Get grubby with Dirtgirlworld at Floriade

Posted on 25 September, 2018

As another winter comes to a close, it’s time for Canberra’s biggest floral festival. 

This year, Floriade celebrates the best of Pop Culture, with a jaw dropping array of retro-inspired flowerbeds and a festival program brimming with live music, horticultural displays and entertainment. During Floriade, the National Gallery of Australia is holding a weekend of fun for all ages on 6-7 October, including exclusive behind-the-scenes tours, hands-on classes, and an open-air concert by ABC Kids star dirtgirl of dirtgirlworld for her first Canberra show.

So who is dirtgirl? She’s the grubby garden hero who makes looking after the environment fun. Dirtgirl has a farm where she grows her own fruit and veggies, keeps chickens and worm farms and helps her best friend, scrapboy, reuse, recycle and reinvent the old and dirty into the new and useful. For city-based families, dirtgirl gives kids a taste of what it’s like to live off the land, and be sustainable while you’re at it.

dirtgirl is the star of dirtgirlworld, the International Emmy-award winning animated tv show and the live action show Get Grubby TV. dirtgirl’s latest project and her show at Flourish is focused on saving the bees, the most important insect in our gardens. She and her best mate scrapboy will be singing and dancing their way through solutions that you can create at home to make sure your backyard supports the bees in the most sustainable way possible. After the show, dirtgirl and scrapboy will be making their way into the gardens to help plant some trees with the kids.

“I see myself as a change maker – our show is going to be full of tips and tricks aimed at bringing positive change for the bees and for us,” says dirtgirl ahead of her visit to Canberra.

“I grow most of the vegetables I eat in my own garden, and with growing veggies yourself you have a big appreciation for the bees because they are needed for pollination!”

dirtgirl will also be performing a few new songs from her upcoming album called Gumboot Boogie, including her first single from the album called “Change”. dirtgirl says it has to do with the fact that everything in life changes much like the seasons, and that sometimes people struggle with change, but that it’s a natural part of life and the best thing we can do is to surrender to the power of change for the better.

You can catch dirtgirl rocking out on stage 88 at Floriade on Saturday 6 October from 12.30-1 pm and at Flourish at the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden on Sunday 7 October from 11.30 am. Both events are free for all ages. More details can be found on the Flourish Facebook event, and you can catch Get Grubby TV on ABC iView.