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CONTENTS Highlights
#Lovethefuture THEMES We wanted to bring you events to appeal to every set of interests, all designed to inspire love for the future. All events in the programme are marked by a symbol to help you identify which might interest you.
ART & CULTURE
Art has the power to inspire and make us question norms and assumptions. From the Museum of Water to the BIG Green Gig, these events are for culture vultures, music lovers and humourists alike.
FOOD & DRINK
We want to be hopeful for the future, it’s the place our children will grow up in. Food is a great connector of people and an emotive and powerful issue for many. Learn meat free cooking or indulge in the Forever Fish Feast.
FAMILY
Live Earth: Road to Paris, with Pharrell Williams ....... 9 Floodtide .................................................................. 13 Investing in the Future with Rathbone Greenbank Investments ............................. 28 The #Lovethefuture Hub .......................................... 31 The Bristol Grand Prix ............................................... 47 The BIG Green Gig ..................................................... 53
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Launch events ........................................................... 14 Saturday June 13th .................................................. 18 Sunday June 14th ..................................................... 20 Monday June 15th ..................................................... 24 Tuesday June 16th .................................................... 26 Wednesday June 17 .................................................. 40 Thursday June 18th ................................................. 42 Friday June 19th ...................................................... 44 Saturday June 20th .................................................. 48 Sunday June 21st ................................................. 50
Information Helpful information ................................................. 62 Getting to BIG Green Week .................................... 63
Events to delight all ages, challenge the mind and engage you as a family. From workshops in clay to the much loved Festival of Nature.
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SPORT & LEISURE
Being more active not only has health benefits, but can inspire people to make better transport choices and increase their wellbeing. Events to move you to rethink networking, encourage cycling and rouse body and soul.
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Debate, brainfood and ‘how to’ events, to stimulate the mind and give you confidence to try new things. These talks and workshops on issues from one planet living, to investment are sure to get you thinking.
Web: www.biggreenweek.com Twitter: @biggreenweek or #lovethefuture Facebook: Big Green Week Instagram: Love.the.future Free wi-fi is available at many event venues and cafes.
WANT TO DO SOMETHING TODAY? We all know that little changes can build up to make a great difference. Bristol 2015 are asking everyone to try and make 15 ecologically-friendly changes this year.
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WELCOME TO THE PROGRAMME FOR
BIG GREEN WEEK 2015 Welcome to BIG Green Week 2015, Bristol’s international festival of better living and big ideas. This is a special year for us, our fifth, as we mark being Europe’s Green Capital. We have an exciting and daring programme of events for you. This year, our theme is #Lovethefuture. We are celebrating the incredible people and initiatives that have both won Bristol the title of Green Capital and are creating the conditions for a better tomorrow. There’s something for everyone, from debates about investment in the future and poetry to celebrations of delicious locally sourced and meat free food. There are so many ways to get involved and be inspired to try something new. On 18th June, the EU Commission will announce 2017’s European Green Capital to follow on from Ljubljana. You can party with us at our live link to the Live Earth: Road to Paris concerts, curated by Pharrell Williams and join us in the global
call for action on climate change. Or, come along between 6th- 21st June to our #Lovethefuture Hub on Cascade Steps in your lunch break and say hello? We’re particularly excited to announce the inaugural Bristol Grand Prix cycle race on 20th June, a day of cycle events and races to put Bristol on the sporting map and inspire Bristolians to #Lovethefuture of cycling. Through our Crowdfunder campaign, it has been built by the people of Bristol, for the people of Bristol. We hope the race will be a platform to support Bristol cycling in general and women’s, youth cycling and road safety in particular. So, welcome to BIG Green Week 2015. We hope, however you get involved, that it inspires you to #Lovethefuture! The BIG Green Week Directors
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BIG Green Week is directed by Alastair Sawday, Dan Raffety, Darren Hall, Caroline Macdonald and Stephen Clarke. It is run by an independent non-profit Community Interest Company, as a project of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership.
This festival could never have happened without these amazing people:
BIG Green Week is put on by our directors, festival team and a range of partners each organising their own events. The festival is overseen and looked after on the day by our fantastic volunteer stewards. Thank you so much! The BIG Green Week team #Lovethefuture because there are generous people like our volunteers who have given up their time to make 2015 the biggest and best BIG Green Week ever. Very Special Thanks for the tireless work and creative brilliance of Phil Adkins, Le Sportif, Bristol Grand Prix Manager; Darryl Bullock, Bristol Green Publishing, Programme & Distribution; Tom Cawardine, Le Sportif, Bristol Grand Prix Designer; Doug Hobbs, Hobbs Hairdressing; Niall Milligan, Bristol Green Publishing, Ad Sales; Dani Tinez, Design and Creative Direction - and a special mention for Nicola Cottingham, Hannah Roberts and Andy Ballard.
Victoria Whelan, Festival Manager: “#Lovethefuture because Bristolians have the courage and desire to step up and ‘be the change”. Kath Cockshaw, Development Manager: “#LoveTheFuture for a more sustainable, happy Bristol. We are all part of the city’s developing story”. Nicola Waterworth, Grand Prix Project Manager: “#Lovethefuture because Bristol women can!”. Harriet Kingaby, Marketing Manager: “#Lovethefuture because Bristol is full of people working tirelessly to create change and cause mischief” . Andie Mclean, Office and Events Manager: “#Lovethefuture because I love seeing people choosing not to live out of habit but to live out of intent”. Jules Pascoe, Event Producer: “#Lovethefuture because the fab folks constantly refining science, technology, ingenuity and creativity rock”. Lucy Timmins, Event Producer: “#Lovethefuture because we can effect change. Strength comes in numbers. If we work together, change is possible”.
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The Chelsea Fringe in Bristol is a festival for everyone interested in gardens and gardening, community growing initiatives and having a bit of fun. This year’s Fringe promises pop-up gardens, growing trails around the city, a bee-friendly installation of wild flowers, community-led gardening projects, an edible car and a strip of turf designed to encourage people to sit down and enjoy a ‘green moment’.
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Bristol Refugee Week - Celebrating Sanctuary and the contribution of refugee communities to Bristol’s cultural diversity. Opening with a free day of celebration in Queen Square from 1-6.30pm on Sunday, June 14th featuring (amongst others) South African song and dance troupe Zakhele (pictured), the Bristol Reggae Orchestra, plus music from Sudan, Iran, Tibet and more. A family day with food from around the world, children’s activities and a sense of joy & belonging.
