About Us
Stellar Violets’ vision
Create an inter-generational, collaborative place of beauty & lifelong learning, offering wondrous experiences to help people & planet flourish.
unfurling mission
To empower women and girls to take their authentic, deep-rooted place in the whole of their local ecology – to inhabit one’s soul ecology.
Through immersive experiences like workshops, overnight stays, and published offerings, Stellar Violets nurtures & grows creativity, self-confidence, and connection, in reciprocal relationship with nature.
What would be possible if each one of us came to know, and care for the place we inhabit deeply, and intimately? That being – one’s inner, and outer landscape? Friends of Stellar Violets are guided to have a taste of what that might feel like.
And so, through our work, we whisper,
awaken, awaken…
and give attention to the question,
“How, in this time, shall we live?”
Publishing
Stories and multi-media productions calling forth the world our hearts know is possible.
December 2020 Release: Inside Out Heart by SJP Dooley
Place-making
Gardens to tend, extend and receive nourishment from, train carriages to repurpose, dream, relax, and gather in.
Will you join us on the journey? What will you encounter, if you do?
Programs
A Nature Playgroup was established in 2017, and may return in 2021, post Covid – fingers crossed. A pilot girls experience was held in January 2020. Funding is to be sought to enable Stellar Violets to offer a regular-seasonal program tailored for girls & women.
Our Story
Founded in 2012 by Lucinda Giblett in Manjimup, Western Australia, Stellar Violets exists to enrich life. Functioning as a collaborative place of beauty and learning, volunteer-led projects map responses to pervasive ill health in self, land and society – the global “whole health” crisis.
Team
Stellar Violets is a Western Australian Incorporated Association and Australian Registered Charity (DGR). Our Committee of Management is made up of local, inter-state, and international volunteer members, artist collaborators, and professionals giving pro-bono assistance.
Lucinda Giblett
Founder / Creative Director
Lucinda Giblett is the founder and creative director of Stellar Violets Life Library Living Museum & Gallery.
After completing graduate, and post graduate studies in Communications, and Creative Industries at Curtin, and then QUT and living abroad, in France, Lucinda returned to her family farm in Manjimup, out of which her Stellar Violets dream has emerged.
Lucinda has been recognised for her work by being awarded runner up West Australian Rural Woman of the Year, and is a highly regarded keynote speaker.
Lucinda and Stellar Violets volunteers are dreaming into a world fit for our time, in which the global ‘whole health’ crisis is met with sanity and soul, for the well-being of self, land, and society. Forthcoming creative offerings from Lucinda include piping, poetry, and a book about Stellar Violets’ first ten years.
Committee of Management
Dr Felicity Haynes
Chairperson
Philosopher & facilitator
Tingrith Meeting House, Margaret River
Vive Oldham
Committee Member
CEO Mellen Events, Perth
Anthony Marich
Committee Member
Beth Blechynden
Committee Member
Manjimup, Western Australia
Social Worker
Alana Marshall
Committee Member
Bibliophile & CEO at The Library Within, Perth
Mr Peacock
Committee Member
Gatekeeper-Gargoyle at Stellar Violets in Manjimup
Yvette Hooper
Treasurer
Stellar Violets Nature Playgroup, Manjimup
Joshua David Thomason
Committee Member
Sponsors
Robert Stanton
Regal Innovations
Robert gifted $100,000 in start up funding to Stellar Violets through Regal Innovations Pty Ltd; their past projects include the Sydney Olympics, Darling Harbour, & Barangaroo.
Harvey Giblett & family
Newton Orchards
Harvey leads Newton Orchards, family owned and managed fruit growing business in Manjimup that gives ongoing in kind support to develop Stellar Violets.
Pro Bono Contributors
A BIG THANK YOU to all our contributors!
Jennifer Birkhead
Graphic Design & Marketing
Peter Bowdidge
Content Creator
Abbie Crawford
Environmental Assessment
Toni & Graham Dearle
Pmberton Discovery Tours
Alastair MacGregor
Urban Journey
Paula McKennay
Freelance Floristry
Annie Martyn
Blossom Business
Lori Pensini
Artist
Andrew Suttar
CEO of Bubbly
Gwendolyn Wenli
Breathe Easy
Pip Wilsie
Website: Pip N Pop
Zoe & Merez
Swallow Bar
Girls
Stellar Violets would like to help girls flourish as they enter that transformational time into early adolescence.
Volunteer at Stellar Violets
Join us to grow beauty, health & community for today, and future generations.
More info coming soon.
Media Kit
Welcome journos and bloggers, start your journey here.
More info coming soon.
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