Events | Canalside Community Food - Part 10

Small is… festival, 4th-5th September 2010

Dear Canalside Friends,

I would like to invite you all to Practical Action’s (www.practicalaction.org.uk) second Small is… Festival on September 4-5th 2010. The Small is… Festival is a celebration and evolution of the ideas of “Small is Beautiful”, written by our founder, E.F. Schumacher in 1970, but which still has profound significance today. The weekend event provides a space to share skills, learn about technologies, create networks, develop ideas and to be inspired about international development, sustainability and the planet. It is held in our beautiful, rural office grounds in Bourton on Dunsmore, the Leamington side of Rugby.

The first Small is… Festival in 2009 was a great success! We hope to recreate the wonderful participatory feel of last year, including the fun but productive atmosphere, the open debates, the lively networking and exchange sessions, and the international feel – but with local food and hospitality very evident. Some of the many things you can look forward to are:

· Keynote speaker: Andrew Simms, New Economic Foundation – a very interesting and entertaining speaker on why happiness is more important than economic growth, and what to do about it.

· Debate: What’s the best way to reduce carbon emissions – global, national or local strategies? With Mark Lynas (author of Six Degrees), Molly Scott Cato and Shaun Chamberlin (author of Transition Timeline).

· Workshops: make your own rocket stove; waste art activities for kids; wind turbine and micro-hydro demonstrations; learn about making tin can batteries; play interactive board games; find out about compost toilets.

· Networking and exchange: what are Transition Towns?; how to get a job in international development; who is doing what on sustainable building;

· Straw Bale Solar Cinema: films about Schumacher and much more…

There is overnight camping and great evening entertainment Friday and Saturday nights. So book your place now on our website www.smallisfestival.org (booking is essential so that we know numbers for catering and event licensing purposes).

If you would like to help out in any way, e.g. by offering to give a talk or run a workshop then that would be fabulous. Also if you have a spare marquee or large tent you can offer for the weekend we would be overjoyed! We are running the event on a shoestring and those things are really expensive to hire!

If you want to know any more or offer help then please get in touch with Canalside members Kath Pasteur or Steven Hunt at Practical Action (small_is@practicalaction.org.uk)

Thanks

Kath

Katherine Pasteur
International Programme Coordinator – Reducing Vulnerability
Direct tel: 01926 634465

Practical Action is an international development agency working with poor communities to help them choose and use technology to improve their lives today and for generations to come. www.practicalaction.org.uk

Practical Action
The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development,
Bourton on Dunsmore,
Rugby,
Warwickshire, UK,
CV23 9QZ
Tel: +44 – 01926 634400
Fax: +44 – 01926 634401
www.practicalaction.org

Energy Field Healing at Zoe’s Garden Party

How can Energy Field Healing help you?

We’ll be at Zoe’s Garden Party on Saturday
so why not pop down and have a chat,
or try a 30 minute cleansing session for only £20,
includes free goodie bag.

Sat 24th July 12pm – 4pm
Pump Room Gardens, L’spa

For more information or to book your session call Jane on 07966 533556
Places limited so please call to avoid disappointment.

Heartbreak productions on the road this summer

Dear All

I hope the summer is treating you well and that a holiday is in sight!

Just wanted to flag up that “The Secret Garden”, “An Ideal Husband” and “Love in Shakespeare” are now in their stride and roaming around the various lanes of the UK. They’re all a great night out and I think I can safely say there are no other shows out this summer that are similar…

Midlands dates are:

Ideal – tonight, Grey’s Court, Henley-on-Thames
Love – Wed 21st Brueton Park, Solihull
Love – Sat 24th, Charlecote Park. Warwick
Secret – Sun 1st Aug – Calke Abbey, Derby
Secret Tues/Wed 2nd/3rd Aug – Kenilworth Castle
Secret – Thurs 4th Aug – Waterperry Gardens, Oxford
Love – Sat 7th Aug – Wickhamford Manor, Broadway
Ideal – Sun 15th Aug MK Event Centre, Milton Keynes
Love – Sat/Sun 28/29 Aug – Nottingham Castle

Do visit www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk for further info

To whet your appetite there is a video of snippets from the Leamington show now available to view on our website – follow this link and click on the video box in the bottom right hand side of the screen to play the video – http://www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk/portfolio/category/open-air-theatre

And here are some audience reactions:

“Very inventive & well paced. Excellent ensemble playing. Great to see something different!”