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SANCTUARY AND in THE CONTRIBUTION OF REFUGEE EventsCELEBRATING throughout Bristol (June 15th-20th) culminating the World Cup football tournament COMMUNITIES TO BRISTOL’S CULTURAL DIVERSITY between over 20 national groups at City Academy on Saturday, June 20th. Opening with a free day of celebration in Queen Square from 1-6.30pm on Sunday, June 14th. See Facebook, Bristol Refugee Week for further details. Featuring (amongst others) South African song and dance troupe Zakhele, the Bristol Reggae Orchestra, plus music from Sudan, and more. FFI contact 0780 961Iran, 9580Tibet or email admin@tribeofdoris.co.uk A family day with food from around the world, children’s activities and a sense of joy and belonging. Events throughout Bristol (June 15th-20th) culminating in the World Cup football tournament between over 20 national groups at City Academy on Saturday, June 20th.
See Facebook, Bristol Refugee Week for further details. Contact 0780 961 9580 or email admin@tribeofdoris.co.uk
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LIVE EARTH Road to Paris with Pharrell Williams and Al Gore
Thursday June 18th, 5pm, Millennium Square. We are delighted to announce that BIG Green Week is Bristol’s affiliated partner for the global Live Earth: Road to Paris concerts! The single most important agreement affecting the future of life on earth since 1997 and the Kyoto Protocol will be signed in Paris, this December. Representatives from nations around the world will meet to adopt a new agreement for international climate change. On June 18th, together with the United Nations, Live Earth will create a global series of events over 24 hours on six continents, anchored from Paris and New York. This year, the concerts are under the creative direction of Pharrell Williams. Warm up acts and Big Picnic activities start from 4pm, and we will be broadcasting the concerts live from Millennium Square. Join us as we support Live Earth in uniting a billion voices and urge world leaders to take climate action now. No need for tickets, just join our Facebook event page and sign the petition: www.liveearth.org
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Floodtide Navigate An exploration of music, tide, people & places, Floodtide makes music from the movement of tidal water. A submerged sensor gathers information from tidal flow that is converted into musical notation, read from screens or mobile phones and played live by musicians. Created by composer and yachtsman John Eacott, this is a live and ever-changing portrait of the local tide. No performance of Floodtide is the same, with the music being constantly affected by environmental factors such as wind, air pressure, rain, and even passing boats. “John Eacott’s Floodtide is a very unusual, and probably important, piece of music. The fascination in the music is exactly the non-intentionality behind it: musical events are not decided by the composer or players. Something that closely models natural processes is at work here,� says composer and journalist Steve Beresford. On New Moon, March 2015 Floodtide Navigate set sail from Antwerp on a five-month journey on the 46ft yacht Jacomina. Using the boat as a base the project is making weekly tidal sonification performances of waterways in conjunction with local performers and arts organisations. Additionally, a residency programme has facilitated collaborating artists, musicians, writers, coders and scientists to spend a week aboard. Having visited locations in Belgium, France and Spain, Jacomina sails from La Coruna to Padstow, before visiting the Bristol Channel for BIG Green Week.
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LAUNCH MAY 1st-JUNE 6th
There are loads of exciting events taking place across Bristol during May and June, in the run up to this year’s BIG Green Week. Here’s a selection of some of the best! May 1st 2015-April 1st 2016 CITY IDEAS STUDIO Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay Various times: see www.biggreenweek.com
To celebrate Bristol’s year as European Green Capital 2015 the Architecture Centre gallery is being transformed into a ‘City Ideas Studio’. This year-long hub, based around the key themes of Bristol Green Capital - Nature, Transport, Resources, Food and Energy – will explore ideas for a sustainable future through a series of exhibitions, studio residencies and events. Food will be the focus during Bristol’s BIG Green Week.
May 16th-June 7th THE CHELSEA FRINGE IN BRISTOL Various times and venues
The Chelsea Fringe in Bristol is an alternative gardening festival, celebrating everything from guerilla gardening, community projects, large-scale installations, performance art, street happenings and much more in between. It’s an open-access fringe festival, which means that if it’s about plants, gardens, flowers or landscape, and it’s interesting or original and quirky - then it’s in, like the finalists of the alternative veggie growing competition who will be featured at the #Lovethefuture Hub throughout BIG Green Week.
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June 1st-26th WILDLIFE IN BRISTOL PHOTOS BY SAM HOBSON Folk House, 40A Park Street 10am-6pm, FREE
Revealing photographs of some of the animals who have made their home in Bristol, including peregrine falcons and foxes.
June 1st-28th GO GREEN EXHIBITION Room 212, 212 Gloucester Road 9.30am-6pm, FREE
Exhibition of art, craft, jewellery and more by Bristol artists on a green theme. Room 212 is an Aladdin’s cave of work by local artists. This June artists will be working on a Go Green theme, using recycled materials or highlighting environmental issues through paintings, print, jewellery, gifts and much more.
June 6th TRIODOS RENEWABLES WINDFARM OPEN DAY Avonmouth Wind Farm, Kings Weston Lane 10am-4pm. FREE, ticket required
Take the opportunity to poke your noise inside a turbine and learn about how turbines are built and how they work. Plus an interactive science show delivered by Explorer Dome. Free face painting and refreshments will be provided. To book http://tinyurl.com/keowmge
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JUNE 6th-12th June 6th-7th GET GROWING GARDEN TRAIL 25+ venues across the city 10am-6pm, FREE
June 7th MAKE SUNDAY SPECIAL Bristol’s Old City 11am-5pm, FREE
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The Trail’s community growing projects range from miniature orchards tucked behind shops to historic gardens, from gardening projects focused around social get-togethers to those focused on social enterprise. Each project has its own ways of working: use the Trail to find out what would suit you. See www.bristolfoodnetwork.org for info.
Take your Sunday at walking pace through the historic centre of Bristol and explore the streets for art, music, markets, performers and more. Stop to eat, take in a performance or just relax and soak up the atmosphere!
