Events Calendar

PAST EVENTS

July 17th 2008:

Pub Discussion Night, Click here for NOTES from the meeting.

September 2nd

Planning meeting. Function room at the Fleece Inn 7:30pm.

September 20th

*All-day Transition Norwich Event at Norwich Arts Centre. Stalls, information and films including The Power of Community during the day followed by Jose Fererra’s Cuban music & dancing in the evening.

*Also Bike Doctors free bike check-ups at the Buttercross from 2-4pm

September 22nd

*Bungay's first Car Free Day. We're planning to involve local schools and businesses in a car free day. Bike In celebration at 5pm at the Buttercross - see the car free day pages for more information.

October 1st

*Transition Norwich - The Great Unleashing. To be held in St. Andrews Hall with guest speakers including Transition Town co-founder Rob Hopkins and Ian Gibson (MP). Follow this link for more details and to book a place.

October 12th

*Bungay Community Partnership Visioning Day. Fisher Theatre (exact times TBC); The Fisher Theatre will be open all day for people to drop in and leave their comments on a very wide variety of topics. These will help the Community Partnership to develop a Town Plan for Bungay - we hope that this document will compliment Sustainable Bungay’s energy descent plan.

November 8th

*Growing Local! and Seedy Saturday On Saturday 8th November Sustainable Bungay, in partnership with Emmanuel Church held a food growing conference. The hall was jam-packed and buzzing with energy. On the same day there was a seed swap stall at the horticultural show (just over the road from the Church in the Community Centre), where people brought saved seed for swapping, shared tips on seed saving and found out about local varieties. For more information on seed swapping see: www.seedysunday.org and to find out about seed saving have a look at: www.realseeds.co.uk

From late November

*Bungay Carbon Audit Sustainable Bungay will be measuring Bungay’s carbon footprint and we’ll need your help - look out for further details coming shortly.

January 2009 * Sustainable Bungay has so far this year presented a talk on Peak Oil and Climate Change to the Rotary Club, which sparked lively interest and discussion. Also two of our core members attended a steering group meeting in Beccles where they were invited to share their experiences in the setting up of a Transition Town.

February 2009 * We held a Sustainable Bungay strategy day on Sunday 1st at Josiah and Ellie's house, where about a dozen of us looked at the events and activities planned for 2009. These include our Unleashing, to take place in May, and The Big Green Market in September.

* After the above meeting Josiah set up a google group for SB, where there are discussions, files and pages. It's already pretty active so do have a look. (Please click on left hand sidebar). You can see the notes of our strategy day in the Files section.

* Several members of Sustainable Bungay went to GreenGrow's Apple Tree planting day on Saturday 14th in Ilketshall St. Andrew, a village just down the road. It was the first clement weather for ages, and we all joined in with the plantings, which was instructive and good fun at the same time. We learnt about varieties of apple (Ashmeads Kernel, Suntan) and about grafting varieties onto rootstock, as well as how to use a sledgehammer! (for the stakes).

March 7th 2009 *The East Anglian Transition Gathering in Downham Market There were several of us from Sustainable Bungay present at this day long intensive in Downham Market, organised by Transition Downham Market and Villages. There were several Open Space sessions in the morning and a World Cafe in the afternoon (for more on these meeting tools see The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins). This gave Transitioners from all over the region a chance for us to meet each other, network and swap experiences. Plentiful, delicious and sustainable food was provided by the hosts as well as those visiting.

March 15th 2009 * The Age of Stupid Film Premiere Norwich Six of us car-shared up to Norwich for the premiere of this British film about climate change seen from the year 2055 looking back to the present with documentary footage showing how human-caused climate change is already seriously affecting the earth and all life upon it.

March 21st 2009 Give and Take Day

* Old is the new new! With worries about climate change, peak oil and an economic recession,now is the time to value our waste. It’s great to recycle, but it’s even better for the planet to reduce and reuse. To encourage us all to help the environment and our pockets, Sustainable Bungay is hosting a Give and Take Day on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 from 10am-1pm at Bungay Community Centre. A Give and Take Day is a chance to get rid of things that you don’t want or need anymore and to pick up something that you do – all for FREE!

Bring along any useable unwanted items from 10am on the day. These can be household and garden items, such as books, toys, bikes, tools, kitchenware, bric-a-brac, plants, furniture and clothes. If you don’t have anything to bring, just bring yourself and you might find something useful that you need. There will be information stands about a range of environmental issues, as well as fair-trade teas, coffees and locally baked cakes for a small donation.

With help from Bright Green in Lowestoft, Sustainable Bungay will even be able to collect bulky items, such as furniture, from your home in Bungay on Friday, March 20th and can deliver these items to their new homes on the Saturday afternoon if you can’t transport them yourself. A team of volunteers will be on hand to record items donated and taken and to sort anything left over at the end of the event. Most of the remaining goods will be donated to charity shops and similar organisations and some may be sent for recycling. We hope to have nothing to send to landfill. If you would like to be a volunteer, please contact us.

April 9th 2009

* As part of the lead-up to the Unleashing on 9th May we showed the seminal Transition documentary about Peak Oil, THE END OF SUBURBIA at The Fisher Theatre (Gallery) at 7.30pm, with a discussion after the film.

May 9th 2009 The Great Unleashing

*Saturday May 9th 2009 - Bungay Community Centre, Upper Olland Street, 7pm With guest speaker Shaun Chamberlin, author of the just-published Transition Timeline. And local food, music, bar and lively conversation. For more info click: http://transitioneast.net/users/josiah-meldrum/bungays-great-unleashing If you’d like to join us on the night please either call 01986 897097, email sustainablebungay@gmail.com or register on-line: http://tinyurl.com/ccpw2q

Sunday June 28th 2009: PICNIC

*Sustainable Bungay enjoyed a shared picnic on the Old Grammar School field. This was an informal get together open to all to enjoy this community space while it's still there. Food was shared and everyone, adults and children alike, played games on the field during the afternoon.

This list will be updated regularly and will include all events Sustainable Bungay organises, attends or supports - including Transition Norwich events: (green text means the event has happened but that there is some follow-up info)

Past Events (page in progress)

For a Pdf version of this Calendar and a list of the films we own and are lending out: Events and Resources

For a jpeg of our film season poster: Film Poster