Transition Forest Row Events
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PAST EVENTS
Saturday 24th May
Introduction To Permaculture
Time: 11am to 1pm
Location: Village Hall (small)
Find out how it can help Transition Forest Row
The Transition movement grew out of the Permaculture approach. It is a design system, a tool which can be applied to every aspect of our lives, to make it more sustainable and enjoyable. Permaculture empowers people to find their own solutions to global problems using the available resources and common sense, creating healthy productive places to work , rest and play.
Transition Group Culture
Time: 10am to 11am
Location: Village Hall (small)
Shared Principles for Action (and reflection)
"The how of what we do is as important as the what."
Transition communities function mainly through the activity of their Topic Groups. These are non-hierarchical with members sharing leadership, taking responsibility for their own actions and decisions. To support and connect us as we develop our Topic Group work we need common ground - a set of principles for action (and reflection) for Transition Forest Row, an ethical framework for How We Work. At this beginning stage we take time together to create our shared principles for how we move forward with Transition Forest Row. (As these principles are part of our process they will continue to develop and evolve as we do.)
Transition Groups Launch
Tuesday 13th May 8pm Village Hall
These are groups that will look at areas such as transport, food production, local energy generation, housing, to name a few.
Helping you get started is what this meeting is about. It will mark the official demise of the core group which has carried Transition Forest Row so far, and the beginning of a new form. Our focus will be on agreeing a framework for how the groups will work together and contribute to the Energy Descent Pathway we will be completing for the village by next March.
We’ll also do some brainstorming around each area so everyone can choose the subject they want to work on, or come up with something new. We’ll introduce some Transition resources and ways of linking into other transition groups… and from there each group, duly launched, can float off to begin its work.
Cotton Bags
Starting Saturday 3rd May - a 'fluid and open' group will be meeting in the Rose room of the community centre to make cheerful cotton bags out of recycled material/ fabric remnants etc.
These bags will then be donated to local shops for shoppers to use instead of plastic bags.
The pattern is very straight forward.
The plan is to get together every first Saturday of the month when the community market and boot sale is on. People are welcome to just drop in either to see what we are doing or to join in making bags.
The cafe is open for cakes, snacks and drinks. Hopefully people will find this a sociable and creative way to spend some time being part of the activities.
This is intended to be the beginning of other creative activities as part of Transition Forest Row in the community.
Angie Brett 01342 823044
Tales from Forest Row of the Future
Wednesday 2nd April @ 7.30pm
"THE FUTURE ENTERS INTO US, IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM ITSELF IN US, LONG BEFORE IT HAPPENS" Rilke
Once upon a time, the people of the forest came together in a clearing, and began to weave their future.....
Climate change, transition to life beyond oil dependency and the greening of our hearts and minds. Join us for a Transition Forest Row special at the
Ashdown Forest Storytelling Club
~ How do we imagine the future will unfold?
~ What is the unspoken story we carry about the future?
~ What alternative futures are there to 'techno-fix' or apocolypse?
~ An opportunity to participate in creating a new story for our future.
So join us in spinning and weaving our creation stories of the future
Tickets £6 and £4 concessions
Forest Row Community Centre, Hartfield Road, opposite fish and chip shop
"Personal transformation can and does have global effects" Marianne Williamson
UNLEASHING FESTIVAL DAY
CHILDREN'S TRANSITION ACTIVITIES
2pm - 5pm Village Hall
Lunch from 1pm, cafe till 5pm
Come and explore and celebrate what sutainability could be like! Enjoy games, beautiful voices and delicious local food. The Transition Children's Festival is an inspiring afternoon designed to help us engage positively in a sustainable way with our world. with and for our children.
Activities for children of all ages including:
• Rev. Nick Lamb opens the festival with the Forest Row Church of England School Choir conducted by Head Teacher Ian Allison
• Through the World Future Councul [ http://kidscall.info/ | Kidscall] children can express their hopes and dreams for the earth - to be delivered directly to world leaders at the Kyoto summit in June
• Play a Recycle Rubbish game
• Take part in Friends of the Earth melting ice bear competition
• Create a village banner
• Play with Solar Powered toy cars
• Style and create 'new' clothes from old (bring along any you don't want any more)
• Try your chance to win some great activity-based raffle prizes
• Enjoy tales, face painting, drawing, music and much more
• Bookshop
• Cafe
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Donations welcome
7.30pm BARN DANCE
Dinner, Bar, Dance to the Ashdown Forest Band
Village Hall
£5
WEDNESDAY 12th March 7.30pm
TRANSITION FOREST ROW UNLEASHING
Village Hall
After a year raising awareness, these events mark the release of our collective creativity to discover ways that we can live beyond oil.
