Christmas Market
2–8pm Wednesday 23 December
Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol
The perfect opportunity to stock up on
fresh, local and really delicious goodies
for the festive period. Mince pies,
Christmas puds, fresh and local Veg,
Christmas flowers, handmade chocolates,
pickles for boxing day, lovely wines,
fantastic local cheeses and much more.
There will be carols, roasted chestnuts,
mulled wine and a wonderful festive
atmosphere. The children’s area will be all
about edible decorations.
www.lovefoodfestival.com

Horfield Friends Meeting House,
300 Gloucester Road, Horfield
Avon Organic Group (AOG) Meetings take
place on the first Tuesday of each month
from September–December and
February–May.
Meetings are open to all (entrance charge).
All welcome – do come along!
7.30pm Tuesday 3 November
Alan Lock: Potatoes – all you need to
know
7.30pm Tuesday 1 December
Charles Dowding: Soil care & no-dig
gardening
Charles is an expert grower and author of
RHS articles. Slide show & talk.
www.avonorganicgroup.org.uk/events.
htm

6.30pm–8.30pm Wednesdays,
20 sessions from 6 January
St Paul’s Learning and Family Centre,
94 Grosvenor Road, St Paul’s,
Bristol BS2 8XJ
Tutor: Tim Foster · £192 / £20
The ultimate how-to-grow-your-own
food course, suitable for allotments
and gardens. The main groups of fruit
and vegetables are covered, plus the
best organic techniques for sustainable
production.
In addition to the 20 weekly sessions,
the course includes 12 practical Saturday
sessions from 9–11, on an allotment, to
link in with the lessons.
www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/
stream/asset/?asset_id=31106010&amp

10am Saturday 7 November
St Werburghs Farm cafe,
Watercress Road, Bristol BS2 9YJ
£50 / 10% discount for Friends of LILI
Join us for a day of foraging for edible
and useful plants. By the end of the day
you will have been taught about 50–100
plants, and not only their edible and
medicinal uses but their history and
folklore too. The day’s foraging is ideal for
everyone – first-time foragers looking for
that extra bit of confidence or experienced
foragers looking to increase their
repertoire of plant knowledge. The course
is conducted by brothers Andy and Dave
Hamilton, authors of the Selfsufficientish
Bible. Please bring a packed lunch, but the
boys will provide a bit of extra food too.

www.selfsufficientish.com/main/blog.
php/courses/

12.30–4.30pm 7 November
Redland Park United Reformed Church,
Whiteladies Road, Redland, Bristol
£10 per family / £5 per person
An event for all ages at Redland Park
United Reformed Church, with Bordeaux
Quay Cookery School and Wrington Greens
supplying all the organic veg. Planting
with Redland horticulturalist Hilary Barber.
(The Church is the one with all the solar
panels on the roof.)
For booking details contact Dougie Burnett
0117 330 9910
douglasburnett@wwmail.co.uk

Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) is delighted to announce its Autumn Arts Programme, showcasing contemporary artistic work from Bristol and beyond.

KWMC is hosting a series of free film screenings, talks and events, including a celebration of harvest food and a seminar exploring website marketing for creative businesses.  There has never been a better time to see the Arts in action in Knowle West – visit http://www.kwmc.org.uk/index.php?department=11, call 01179 030444 or drop into KWMC, Leinster Avenue, Bristol, BS4 1NL for more information.

October/November 2009

Free Film Screenings: The Devil Wears Prada (28 October), Awaiting For Men & Amai Rosie (29 October)

Free Talks: 4 stimulating talks focusing on the role of artists and the creative industries in developing urban spaces and considering the environment (2, 4, 9, 23 November)

Free Events: Harvest Food Celebration (31 October), The Knitting Salon (27 November)

Business Event: Website Marketing for a Creative Business (17 November)

This Thursday will be apple day at the Eastside Roots garden at Trinity Arts Centre, Trinity Rd, Bristol, BS2 0NW
Tel. 0117 935 1200.

There will be pressing of apples with a traditional apple press to make a whole load of juice for
drinking or turning into cider!
The day will run from 1 till 4pm.

