Events
For information about each event (including photos in most cases), click on the blue link in the text.
Future events:
27th November 2008: Talk on Community Supported Agriculture organised by the Food Group, with Kirstin Glendinning from the Soil Association. Venue and time to be confirmed.
29th November 2008: Transition Leicester TGM. Upstairs at the Bishop St Methodist Church, Town Hall Square, 12pm - 4pm. It's a year since we started Transition Leicester, so it's time for a TGM! A chance to: Take stock on what we've done and what we've achieved; Get together to celebrate and socialise; Make plans for the year ahead. Please come and join us! More details here.
The Heart and Soul group are planning to organise a one-day workshop in early December (provisionally on Sunday December 7th). This is likely to focus on exploring our feelings about the current environmental crisis and the changes to our lives we face in coming years using processes from Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects.
20th December 2008: Transition Cafe at Bishop St Methodist Church hall, Town hall Square. 12pm - 4pm. With lovely food and drink on offer and a chance to talk about all things Transition-related.
Past events:
The food group organised it's first public event, Harvest Inspiration, on Saturday 11th October 2008 at Bishop St Methodist Church. The event offered inspiration and ideas to get people excited and feeling confident about growing and preserving their own food.
On the 11th and 25th of September we contributed to another two showings of the Peak Oil documentary A Crude Awakening at the Phoenix. The screenings were put on by Leicester City Council, and we organised pair-discussions before and after the film, and answered questions as part of a panel afterwards.
On Monday 8th September we held an event called "Transition is up my street!" at Moat College. The event focussed on what the ideas behind Transition mean for cities and in particular, on what can be done on the level of our local neighbourhoods.
We had a stall at the Watermead family fun day at Watermead park on Saturday 30th August, where we served up pizza, information about Transition and clever uses for old tetrapaks.
The food group organised a wild food walk in and around Aylestone Meadows on Sunday 10th August.
We had a summer picnic in Abbey Park on Sunday 29th June 2008. A good time was had by all, whether we were sharing food in the sunshine or singing in the rain under the shelter of the gazebo...
At the Riverside Festival in June 2008 we gave the first outing to our very own Peak Oil Slide Show and collected ideas from people on how life in Leicester could be better after Peak Oil.
Richard Heinberg spoke at an event jointly organised with Transition Market Harborough on March 31st 2008 in the Percy Gee Building at Leicester University.
Transition Network co-ordinator Ben Brangwyn spoke at our event at Moat College on February 19th 2008.
The first public event we organised was a showing of the inspiring film A Convenient Truth on February 6th 2008 at the Friends Meeting House in Clarendon Park.
We promoted two screenings of the Peak Oil film A Crude Awakening at the Phoenix cinema in December 2007.
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