All welcome at Windmill Hill City Farm, next Sunday the 11th May to raise funds for the
gardens.
A couple of stalls and free kids activities during the afternoon then
ticket holders only from 4 onwards.
Tickets are £5. There are two live bands, food (incl. in price of ticket)
by Café Miatreya, and a bar.
Please join us in celebrating growing food!
Tickets can be bought in advance or on the day
Becky Thoburn
Windmill Hill City Farm Gardener
As I hope you all realise its Eastside Roots first Spring Fayre - this Saturday from 11am (Grand opening featuring Easton Community Choir - come early so as not to miss a great acapella sing song!) to 6pm up at Stapelton Road Train Station site. Below is a list of activities for adults and children alike so please check out so you dont miss anything.
Main Tent: (more…)
An International Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Public Spaces has
been called for on the 11th and 12th of April 2008.
http://april2008.squat.net:8080/. Across Europe diverse groups of enraged
creatives will be reclaiming spaces for art, housing, workshops,
discussions, talks, films, food, swap-shops, music, performances & open mics
to name but the bare essentials.
Whilst their motives are locally specific, these autonomous actions are
drawn together by common threads: (more…)
Abbey Home Farm are hosting ‘The Knitty Gritty - Knitting for Beginners’ Masterclass on Sat 29th March. See link for details:
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/SA/saweb.nsf/a4742d5445d8339e80256a6a0042e018/8c5187d7262c22b8802573b1002f5e71!OpenDocument
Time: 10.00am-4.30pm
Cost: £50.00 (inclusive of lunch and refreshments) or FREE* to those who join the Soil Association (see HOW TO BOOK on website). *A £5 surcharge is required for materials.
There are plenty of places left, so please whizz this round to anyone you think may be interested.
Saturday 26th January - 8 pm to 1 am
Venue - Blue Lagoon, 20, Gloucester Road Cost - £3 or £2 concessions
Latin Party Night - Salsa, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Merengue etc
DJs El Gingo, Jaz, EL Phatticito
Benefit for Venezuela Solidarity and Colombia Solidarity Campaigns
Please come along, show support and have fun!
Don’t forget- this Friday October 26th: meet 1730, leave 1800 from City Centre fountains along St. Augustine’s parade–A Halloween Ride - In Solidarity & Celebration (more…)
at Trinity Arts Centre, Trinity Rd, Bristol, BS2 ONWon Saturday 17th November 7pm - 4am (Bar till 2am)
1st act at 8pm with live music from (more…)
Trinity Community Arts are holding their annual FREE family-friendly fireworks party on Sunday 4th November at the Trinity Centre.
This year’s event promises to provide even more unmissable fun for the local community.
From the moment the bonfire is fired-up at 7pm, the evening’s festivities are set to go off with a bang, with Bristol talents The Ambling Band providing a quirky musical backdrop to the firework display and fire performances.
Feast on bangers, washed down with a cup of hot cider…then move indoors at 8.30pm, where gypsy-jazz-turbo-skiffle festy sensations The Glitzy Bag Hags will be taking the stage and audience participation in the merriment will be unstoppable!
Essentials:
Trinity Centre, Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS2 0NW.
7pm til late - Sunday 4th November
The Glitzy BagHags. The Ambling Band.
For more information, please contact:
0117 935 1200 or email info@3ca.org.uk
A massive “thank you” to everyone who’s contributing their time, skills and effort to make this event a success.
Ladies
Are you in Need of a new autumn wardrobe, but you just can’t afford it?
Is your wardrobe full of clothes you just don’t wear any more, but can’t
bring yourself to do anything with them?
well this could be the solution you’ve been looking for!
on Sunday October the 7th we will be holding a charity Clothes Swap at the
Acta centre.
Bring along your unworn and unwanted clothes, clothes you no longer love
(and shoes and bags and hats!!) and swap away with everyone, to create a
whole new look!
