Sunday, September 28 is World Rivers Day and unsurprisingly inner west residents are being invited to mark the occasion by the banks of the Maribyrnong.
From 10.30am to 12.30pm the Maribyrnong River and Waterways Association (MRWA) will hold a river sensing session at Pipemakers Park where locals will come together and reflect on what the Maribyrnong and and other waterways mean to them.
“River sensing is a kind of way of getting people to connect to the river and their waterways and the focus is on sensory awareness,” explained MRWA education lead Angela Clarke of what river sensing entails.
“People have a different way of tuning in to the environment so we focus on sights, sounds, smells, touch , all the senses,” said Ms Clarke who added that the emphasis of this session would be the fact that humans, like rivers, are mostly fluid.
“We’re 70 to 80 per cent fluid, so tuning into our fluid selves and how that connects our body to the body of the river is the focus of the session and there will be several watery objects that people can engage with to help them attune in this way.”
Ms Clarke said the river sensing sessions, which the MRWA holds three to four times a year, not only had wellbeing and therapeutic benefits but environmental ones too.
“It gets people thinking about how water is managed, water security, the ethics of water management and thinking about rivers as living entities,” she said.
Details: https://maribyrnongriver.org.au/events/
