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The Big Swiftie Build: Community Launch Day

Newcastle! You’re invited to help us launch the 'Big Swiftie' build and find out how you can be involved in the making of a giant, colourful, collaborative Swift Parrot sculpture over two weeks here on Awabakal/Worimi Country.

Join us at the Reclaimed Commons for the launch to connect with artists Fiona Lee, Ross Brown and Jo Lynch, hear coal project updates, share food and learn about the Big Swifties’ flight plan across NSW.

Whitehaven Coal is proposing to expand their massive Maules Creek coal mine in North-West NSW on Gomeroi Country, and clear hundreds of hectares of critically endangered habitat for the Swift Parrot - symbol of regional community resistance to the destruction of Whitehaven's coal mining and expansion plans.

This is a fun, family-friendly event, no experience necessary and all welcome!

Will you come to make art and help protect the Leard Forest and the Swift Parrots that live there?

WHEN
January 11, 2026
10am - 12:30pm
WHERE
Reclaimed Commons, Shed 8F (behind The Creator Incubator)
50 Clyde St
Hamilton North, NSW 2292
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15 RSVPS
Lindsay Dean Elizabeth Leslie Fiona Field Jeanette Dib William De Geer Martin Scurrah Bronwyn Vost Bernie Hobbs Jeanette Hunter Sally Hoyle Anne McKenzie
Who's RSVPing
Lindsay Dean
Elizabeth Leslie
Fiona Field
Jeanette Dib
William De Geer
Martin Scurrah
Bronwyn Vost
Bernie Hobbs
Jeanette Hunter
Sally Hoyle
Anne McKenzie

Will you come?


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