More apples are needed so if you would like apple juice, please bring some along. There are
hundreds of neglected trees in Bristol and the surrounding area, so get scrumping!

Experiments against Enclosure – Tools to reclaim the Commons

All round the world, there are thousands of projects and people working from the bottom up, creating and resisting the system that is causing climate change and building a more just and sustainable world, right here and now. As part of the 100 days run up to the Copenhagen Climate summit, The Trapese Collective invite YOU to three days of practical workshops, trainings, discussions and inspiration on everything from crash technologies and local food to campaigning and building alternatives. Come to just one workshops or the whole three days. Check out our mid week film programme.

When? Saturdays 17th October, 31st October, 14th November 2009, 10.30 – 6pm.

Where? Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA www.arnolfini. org.uk

How? Register via Arnolfini box office or phone, T: +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01
E: boxoffice@arnolfini .org.uk .
Please say which session(s) you plan to attend. Or simply turn up and register on the day. Some sessions are ‘closed’ once they start, others are ‘drop in’, (see programme)

How much? Participation is not dependent on paying but we suggest a donations from £5 to £15 per person, per day, depending on income. This will go to the workshop facilitators, who are offering these sessions for free, or to the projects of their choosing.

Food? Bring food to share or there are plenty of local eateries.

Who? Trapese are a popular education collective who among other projects edited the Do It Yourself -handbook for changing our world, in 2007. This project which draws on the themes from the book will be co-ordinated by Alice Cutler, Natasha Machin and Steve Stuffit, from Bristol with input from Paul Chatterton, and Kim Bryan and many other Trapese friends.

PROGRAMME
DAY 1- Saturday 17th October 2009
Living Sustainably, organising co-operatively.

Opening session 10.30 -11.30:
Introductions. “Autonomous Futures and Direct Democracy” – Paul Chatterton, (Trapese) talks about creative possibilities of direct action and autonomy for a sustainable future.

WORKSHOPS session 1 12- 2pm Choose between:

* Community Gardening– How to use urban space to green up our local ecologies, strengthen existing communities AND get local food! Featuring Eastside Roots and local permaculturists including Mike Feingold. (Drop in)

*Economics v Ecology? – with Will Brown explaining the way the economy works. A discussion on the false choice between ‘jobs vs environment’ . (Drop in)

*Consensus Decision Making and Facilitation. A training of tools and methods to break down hierarchies and work effectively in groups. With Alice Cutler and Kim Bryan.
(Closed once started)

2pm-3pm LUNCH

WORKSHOPS Session 2 3-5pm Choose between:

*Crash technologies in urban settings- Marvel at a grey water and water filtration systems. Create a floating Rubbish Islands, portable bio-remediation devices constructed from urban detritus. With Steve Stuffit. (Drop in)

*What do you want to shout about? The voice of dissent with the ‘The Feral Choir’: Find ways to imaginatively interpret words of passion in many styles,strategies, situations, open out the issues and include everyone. Go to the front desk to add texts and come to the workshop. Led by Mel McCree (Closed once started)

*Creative ways of juicing the politics from apples: Food and Climate Chaos. Physical and poetic participatory workshop with Natasha Machin. (Closed once started)

5-6pm Closing-feedback from all workshops and what next?

DAY 2 Saturday 31st October
Inspiring change and learning together

Opening session 10.30 -11.30:
What tactics and strategies do Ultra Red, Stuffit and Trapese Collective use to engage, inspire and inform social change?

WORKSHOPS session 1 12 – 2pm Choose between:

* What is popular education and how can it help us change the world? Learn the Trapese toolkit for participatory teaching and learning. (Drop in)

*’Creative Vandalism – From one way reception to two way broadcast. Featuring the Bristle Collective famous for stencils and subverts and how-to make seedbombs.(Drop in)

*’A Normal Person’s Guide to online and offline media activism. With Mick Fuzz (Drop in)

2pm-3pm LUNCH

WORKSHOPS session 2 3- 5pm Choose between:

*’Looking backwards to go forwards, an illuminating walking tour of some local spots with Bristol Radical History. (Drop in)

‘What is the sound of climate change?’ – International collective ‘Ultrared’ use audio to create both social change and art. They will give demonstration of their methods and pay us some highlights. Bring a sound. (Closed once started)

*The Gift & the Commons – There are thousands of ways of producing, consuming and making decisions. The US anarchist/anthropol ogist David Graeber muses on human organisation and emerging social possibilities. (Drop in) (TBC)

5-6pm Closing-feedback from all workshops and what next?

