A quick update…

Podcast Interview:

Late 2023 I was interviewed for the Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions Podcast series. On this podcast you will hear about my environmental work focused through the Bimblebox Art Project. I talk about my influences, challenges, successes and more.
Podcast is only available on the following platforms until the end of May 2024.
You can listen now on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and You Tube.

Episode name: Environmental arts vital contribution to protect nature and climate stability.
Series: Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions
Recorded by Andrew Nicholson for HOPE Inc. Australia on 27 November 2023.

Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions
I wrote a profile piece for Hope Inc. Australia‘s Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions project. It is written around a series of questions that I was asked to respond to, then formed the platform for the podcast interview. You can read the profile here. 
photo credits for this can be found here.

Bimblebox art, science, nature camps

Those who have listened to the podcast already know that I will no longer be coordinating the call out and lead up to the Bimblebox art, science, nature camps. Thank you to John Brinnand and Malcolm Paterson who have stepped forward to take the baton. I’ve shared with John and Malcolm the pertinent material that I developed across many years and look forward to seeing this incredibly valuable and unique camp continue well into the future.

I wish to acknowledge and thank Paola Cassoni and Ian Hoch for their hard work and ongoing commitment to providing and maintaining the camp facilities, planning and cooking the camp meals, looking after everyone so well, and for their huge, ongoing work in caring for the Bimblebox Nature Refuge. I wish to thank The Bimblebox Alliance (TBA), and also the many volunteers who have helped with the camp. Thank you Paola and Ian for sharing Bimblebox with us all. And thank you to all the people who have attended the art, science, nature camps and who, through their words and work, have taken the gift of Bimblebox out into their communities and beyond.

To register your interest in attending future camps, or if you have any questions about the camps, or to reach out as a potential volunteer in the process of organising future camps, please get in touch with John and Malcolm via this email.

Currently the Bimblebox art, science, nature camp is scheduled to return in 2025. John and Malcolm encourage those interested in attending future camps to let them know via email. In turn they will start contacting everyone early next year to begin the process for the 2025 camp.
Meanwhile you can find information about the camp, as well as images and stories from previous camps here.

Upcoming Bimblebox 153 Birds exhibition

Bimblebox 153 Birds will be at the Hinkler Hall of Aviation, Bundaberg, Qld.
10 May – 27 July, 2024
Open 9am – 3pm every day
Free entry to the Bimblebox 153 Birds exhibition
Exhibition listing here.

The Hinkler Hall of Aviation is located in the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, Mount Perry Road and Young Street, Bundaberg. Qld, Australia.

And remember…if you are interested in volunteering at the Bimblebox Nature Refuge at any time, you can find information here.

Jill Sampson

I acknowledge the traditional owners across the land we call Australia. I live and work on the land of the Kaiabara people of the Wakka Wakka Nation, and also on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal Nations. The Bimblebox Nature Refuge is on the land of the Jagalingou Nation. I pay my respects to Elders – past, present and emerging.