| April 24, 2010 |
Free event at Create, Saturday 24th April 10:30 am – 3:00 pm
Pop down to the Create Centre this weekend when we throw open our doors so that people from across the city can come and find out what all this Peak Oil business is really about. Organised from the grassroots with the city’s Transition movement together with Create, and with a dizzying array of courses and a plethora of family fun activities there’s something for everyone.
Workshops:
* Growing food in small spaces: Hands-on practical learning, illustrated case studies, and handy hints for dealing with pests and problems. Beth Astle – who has worked with people wanting to grow food in all sorts of urban spaces from window boxes to balconies – will touch on permaculture principles, organic gardening and container planting in a friendly, informal and outdoor session (weather permitting). No experience necessary.
* Sparging the Wort: A hands-on learning session throughout the day for anyone wanting learn how to home-brew craft beers full mash style
* Dr Bike: Bicycles receive a health check, minor surgery performed and prescriptions written. Dr Bike fixes punctures, tunes gears, fits new brake blocks and replaces cables, as well as giving out advice about bike care.
* Film-making workshop with Steve Taylor: Our unwitting impact on the rainforest. An open workshop for anyone interested in exposing our hidden connections to the environmental catastrophes that seem so distant to our everyday lives. The purpose is to put together a film team that will develop a short film over the next few months to be shown publicly in Bristol. Film director Steve Taylor will lead the workshop, presenting some of his own work documenting the impact of human activities on rainforests globally. Film starts at 10:30 moving into workshop room and finishing at 12:30.
* How to hold a Street Party: Been wondering about a street party in your street this summer but daunted by the logistics? Learn about the legal stuff, paperwork, keeping it safe and makings sure its a party for everyone. A one hour session starting 1 pm.
* Home energy audit training: Cutting your carbon through Energy Efficiency makes sense for the planet and your pocket. Learn how to audit your home to identify energy saving measures. The sessions will last for an hour and will include a demonstration of how to use an OWL Energy Monitor to measure your electricity usage – these will be available to borrow to help with your energy efficiency. There will be a session starting at 11:00 am and another at 2:00 pm.
* To register on any of the above workshops call 9224379
Plus:
Create your own brass-rubbing edible Bristol map // Experience the mighty Pedal Powered Washing Machine // Get inky with Mel’s Lessons in Linocut: What goes into oil? What does oil go into? // Special Create Café “Peak Oil” menu full of local and seasonal goodness // Discover which beers pair up with different foods with the very very local Bristol Beer Factory // Consider the future of the city without Peak Oil // Come and see arts, music, photography and film (programme below) // Spotify the best post oil playlist and win post oil prizes // Draw what you think the future will be like After Oil // Help turn the back lane into a giant planting and bikes play zone (soil and oil!) // Identify the post oil holiday destinations and win 3 OS maps of your choice // See Ashton Gate Primary School’s environmental calligrams… It’s all FREE, it’s all home grown and it’s all oil-proof.
Peak Oil at Create films listing:
10:30 – 11:30 Film Workshop – Steve Taylor
An open workshop for anyone interested in exposing our hidden connections to the environmental catastrophes that seem so distant to our everyday lives. The purpose is to put together a film team that will develop a short film over the next few months to be shown publicly in Bristol. Film director Steve Taylor will lead the workshop, presenting some of his own work documenting the impact of human activities on rainforests globally.
11:30 – 14:00 Rolling programme – short film loop, featuring:
FreeRangeStudios / Annie Leonard – The Story of Stuff
An eye-opening, humorous, and highly readable account of how our seemingly innocuous lifestyles are part of a larger system of destruction and dysfunction. Gain new facts, ideas, and inspiration
decyphersmc – Understanding Peak Oil
Graduating from The Ontario College of Art and Design, currently working in Toronto as a web designer for The Globe and Mail, Scott McLean has made a Quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil. This is the culmination of Scott’s year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak Oil.
Jamfactory & Makinov – BOIKZMOIND
BOIKZMOIND (say it out loud) is the collaborative product of Gavin Strange and John Clooney, who set out to capture the spirit of the Bristol fixed gear scene.
Anita Sancha – Travelling towards Transition
Small short films that make a difference. Using no language, and mostly with positive happy endings, they can cross language barriers, educate and inspire.
Leo Murray – Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future impacts of climate change up to now has been missing a really important piece of the picture. It seems we are now dangerously close to the tipping point in the world’s climate system; this is the point of no return, after which truly catastrophic changes become inevitable.
Journey TV – The Journey – BS3 Allotments
A Bristol Transition Town group, found out about a quirky English Law that states if 6 or more people apply to the council for allotment land, the council is then obligated to try to provide it. They were successful and were granted a large plot. Together they cleared the land and planted a crop for summer. The allotment is maintained by the group and harvest divided up between. This short film is part of “The Journey” an unique documentary project that delves into environmental, socio-culture and economic issues, with a questioning mind.
14:00 – 15:00 In Transition 1.0
The first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focussed, viral and fun.
Check back soon for updated timings and programme!