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CITY TO SEA: BRISTOL’S RESPONSE TO MARINE LITTER Bristol’s secret fruit & veg growers open their garden gates and June 6th-14th Watershed 3, Harbourside community plots for the 4th annual Get Growing Garden Trail. BRISTOL CYCLE FESTIVAL 7.30-9pm, FREE, ticket required Come and see what lies behind the garden walls and get Full details at City to Sea: What is Bristol doing to combat Marine inspired to get growing too. www.bristolcyclefestival.com Plastic Pollution? Join Natalie Fee and others for an
Back for a For sixth year, Bristol Cycle Festivaland offers up atevening of expert speakers, debate and the launch of City directions, details of events activities all the sites, another nine days of bespoke events, all organised by the to Sea: Bristol’s response to marine litter. The evening or to download a Trail map: www.bristolfoodnetwork.org local cycling community. Join rides to local beauty spots, will be filmed by Made in Bristol TV to form the week’s attend talksAndy’s by bike boffins, decorate your steed for a current affairs show, The Hot Seat. Sims Hill Shared Harvest Haven Nursery J3 Get Growing Group jaunt up a traffic-free Avon Gorge, on the 10am–3pm Saturday & Sunday or test yourself 12–4pm Saturday 10am–5pm Sunday (access 24/7) Community Garden Southmead Community Weston Community Farm 10th unforgiving Blaise slopes of Dundry Hill. Details of Lawrence individual June 11am–4pm Saturday & Sunday Fruit Garden 10am–4pm Saturday & Sunday events will be appearing on the website, or look out for THE FUNDING 10am–3pmNETWORK Saturday Bramble Farm Community Smallholding Lets Grow! Community Allotment their distinctive paper programme appearing in your Mansion House, Clifton Garden Downs 11am–5pm Saturday & Sunday Stoke Lane Community 11am–4pm Saturday 12–3pm £10 Saturday spokes fromEaston earlyCommunity May. Allotment 6.30-9.30pm, Metford Road Community Orchard 11am–3pm Sunday Sustainable Westbury-on-Trym 2–5pm Sunday People directly involved with the projects present 12–5pm Saturday Ecohome Garden at Create Patchwork Community Gardening June 6th-14th their proposal to our philanthropic audience who then 2–4pm Sat: volunteers on site (access 24/7) Totterdown Sprouting Group Community Orchard 10am–4pm Sat: gallery open VANISHING SPECIES have the opportunity to pledge a donation 10am–2pm Saturday (access 24/7) in a lively 2–4pm Saturday (access 24/7) Feed Bristol House Gallery, Stokes Croft Hamilton open pledging session or Field via Community an anonymous pledge. Tynings Group Perrett’s Park Edible Garden 12–4pm Saturday & Sunday 10am–5pm Sunday for donors to meet 11am–6pm Saturday (access 24/7) 9am-9pm (Mon-Fri); This provides a unique opportunity Fishponds Community Orchard Tyntesfield Garden PLANT@St Agnesrepresentatives Park 9am-5pm of the charitiesWalled and Kitchen offer them support. 12–5pm Sunday(Sat & Sun), FREE 10am–6pm Saturday & Sunday 9am–5pm Saturday & Sunday Theby Golden Hill Community Garden Art exhibition Bethan McFadden. Clay sculptures and University of Bristol Botanic Garden Redland Green Allotments 11am–3pm Saturday life sized drawings of threatened animals found locally including orchard section 10am–4.30pm Saturday & Sunday June 12th-22nd GREENS Community Market Garden 2–5pm Sunday and from around Horfield BRISTOLUpper PEDAL REVOLUTION (HHEAG) the world. 25% profit of any sales Community Garden Club St George Community Garden 10am–3pm Saturday will go to Bristol-based charity, the Soil Association, to EXHIBITION 11am–4pm Saturday 10am–12noon Saturday (accessPHOTO 24/7) Severn the Project help spreadGrow the Bristol word&about importance of organic Roll for the Soul, 2 Quay St Windmill Hill City Farm St Werburghs City Farm (Temple Meads) 12–4pm Saturday farming to maintain healthy UK. Saturday 10am–12noon Saturdayecosystems in the12–4pm 7pm-9pm, FREE Woodcroft Community Orchard The Severn Project (Keynsham) Horfield Organic Community Orchard We will be exhibiting photos of the ways, means 10am–3pm Saturday 11am–2pm Saturday 1–5pm Saturday and finished results of our live cyclo-spray stenciling workshops from our twice monthly Saturday SprayShop Residency outside RFS on our Custom Bristol Bike Trailer, mobile spray booth, market stall. We will also Explore the Trail by bike Join Life Cycle on one of their relaxed, friendly ‘led’ rides around the Trail. have photo exhibits of our Wow Factor Pedal Machines Life Cycle will take the effort out of planning your cycle route, so that you can concentrate on and enjoying fascinating gardens. Five rides will be on thetheBristol Cargo Bike.
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THE FESTIVAL OF NATURE 2015 Harbourside 10am-6pm, FREE
The Festival of Nature is back! Bigger, better and wilder in Bristol’s year as European Green Capital. The UK’s biggest free natural history event gives naturelovers of all ages a unique opportunity to explore and enjoy the wonders of the natural world in the heart of Bristol.
GLOS RD CENTRAL IS GROWING 164-268 Gloucester Road 9am-5.30pm daily until Sun 21st Independent traders will green up the wide pavements in front of their shops on the central section of Gloucester Road. They will use planters and recycled objects, such as a claw footed bath, to grow flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
LOVING THE FUTURE - LOVING MY WORK Starts at The Hub, Cascade Steps 10am-12.30pm, £5
With Rosalind J. Turner of Netwalking South West: intro talk followed by facilitated ‘walk & talk’ around Bristol’s historic Harbourside, posing questions around what might our world look like if we all loved our work, and what might currently get in the way of that idea?
GREEN TRAIL WORKSHOP Room 212, Gloucester Road 10am-4pm, FREE A fun and creative environmental workshop for all the family. Lots of ideas and designs, and the chance to play with materials used for our straw bale house. Come along to get arty and learn eco tips.