DAY 3 Saturday 14th November
Direct Action: Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Opening 10.30 -11.30
Why do we need to take direct action? With faith in party politics in the doldrums, look to the school occupations, wildcat strikes and environmental actions that are taking back control in everyday life and put democracy back into action.

WORKSHOPS Session 1 12-2pm Choose between:

* Learn techniques for Non Violent Direct Action, how to make it safe, effective. Discover a multitude of different ways to resist.(Closed once started)
* Bringing the commons back into everyday life: From housing co-ops to squatting and self managed social centres, spaces can be transformed to open up new possibilities. (Bristol Space Invaders) (Drop in)
*’Evolving Minds– How to live in balance and with integrity in a complicated and difficult world that does not always make that easy? How to develop a healthy relationship with oneself and with other people in the community? A safe space to talk about strategies for keeping ourselves well.(Closed once started)

2pm-3pm LUNCH

WORKSHOPS Session 2 3- 5pm Choose between:

*Hacktivism: How free software and free media are changing the future. HacktionLab
Following the this year’s G20 protests in London and the advent of social networks and other web 2.0 tools, Indymedia’s raison d’être is possibly now even more relevant than it was when the project started nearly ten years ago. The software tools used to build Indymedia into the World’s largest autonomous network have helped construct the internet and whose principals of openness and collaboration are changing the way we look at science, art, knowledge and even activism. (Drop in)

*Direct Action Casework – a radical response to the crisis’ : The London Coalition Against Poverty are pioneers of grassroots solidarity networks taking action on the issues of everyday life. East Bristol Debtors Alliance organise around the social question of debt. (Drop in)
* Direct Action gets the goods. From the climate camps and Co-Mutiny, Bristol to plans for Copenhagen’s climate summit this December, how do our local and international campaigns link up with other social struggles? (Drop in)

5-6pm Closing-feedback from all workshops and what next?

Films- in the Reading Room 6:15pm on Thursdays. Check out www.trapese. org
‘Rocking the Foundations’ – film about the Aussie ‘Green Bans’ when the BLF builders union refused to build on the cities green areas. Thursday 22nd October

‘Establishing a food forest the Permaculture Way’ – The potential of permaculture forest gardening to design abundant human ecosystems. Thursday 5th November

The Forest for the Trees” – Judi Bari and loggers. Earth first activist and IWW member who pioneered the recombination of red and green politics. Thursday 19th November

Exhibitions: In Gallery 2 come & browse The Radical Library in a beautiful, geo-dome made of locally sourced wood by Tim Floyd (www.timfloyd. co.uk), packed with pamphlets, articles and books.

Sunday 4th Oct. 730-1230pm

Stokes Croft hosts its first ever fashion show this Sunday. Organised by the inestimable Gilly Woo, whose corsetry and bespoke dressmaking is based in the heart of Stokes Croft, the show will highlight the creativity that resides in the area. Exhibitors will include Dutty Clothing, Spunky, Ben’s Sister, Gilly Woo herself and Avalaan. Said Chris Chalkley of PRSC, “Stokes Croft is resurgent, and is Bristol’s hub of creativity. This promises to be an exciting event, and is another example of the local community pulling together to promote its own cause. There is a depth of creative talent in the Croft.”

The show will raise funds for the continuing work of PRSC, and it is planned that this show will become an annual fixture in Stokes Croft’s busy calendar.

Tickets may be puchased at www.gillywoo.com and cost £12.

Many thanks to Dave Trew at Metropolis for hosting this event.

Saturday 4th October 12.30 to 7.30pm: Eastside Roots Free Community Harvest Fete
– Stapleton Road Train Station, Easton

There will be music, talks, workshops, children & youth activities, plant sale,
games, men’s group, storytelling, poetry, arts n craft stalls, circus, 10-18
year old talent contest, holistic health treatments and more to be announce –
watch this space. Want to get involved/run a workshop/perform/have a stall email
nick@… or call 07810
806 354. But please come to fundraiser so we can afford to run the free day!

