion for a future event, please fill in the form below:

Course feedback

“I would recommend Tom Kendall’s PDC to anyone looking to learn or become part of the Permaculture Community. I really enjoyed the course. It was also an excellent opportunity to learn from someone who has always worked with the land and who has spent a long time developing that relationship into what it is now. I learned a great deal about the agricultural systems from a practical and solutions based perspective. And yes, they are lovely people too.
It means a lot to me that they offered the course as pay-as-you-can and as self catered. I am in the position where I can only find sporadic work and rather than waste my time feeling stuck I was able to learn and find new opportunities with this course. The sense of community it gives was also really important to me and I am great full to them for being generous with their time. It is something that will give more value as time goes on and I hope to return this fully when I’m able. ”
Marni, PDC 02/2020

“ Unlike all the other students I had no previous knowledge in permaculture and it far exceeded my expectations. I was happy to see the ethics related to this topic were one of your criteria. I would highly recommend this course and have done so already multiple times and will continue to refer people to you in all my travels
To be able to do the course by donation has meant to me that I’ve been able to upskill myself for an affordable amount in a time of current unemployment.
It also meant I could please my curiosity on this topic and dip my toes in the water with the little knowledge I had in this field where as a full price course would have not lead me down this path. I thank you both so kindly for your contribution in getting this knowledge out there in our current global situation.”
Todd Dent, PDC 02/2020

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