80 MILES AROUND THE WEST CHARITY CYCLE RIDE Bristol-Bath Railway Path, Bruce Road Junction 10am-5pm, FREE This fabulous two day cycle is a relaxing way to spend a weekend whilst raising money for charity. Whether you’re an avid cyclist or a complete novice you’ll enjoy the fun and company as you can take your time and arrive at your own pace. The weekend itself is free, all we ask is you raise £150 in sponsorship, 100% of which goes towards Temwa and our sustainable development projects in Northern Malawi. Contact russ@temwa.org for full details.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, Harbourside 11am, 12.30, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. Dress up in alien costumes and follow our roboguide around the exhibition to learn about the bizarre species ‘humanity’ and the way it interacts with its planet. Maximum 20 people per tour.
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SATURDAY • JUNE 13th BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 11am & 3.30pm, £5/£4 cons. Explore one of the UK’s most advanced low-energy installations. This iconic building features the UK’s only phase-change tank which, along with air source heat pumps, thermal wheels, green roofs and photovoltaic array, is part of At-Bristol’s cutting-edge environmentally friendly design. Learn about the science, sustainability and history of this technology. Maximum 20 people per tour.
GREEN POET POSTIE Bristol City Centre. 11am-4pm, FREE Martin Kiszko, the UK’s Green Poet, and Poet in Residence during Bristol 2015 European Green Capital, will be riding his bicycle up and down the hills of Bristol, handing out invitations to children to enter a special Green Poetry Competition in which schools can win signed Martin Kiszko and Nick Park books or a live performance of Martin’s Edinburgh Fringe show!
ST WERBURGHS CITY FARM SUMMER FAIR Watercress Road, St Werburghs 12noon-8pm, £5 St Werburghs City Farm is a green oasis in the heart of Bristol that connects people to their food, the environment and the local community. The Summer Fair is our main fundraiser, and a celebration of all things local.
EPIC ECO-INVENTIONS: CHILDREN’S BOOK READING AND DRAWING WORKSHOP Foyles Bookshop, Quakers Friars, Cabot Circus 2.30-4.10pm, FREE ‘Epic Eco-Inventions’: What wild and wacky solutions can children imagine to make sure their future is fair, fun and green? Brainstorm and draw your future with Jona David, child author in the United Nations Voices of Future Generations Children’s Books Series, written by children for children worldwide (Ages 6-10).
DANCING FREEDOM: YOGA Bristol City Yoga, 16 Backfields Lane BS2 8QW. 7.30-9.30pm, £12 Come to Bristol City Yoga, move off the yoga mat and let your inhibitions go! Dancing Freedom™ is a simple, powerful moving meditation that anyone of any age, size, or physical ability can practice. There are no steps to follow, no choreography to learn, no way to do it wrong. The only requirement is a body that is still breathing, a heart that is still beating, and a mind that is still curious!
THE CLOUD The Bearpit, St James Barton Roundabout 8pm-8am, FREE Eva Martino and Hannah Clark will spend a night dreaming under the fumes with Bristol residents. As the night approaches white pillows are handed out. This is an invitation to sleep together, amongst strangers in the city, to hear from unheard voices, to lie with your neighbour. Please dress warmly, bring a sleeping bag and an open mind.
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SUNDAY • JUNE 14th
PORTWAY SUNDAY PARK Portway, between Sea Mills and Cumberland Basin 10am-9pm, FREE
Enjoy the magic of the Avon Gorge free from traffic noise. Come on foot or bike, or by train to Sea Mills, bring a picnic, and explore the gorge or join one of the events on our website. There will be no fun fairs, no burger bars and no amplified music - but three miles of riverside walk, and lots of footpaths to explore up and down the gorge.
THE FESTIVAL OF NATURE 2015 Harbourside 10am-5pm, FREE The Festival of Nature is back! See Saturday 13th for more details.
80 MILES AROUND THE WEST CHARITY CYCLE RIDE 10am-5pm, FREE This fabulous two day cycle, from Bristol to Devizes, is a relaxing way to spend a weekend whilst raising money for a local charity. See Saturday 13th for details.
CHEESE EXHIBITION 56 Heron Road 10.30am-4.30pm daily, FREE The Easton Energy Group’s Art exhibition at the Warm Up Bristol Show Home. See page 58 for more details or go to www.bristolenergynetwork.org
BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 11am & 3.30pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
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SUNDAY • JUNE 14th SOLAR DAY North Street, Bedminster 11am-5pm, FREE Back by popular demand is Bedminster Energy Group’s Solar Day with games, quizzes, prizes engaging the city about solar and energy matters. Bristol Energy champions will be there to help you find out more about options for your home, getting involved in your community, and investing in city-wide community energy initiatives.
EDUCATION IN THE NATURE OF MIND AS THE BASIS FOR BENEFICIAL SOCIAL CHANGE Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 11.30am-12.30pm, FREE A talk introducing the education and global movement of Balanced View. Grassroots social change starts with each one of us. Perfect knowledge of our beneficial nature is our human right. Balanced View offers a standardised education in the nature of mind for anyone to get to know open intelligence.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 11am, 12.30, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
GREAT GREEN WINE STOMP Redcliffe Wharf , Redcliffe Way 12noon-6pm, £8-£10 Come and celebrate all wines SNOB (Sustainable, Natural, Organic, Biodynamic) at Bristol’s inaugural Wine Stomp! An £8 ticket (£10 on the day) provides you with your choice of 4 wine tasting samples, a reusable Govino wine glass, and a 6 bottle wine carrier for carting home your favourite green wines of the day.
CELEBRATING SANCTUARY Queen Square 1-6.30pm, FREE Bristol Refugee Week: “Celebrating Sanctuary” and the contribution of Refugee communities to Bristol’s cultural diversity. A free day of celebration in Queen Square featuring South African song and dance troupe Zakhele, the Bristol Reggae Orchestra, music from Sudan, Iran, Tibet and more. A family day with food from around the world, children’s activities and a sense of joy and belonging.
GREEN HIDDEN TREASURES STORYTELLING AND PICNIC Justin’s Logging Camp (follow signs in the wood), Badock’s Wood Local Nature Reserve, Lakewood Road 4.30-5.30pm, FREE Storytelling about the hidden woodland wildlife at the site of new wildwood sculptures and seats. Part of the Friends of Badock’s Wood Green Hidden Treasures Bristol European Green Capital 2015 Project. Bring your own picnic and stories to tell (optional). All welcome.
