June 23, 2025 - Art Farm Birchs Bay
Fee: $35 USD

COCE 2025 welcomes all graduate students and early career environmental communicators to join us on 23rd June 2025, for an engaging pre-conference workshop/gathering at Art Farm Birchs Bay. Art farm is a not-for-profit association established to foster engagement among community, artists, art, and the landscape. The pre-conference will offer the opportunity to convivially create connections with each other before the conference is officially launched. It will also involve meandering through a 2km nature sculpture trail, a 1-hour Q&A session with Head Farmer Chris Read on social aspects of botany and farming, and interactive/practical sessions that encourage attendees to stretch themselves to consider how to create work in conversation with the land/environment and employ unconventional approaches to environmental communication research. The day will conclude with a wine tasting session before returning to nipaluna/Hobart for the official opening of the conference.

Schedule Overview:
9am - Pickup from Central Hobart
10am to 3.30pm - Art Farm workshop
3.30pm - Departure to Central Hobart

Organizing Committee:
Ella Muncie, University of Leicester - em471@leicester.ac.uk
Jessica Chaplain, University of Utah
Kianna Gallagher, University of Tasmania
Lyb Maree, University of New South Wales
Rhiannon Newton, University New South Wales
Deniz Yildiz, University of Tasmania