About
Our Vision
Create an inter-generational place of beauty & lifelong learning, offering wondrous experiences to help people & planet flourish.
wondrous dreaming
creating the village our hearts long for
for these times
a special place to gather
growing together
with our land, for a flourishing future
Our Story
Founded 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, an arts & cultural centre delivering wondrous experiences to help people & planet flourish.
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 key-note 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.
Committee of Management
Dr Felicity Haynes
Chairperson
Philosopher & facilitator
Tingrith Meeting House, Margaret River
Vive Oldham
Committee Member
CEO Mellen Events, Perth
Beth Blechynden
Committee Member
Manjimup, Western Australia
Social Worker
Alana Marshall
Committee Member
Bibliophile & CEO at The Library Within, Perth
Jen & Mark Eyers
Committee Members
Kynjarmen Farm, Waikato, New Zealand
Dale Miles
Committee Member
General Manager at Dorper Lamb, Bunbury
Yvette Hooper
Treasurer
Stellar Violets Nature Playgroup, Manjimup
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!
Lori Pensini
Artist
Paula McKennay
Freelance Floristry
Gwendolyn Wenli
Breathe Easy
Pip Wilsie
Website: Pip N Pop
Jennifer Birkhead
Graphic Design & Marketing
Alastair MacGregor
Urban Journey
Andrew Suttar
CEO of Bubbly
Peter Bowdidge
Content Creator
Toni & Graham Dearle
Pmberton Discovery Tours
Zoe & Merez
Swallow Bar
Abbie Crawford
Environmental Assessment
Mr Peacock
Resident
Events
Stellar Violets will soon be available to book as a special event venue.
Watch this space.
Become a Friend of Stellar Violets Gardens
Planting a flourishing 8 Acre Botanic Garden. Join us to grow beauty & community for today, and future generations.
More info coming soon.
Media Kit
Welcome journos and bloggers, start your journey here.
More info coming soon.
Donate
Back a visionary project: holistic health education for women and girls, set among 8 Acre Botanic Gardens, and train carriages to carry us into dreaming for a flourishing world.
By appointment
Remote volunteering possible during Covid-19
Contact
0402 119 154
hello@stellarviolets.org
21 Middlesex Road
Manjimup WA 6258