ENERGY CHAMPIONS Harbourside 7-9pm, FREE Exhibition of Community Energy Projects from across the city making up Bristol Energy Network. Stalls, displays, bike powered machines, information on making your own solar panel. Bristol Green Doors, Demand Energy Equality, Bristol Power Co-op and others will be there to help you find out more about options for your home, getting involved in your community, and investing in city-wide community energy initiatives.
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MONDAY • JUNE 15th
BUSINESS GREEN WEEK Your Workplace 9am-5pm daily until Fri 19th, FREE
Business Green Week aims to encourage Bristol’s businesses to adopt greener business practices in the workplace, and offers a chance to recognise and celebrate the business community’s contribution to creating a European Green Capital. Will you join them? For more information, and to download your free ‘how to’ guide - which includes a huge range of ideas to change small aspects of your everyday activities to reduce your impact. Share your photos: #businessgreenweek.
FACTORY TOUR AT BRISTOL TEXTILE RECYCLERS Victoria Terrace, St Philips Marsh 10am & 4pm, FREE, ticket required
A tour of Bristol and the West of England’s only textile recycling factory, where 100 tonnes of unwanted clothing is sorted and exported every week for reuse in the UK, Eastern Europe, Africa and Pakistan.
GREEN POEMS FOR A BLUE PLANET St George’s, Great George Street 10am-5.30pm daily, until Thurs 25th, FREE Exhibition of eco-comical poems for children and families by Martin Kiszko, Poet in Residence for Bristol 2015 European Green Capital year, with illustrations by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park. Martin and Nick’s work aims to encourage a new generation to search for solutions that can create a sustainable environment for all.
GREEN WOODWORKING GROUP Lawrence Weston Community Farm, Saltmarsh Drive. 11am-2pm, £5 Come and join our weekly beginners and improvers Green Woodworking group in the Farm’s Water Vole Woodland. You will have a chance to try some Green Woodworking, find out more about this wonderful craft, sit in our beautiful Water Vole Woodland and enjoy the peace of whittling in the woods! Adults only.
SUSTAINABLE HEALTH AND CARE SOLUTIONS Watershed 1 Canon’s Road, 2-5pm, FREE Have you got ideas about how we could improve the sustainability of the health and care system in Bristol? Come along to this open community dialogue focused on using innovation to improve the health of those who live in and around Bristol, and to improve the delivery of the services on which we all rely. 24 - BIG GREEN WEEK 2015
MONDAY • JUNE 15th WATER’S EDGE Arup Engineering Consultants, Lecture Theatre, 63 St Thomas Street 2-8pm, until Weds 17th. £6/£3 cons. A three-day festival of films (in nine sessions) about water, our most precious resource. We will discover local practices across the world and how they might provide global solutions to problems such as floods and droughts. Each session is followed by a panel discussion on how we can take action to safeguard future generations.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road 3pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
WHAT PUTS THE GREEN INTO FILWOOD GREEN BUSINESS PARK? 1 Filwood Park Lane 3-5pm, FREE, ticket required Awarded BREEAM Outstanding, the design of Filwood Green Business Park meets local aspirations for a greener future. Newly opened in 2015, Bristol City Council invites you to learn about the environmental ethos of this showcase development on a tour with architects Stride Treglown and construction company Midas.
THE BIG GREEN & BLACK DEBATE
Bristol 2015 Lab, 1 Canon’s Road
4-6pm, FREE
Ujima Radio and Bristol 2015 are joining forces to host The Big Green & Black Debate, exploring issues around inclusiveness, representation, voice and influence for grassroots communities. Answering these questions and others posed by a live audience will be a panel of decision makers and other key stakeholders involved in Bristol’s year as European Green Capital 2015.
RIBA GREEN MANIFESTO EXHIBITION Benjamin Perry Boat House, Phoenix Wharf, Lower Guinea Street 6.30-9.30pm, FREE, ticket required A photographic exhibition organised by the Bristol & Bath Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The exhibition aims to demonstrate how architects use innovative ways to create sustainable environments.
MEET LOCAL EARTH CHAMPIONS: INSPIRING STORIES, PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS AND HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE Arnolfini Theatre, 16 Narrow Quay 7pm, FREE, ticket required Be inspired by stories of courage and passion to create a positive shift in how we can live in a healthier low carbon way of living. Bristol people can meet Bristol region Earth Champions and learn about local environmental best practices. Bristol region Earth Champions have been nominated in the categories of of Air Quality, Water, Well Being, Transport, Waste Minimisation, Built Environment, Biodiversity and Energy.
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TUESDAY • JUNE 16th
FUTURE OF WORK SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard 9am-5pm, £49/£39 cons.
To engage and retain the best talent, quality clients and key suppliers, the industrial age business model is no longer appropriate. Employees want choice and creative input; your community expects you to understand that you do not work in isolation and the environment needs you to source more responsibly. Keynote speaker Jonathan Porritt CBE will share his vision for the future, and the day features workshops, seminars and talks from green business leaders. See page 52 for more details.
FACTORY TOUR AT BRISTOL TEXTILE RECYCLERS Victoria Terrace, St Philips Marsh 10am & 4pm, FREE, ticket required See Monday 15th for details.
WATER’S EDGE Arup Engineering Consultants, 63 St Thomas Street 2-8pm, £6/£3 cons.
See Monday 15 for details.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 3pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
TUESDAY • JUNE 16th GOODGYM BIG GREEN WEEK SPECIAL The Folk House, 40A Park Street 6.30-8pm, FREE We are holding a special GoodGym run for Big Green Week. Meet at the Folk House to run to a special green location in Bristol where we will get stuck into some physical volunteering and then run back again. Everyone welcome.
RIBA PRESENTS: 101 RULES OF THUMB FOR LOW ENERGY ARCHITECTURE Environment Agency Headquarters, Deanery Road 6-7.30pm, £6.50/£4 cons. Architect and principal lecturer at Portsmouth School of Architecture Huw Heywood sets out essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way in this exclusive talk within the RIBA Award-winning Environment Agency headquarters. Discounted copies of a ‘101 Rules of Thumb’ are available for sale on the night.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF A GREEN CAPITAL: BEYOND AN ENVIRONMENTAL HANDBOOK Arnolfini, Narrow Quay 6.30-8pm, £6/£4 cons. City Ideas Studio Keynote Lecture: Hosted by the Architecture Centre. Peter Clegg, founding partner of multi-award winning architects Feilden Clegg Bradley, will present lessons learnt from a three-decade pursuit of new environmental approaches to architecture. From self-built experiments in passive solar design at the domestic scale in the 1980s, to the increasingly complex social and political issues that shape our contemporary cities, Clegg will set out his definition of the Architecture of a Green Capital.
