Garuda, Gamelan and Goreng. Beautiful Bali

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Join us as we celebrate the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. To cooperate means to work together on a common enterprise or project, to act jointly or a willingness to assist.

We take a close look at cooperative based cultures starting with our nearest neighbours Indonesia and the tropical paradise of Bali.

Balinese culture is steeped in a long history of traditional cooperative systems which allowed its people to thrive for many centuries. The Balinese learnt how to grow their rice crops through cooperative irrigation, their village life is based on whole of community cooperation from fishing through to wedding celebrations.

We will be exploring the cooperative techniques behind rice growing through mini rice paddy models and learning how the cooperative banjar is central to all of social life in Bali. You can find out why villages had to cooperate with each other to survive and flourish and why cooperative living is core to Balinese beliefs and values.

Children can experience the paradise of Bali in a traditional banjar (village hut), barter in the market place, play congklak, try their hand at the musical instrument gemalan, help decorate temple columns or paint their own Balinese goddess sculpture.

Cost: free - $4. Ages: All ages.
No bookings required.