Bountiful Bristol Bulletin

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.

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

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.

workshop in St Georges Park, learn how to make a low impact, sustainable shelter using hazel poles and tarpaulin. Come along and have a picnic in the park, meet others going to the camp from bristol and learn more about the Camp for Climate Action
Meet in St Georges Park by the pond at 2pm
Bring food to share, tea and coffee provided
For poster:
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26602&condense…
www.risingtide.org.uk/bristol
www.climatecamp.org.uk

We at the Bountiful Bristol Bulletin are very excited to announce that Transition Town Bristol will be launched at 7pm on Wednesday 21st March at the Trinity Centre, Easton, Bristol.

Bristol is ripe for the implementation of this pro-active, systematic ‘powerdown’ approach known to some as Energy Descent Planning, a revolutionary method developed by Rob Hopkins of Transition Culture

How will Bristol feed itself, house itself, warm itself, employ itself, heal itself, amuse itself in a post peak-oil world where climate chaos challenges us more and more? What can you do to help prepare for a very different world?

An inspiring and empowering talk by Dr Chris Johnstone will kick off a programme of talks and workshops to raise awareness and invite the people of Bristol
to engage with planning for a sustainable, low-energy future. This is the first time the approach has been tried on a city scale. If any city can do it - Bristol can!!

For details see Transition Town Bristol

Log on and get in touch if you can help. If you are running a related event, group or project - send me details and I’ll put it on the website.

Montpelier’s innovative, urban food-growing initiative is growing! GROFUN (Growing real Organic Food in Urban Neighbourhoods) is taking shape and we need a couple more participants in the York Road area with a small patch of light garden and a few hours a week to tend crops. In return a weekly delivery of free, fresh, organic produce will be yours. Also, for the work weekends we are looking for a few extra hands. If you want to help out just for a day and pick up some new skills and friends please get in touch as soon as you can.

There will be two meetings for anyone curious to know more. You are invited to join us for one or both of the meetings.

Option 1. 23rd Jan at 24 York Road, Montpelier, 7.30-9.30
Option 2. 24th Jan at 2 Brigstocke Road St Paul’s Bristol 7.30-9.30

The meetings will follow a format. First an introduction/outline to this urban permaculture experiment, a little about me and my motivation, one possible vision for the scheme, an open-discussion to share all possible ideas, seed sowing and tea drinking throughout.

Participants will be expected to attend a work weekend on the 27th/28th Jan in Montpelier where basic raised bed building, soil conditioning and sowing will be demonstrated and info sheets distributed. All materials will be provided for this.

The time is now. If you know anyone in the Montpelier area who you think this may appeal to OR know someone who may want to come and help out with sowing some modular trays or pushing a few wheelbarrows of earth around do let them know about the meetings or pass on my details.

I have a 4 page outline of GROFUN should anyone want more details.

Those planning to come to a meeting could let me know so I buy enough buscuits! Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes for the new year!

Click to join GROFUN
Nadia Hillman (Coordinator)

Dear All
Just wanted to say thanks for making the BPG day school such a brilliant day.
Thanks to you all for coming, for helping out and adding your enthusiasm, thoughts and ideas to the day. As ever - it wouldn’t have happened without your help.
All the workshops, talks and practical sessions were really inspiring so a huge thank you to those who worked so hard to put them together.
The food was fantastic - big thanks to Kebele for their culinary genius and smooth kitchen operation.
Big thanks also to the talented performers who entertained and soothed our tired little heads in the evening.
What a talented bunch we are!
Big love to the BPG!
Emma and Sarah

WORRIED BY CLIMATE WARMING? TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHERE YOU LIVE?

TRAIN ON A SALT COURSE……

Information meetings. TUES NOV 28TH 7-9PM , SAT DEC 2ND 11AM-1PM
Details bigbromo@yahoo. co.uk 0117 9559444

Course Jan-Dec 2007, 2nd weekend of each month in Bristol.
Programme: community building, spiritual practice, creative approaches, learning from indigenous Somali/Middle Eastern culture, intergenerational history, local food action, ecological footprint reduction, facilitation skills.

SALT (Spiritual Activists Leadership Training) is organised by GILL ( Global Issues Local Lives)

Bristol Permaculture Group Dayskool and SW Convergence.