OUR ENERGY FUTURE: THE ROAD NOT (YET) TAKEN The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer, 17-18 King Street 6.30-9pm, FREE, ticket required Bristol is a melting pot of ideas. Multiple voices, from the council through businesses to communities, are articulating their vision of potential energy futures. But from this noise, what road will be taken? Which issues really matter? Whose voice counts? Join us to explore different positions, ideas and issues.
BRISTOL LAUGHTER WORKSHOP Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square 7.30-9pm, £12/£7 cons. Light-hearted, interactive, joyful, de-stressing workshop experience. No previous experience required. No one ever put on the spot. The Bristol laughter workshops are the longest-running series of laughter yoga workshops outside India, 12 years and counting - time you to come to a session?
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RATHBONE GREENBANK INVESTMENTS
INVESTING IN THE FUTURE Following the financial crisis, it’s safe to say that many people have a negative impression of the financial services industry. But away from the skyscrapers and the stereotypes, a small team in a leafy corner of Bristol are hard at work investing people’s money ethically so it makes a positive difference in the world. Rathbone Greenbank Investments, an investment manager not a bank, was established in 1997 as a way for people to invest money in an ethical way. They now have over 1,300 clients and currently invests over £700m on their behalf according to their ethical concerns and interests. “We were pioneers of a new concept in ethical investing,” says John David, head of Rathbone Greenbank Investments (pictured) and a Rathbone employee of 14 years. He explains that the pioneering element of their service means “looking at both sides of the coin” by avoiding investments in the so-called “sin stocks” (gambling, alcohol, pornography, guns) – a well-established practice known as “ethical screening” – while moving the approach on by seeking out companies active in positive areas, such as renewable energy or fair trade, or which conduct their business in an ethical manner. And this isn’t an add-on, a moral corrective to a darker side. “Ethical investing is all we do,” says Perry Rudd, head of ethical research at Rathbone Greenbank. “We only manage portfolios with an ethical and sustainable focus.”
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While the primary service the team offers is on the investment side, they are also happy to engage with companies. Rathbone Greenbank recently co-sponsored and was a driving force behind a resolution put forward by shareholders in BP and Shell, calling on them to do more to address the risks of climate change. Despite the bad rap that some parts of the financial services industry have faced in recent years, it is reassuring that a team like Rathbone Greenbank exists to allow people to use their money to encourage positive behaviour and change, to invest using their heart, not just their head. Join Rathbone Greenbank at their event, Investing in the Future on Thursday, June 18th. Find out more on page 42.
Rathbone Greenbank Investments is delighted to announce Sir Tim Smit KBE, co-founder and Executive Vice Chair of the Eden Project, will be the keynote speaker at its ‘Investing in the Future’ event, taking place on 18 June 2015 at the At-Bristol science centre. Tim’s presentation will be followed by a series of short talks by prominent local figures involved in creating a more sustainable future, including: • • • • •
Juliet Davenport – CEO & Founder, Good Energy Plc Merlin Hyman – Chief Executive, Regen SW Lisa Jones – Soil Association Nick Sturge – Centre Director, SETsquared Bristol John David – Head of Rathbone Greenbank Investments
Each speaker will bring their particular perspective to the debate, looking at how their organisations are meeting the diverse challenges of investing in the planet’s future for generations to come. Tickets for the event are priced at £10 and include lunch and refreshments. The day is also hosted by Amy Robinson, Network Director of Low Carbon South West with a special guest appearance by Mayor George Ferguson.
Rathbone greenbank Investor Day
Investing in the Future Thursday 18th June, 11:30-4pm, followed by refreshments until 5pm At-Bristol, Anchor Road. Price £10 (includes lunch)
www.biggreenweek.com/event/investor-day/
John David
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Bristol Energy Cooperative BEC AD Big Green 0415.indd 1
The solar success story continues Easton Community Centre, Hamilton House, Knowle West Media Centre, South Bristol Sports Centre, The Folk House, The Mill - these fine establishments are already benefiting from solar panel installations from Bristol Energy Cooperative (BEC). Could your building be next? BEC was formed in 2011 by a number of community groups across the city. We invest in renewables across the greater Bristol area.
• The building users benefit from cheap green energy.
Since we started we’ve raised around £250,000 through community share offers for our installations.
• Our profits help fund the next project.
• Our investors receive a yearly interest payment. • Everybody wins.
We are now finalising our third share offer for a further portfolio of solar on community and commercial buildings. If you’d like your building to be added to our installation list, visit www.bristolenergy.coop/potential-partners.html or phone 07503 372 689.
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HUB
JUNE 6th-21st
16 days of BIG Green Week #Lovethefuture Hub action from the 6th to 21st June. Situated just above Cascade Steps in the city centre, events taking place at the festival Hub include music, talks, workshops, health and wellbeing, and family-friendly fun. Come, discuss and discover what’s happening locally in areas including social enterprise, community, creativity and connection. This is your chance to broaden the BIG Green Week conversation: use #Lovethefuture and share your thoughts with the whole world! Go to www.biggreenweek.com for the full 16 day lineup: there really is something for everyone!
Hub Highlights
Cass Art Canvas | daily, 3pm Cass Art is determined to fill this town with artists and will be profiling some of Bristol’s finest, who will get arty every day down at the BIG Green Week Hub. Each artist will be working in a different medium on the same canvas, together co-creating a massive piece of art that reflects how this green capital loves the future. 16 artists over 16 days! Chelsea Fringe in Bristol | Sat 6th & Sun 7th The Chelsea Fringe with the Pick Up Pollinators truck will be at various locations throughout the event with handy tips on growing in small spaces. Millennium Hexagons with bee-friendly wild flowers, plus the finalists of the Alternative Veggie Growing Container competition. ATTIC Tea Time | weekends daily Personal health and happiness are a cornerstone to living sustainably, so ATTIC tea will be running a Tea Clinic for visitors to come and share their thoughts, their niggles, rest their weary legs and just try some lovely teas to boost energy, raise the spirits or calm the mind. One Day | Mon 15th-Thurs 18th A participatory artwork connecting resilient thinking, globally. Our world will change one day. What if today was Day One? Ninja Calm Flashmob | Tues 16th, 6pm Be the change you wish to see in the world and join us for the ultimate Ninja Calm urban meditation experience by Bristol Health Hub. Bring a cushion!
