Ways to take part include:
performance (music, spoken word, walkabout)
making decorations
hosting a craft stall
running a skills sharing workshop
sharing your homegrown produce
being a candidate for Montpelier Mayor or Queen Bean in the mock elections
helping to run silly games and craft activities
help to organise a ‘heritage lunch’ for older residents of Montpelier

On the day, we need volunteers to help with stewarding, putting up decorations, assisting with cake/bean/tea stalls and clearing up afterwards.

If you’re able to join this happy team, please get in touch!  You can see the ‘get involved’ flyer here
Sally Jenkins
Event Coordinator
montpelierbeanfeast@yahoo.co.uk
07866 748193

About the event
This community street festival is a resurrection of an annual event from the eighteenth century, which historical accounts say originally featured mock elections of a Mayor and Sheriff, ‘delighted spectators’ and ‘various high jinks’. It is now a celebration of local heritage, local harvest and local genius and features music, mock elections, crafts workshops and procession, local produce exchange, ‘homemade’ stalls and lots of neighbours getting to know each other.
The event takes place in St Andrews Road and Montpelier Park. It is free to attend, although donations towards costs are much appreciated.  All organisers are unpaid volunteers from the local area.

Can you help out with this year's Bean Feast? We need lots of people to make it a success!

The aim is to identify:

• existing green space (however small)
• potential hard space for planters or digging out
• potential green roof space
• untended gardens to approach to offer assistance and/or gardenshare

Action points from the meeting are here; our next meeting will be Thursday 25 March at 8pm in the Old Fairfield School to discuss the results of the Mapping Day.  We will aim to focus our energies on a few ‘quick win’ areas of Montpelier to demonstrate what’s possible over the next few months, with the goal of creating a Trail across the whole area over the next few years.

Montpelier Bean Feast celebratory poster

Click here to download it.

Do you have any feedback to offer or great photos to share?  Please either make a comment to this post below, or email them to montpelierbeanfeast@yahoo.co.uk.

All feedback, whether good points, concerns or ideas for the future, will be incorporated into an event report which will be ready by the end of October (so please ensure you send your comments by the 26th).  Photos will be turned into an online gallery (the technical side of which is yet to be sorted – we’ll keep you posted!)

Thanks to everyone who was a part of Montpelier Bean Feast 2009 and we hope even more of you will get involved next time round!

Events

1) Love Easton Community Café:  5 Stapleton Rd, Bristol, BS5 0QR – around the corner from the Trinity Centre.

Opens to the public for one month from Saturday 3rd October 2009
DROP BY – Come and say hello to us throughout October
A community cafe will open at the old paint stripping shop. Come and join us
for tea and cake, and tell us what you want from Easton.  Also, log on to
Love Easton website to find out dates for specific design workshops to get
involved in.  Be a key participant in the organically developing exhibition.

2) Stapleton Road Street Fair: Saturday 3rd October 2009

Live Bands, Open Mic, Live Graf Art, Circus, Food, Drink, Face Painting and
much, much more

3) Debate:  Duty to Involve- What it means to community led design – Tuesday October 6th 2009

Architecture Centre, Bristol
How much say should the public have in how their communities are developed?
Event page

4) Green Spaces – Drop in Day: Wednesday 7th October 2009

At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road. Start time 10am – 8pm.
What do you want from your existing green spaces?/ Where would you like them?
/What facilities do you need? /How do you get to the green spaces?
Come and speak to Rob McGovern, Area Green Space Plan Project Officer for Bristol City Council

5) Design Workshop: Saturday 10th October 2009

10am – 6pm – Starting at Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.
Visit some of Easton’s potential development sites and share your own
development ideas, with the help of architects and designers
If you are interested, contact them on this email address
£3 for a day of fun and exploration in Easton.
Hosted by Departure Lounge

6) One vision for Old Market: Sunday 11th October 2009

10am – 4pm – Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.
4pm – 6.30pm – Meeting at the Trinity Centre to discuss the future of Old Market

7) Competition: Deadline for entries- 19th October 2009

A competition to create a work of art that represents the spirit of Easton, or
take a photograph which reflects the best and worst aspects of Easton. The
winning work of art will receive £50 and the winning photographs showing the
best and worst aspects of Easton will receive £25 respectively.
For more information visit the Love Easton website

8 ) Connectivity – Drop in Day: Wednesday 21st October 2009

10am – 6pm – At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.
The day will be spent on Junctions, roads, footpaths and cycle networks
Come and speak to Adrian Roper between 10am – 1pm
SUSTRANS – South West Regional Director

9) EXHIBITION : November 3rd – 22nd 2009

Elevating Easton: Developing the city through community consultation
An exhibition showcasing local residents’ views and aspirations for Easton
Main gallery, First Floor: Architecture Centre, Bristol

Drop in consultation days to be confirmed:-

1. Energy and Sustainability
2. Rubbish and Recycling
3. Visionary use of space
4. Housing development
5. Amenities