Nick Ward

Project Co-ordinator

Eastside Roots

07810 806 354 Eastside Roots, not for profit co-op running a Community
gardening hub at Stapleton Road Train Station in Easton and food growing garden
at Trinity, needs your support!

www.eastsideroots.org.uk

The course is 8 week long but one week has already been and gone. Meet at Trinity Garden, Old Market at 10 am Thursdays and class finishes at 12.30 when there is a chance to volunteer in the community garden and earn some produce.

The course is very reasonably priced at £40 (£25 unwaged)……and the topics are relevant to the current seasonal features.

For more info please contact Tom Daly on 07988460373

Eastside Roots, not for profit co-op running a Community gardening hub at
Stapleton Road Train Station in Easton and food growing garden at Trinity, needs
your support! (www.eastsideroots.org.uk )

Friday 25th September 9pm to 4am: ‘Global Dance party’ @ Trinity Centre,Trinity
Road, Old Market – £7.50/more on the door. Tickets on sale: Ticket shop,
Eastside Roots, Easton Thali Cafe & Bristol Green Stores in St Nicks market &
109 Chessel Street, Bedminster

Featuring:

Tofu Love Frogs (www.tofulovefrogs.co.uk) –Celtic folk punk; fast fiddle
festival frenzy, think Pogues, Levellers, Kilnaboy. These guys are legendary;
they were the brains behind the Hackney Free Festival in early 90s and their
founder, Chris Tofu went on to form Continental Drift, Lost vagueness & now
Shangri-la. A must see.

Mankala (www.myspace.com/mankala) – Hi-energy 8 piece Afro-Caribbean
fusion/sunshine music! ‘….essential, soul-preserving rhythms that will always
triumph’ (Venue)

Fuzia (www.myspace.com/fuziabristol ) – 8 piece Gypsy Balkan dance
riot…you will not be disappointed.

Plus: Balkan Xpress DJs, Eastside Roots DJs playing the best world beats &
festival favourites, Occasional Cinema (www.myspace.com/occasionalcinema)
screening an outside cinematic mix tape, fancy dress (optional but prizes for
best outfits) Gypsy wedding vs Garden of Eden (think feathers, top hats, layered
skirts or green (wo)man, woodland nymphs, flowers), raffle, stalls
and wholesome cafe.

This one is not to be missed and all money raised will be used to put on a Free
Community Harvest Fete:

Saturday 4th October 12.30 to 7.30pm: Eastside Roots Free Community Harvest Fete
– Stapleton Road Train Station, Easton

There will be music, talks, workshops, children & youth activities, plant sale,
games, men’s group, storytelling, poetry, arts n craft stalls, circus, 10-18
year old talent contest, holistic health treatments and more to be announce –
watch this space. Want to get involved/run a workshop/perform/have a stall email
nick@… or call 07810
806 354. But please come to fundraiser so we can afford to run the free day!

Nick Ward

Project Co-ordinator

Eastside Roots

07810 806 354 Eastside Roots, not for profit co-op running a Community
gardening hub at Stapleton Road Train Station in Easton and food growing garden
at Trinity, needs your support!

www.eastsideroots.org.uk

Climate Rush picnic:
The delightfully eccentric Climate Rush (www.climaterush.co.uk) will be coming to Bristol on Sunday 20th September and staying here for Monday. They are travelling from Heathrow to Totnes by horse and cart, dressed as suffragettes (I did mention eccentricity!) spreading the word about climate change and celebrating the best practice that they find. You may have seen them in the August edition of Vogue – not the usual place for environmentalists to be seen!

Whilst in Bristol they will be holding a picnic on College Green at 1pm (until 3-ish) on Monday 21st and as they say:

“Bring food, drink, family and music to our anti-airport expansion
picnic protest – to be held on COLLEGE GREEN. We’ll be holding
forums on the grass with Friends of the Earth to discuss BIA issues
and celebrate the city council’s formal objection to it!”

Please come along if you can make it – especially as now B&NES council has also stated objection to BIA expansion on climate change grounds.