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Gurt Lush Choir | Sun 7th, 1pm Founded in 2009, within two years the choir grew to over 300 members and is now one of the largest in the country. Singing all styles and regularly performing to sell-out crowds at the Colston Hall, the choir has collaborated with Bristol Schools Philharmonia, the Gasworks Choir, Opera Anywhere and more.
Children from Merchants Academy | Wed 17th, 12noon Sing Wonderful World: songs on green themes sung by the fantastic choirs of Merchant’s Academy. Well known for their entertaining and engaging performances.
Sawday’s Office Choir | Thurs 18th, 2pm Informal but enthusiastic, David Ogden, whose Exultate choir is much loved in Bristol, rehearses Sawday’s choir weekly. This mixed bag of amateurs sing an eclectic range from gospel and musical to spiritual and madrigal.
Cecile Caillleau | Mon 8th & Wed 9th, 4pm Is a Bristol based folk singer-songwriter: delicate vocals and French tones give her unique songs a fresh feel.
Isolde Freeth-Hale | Wed 10th, 4pm Performs conscious songs with found sounds, body/ vocal percussion, various instruments, and harmonies, with the aid of her loopstation. A Taste of St Pauls Afrikan Caribbean Carnival | Sat 13th, 2pm Artists preparing for St Pauls Afrikan Caribbean Carnival’s Roots - Journey - Legacy programme give a flavour of what’s to come this year.
Workshops and performances of Floodtide by John Eacott | Mon 15th – 19th, 1pm daily. Come and make music from the movement of tidal water: there will be a performance of Floodtide on Sat 20th, 1pm. The Floodtide musicians are currently touring Europe aboard the sailing vessel Jacomina. See page 13 for more details. Royal Mail Choir | Mon 15th, 4.30pm This lively choir, formed three years ago for the BBC programme Sing While You Work, has raised thousands of pounds for charity and given concerts around Europe.
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World Tribal with Sika | Fri 19th, 2pm A dynamic fusion of instruments from indigenous cultures around the globe; rhythms, loops, didjeridoo, percussion, native flutes, ocarina and many more mesmerising instruments, mixed with ambient and upbeat soundscapes to journey into other worlds.
A Taste of Seed Festival | Sun 21st, 2pm Seed Festival inspires a more intimate & personal connection with our living world and our place within it. Come and help sing up the Seed with intention singing with Joyaa.
John Eacott performing Hour Angle | Sun 21st, 5pm Music generated by the movement of the sun. To mark the summer solstice, at 5.39pm performers will play music generated from live calculations of the sun’s ‘hour angle’ - equivalent to its latitude and longitude as viewed from the earth.
UB BIG Green Chair and Talks
BIG Green Chair | 12 noon & 4pm daily The BIG Green Chair provides a platform for new thought leaders.
Epic Eco-Inventions | Sat 13th, 12noon Wild and wacky solutions for saving the planet from 9-year-old Jona David, the first author in the United Nation’s Voices of Future Generations series of books written by children to express their ideas and hopes. Glyn Owen - Soil Association | Sat 13th , 6pm The Big Picnic. Food for Life Partnership is organising 15 picnics across Bristol with workshops from local cooks and gardeners. Hear about the journeys schools have made and the legacy for the future.
FRANK Water | Sun 14th, 12noon The ethical water company launches their new stainless steel bottle.
Ecopod Tours and Talks | 6th-12th, times vary Craig Banks tells the story of the development of an environmental company dedicated to using recycled materials in producing small living environments.
Step in Stone | Sun 7th, 12noon Artist and curator Fiona Campbell talks about her multi-stranded project involving site-specific artworks in Mendip quarries.
Simon Bates - UWE | Sun 7th, 6pm Our Green City is a free online course that will capture the spirit and practice of Bristol 2015. Take a look at city global challenges and Bristol’s Solutions to them.
Naresh Giangrande | Tues 9th, 6pm What do a micro-brewery, a renewable energy company in Italy, and a community owned vineyard in Belgium have in common? They are all part of the worldwide Transition movement.
Jenny Foster - Fairtrade Foundation | Sun 14th, 6pm An interview with Jenny Foster, Bristol and SW Fairtrade Co-ordinator to find out more about the International Fair Trade Towns Conference. Kit Beazley - Triodos | Mon 15th, 6pm Money is power, but who’s using the power of your money? Triodos Bank wants banking to work for people and the planet. Hear why Triodos think that transparency matters.
Bristol ReUse | Mon 15th, 12noon Imaginative re-use and repair of clothing, furniture, food, building materials and more. Top tips and how to get involved.
Giles Hutchins | Wed 17th, 6pm Capitalism or consumerism are often perceived as the root causes of our plethora of problems: it is time to get radical and deal with the Mother of all problems.
Jonathan Wise | Wed 10th, 6pm Jonathan shares his unique view on the nature of persuasive communications and the stories we might need to tell in order to become a more sustainable society.
Martin Whitlock - Beyond GDP | Thurs 18th, 6pm The Author of Human Politics Human Value on redefining economic policy to put people and the environment first.
Sustain: 10 Things that Will Change the World for the Better (and Already Are) | Fri 12th, 12noon Humans are amazing: we’ve unravelled the mysteries of the universe and organised ourselves into highly complex societies. How is this large-brained primate responding to his latest set of challenges?