At the end walk away with a whole new wardrobe! we ask that you make a
donation to our chosen charities on your departure - of what you feel you
can afford or what you would like to pay for the pile of new clothes you have!
any remaining clothes will be donated to local charity shops.
the time - 2pm-4pm
the place - the acta centre, Gladstone st, Bedminster, BS3 1EA
the date - Sunday the 7th of October
If you have a spare clothes rail and hangars we could borrow please could
you bring those too!
pass this invite on to all your girlfriends - all shapes and sizes
welcome!! the more the merrier!
look forwards to seeing you there if not before!
cheers from Hannah, Becky and Eve x x x
Local Community Projects To Transform Our City
Saturday 20th October
Trinity Centre, Old Market
£3 (£1.50 unwaged), under 18s free
October sees Bristol East Green Party’s first ‘Think Green!’ fun day. A celebration of existing activity and an inspiration for even more, the day will see films, stalls, music, artwork, food, drink and many more things, as well as a series of workshops on local green issues ranging from community gardening and local green spaces to education and what local groups inside and outside the formal political process can achieve.
Speakers will include representatives from Transition City Bristol and many other local groups, as well as the city’s Green councillor, Charlie Bolton. The national Green Party’s male Principal Speaker and direct action veteran, Derek Wall, will be giving the keynote address at the event, so put it in your diaries now!
Scene-by-Scene:
10.45: Coffee and Cake
11.15: Introduction
11.30: Workshops: on community growing, transport, local politics
12.30: Lunch (delicious cheap environmental eats from local foodies)
2.00-2.30: Derek Wall – Principal Speaker of the Green Party
2.30-3.30: Workshops: Transition Bristol, planning & housing, education
3.30: Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
3.45: Close
Plus loads of fun green activities throughout – a day for all the family.
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.
andykisaragi
Just a few things I thought deserved a mention on here, but didn’t want to write a whole separate entry about each one…
People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
Maybe everyone knows about this already and I’m massively behind the times, but you know all the great arty / grafitti stuff that’s been going up on Stokes Croft, around Turbo Island and the Jamaica Street studios..? Well I didn’t realise but it’s all part of a massive (in ambition) geurilla art project all around the area. They’ve got big plans, so if you’re an artist and fancy prettying up the place a little, check out their site.
Zero Carbon Britain
This is a report put together by people from CAT, where I’m studying, on how Britain can reduce it’s carbon emissions to zero, relying upon it’s own resources, by 2027. The website is here and will have the full downloadable report on there in the next few days (or you can order a hardcopy if you like. Apparently they’re very pretty. You materialistic swine.) It’s been getting a fair bit of press, eg in the Guardian, and they’re off to the House of Commons to present it later this month. I’m not usually one for top down, government policy approaches to things, but if anyone can come up with a good government policy it’s these guys. Whether they’ll be paid any attention is another matter, but spread the word, the more we talk about this stuff, the more they have to listen…
and finally
…I enjoyed this cute advert for wind power…
andykisaragi
After the success of their Mulambo night last December, James and Clare are doing it again on the 15th of June. It’s on a bit more of a psychedelic theme this time and has expanded into the second room at the trinity for a chillout / chai shop / multimedia space.
eat static and banco de gaia should need no introduction… fromem ory is a rising star of fullon psytrance making his first visit to bristol and andykisaragi is of course me, and i rock. It’s a great line up and should make for a great night, and rest assured the chillout lineup, still being finalised, will be just as special.
Also, it’s all for charity! So no excuses, get yourself to Bristol Ticket Shop now…
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
andykisaragi
Bristol Community fm have recently been awarded Brisol’s first community radio broadcast licence. They are scheduled to start broadcasting in April, and now is the time to get involved. There’s 2 meetings this week - unfortunately the first one is firmly in the past (Tuesday evening) but I only found out about them last night so not much we can do about that… Anyway the next meeting is tomorrow (Friday 19th January) at the Beacon Centre, Russell Town Avenue, Lawrence Hill (entrance at end of car park to City Academy). It’s for anyone who’d like to get involved in any way - presenting, interviewing, reasearching, writing, producing, engineering, etc etc. If you can’t make it to the meeting get in touch via the website.
