Bountiful Bristol Bulletin

Dear BBB Readers,

I am proud to report that the short film we made which chronicles the first year of the GROFUN Project is now on the web!

With the help of Kyra, a local film maker/editor and Naomi it is great that I can now point those interested to an engaging and informative film to further promote the benefits of this growing, grass-roots project. My friend Steve produced the music especially for this film.

Thankyou Steve

You can watch the film here and comment or go to and watch and comment there. In terms of promotion of the scheme YouTube probably has bit more clout!

Please feel free to leave constructive comments, but go easy, much of the footage was unuseable due to poor sound or light quality and the final cut is the best it could have been with the raw material we had available. It’s not exactly Palme d’Or stuff, but it’s sort of innocent in tone dont you think?

TRANSITION BRISTOL PRESENTS THE BIG EVENT

SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER All day 9.30am to 6pm

AT THE COUNCIL HOUSE, COLLEGE GREEN

With chilled music at the Folkhouse after-party 6.30 to 11pm. You are invited to The Big Event - a lively day of talks, workshops, films and discussions designed to inspire and inform local action. Find out how you can get involved with a community led, radical rethink Bristol’s dependency on fossil fuels and planning how we can move towards a resilient, creative, positive future. Keynote speakers include leading experts Richard Heinberg, Jeremy Leggett, David Strahan and Dr Chris Johnstone. There will also be a packed programme of workshops covering topics like sustainable transport, eco-building, alternative energy, community gardening, herbal medicine, local economics, composting, carbon reduction action groups, how to work effectively as a group and much more. Many workshops will be run by local groups who are already initiating positive changes in their community plus experts fom national organizations Sustrans, The Soil Association and Centre for Sustainable Energy and others. Full listing on www.transitioncitybristol.org

Lifecycle UK will be providing Dr Bike to give your bike the once over while you fill your head with positive ideas. If you’ve already changed your light bulbs and turned your heating down a notch and are wondering what to do next The Big Event is a chance to find out how you can get involved with shaping Bristol’s transition from energy dependence to a sustainable, resilient and positive future. You are invited to come, be inspired and learn how to find the confidence to act. Ticket sales online or at The Better Food Company, Fresh and Wild, Windmill Hill City Farm and other outlets.

For details visit www.transitionbristol.org. Cost £14/£8 concessions. Please book in advance. Tickets are limited so early booking is advised. Bristol Permaculture Group are holding a benefit at the Folkhouse from 6.30pm to 11pm. Chill to beautiful music from Slow, The Dearlings, Eirlys Rhiannon and Susannah Waters. Simple affordable food. £5 on the door. Flyer

Contact Sarah Pugh

sarah@transitioncitybristol.org

www.transitionbristol.org

Transition Bristol is a not for profit community led organization working in conjunction with the national Transition Network. The project is run entirely by volunteers. Transition Bristol supports and is accountable to a network of locally active Transition Villages including Easton, Barton Hill and Redfield, Bishopston, Redland and Ashton. We also have close links with Transition projects in Bath, Wrington and Thornbury. Sarah Pugh 0117 370 1362 07765 604571 sarah@transitioncitybristol.org www.transitioncitybristol.org Transition City Bristol The Hub King St Bristol BS1 4DZ

Full Programme of Talks and Workshops here

This week it was announced that Seven Generations will close in a month’s time. This will be a huge loss to the community, especially in the abscence of another social/community space in the area. Some of the staff there want to ensure that 7G continues to serve the community andhave been discussing taking on the lease and developing the space into a wholefood cafe, bookshop and space for events and the arts. There is also the idea of using the place for skill-swapping in support of the burgeoning Freeconomy Community . They are open to any ideas and would really value your support. Please go along to an emergency meeting to be held at Seven Generations this Monday Oct 1st evening at 7.30 p.m. Please pass on this info to anyone who you might think able to help or get in touch by e-mail or phone if you can’t make the meeting.

Wednesday the 26th of September is Wasted Talent at Mr Wolfs. Wasted Talent is an open jam and open mic event at Mr Wolf’s in Bristol brought to you in association with Body English, the team that provided the Shambala Festival with the Bristol Massive Roller Disco (and prior to that collaborated with ArtspaceLifespace to provide the Audi Garage with a roller-disco) Wasted Talent will also be overseen by the THC Society, the crew that brought Metatron, the intergalactic cabaret, to The Cube in Bristol with Jade Crystal skeletons, Hip-Hop, Alex Grey visuals and a soundhealer, also the people who introduced Bristol to the sublime sound of Carrie Tree at TeleMpathy in Cafe Delight.

Wasted Talent will primarily be an open jam affair where some of Bristol’s best musicians from some of Bristol’s favourite bands will be collaborating and innovating followed by some of the sickest DJs in the West. We are currently only looking at dedicating an hour to solo open mic performances and we would appreciate it if those who would like to play would let us know sooner rather than later (please reply to this e-mail, Londoners and Brightonians - I hope that this is sufficient warning! Tom Trel, Mr Poetic and Ms Woodwood, I’m looking at you…)

The intention is to create a mind-blowingly inspirational event with lots and lots of dancing. If there is any way you can help, any way you can sponsor or if you or anyone you know would like to play please respond to this e-mail.

Wasted Talent will be raising awareness of the rainforest crisis in Tasmania and The Tara Valley campaign in Ireland.

See www.myspace.com/noalternativecollective for information on Tasmanian rainforest being destroyed to make paper and profit and the people who are living with those trees in Direct Action campaigns.

See www.tarapixie.net for information on the ancient burial site that the Irish government is trying to build an illegal road through. (The EU have declared the road illegal and it is possibly the most potent place I have been since Cornwall’s stone circles.)

More than anything we’d like financial sponsorship for information leaflets on the causes, flyers for the event and a compilation CD to give out at the event. This would be in return for logo space on the flyer and CD cover, and raising awareness for a cause of your choice (subject to agreement.) Please respond to thcsociety@gmail.com

Love, gratitude and appreciation

Bristol’s very own beach opens on Saturday 21st July, with the Redcliffe Community Beach Party. We’d love you to come and join us- and bring your friends, family and neighbours too.
The event is free, runs from noon until sunset and includes sandcastle competitions, Arabian dancing, drumming workshops, kids activities, live music, a tropical DJ and tasty beach treats from Pieminister and Bordeaux Quay.
The Beach is at Redcliffe Wharf and will be open from 8am to sunset every day until September. Don’t forget your sunscreen. Bermuda shorts and knotted handkerchiefs are optional.
See you on the Beach- we are “cutting the ribbon” at noon.

Hello BBB

we are looking for a suitable field for our wedding which we hope to arrange for early September
this year. We are struggling to find a place and tonight we suddenly
realised we hadn’t tried hard enough!

The main obstacle we are currently facing is that we want to be able
to make a bit of noise all night long without worrying about being
told to shut up. The plan is to have a weekend camping from sat
afternoon till monday morning with bands and live stuff on sat
afternoon/evening then djs till the bitter end - just loud enough to
keep people interested - this is NOT a free party! also because we
will pay good money for the right field. Particularly if it has
toilets.

We have everything else in hand apart from a suitable field. Any
ideas, no matter how small, unlikely or stupid are very much welcomed.

Thank you!!!!

Nicky and Larry XXX

wickateers@googlemail.com