SPEAKERS:
Patrick Holden CBE - Director Soil Association http://www.soilassociation.org/
Rob Hopkins - Founder Transition Towns http://transitionculture.org/
Hartfield Seed Swap
10am–12 noon, Saturday 8 March 2008
If you have any spare seeds (from your garden or a packet), bulbs or cuttings, come along to Hartfield Horticultural Society's event, nose around other people's contributions and get swapping! Refreshments on sale too. Fee: £1 VENUE: The Pavilion, Town Croft (opposite Anchor Pub car park), High Street, Hartfield For more information Cathy Burbridge. - Work Tel: 01892 770919 Email: hartfieldshow@googlemail.com
An Ashdown Forest Storytelling Club Special
A benefit for Forest Row Transition
Wednesday 5th March 8.15pm
£8/£5 THE SMALL VILLAGE HALL ASHLEY RAMSDEN - INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED STORYTELLER AND TEACHER
presents THE TITANIC
The story of the Titanic is still one of the most chilling metaphors for our time. Despite calm seas and repeated warnings of icebergs in her path this "ship of ships" sailed full steam ahead to her doom. Every day the news is full of the same story. We know that we are devastating our environment, we know that we have to live differently if we are to survive and yet what difference can any of us make against such odds? On board the Titanic, if one person had grasped the inevitable consequences of what lay ahead, the whole disaster could have been diverted.....
......are we still in the same boat?
ASHLEY WILL TELL THE TITANIC IN THE FIRST HALF IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE EVENING HE WILL PLANT SEEDS OF CHANGE IN OUR HEARTS WITH
"THE MAN WHO PLANTED HOPE" a short story by Jean Giono
all enquiries call mad on 01342 826965 or 07711 369 438
FILM:
WHAT A WAY TO GO: LIFE AT THE END OF EMPIRE
Mon 25th Feb 7.30 Village Hall (small)
The film centres around the awakening of the narrator, "a middle-class white guy" coming to grips with global issues right in his face that threaten his children's and everyone's survival. Running time : 120 mins. Followed by open-space discussion
FILM:
ARGENTINA -- HOPE IN HARD TIMES
Mon 11th Feb 7.30 Village Hall (small)
Illustrates in a beautiful and powerful way the potential in ordinary people to care for one another and to organize their resources, communities and enterprises to the benefit of all.
Running time 74 mins. Followed by open-space discussion
Monday 21st January 7.30pm Hambro Hall
Unleashing Planning Meeting
Hear an update of Transition News and the plans we have for Forest Row and join in to make them happen!
TRANSITION FILM NIGHTS - Autumn 2007
Films about the implications of Peak Oil and how we should respond - followed by short discussion.
Hambro Hall, The Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ
Link to Map
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How To Save The World
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Tuesday 11th December 8pm
How to Save the World exposes globalisation and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. They are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. The film tells their story through the teachings of an elderly New Zealand farmer Peter Proctor. It shows how Biodynamic agriculture can provide a simple, efficient and cost-effective means of restoring vitality to the soil and farming.
Visually appealing and well produced, it takes the viewer on a tour of a number of farms in India and looks at their transformation since they adopted bio-dynamic farming methods. It shows how farming could be, and indeed is being, transformed by ending the 'war on nature' engaged in by agri-business and making peace with nature.
Running time 104 mins
The film website: www.howtosavetheworld.co.nz
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What a Way to Go - Life at the End of Empire
Friday 16th November 2007
This personal essay explores the cultural stories and assumptions that have brought us to this point, and provides a larger context for thinking about, and feeling our way through, our global situation. It looks head on at our present global predicament and challenges the audience to face difficult times with courage and integrity. The film builds a deep emotional and spiritual connection between the viewer and the planet on which we live, and the fellow creatures of all forms with whom we share life on this planet. It becomes clear that the suffering we experience as humans is shared by the entire biosphere. Because of the beliefs which have entrapped us, we are alienated not only from nature, but from each other and, indeed, from our true internal nature. What we have done to our
planet we have also done to ourselves. Disturbing, compassionate, sometimes humorous, it is a personal essay about coming to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Population Overshoot and the demise of our lifestyle. Heart-felt and poignant, this documentary will touch you, it will scare you, and it will make you think. Though it will also give you hope, it will leave you with no easy answers.
The film's main purpose is to wake people up to the fact that if we do not get off the "progress train" soon, we could soon experience the consequences of a major derailment. It encourages us to once more re-engage with nature.