“Very refreshing”

“Still reeling from the Love in Shakespeare . All eleven of us had the best night out we have had in a long time due to this superb play. FAB!”

“a relaxed, funny evening out combining traditional and new drama. Very good”

If you would like me to sort out cheap tickets for you then please either e-mail or text me. It would be great to see you!

With best wishes for happy days
Maddy

Maddy Kerr
Executive Director
Heartbreak
North Hall
Spencer Yard
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV31 3SY

01926 430307
07812 241610

maddy@heartbreakproductions.co.uk
www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk

Traditional music session on Sunday 16th May

Here’s a message from Pam, one of our members:

There will be a traditional music session next Sunday 16 May 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
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music/musicsession.htm

Please pass this message on to anyone else you know who might be interested.

Kenilworth Festival on Sunday 16th May 2010

I recently received this email about the upcoming ‘Kenilworth Festival’. Sounds like it could be an enjoyable way to spend a part of the day, especially if you’d like something to keep the younger members of your family busy!
http://kenilworthfestival.co.uk/partyinthepark.htm

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am dropping you a line to let you and your members know about an exciting event happening in Kenilworth.

On Sunday 16th May, the Kenilworth Festival “Party in the Park” will take place in the Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, from 11.30am. The event is a family fun day and admission is free.

We have just secured the BBC’s Dig In Tour who will have a 20m pitch at the event. The Dig In tour will be promoting growing your own food and giving away free seeds. In addition, there will be a demonstration tent and an activity tend, along with a Gardener’s Question Time, led by a BBC celebrity gardener. Every 20 minutes there will be a different demonstration and there will also be an opportunity to ask questions, swap tips and share recipes – everything from sow, grow, harvest and cook!

The Dig In team would love to see visitors with an interest in gardening who would like to participate in the question time sessions and see the demonstrations. The event is suitable for children too, with a chance to plant seeds and take away pots to plant at home.

Full details of the campaign are available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/on_tour/

The Festival website is www.kenilworthfestival.co.uk

We are one of only 8 tour venues in the UK.

I should be grateful if you will spread the word amongst your members – all of whom would be very welcome at our event.

If you need any further information, do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Julie Thomas
Kenilworth Festival (Marketing & PR)

www.kenilworthfestival.co.uk

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FREE HARMONY – a’cappella group CD launch

Free Harmony would like to invite you to the launch of their debut cd

‘off the beaten track’

on Sunday August 23rd at Taylor John’s House, The Canal Basin, Coventry

from 7.30pm where they will be performing songs from the cd.

Tickets will be £5 on the door and limited signed copies of our cd will be on sale.

Hope to see you there

Love from Free Harmony www.chrishoskins.co.uk/freeharmony.html

Storytelling at Gaia…

The lovely folk at Gaia have recently sent us this poster about a new storytelling evening they are hosting on the last Thursday of every month. Bit late notice for today, but the first one is tonight… Maybe see you there sometime!

The Age of Stupid is coming to the Royal Spa Centre

Well, after the Apollo cinema mysteriously pulled the plug on showing The Age of Stupid back in March, the Leamington Royal Spa Centre has come up trumps and will be showing the film on Sunday 26th and Monday 27th April, at 6pm (for more details, click on the link below).

Whether it sways you or not, apparently even Ken Livingstone was moved to say that “every single person in the country should be forcibly made to watch this film”!

So… if you possibly can, get yourselves down to the Spa Centre in a couple of weeks’ time and we’ll see you there!

The Age of Stupid at Leamington Royal Spa Centre