MardiGrass Info Booth, chill zone, medical Cannabis meeting place, forums, with advice and education in the garden. The Verandah Cafe in the Town Hall is open all weekend serving healthy meals, local coffee and homemade hempseed cakes.

Friday 1 May

12 – 4 pm: Hemposium Conference

Talks, workshops, demos and forums on cannabis law reform, medicine, industry, culture, and history.

Link to Program ~ Link to Speakers

We are pleased to present some mind-bending action at the 28th MardiGrass Hemposium. There is an impressive line-up of speakers who will share their medical cannabis expertise and experiences, and reveal the campaigns and gains made in other cannabis loving communities around the planet.

6 pm : HEMP Fashion Show

MCs: Thundercloud & Miss Guidance
Come frolic with faeries and fashionistas ! Journey through local hemp fields of fashion and learn how you too can dress like a hemp faerie. Save the planet and wear hemp!

Credits go to:

Orenda by Juliska Kashi @ Hemp Embassy Mad Hattery

7.30 pm : Great Green Cabaret

The spectacular Great Green Cabaret on Friday 1 May at Nimbin Hall will feature an action packed, fast paced, whirl of performance artists with wonderful globe trotting duo the Hussy Hicks, Tuntable Falls Youth Circus, Ganga Faeries, Pagan Love Cult, stand up comic Peter Willey, flamenco trio Arte Gitana, Irish singer Willy McElroy, mime artist Jean-Paul Bell, poet/host David Hallett…and more. This is a family friendly 90 minute show. Doors open 7pm, show starts 7.30, first in/best seated. Entry MardiGrass wristband or $12, kids $5

9 pm : Picker’s Ball

Hosted by MC Thundercloud

9.30 pm

11 pm Louey Howell & the Funkatu Collective

Saturday 2 May

10 am – 4 pm: Hemposium Conference

Talks, workshops, demos and forums on cannabis law reform, medicine, culture, and history.

Link to Program ~ Link to Speakers

5 pm: Book Launch

‘A Spectator’s Guide to the Hemp Olympix’ by Glover & Sorrensen

5.30 pm : HEMP Olympix Joint Rolling First Heats

6.30 pm : Hemposium Mediweed Hypothetical

Shades of Geoffrey Robertson. Putting an panel of 10 on the spot using a hypothetical case that features many of the dilemmas and problems facing cannabis – for those who use it and those who control it. Hear what patients, politicians, growers and oil-makers of medical cannabis, and more have to say – when no preparation is allowed.

Host: Dr Deb

Speakers:
Zane Archer [Nimbin Hemp Embassy]
Charly Bedrossian [Cannabis College Amsterdam]
Mae Moon [Canada]
Elvy Musikka [USA]
Alice O’Leary-Randall [Mary’s Medicinals, USA]
Fiona Patten [Reason MLC Victoria]
David Shoebridge [Greens MLC NSW]
Michael Stoopman [Australia]
Morgan Taylor [Australia]

7.55 pm : Ganja Faeries Burlesque Performance

Nimbin Ganja Faeries Burlesque Cabaret performing to an Electro swing version of the original 1920’s prohibition song “Light Up” by Buster Bailey & the Rythm Busters, electrified by Skeewiff. Just goes to show the more things change the more they stay the same.

8 pm : Stand Up Comedy Show

It’s a long-standing tradition that Saturday night at MardiGrass means Cannabis Comedy. Hosted by the dynamic duo of Glover and Sorrenson, this year Cannabis Comedy presents special guest comedian, Tommy Dean and not just Steady Eddy but the Steady Eddy Band!

Glover & Sorrensen is a two-handed stand-up comedy act that combines the talents of two comedians – Alan Glover and S Sorrensen – bouncing off each other (verbally mostly; physically sometimes) combining their wealth of material with unpredictable, spontaneous improvisation. This double act has entertained audiences all over this wide, drying land – but the dynamic duo loves returning to S’s tribal land for MardiGrass. Alan and S are also international sporting officials, officiating at and commentating on the MardiGrass Hemp Olympix.