It’s official! From 20–26 April 2027, permaculture people from across Australia and beyond will gather at the iconic Woodfordia site on Jinibara Country (South-East Queensland) for a very special Australasian Permaculture Convergence called Return to the Village.
“The challenges of our time call for new ways of living, learning and belonging. APC 2027 is an opportunity to come together as a community of changemakers, dreamers, doers and future ancestors to explore what comes next and help design a world worth inheriting.”
Special Permaculture Australia Members Only Tickets on sale now!
The last APC sold out very quickly to the general public. This time round we want to ensure dedicated members of the permaculture community have the opportunity to secure their place before tickets are opened more broadly. Permaculture Australia members can purchase first release tickets throughout August.
Tickets have officially launched! As a thank-you for your ongoing support, a specially priced ticket is available exclusively to Permaculture Australia members, along with Early Bird tickets for supporters and followers. These are available for a limited time only – until the end of September.
With only 150 Permaculture Australia Member tickets and 100 Early Bird tickets available, we encourage you to book early if you’d like to join us.
The Convergence and Permaculture Festival, together for the first time
For more than forty years, the APC has been a place where ideas are exchanged, friendships are forged and new possibilities emerge. In 2027, we invite you to step into something even bigger – a week-long village beside the shores of Lake Gkula at the famous Woodfordia site, where the APC and a new Permaculture Festival Weekend will come together over 7 days.
The 4-Day Australasian Permaculture Convergence
Return to the Village will start with the 4-Day Australasian Permaculture Convergence, which will include:
- Inspiring talks, presentations, panels, forums, conversation hubs and facilitated design circles – a wide array of formats to ensure all participants have an opportunity to converse, debate, design and think deeply about the topics that are significant to our present and future world
- Reskillience Hub with an incredible program of hands-on workshops
- Ecovillage Education and Community Design Commons
- Regenerative Farming and Happy Homes Forums
- Honouring the deep relationship between Country, culture and community through ceremony, creativity, shared traditions and genuine connection
- Daily Eco-Kids Club, and a youth-led Youth Summit
- Creative spaces, live music, games, art and celebrations
- Lakeside camping and times to come together in pause and reflection with morning rituals, nature connection and open spaces
- Village Kitchen providing nourishing local meals (APC is fully catered for all participants from Monday night to Friday morning)
- Countless opportunities to connect with people who share a commitment to creating a thriving future
The 3-Day Permaculture Festival
This will be followed by the 3-Day Permaculture Festival (open to the public), where the site will be transformed into a vibrant village where education and entertainment collide, with:
- Permaculture Education talks stages
- Hands-on workshops covering bushcraft and survival skills, food and farming, homesteading, health and wellbeing, natural building, energy efficiency, hand crafts and tools, and community building
- Sustainable Village Market Stalls
- Permaculture Business showcases
- Evening Perma-Parties
- Family Fun and Games
- Youth Activations and more!
You’re invited to help design the next 50 years of permaculture
The challenges of our time call us to think bigger than ourselves. Return to the Village is a rare opportunity to gather with some of the most thoughtful and caring minds in the country and help shape the future we want to create together.
There is only so much any one person can achieve alone, but in community, our ideas become movements, our actions gain momentum and our collective impact grows. Together, we can help design the next fifty years of permaculture.
This is an invitation to reconnect with each other, with the living world around us and with the timeless idea that our greatest strength has always been community.
Permaculture People Power! – Help spread the word
Return to the Village isn’t something we want to build with algorithms or advertising budgets. We want to grow it the permaculture way – through PEOPLE POWER!
Please share this post with 10 permaculture friends. Or go old school and pick up the phone, or catch up over a cuppa. Invite people you haven’t seen in years, organise a road trip, plan to camp together.
Let’s start bringing village culture back now – the village doesn’t begin when the gates open at Woodfordia. It begins now, as we reconnect with each other and remember what community feels like.
The village is waiting – book your tickets at www.returntothevillage.com.au.
Not a member yet?
Become a Permaculture Australia Member and join a growing community of passionate Permaculture People across the country. Along with discounted tickets to Return to the Village, you’ll enjoy member benefits, connect with like-minded changemakers, and help strengthen the movement that’s shaping a more resilient future.
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