The movie website: www.whatawaytogomovie.com
Crude Impact
Monday 15th October 2007
What is Peak Oil and Transition?
Monday 24th September, 7.30 – 9.30pm
Hambro Hall, Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ
What would Forest Row be like if oil were not so readily available or affordable? How would we get around, stay warm, stay healthy, source food? Imagine the changes this could mean for our village, our country, our world and way of life.
This is a very real prospect as the West’s leading energy forecaster recently predicted that the world faces an energy squeeze by 2012 as soaring demand for fuel exceeds the rate of growth in the supply of crude oil.
This event will include:
A report on the event: Shadow Energy Minister Joins Peak Oil Debate
South East Transition Hub Meet Up
Monday 23rd July 7.30pm Hambro Hall, Forest Row
Representitives from Transition Communities in Forest Row, Lewes, Mayfield, and Whitstable met to share experiences of seting up their Transition groups.
Monday 2nd July 8pm Hambro Hall Forming special interest groups and discussing plans for Autumn events.
TRANSITION FILM NIGHTS
Spring 2007
A series of films followed by discussion about the implications of peak oil and how we should respond.
VENUE: Hambro Hall, Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row START TIME: 8PM ENTRANCE: donation requested.
Monday 25th June 2007
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY - HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
This inspiring and uplifting film explores how Cuba survived both the loss of its cash crop market and cheap supplies of oil in the 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how an entire society pulled together to meet an enourmous challenge and the benefits that it brought them.
Running Time: 60 mins
Monday 11th June
ENERGY CROSSROADS
This newly released film asks the question as to whether America will be up to the task of transition given that it consumes 25% of the world's energy. It doing so explains some of the resentments felt towards America around the world. It also looks at some of the technologies and projects that are making a difference. Although the film focuses on the US situation, it still has relevance elsewhere and takes a postive view on where we are and what can be done. Running Time: 55 mins
The EMERSON COLLEGE GREEN DAY
SATURDAY 5th MAY 10am - 9pm
Exhibitors Included:
Beyond Waste, http://www.beyond-waste.com/ Biowoodlands. Ecobuild. Ecoshop. Energy Efficient Advice Centre, http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/ East Sussex County Council, - recycling information Future Cycles - http://www.futurecycles.co.uk/ showcased fold-up and electric cycles. Fairtrade and Shared Interest. Going Carbon Neutral. Natural Clothing. Pericles. Reedbeds. Swishbikes, - electric scooters, Solaron, - solar heating. The Energycare Network, http://www.ecsc.org.uk/ Transition Villages - Forest Row, http://transitiontowns.org/Forest-Row/ The Blackthorn Trust, http://www.blackthorn.org.uk/ Virbela. Viridene Biofuels. Woodchip boilers,
Presentations included:
~ 'An Inconvenient Truth' and discussion with Marc ter Kuile ~ Peak Oil and Transition Villages by Mike Grenville ~ Capturing Carbon and building the future - Hemp Global Solutions http://www.hempglobalsolutions.com/ ~ Viridene Biofuels
Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JX Tel: 01342 822238 Email: Tippett.patricia@emerson.org.uk
Tuesday 17th April 7.30pm
Forest Row Transition Village - An Exploration
The impact of burning fossil fuels on our climate is now obvious to all except a few die-hard skeptics. There is also a growing awareness that the days of cheap oil are coming to an end soon. While optimists talk about 20 years, a growing number of experts say the days of unlimited cheap oil could be over within just two or three years.
Either way, we need to start taking serious steps to change the way we consume energy. Essentially we need to transition to a low carbon consuming post-oil way of living. This will require a whole new way of thinking, new skills and ways of living with each other.
These changes can't and won't happen overnight. However the need for change is so urgent that we can't wait for government to take the lead. We need to start planning our transition now.
The Forest Row Transition Village project will help us to re-imagine our future and start the transition to a post oil world.
VENUE: Hambro Hall, Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row
Contact: Mike Grenville 01342 825169
The event flyer can be downloaded here: Attach:TVexplore-apr2007.pdf
Changing Worlds Saturday 17th March 2007
A day event to examine the world as it is now, the changes that lie ahead and how we can play a part in the positive transformation of ourselves and the world around us.
Celebration Cake
The group of nearly thirty people were taken on a journey that looked at Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Economics, Spiritual Transformation and the Transitions Towns project. A delicious cake helped celebrate the changes coming and that we would make in our lives.
1 Step I Can take...
Adrienne Campbell led a group exercise to write on post-it notes: One step I can take; One step Forest Row can take; One step the government can take
Read the full list here: Steps I Can Take