Past Events
2008...
Transition Earlsdon
Monday 22nd September 2008, 7.30 PM at Pride Fair Trade Shop, 3b Earlsdon Street, Earlsdon
An introduction to what Transition Earlsdon is about – how to empower the local community to move toward a low carbon, sustainable way of life - and a screening of 'The Power of Community' were held on 22 September 2008.
We were delighted to welcome over 30 people to the event and hope to see even more at future events.
Roberto Perez + Transition Towns Midlands meeting
Friday 12th September 2008
The local event was held at Ryton Organic Gardens near Coventry. Here's the flyer: http://www.transitioncoventry.org.uk/images/TT_Leaflet.pdf
Transition Coventry at the Godiva Festival July 2008
Thanks to all those of you who called in to our stand at the Godiva Festival and extra special thanks to all of you who signed up to be kept informed of how you can get involved.
2009...
Saturday 17 January 10am – 4pm
Introduction to Permaculture – numbers limited book now through Jo on 024-7667 8735. Cost £25.
Monday 26 January 7.30pm
‘The Power of Community’ Film Showing at St Barbara’s Church Hall
Tuesday 3 February 7pm
Conversation on local food possibilities with Karen Leach from Localise West Midlands at Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall Room 2.
Saturday 7 February 10am – 5pm
‘Preparing for Transition’ at Bablake Old Boys Club – all day training session on the ideas behind the Transition Movement. Cost £25.
Monday 23 February 7.30pm
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Film Showing at St Barbara’s Church Hall – the Al Gore film about climate change
Monday 9 March 7.30pm
Local Food: Ethics & Options Prof Liz Dowler from Warwick University, and Dr Moya Kneafsey from Coventry University
Wednesday 11th March - 8pm - 67 Spencer Ave
Planning group - if you'd like to become part of the 'making things happen' group, please come along!! Hopefully we'll be talking about how we can make the Open House idea work (see latest article in the ECHO!).
Monday 23rd March - 7.30pm - St Barbara's Church hall meeting room
Film Showing: Money as Debt - a brilliant 47 minute animated film which asks the BIG question: where does money come from? Why have we got ourselves into the mess we're in? What is link between the money issue and environmental sustainability? Come and find out! Perhaps this film will explain why in many Transition Initiatives, a local currency emerges...
Saturday 4th April - 10am-4pm - Herbert Art Gallery
Don't forget to pop along to the Herbert Art Gallery this Saturday 10am - 4pm for a whole host of things, including Get Set, Grow! - the start of Coventry's project to get us all growing our own, as well as fair trade, and an information stall about Transition Coventry. Could you help to staff the Transition Coventry stall? Let Ervin know on ervinsmac@mac.com
Sunday 5th April - 10am-4pm - Ryton Organic Gardens
Get Set, Grow continues out at Ryton Organic Gardens (Garden Organic) on Sunday - free entry if you turn up in wellies!
Monday 27rd April - 7.30pm - St Barbara's Church hall meeting room
The next film showing is Story of Stuff - a fast-paced 20 min animation making the connections between consumption/production, social and environmental issues. Plus some other short films (eg Richard Heinberg on peak oil and Rob Hopkins on Transition). It will be on Monday 27th April 7.30pm at St Barbara's Church Hall (meeting room). Come and join the discussion! These evenings are becoming a good place to have a debate...
There is an opportunity to go and visit the Canalside Growers (Community Supported Agriculture scheme) in Leamington - in exchange for helping out for a morning - probably a Saturday morning. Would anyone be interested? Please let me know. We are thinking how we might create our own CSA scheme.
Thursday 7rd May - 7.30pm - Venue TBA
Put this in your diaries... Dave Sutch, involved in Transition Earlsdon, will be talking about "The Spirit of Diogenes and the Essence of Simplicity" - he'll be speaking about his own journey to a simple, stress-free lifestyle. Thursday, 7th May 7.30pm venue tba.
Thursday 30rd April - 6-7pm - Zeeman Building, University of Warwick
And don't forget the invite to hear David MacKay, author of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' ( www.withouthotair.com) on Thursday 30th April 6pm at Warwick Uni. Please register your interest by 24th April with: Heather.Turner@warwick.ac.uk
(Thu, Apr 30th, 6-7pm, MS.02, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick. Refreshments from 5pm, The Street (Zeeman Building atrium)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/rssgroup/forthcoming)
Monday 25th January
The Story of Cap & Trade: from the maker of Story of Stuff (brilliant animation which we have shown a couple of times) about the inadequacies of the current push for 'cap & trade' schemes as a way of reducing CO2 emissions. Followed by a discussion about what happened at Copenhagen, and what next?
Film showings at the Arts Centre
These were not strictly Transition events - but you might like to look up the films
Crude: a film documentary being shown at the Warwick Arts Centre on 27 and 28 January: SYNOPSIS Three years in the making, CRUDE is a harrowing documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster). An epic tale of one of the most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet; CRUDE centers on an indigenous culture dwelling in the Amazon rainforest whose children are suffering devastating effects due to oil spills spanning over three decades. With lack of clean drinking water, they have contracted debilitating skin diseases and cancer among many other life threatening illnesses, leading this fast dwindling community to take on US oil giant Chevron in their quest for justice. TRAILER To watch the CRUDE trailer follow this link http://www.dogwoof.com/category/trailer/ INFORMATION For further information, please visit one of our official sites: www.crudethemovie.co.uk www.crudethemovie.com
Also, Warwick Arts Centre are showing Food, Inc on 17 and 18 February:
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. colithe harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprisingand often shocking truthsabout what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
If anyone would like to borrow any of the DVDs that we've been showing, let me know (Power of Communities, End of Suburbia, Money as Debt). It can be arranged for a small donation to the Transition Earlsdon funds!
If you want to know more about any of the terms above please see the More Information page.