A chance for SW groups to network, share skills and ideas and celebrate all things Permaculture.
Sunday 26th November

At St Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol, BS2 9TJ
9.30am registration and opening meeting to 6.30pm then party till 11.30pm (more…)

Bristol Permaculture Group is hosting a Permaculture Dayschool and SW Convergence on Sunday 26th November at St Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Rd, St Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9TJ

Workshops and talks confirmed so far include:

Paul Mobbs, author of ‘Energy Beyond Oil’ on the looming Peak Oil crisis.

Nicky Scott on Community Composting.

Dr Chris Johnstone on positive personal response to environmental crisis.

Karin, Steiner Waldorf Landworks teacher, on nature education for children.

Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine on how to stay sane while
working for a sustainable future.

Mike Feingold’s round the world tour of sustainable traditional systems.

Sarah Pugh Urban Permaculture and Community Action.

Visit to Boiling Wells Youth Environment Project with scything demonstration
from Neils.

A range of practical skills based workshops including

Natural Household Cleaning products (Emma)

Sock Darning for the Future (Alex)

Green Woodwork

Willow hurdle making

Feedback Forum (for your project ideas )

An opportunity to hear what’s happening in Bristol with updates from a range
of urban Permaculture projects including community allotments, orchards and woodlands. Find out how you can get involved.

A chance for groups from around the South West to network and share ideas.

Cost is £6

Registration is at 9.30am, workshops till 6pm and party till 11pm.

Veggie/vegan lunch and dinner will be provided by the Kebele Kulture Project
Cafe for £3 each meal (£5 day ticket). Tea and Cake on sale all day!

BOOKINGS: Please book a place by emailing
<http://uk.f276. mail.yahoo. com/ym/Compose? To=dilemma@ btinternet. com>
dilemma@btinternet. com - put ‘BPG Dayschool booking’ in the email subject
bar and tell us how many of you are coming.

WORKSHOPS: If you’d like to run a workshop, talk or have a stall - please
also email
<http://uk.f276. mail.yahoo. com/ym/Compose? To=dilemma@ btinternet. com>
dilemma@btinternet. com asap. Please put BPG Dayschool workshop as the subject.

For directions and maps see <http://www.stwerbur ghs.org.uk/>
http://www.stwerbur ghs.org.uk - contact page.

The Fun Revolution is running “virtual grant” workshops for individuals and/or organizations who express an interest. We charge by donation only, large or small, cash or otherwise.

This workshop involves applying for a “virtual grant” to fund a project “that makes your heart sing”. There will be an ‘evaluation process’ then to see how the “virtual” project went and to see if the project is still feasible in real terms.

This is basic NLP goal -setting and will help you start to get that which what you want. It comes with a full donation back guarantee!

We are especially keen to work on “virtual grants” to projects that provide solutions to environmental problems. If you think you would like to develop such a project, even if the only thing you know right now is, that the problem exists and, that you would like to solve it, then please get in touch. The “virtual grant” workshop is available free and unconditionally to anyone with such a project in mind.

Email thegenie@thefunrevolution

cheers
eric

www.thefunrevolution.com
http://www.myspace.com/thefunrevolution
www.myspace.com/thefunrevolution

Living in the times that we do, many of us feel it hard to find sources of inspiration and personal empowerment. We may often feel worn out, frustrated, ineffectual, helpless, hopeless with it all. What I envisage could be moves in a positive direction, are creative movement & expression sessions based on narrative, prose, poetry, quotes, stories, experiences, activities, music…etc

The sessions would offer a safe, contained space where we could express our thoughts, feelings, ideas et al, around the theme of inspiration - in this time of Great Turning in our world. We would use simple body-centred techniques to open up to this process. A chance to get out of our heads and into our bodies! To move and be moved.

You need not have any experience whatsoever in movement to attend, just simply a desire to meet with others for inspirational contact, however you perceive that to be.

Sessions would last for an hour and a half. We would meet monthly or fortnightly depending on what the group as a whole wanted. I’d like to begin fairly soon at a venue in St Werburghs. (There would likely be a nominal charge to cover costs.)

If you are interested then email me preferably:

suzan.aisha@virgin.net

or telephone 0117 909 9229.

Best WishesSuzan

(State registered dramatherapist, holistic therapist and creative dance/movement practitioner with many years experience as a groupworker. (In case you’re wondering!!))