Transition Culture

16 Aug 2007

New Transition Town Totnes Programme Announced!

Transition Town Totnes‘s Autumn calendar of events until Christmas is launched today. Building on the previous year’s highly successful work and programme of talks, events, Open Space days and workshops, the new programme looks like the best yet. Highlights include a talk by David Strahan, an evening called ‘Economics in Transition’, with Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer and David Boyle, Open Space days on transport, education and one for young people, a performance of the travelling show ‘This Farming Life’ which presents traditional song and archive film of farming on and around Dartmoor since 1920, and it all starts with TTT’s first birthday party, celebrating one year since the Unleashing. You can download the inside of the new flyer here and the outside here. The programme in full appears below, and printed copies will be available by September 1st.

**Transition Town Totnes. Season Two.**
**Programme of Events – September – December 2007.**

Thursday September 6th. Seven Stars Hotel. 8 – 11:30pm. £6 (£5 concs)
**TTT’s First Birthday Celebration! Music, dancing, comedy and reflections.**
Places limited, tickets in advance from Greenfibres and Totnes Pet and Garden.

Wednesday 12th September. Free Mason’s Hall, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
*Transition Town Totnes Traffic and Transport Group in association with Schumacher College*
**Redesigning Our Towns and Cities for Life Beyond The Car.**
With Herbert Girardet, author of ‘Creating Sustainable Cities’ and Peter Lipman of Sustrans.

Saturday 15th September. Methodist Hall Totnes. 10am – 2pm. Free.
*Transition Town Totnes Traffic and Transport Group*
**Imagining Totnes Beyond the Car? An Open Space Day**.

Wednesday 19th September. St Johns Church, Bridgetown , Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
*Transition Town Totnes in association with Schumacher College*
**Retrofitting Totnes: making the best of what we have.**
A Talk by Maggie Brenneke, director as SustainAbility plus a World Café exercise on retrofitting Totnes

Wednesday 3rd October. St Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs)
**The Last Oil Shock: The Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man.**
A Talk by David Strahan. Also, introducing The Carbon Account.

Friday 12th October. St Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
*Transition Town Totnes in association with Schumacher College*
**After the Floods – rethinking agriculture with the climate in mind.**
With Craig Sams, founder of Green and Blacks, and Kevin Morgan of Cardiff University and Christian Taylor of CSF.

Tuesday October 23rd. St Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 7.30pm. Free.
*Transition Town Totnes and Devon Churches Green Action*
**Prayer for the Planet: are we caring for our planet as our faith requires?** An Interfaith evening.

Friday October 26th. Methodist Hall, Totnes. 8pm. £6 (£5 concs).
*Transition Town Totnes is delighted to present;*
**This Farming Life: traditional song and archive film from 1920 – 1970**.

Wednesday October 31st. St Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs)
**Zero Carbon Britain; an Energy Descent Plan for the UK .**
With Paul Allen, director, Centre for Alternative Technology.

Wednesday 7th November. St. John’s Church, Bridgetown , Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
*Transition Town Totnes in association with Schumacher College*
**Education for Community Powerdown.**
With Alberlardo Brenes, Ed O’Sullian, Stephen Jones (principal at KEVICC), Rob Hopkins and Alan Dyer.

Friday November 9th. Venue to be confirmed. 8pm.
**The Launch of Totnes Renewable Energy Company.**

Saturday 10th November. Methodist Hall, Totnes. 10am – 4pm.
**Education for Sustainability**. An Open Space Day. Free.

Saturday 17th November, St. Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
**Economics in Transition: what future for local economies and their currencies?**
with Bernard Lietaer, Richard Douthwaite and David Boyle.

Wednesday 28th November. St. Johns Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. 8pm. £4 (£3 concs).
**Film Screening – Who Killed the Electric Car?**

Wednesday 5th December. **A Transition Event for Young People (tbc)**

Saturday 8th December. Methodist Hall, Totnes. 10am-4pm. Free.
**A Youth Open Space Day.**

###The Great Reskilling – a Toolkit of Hands-on Workshops.

Sunday September 9th. Schumacher College. 11am-5pm.
**Festival of Bread.**
Booking Essential. Call 078 05565559 or email bakkesle@online.no.

Monday 24th Sept. onwards for 10 weeks. Methodist Hall, Totnes
**Skilling Up for Powerdown**.
Contact Rob on 07868604454. Email robjhopkins@gmail.com

Friday 21st – Monday 24th Sept. Landmatters Permaculture Community.
**Rocket Stoves.**
£180. Contact 01803 712718.

Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23rd September. Venue tbc.
* Back by Popular Demand! *
**A Hands-On Introduction to YouTube Video Activism – worldchanging with a digital camera and a laptop.**
With Ed Wade-Martins of MovingSounds.org. Booking essential.

Saturday 29th September. Schumacher College. 2-5pm.
**Preserving Autumn Foods**
With Julia Ponsonby. £20.

Sunday 30th September. Sharpham House. 10am – 4pm.
**TTT’s Seedy Sisters present Autumn’s Glorious Glut Gig.**
£1.50, £1.00 concessions, kids free.

Saturday 3rd November. Mansion House, Totnes. 10am-3pm.
**Clay Winning: The Reclamation of Local Clays. How to recognise, reclaim and use local clay.**
With Richenda Macgregor and Jon Middlemiss. £12.

Friday 16th November. Bogan House, Totnes. 8pm. £3.
**An ecology of making, a community of objects.**
A Talk by Toni Spencer.

Please book for these Great Reskilling courses by calling Lou on 07896941872 or email: greatreskilling@googlemail.com.