Bountiful Bristol Bulletin

International artist and experiential workshop leader, Katheryn Trenshaw, asks: Can we be both spiritual and physical creatures?

Historically, the body has been separated from spirituality. This talk looks at how connecting to our physicality can actually deepen our spiritual practice.

About the speaker:
US-born Katheryn Trenshaw, received her BA degree from Michigan State University and L’Universite Haute Bretagne, France. Her art work – watercolour painting, print-making and ceramic sculpture – has been exhibited in the US and Europe.

Her touring exhibition, Breaking the Silence, depicted the traumatic effects of sexual abuse and the subsequent struggle towards healing through 100 raku masks.

The resulting publicity catapulted Katheryn Trenshaw onto the international lecture and workshop circuit. In the mid-nineties, she moved from the US to the UK, where she has created a vast body of work entitled The Wisdom of the Stones, a combination of delicate watercolours and raku-fired sculptures of her day-dream visions while visiting megalithic sacred sites in England.

For Katheryn Trenshaw, art is a vehicle for the soul’s expression. Her continuous commitment to personal growth through living her life as art enables the creations to come from a deep, integral place. She teaches on art, therapeutic creativity and women’s issues.

http://www.ktrenshaw.com

‘Reconnect with self & joyfully step towards 2012’

Saturday 17th December 2011, 11am-4pm
@ Boiling Wells, St Werburghs City Farm.

• Celebrate gratitude & call in your visions for the future
• Clear away the cobwebs & manifest renewed energy for 2012
• Honour your fears & resource yourself to breakthrough them

Features experiential & creative workshops, meditation,
shamanic journey, gratitude altar, fire, ceremony.

This event is grounded in the principles of deep ecology, ancient earth wisdom & Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects.

Venue: Boiling Wells, St Werburghs City Farm

£20, £15 concession. Booking essential
Contact Clare to book. Tel. 0781 237 8834
email. clare.e.adamson@gmail.com

Tonight’s freeskilling will be:

How does a website promote you and your business?

Whether you’re thinking of setting up a business website or already up and running, what should you be doing to get your website working for you? We will discuss the aims and reasons for setting up a business and how the web can help. Bring a notepad and pen for practical exercises. With Caroline Schofield and Sam Ross

As always, this will be in the Better Food Company Cafe, from 6-7.30pm, and anyone is welcome!
(Better Food: 21 Sevier Street, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9LB)

Future freeskilling sessions:

15 November Natural Cleaning Products
Learn how to create simple, effective and economical cleaning products for household use. We’ll look at why it’s a good idea, where to source ingredients and make a couple of products for you to take home. Please bring a washing up size bottle and jar/canister for products you’d like to make. With Dharmaja Ruskin

22 November Couchsurfing – Not Just for 20-Somethings!
Couchsurfing lets you stay in local homes when you are travelling. Couchsurfing lets you host people from all over the world in your home. Learn how it works through my experiences as an older (over 35!) couchsurfer.

29 November Indian Head Massage
Understand the origins and benefits of Indian Head Massage and learn to give a half hour massage on the upper back, shoulders, arms, hands, face, neck and scalp. Please wear a T shirt or other clothing which covers the whole of the back and shoulders. With Paul Tilbury

6 December The Non Geeks Guide to Getting More from Your Computer
Learn how to use your computer more effectively. Replace laborious mouse clicks by using the keyboard. Find free versions of essential tools and discover powerful applications you can use free – and legally! Learn how to find what you want on the Internet and stay safe. With Dave Kibble

Freeskilling will be taking a break over Christmas and New Year and will be back again with a great new programme on Tuesday 10 January 2012.

To share your skill, please contact the Freeskilling team at freeskilling@gmail.com

Delicious morsels of music, dance & poetry to delight, enchant and inspire. Plus scrummy cakes, yummy drinks, comfy cushions and lovely company

SUNDAY 13TH NOVEMBER, 7 – 11pm
LIMPLEY STOKE VILLAGE HALL, Middle Stoke, Limpley Stoke, Nr BATH
£8/£5 concs
Featuring…
OMER MAKESSA and KAYALI ROOTS
Denise Rowe, Caroline Pringle, James Watts and Shiatsu from Antony Wall.

For more info or if you have anything to show -contact Denise on 077233 29414 de8fish@yahoo.co.uk

Please, please come and support Transition Easton Gardening Groups’….

Pub Quiz
*Thursday November 10th*
*8pm*
*The Plough (corner Easton Street and Kilburn Road)*
£1 entry
Tasty treats to win

Questions will be loosely based around gardening trivia and growing theme.

Any money raised goes to support local growing projects in and around
Easton.

The Council’s Sustainable Development and Transport Scrutiny Commission scrutinises Council performance and influences its policy and decision-making.  It’s holding an inquiry in November to examine best practice in supporting local high streets and making them vibrant and diverse places to visit.
The Commission is keen to hear from people about their local high streets as evidence for the inquiry.

The Commission’s chair – Councillor Mark Bradshaw says:
“I’d welcome people’s views on the high streets they use, what they like about them and what can be done to improve them.  The information you give will be invaluable to develop the Council’s action plan on retail for the city”.

Residents can give their views at www.surveymonkey.com/s/highstreetsurvey

There’s also a business survey at www.surveymonkey.com/s/highstreetbusiness

*There has already been a business survey recently carried out in Stokes Croft, Old Market, Christmas Steps/Colston Street, Old City, Park Street and East Street – information from these surveys, which include some of the same questions, will be taken into account.

Sunday 16 October 10.30am
Gathering Voices
Festival of Song
Bristol, City of Song
Following a highly successful launch last year the Gathering Voices Festival of Song returns with a rich and eclectic celebration of the many outstanding voices (singers, ensembles and choirs) of the UK’s premier ‘City of Song’.

Within the wonderful acoustic and inspiring surroundings of St George’s – the intimacy of which makes it the perfect setting for song – this 12-hour singing marathon traverses the whole spectrum of the city’s choirs, the compelling culmination to the second ten day city-wide Festival of Song.

Sessions: 10.30am; 2pm; 6pm.

For full line-up and running times:
festivalofsong.org.uk

15 October, 10 am to 4:30 pm, Tor Leisure, donation requested, booking required
Due to the overwhelming amount of out-of-county support, the Somerset Food Sovereignty Skillshare is now becoming a south-west wide event.

This means organisers, growers, transitioners and anyone who is concerned about our food system from Somerset, Bristol and the South West is invited to Tor Leisure on SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER from 10am till 4.30pm.

Please note we now also have Graciela Romero, International Director of War on Want speaking on the day. If you are intending to come please use the booking form below.

For more information go here

http://transitionglastonbury.org.uk/?p=1137