Sustainable development goals

We promote and practise good health and wellbeing for all ages through the arts and lifestyle workshops programme we offer, as well as entertainment and participatory celebrations. We carefully select food vendors who serve healthy nutritious meal options for our patrons in our marketplace, and provide a crew chef who takes care of the festival crew’s nutritional needs while they run the festival. We focus on local food security and closing food loops to support the health and wellbeing of our local communities and our environment..

Pangaea Festival is an educational experience across the social, ecological and economic arenas. It offers a vast program of observational and participatory experiences facilitated by experienced and credible personnel, across multiple industries, art genres, cultural practices and sustainability fundamentals.

“Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, also half of its potential” (United Nations). At Pangaea we operate a gender balanced festival across our staffing, volunteers, artists, and facilitators.

At Pangaea Festival we create a fun, safe and inclusive workplace. 

Pangaea Festival is a new festival in Tasmania creating decent annual employment opportunities for artists, arts workers, event industry workers, cultural and community workers, sustainability experts, workshop facilitators and presenters.

Pangaea provides a space for sharing knowledge while inspiring and fostering innovations towards resilient lifestyles and sustainable development. We are also implementing innovations and infrastructures that support circular economy systems in our festival operations - this includes composting toilets, scrape your plate initiative (all food waste is composted on site), and more.

Pangaea Festival increases access to cultural experiences and activities, highlights national and local Indigenous cultures, creates employment for First Nations peoples, and fosters relationships that are underpinned by increasing equality, opportunities and inclusiveness for First Nations and culturally diverse people living in lutruwita/Tasmania and Australia. Pangaea Festival is accessible to all including people with disability and companion carers.

Pangaea Festival aims to inspire and empower people with knowledge and skills that can be transferred to their hometown/city/community to help build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable communities, towns and cities.

We will operate under a sustainability framework by implementing circular economy systems across all aspects of festival operations and work towards a carbon neutral event by 2024.

We are working with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy to mitigate the festival carbon footprint, with car pass funds going towards the Prosser River Reserve regeneration project, and patron festival footprint contributions supporting the Kelvedon Hills project . We use ethical products and processes wherever possible, offset artists' flights, are working on a system to measure our total carbon footprint, and working on many more projects than we can list here.

By working with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy and Landcare Tasmania Pangaea Festival is helping to increase diversity to protect, restore and promote threatened plant and animal species, threatened vegetation communities, old-growth vegetation communities and freshwater ecosystems.

Pangaea Festival is underpinned by the principles of sustainability, delivers sustainability practices and solutions for people to engage in, and is a grassroots initiative for change. It requires partnerships to deliver on its sustainability goals and community capacity through networking and collaborating to deliver the event.