Launch Meeting Thursday 9 February 2012 7.30pm – 9.30pm Methodist Central Hall, Bull Yard, Coventry, CV1 2HA Want to grow your own veg? • Not enough time for an allotment? • Not got access to space for growing? • But you still want fresh, local, organic veg? Come along to find out about a new Community Supported Agriculture scheme, just outside Coventry: an exciting new way of being involved in growing fresh organic veg. It’s simple: buy a share – get a share of the harvest of tasty veg each week. Transition Coventry is helping to set up this scheme at Ryton (on land owned
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Coventry Community Supported Agriculture – initial meeting
Alternatives for Clarendon Arcade
How should Chandos Street car park area be developed? Open meeting at Pump Rooms Annexe Wednesday, 8th February, 7.30 Chandos Street development – open meeting
Traditional music session Sun 15th Jan
There will be a traditional music session next Sunday 15 January at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and share a few tunes. More information on our website at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html Please pass this message on to anyone else you know who might be interested. All the best – Pam – PAM BISHOP Traditional Arts Team 19 Springfield Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7DU tel 0121 247 3856 pam@tradartsteam.co.uk The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. More
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Traditional music session Sunday 18th December
There will be a traditional music session next Sunday 18 December at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and share a few tunes. More information on our website at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html All the best – Pam – PAM BISHOP Traditional Arts Team 19 Springfield Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7DU tel 0121 247 3856 pam@tradartsteam.co.uk The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance, and publishes the Folk Monthly magazine. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk
Latest Canalside newsletter now available online
Read all the latest project news in the Autumn issue of our newsletter, available to download from: http://www.canalsidecommunityfood.org.uk/the-project/canalside-news/
Leamington Community Kitchen’s Sunday lunch
Leamington Community Kitchen (LCK) is a new venture organised by some pro-active Warwick Uni students. LCK uses waste food from local businesses to cook delicious Sunday lunches to give away. “The project is aiming to rescue perfectly edible food that is thrown away everyday and use it to feed the community. By doing this we want not only to target food waste but to create a friendly space where people can come together to share a meal” The students are using the Veggie Table cafe at Bath Place as their base, and so far have collected food from the kind
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Canalside newsletters now online!
You can now download many of the newsletters produced in Canalside’s history – http://www.canalsidecommunityfood.org.uk/the-project/canalside-news/ Read updates from the different aspects of Canalside. Articles include ‘News from the field’ updates about the veg growing and more recently updates from the education and fruit projects. The last 3 years’ worth of newsletters are now online, with the first 2 years’ worth coming in the near future!
Feeding the 5000
Friday saw the ‘Feeding the 5000′ event, at which 5000 members of the public in Trafalgar Square ate curry made from surplus food that would otherwise have been wasted. Its aim was to highlight how easy it is to reduce the unimaginable levels of food waste in the UK and internatonally, and in doing so benefit those who don’t have enough to eat. The event urged the public to sign the Feeding the 5000 pledge calling for acton from governments, retailers and food businesses: ‘I pledge to reduce my food waste and I want businesses to do the same’. Fear
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Permaculture Courses in 2012
Traditional music session next Sunday 20 November
There will be a traditional music session next Sunday 20 November at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and share a few tunes. More information on our website at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html Please pass this message on to anyone else you know who might be interested. Let us know if you don’t want to receive messages of this kind in future. All the best – Pam – PAM BISHOP Traditional Arts Team 19 Springfield Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7DU tel 0121 247 3856 pam@tradartsteam.co.uk The Traditional Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands
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