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
Pub meeting, Thursday 8 April 2010
Starting on Thursday 8 April we plan to hold regular pub meetings on the 2nd Thursday of each month, at the King’s Arms in Teignmouth from 8pm onwards. Please join us for an informal chat over a pint, to find out more about the Transition movement.
Review of Earth Hour, Saturday 27 March 2010
Local establishments intending to join in included the Colosseum, Owl and the Pussycat, Decks, the Bay Hotel, Trade Winds, Naz, and the Courtenay. This event received good press interest, with a preview in Friday’s Teignmouth Post, and a photographer from the Herald Express in attendance at the Bay Hotel for a review due later this week.
Bay Hotel guests and members of public in the bar were interested to hear about Earth Hour while we lit dozens of tea-light candles. Promptly at 8.30pm barman Jason switched off lighting in public areas. All guests responded positively to the event, and at 9.30pm when Jason offered to put lights back on, several people requested that the bar could remain in candle light. In the Hotel’s lounge bar, a group were holding a private birthday party for a woman from Tasmania. She was delighted that we were observing Earth Hour: the event started in Australia and she hadn’t expected it to have reached Teignmouth! We shared our candles and she was enthusiastic about having her party in the dark.
Teignmouth Science Festival, Friday 19 March 2010
Fran Hamilton describes how “members of Teign Estuary Transition shared a table with Carbonsense who showed a video illustrating climate change which generated interest and discussion. Our display included the new National Curriculum for primary schools that takes effect from 2011, which seems to be almost underpinned by the 6 principles of the Transition movement and gives hope to the direction that education is moving in. We also showed the cross curriculum for key stage 3 & 4 (secondary level) which also looks enlightened. The display gave much opportunity to engage with the public and teachers in particular, and fitted in well with the festival’s science theme. It was a really good day which illustrated the appropriateness and need for the Transition message to be out there with the public. Our next move could be to visit schools and ask teachers how best we can help them.”
For further details of the Festival, see http://www.teignmouthsciencefestival.com/Teignmouth_Science_Festival/Home.html
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