Discussion and homemade cake:

Interested in food?  Interested in the future of food? Interested in talking about the future of food? Rationing? Self-Sufficiency? Meals in a pill?

• Date: Tuesday 27th July 2010
• Where: Boiling Wells, St Werburghs, (past the City Farm, around the self-build and through the tunnel)
• Time: 7pm
• No need to book – just turn up!

Kilter Theatre are hosting a free tea party to discuss the future of food. We will be documenting your stories and using them in our forthcoming play ROOTS REPLANTED, performed at Boiling Wells, St Werburghs 2nd -5th September.

We would really love to get your input so that the play is specific to Bristol and St Werburghs and relevant to the community. So any local information, history, memories, anecdotes and thoughts about the future are all welcome.

This will be a fun and informal event and is as much about getting people together as contributing to the making of the play.

If you can’t make it to the tea party but would like to know more about ROOTS REPLANTED and other opportunities to get involved please call Eve : 0781 294 0063.

5.30pm -Doors open, food served (bring contributions if you’d like), plants, stalls, literature

6.00pm - Introduction to the evening, Transition and local projects 

6.15pm -Food INC -sound powered by bike! 

8pm -Q+A to expert panel…*NoTescoinStokesCroft; *GROFUN; *Sim’s Hill CSA/ Shared harvest scheme; *FareShare SW food “recycled” for the homeless; *Transition Montpelier’s Urban Growing group; *Cllr Jon Rogers, Bristol City Council 

8.45pm -Open space session- your space to discuss whatever you want about the topics or create new ones 

9.30pm -Summary 

9.45pm -Close

£2 donations on the door

We will be asking for donations (£2) to go towards covering the costs of licensing and hiring the film venue etc, just so you are aware. We won’t turn anyone away if they can’t contribute for any reason. Hopefully the more we link up local food and local economy/Freeconomy, swapping services… (as we hope to do with this event).. the more the local economy/community will benefit and the less we’ll all have to pay in terms of the planet (for one thing). Thanks for your patience and look forward to seeing you tomorrow

 Venue- Old Fairfield School (now Fairfield Resource Centre), Fairfield Road, Montpelier, BS6 5QG.

Contact Jess-  trying2begreen@gmail.com 07904 044213 if any queries

This brings our total awarded to £106,999, and we have two further grant applications in for £50k each that we hope to hear about very soon. These would build the spectator seating linking the playground and ballcourt, and resurface and level the ball court.  Negotiations are underway with the owner of the strip of land in the middle of the Park who has offered to sell it to the Council, bringing the whole of the Park back into public ownership.  Joint pressure from us and the Albany Green Residents Group has also led to BCC releasing £48k to improve Albany Green.

Many, many thanks to everyone who has written letters of support, attended funder’s meetings, supplied advice or helped in any other way – we’re now well on our way to a significantly better Montpelier Park and Albany Green.

Cheers!

Shiona

Transition Montpelier is hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed Food Inc film in conjunction with the ‘Say NO to Tesco’ campaign and we want you to be there!

The night will consist of a film showing, with a Q&A to a panel and discussion about the issues it raises, followed by an open space to further discuss practical ways to resist the opening of a Tesco on Stokes Croft  and the benefits of locally grown, low impact food options. We will also be selling literature on local food and Transition, food plants and displaying the great work our Urban Greening group have been doing. Learn more about local food initiatives and how to get involved.

Sharing good food is the theme of the evening, and we’re hoping to provide some delicious examples of sustainably grown dishes…  And that’s where you come in!

We’re looking for people to contribute locally produced; cakes, snacks, vegetables, soup, salads, elderflower cordial, etc. Anything you could offer would be massively appreciated! Also any literature promoting local good food groups, allotments, or vegetable boxes for example, let us know and we can make them available to people at the event.

We are also hoping for some help with publicising the event (could you forward information on to a mailing list when it’s ready / put a few flyers in your local shop?), and some people to help out on the night. Can you help?

More information to follow, WATCH THIS SPACE!

Please get in touch with Jess at trying2begreen@gmail.com or 07904044213 if you can help in any way!

Links:-

http://www.foodincmovie.co.uk/

http://notesco.wordpress.com/

www.transitonbristol.net

The beans are getting mega tall so we’ve decided to get them planted at the station on THURS 17TH JUNE from 5pm. Please come and join in!  We may also be building wildlife homes and there should be a cake or two around!  If you can come, please bring any gloves or trowels you have, but don’t worry if you haven’t!

Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Please click here: Urban Greening 26may10 for the minutes.  We’ll be meeting again in the early autumn.  Anyone who’s interested is very welcome to join us for planning and action days.  If you’d like to join the mailing list, please email shiona_macp@hotmail.com or salsyj@yahoo.com.

See you soon greeners!

A project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself (“DIY”) environmentalism, culture, nature, community life and the art of travelling without engines – the exact opposite of an all-inclusive flight to the beach!

Moving all our stuff by sheer pedal power, we create a mobile activist community to learn about and help the campaigns of local groups we visit who have the same ideals as us. Inevitably, we building up strong connections between the participants who come from different cultures and backgrounds.

…Ecotopia will be Joining Spoke’n'Chain who will be running a bicycle costuming workshop and providing the b-bike-a-lula, mobile pedal powered sound system. It was great fun last year and this year is going to be bigger and better in preparation for the Bristol Cycle Festival and Freewheelin’ Carnival happening  in September.

Thingloop, a Bristol start-up promoting sharing and collaborative consumption

How to set up a food-buying group, 7th July (registration form)

Herb walks, May-October

Invasive weed pulling, 17th July

Community-supported agriculture project at Frenchay