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The 2020 Earth Beat festival will feature an eclectic mix of music from folk to funk, including 39 local and international acts, as well as workshops for everything from yoga to growing oyster mushrooms.
Around 2500 people are expected to attend the festival at Atiu Creek Regional Park at Tapora from March 20 to 22.
Co-founder Issac Oron describes Earth Beat as a platform for positive change and hopes it will have an impact beyond good times at the event.
There will be a number of speakers including Muslim human rights advocate Anjum Rahman, who will talk on a strategy for inclusiveness in Aotearoa.
Green MP Chloe Swarbrick will speak on what the legalisation of cannabis in New Zealand might look like.
Community campaign organisation ActionStation will be at the festival creating content for a campaign for a universal basic income.
“Festivals are an amazing tool for change because they bring large numbers of people together,” Issac says.
For the first time, the festival is trying to create the largest vegetarian hangi ever made in New Zealand with help from local iwi, Te Uri o Hau.
Issac says Earth Beat is Auckland’s only zero-waste festival and attendees bring all their own cups, plates and cutlery. There is a compost pile for food waste.
Each year the festival builds a new structure at Atiu Creek that becomes available to the public. The vision is to have permanent compostable toilets, a community kitchen and gardens.
Issac comes from Israel and has been a DJ, as a well as a food technologist. He sees his mission as guiding people to become leaders of change.
“I just wanted to see a bit of progress around the world, and New Zealand is a great place for showing the world new ways of living and what can be possible.”
