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Successful screening of ‘Grow Your Own’
There was a good attendance at our screening of the film ‘Grow Your Own’ at the Carlton Theatre, and the audience enjoyed this gentle British comedy that showed some additional positive benefits of growing your own food. (It was based on a real project in Bootle that gives traumatized asylum seekers plots in a local allotment to help them develop a sense of purpose and self-sufficiency).
A number of people subsequently expressed interest in joining a new Gardening/Food subgroup of Teign Estuary Transtion and a meeting is to be held on 24th May to take this further. More about this shortly but make a note in your diaries!
Below is a picture the ‘4-Tier Growhouse’ kindly donated by Jack’s Patch that was raffled after the film.
Transition Network conference 2010
The 2010 Transition Network conference is to be held at the ex-agricultural college of Seale Hayne, just down the road from Newton Abbot.
Registration opens on Friday June 11th at 19.30, the conference programme begins on Saturday morning June 12th at 10.00 and finishes on Monday June 14th at 13.00, followed by lunch.
Quoting from the web site:
“This year’s conference will feature a dazzling smorgasbord of open space and inspiring workshops, including some longer in-depth sessions …, skill shares, project shares, networking, entertainment, all your meals, lots of meaningful fun and frivolity, and hopefully you!”
Further details from the web site at: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2010-uk
Let us know if you’re thinking of going along and maybe we can at least sort out car sharing and get together at the conference. You could send a message to our email address at: info@teigntransition.org.uk, or add a comment to this post.
Grow Your Own
Due to popular demand our next event will be a screening of the British film Grow Your Own (PG), organised in collaboration with Teignmouth Film Society. Following some refugees given an allotment on which to grow vegetables, this manages to be a genuinely funny and moving film made from the unlikely subjects of gardening, immigration and telephone masts.
After the film we will encourage informal discussion exploring local opportunities for gardening and growing some of our own food supplies. Anyone interested in knowing more about sustainability and the Transition movement is welcome to attend.
The film will be screened in the Carlton Theatre, Teignmouth on Tuesday 27th April; doors open from 7 for 7.30 pm. Entry is free; donations welcome. Bar and refreshments available. Local allotment groups will arrange displays in the foyer. There will also be a raffle for a ‘4-Tier Growhouse’ kindly donated by Jack’s Patch.
If you’d like to print out a copy of the film poster to display, a copy is available here.
For details of Teignmouth Film Society see www.teignmouthfilm.org
Peak Oil on the BBC
The first episode of a new series of “Bang Goes the Theory”, a popular science programme on BBC1 shown on Monday 15th March, had an item about Peak Oil. It gave a basic overview of this issue that the Transition movement seeks to address. It also seems that Richard Branson is a believer! For those with Internet access, you can view the programme on the BBC iPlayer at:
Local food event: 10th Feb
Are you interested in finding out more about locally produced food and drink? Do you purposely buy local food, grow your own food, or have or would like an allotment? Teign Estuary Transition is organising an event to build on the energy and buzz at the successful recent showing at the Carlton Theatre of the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. We want to find out what local people feel about local food, how we could grow and produce more, and how we can get many more people interested in buying locally.
The evening will include:
- A short film produced by Transition Newton Abbot about the community garden they have created from scratch – and what benefits that has bought from the community
- A brief introduction to local allotments
- A chance to discuss with others your own ideas for encouraging more production and use of Teign Estuary food and drink
We will finish the event by inviting those who are interested to join a ‘sub-group’ to help take forward a local food initiative.
When: Wednesday, February 10th at 7:30 pm
Venue: Teignmouth Rugby Football Club, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth
Cost: Free but donations welcome
Don’t forget your old bag day
Teign Estuary Transition volunteers helped out at the “Don’t forget your old bag” free shopping-bag giveaway at Teignmouth Triangle on Sat 19th December. It was also the farmers’ market day and the Teignmouth Community Choir were on hand singing carols, so the the town centre was busy with people only too willing to accept a free bag. Some pictures below of the occasion:
Volunteers give away free bags
Teign Estuary Transition member Lisa Thorne with recycling hat
Ben Bryant hands out free recycling advice
Helen Wharam of Teign Estuary Transition and Rik Mayall
Teign Estuary Tranistion volunteer Fran Hamilton hands out free bags
Teign Estuary Transition 