Richard Lancaster - Where Next for Greenpeace? | Fri 19th, 6pm Richard has been campaigning with Greenpeace since the mid ‘80s and after a look at past successes will consider whether Greenpeace still has a role to play today and how the organisation is adapting to meet new challenges. BIG GREEN WEEK 2015 - 33
BIG Green Chair Simon Bates UWE
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Cecile Caillleau
Cass Art Canvas
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BIG Green Chair Jonathan Wise
BIG Green Chair Naresh Giangrande Transition Network
Isolde Freeth-Hale
Cass Art Canvas
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Cass Art Canvas
Ecopod tours and talks
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Cass Art Canvas
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Ecopod tours and talks
Ecopod tours and talks
Ecopod tours and talks
Ecopod tours and talks
Busker’s Stage
LitterARTI workshop & performance
BIG Green Chair
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Cecile Caillleau
Cass Art Canvas
Ecopod tours and talks
Busker’s Stage
BIG Green Chair Glyn Owen Soil Association
A Secret Court
Busker’s Stage
Cass Art Canvas
A Taste of St Paul’s Carnival
Flashmob Yoga
Epic Eco Inventions
Gurt Lush Choir
BIG Green Chair Sustain
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BIG Green Chair Steps in Stone
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Celebrating Soil Workshop with the Soil Sisters
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Create a Bee Willow Workshop
Fun Clay Workshop
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ATTIC tea time
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The Hub at a glance • June 6th - 13th
HU
Busker’s Stage
BIG Green Chair Giles Hutchins
Floodtide Workshop & Performance
Helen Moore Ecopoet
Cass Art Canvas
Ecopod tours and talks
Royal Mail Choir NB: starts at 4.30pm
BIG Green Chair Kit Beazley Triodos
Reza Tango Workshop
Cass Art Canvas
Ecopod tours and talks
Busker’s Stage
BIG Green Chair Jenny Foster Fairtrade SW
Ninja Calm Flashmob
Ecopod tours and talks
Ecopod tours and talks
Cass Art Canvas
Martin Kiszko Stand-Up Poetry
Joe Hoare’s Laughter Workshop
Cass Art Canvas
Floodtide Workshop & Performance
Floodtide Workshop & Performance
BIG Green Chair: Martin Whitlock
Busker’s Stage
Ecopod tours and talks
Cass Art Canvas
Sawday’s Office Choir
Floodtide Workshop & Performance
BIG Green Chair
Merchant’s Academy Choir: Wonderful World
LitterARTI Workshop & Performance
Busker’s Stage
One Day
Busker’s Stage
BIG Green Chair Bristol ReUse
One Day
FRANK Water Steel Bottle launch
One Day
Busker’s Stage
One Day
Create a Bee Willow Workshop
ATTIC Tea Time
Busker’s Stage
BIG Green Chair
BIG Green Chair Richard Lancaster Greenpeace
Ecopod tours and talks
Hour Angle: Music for the Solstice
Ecopod tours and talks
Cass Art Canvas
A Taste of Seed Festival
Chris Paradox Imagination Engineer
Cass Art Canvas
LitterARTI Workshop & Performance
BIG Green Chair
Create a Bee Willow Workshop
ATTIC Tea Time
Floodtide Professional Musicians
BIG Green Chair: A Fracking Disgrace
Fun Clay Workshop
ATTIC Tea Time
Busker’s Stage
Ecopod tours and talks
Cass Art Canvas
Sika World Music
Floodtide Workshop & Performance
BIG Green Chair
Busker’s Stage
One Day
The Hub at a glance • June 14th - 21st
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HU Family Fun Workshops
Fun with Clay | Sat 6th & 20th, 11am A rolling clay workshop for all ages; stay as long as you like and make whatever takes your fancy! An opportunity to exercise your imagination, and to learn new skills and techniques. Fun for all the family!
Create A Willow Bee | every Sun, 11am-1pm An exciting interactive workshop where the participants will learn to use willow to create a bee and then embellish it with recycled materials.
LitterARTI performance and workshop | Mon 8th, Sun 14th & Sun 21st, 1pm Art for awareness and education about rubbish and recycling. So come down to the #Lovethefuture Hub and get creative with rubbish! Soil Sisters - Celebrating Soil | Sat 13th, 11am In this, the UN International Year of Soils, Daphne, Miche & Flora (The Soil Sisters) celebrate the living soil with a participatory, food-sharing installation that inspires hands-on encounters and conversations with soil. Join us for a taste of ecological gastronomy - an education through the senses.
Find Your Inner Animal | Sat 13th, 1pm To celebrate the Festival of Nature, join Bristol City Yoga for a wildly playful yoga class, suitable for all experience levels, including complete beginners. Reza Tango | Sat 13th, 2pm In Tango we learn how to listen, relate and dance with one another using the wisdom of our bodies. It is an improvised dance in which one partner leads, the other follows, with mutual respect and feeling. This introduction will include simple exercises that explore this wonderful connection.
Laughter Workshop with Laughing Buddha Joe Hoare | Tues 16th, 2pm A light-hearted, interactive, joyful and de-stressing workshop experience.
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UB poetry
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Eco-Poet Helen Moore | Mon 15th, 2pm: Imagine if we created a constructive alternative to the current period of planetary collapse? Eco-poetry is engaged poetry for a new age of awareness, and Helen Moore is a leading light in this probing genre. She reads from her new book Ecozoa, called ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’.
Greater Bristol Alliance presents The Secret Court | Sat 13th, 5pm Giant multinationals are suing countries for trying to protect their environments - in secret. This short comic drama shows how they have done this and why. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will make it so much worse. Followed by Q&A . A Fracking Disgrace - Flashmob | Sat 20th, 12noon Licenses to explore fracking possibilities have been granted for large areas of the South West. Greater Bristol Alliance’s Frack Free Flash Mob will scour the centre in costume with maps to ask whether the ground beneath YOUR house is on the map. Don’t forget you can find the full programme of events happening at the Hub on our website
www.biggreenweek.com
Check it out for special late additions, alterations and announcements! A very special thanks to Triodos for sponsoring the Hub
Bristol 2015’s Poet in Residence Martin Kiszko performs his humorous, theatrical and challenging stand-up poetry | Wed 17th, 2pm: Suitable for audiences aged 8 to 80! Green Poems for a Blue Planet and Verse for the Earth both illustrated by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park.
Keep an eye out for more of Martin Kiszko as he will be riding his green Pashley bicycle up and down the green hills of Bristol. He’ll be handing out invitations to children to enter a special Green Poetry Competition in which schools can win signed Martin Kiszko and Nick Park books or a live performance of Martin’s one man show directly from the Edinburgh Fringe.
Chris Paradox | Sat 20th, 2pm Your friendly neighbourhood one-legged existentialist stand-up beat poet and inspiration engineer says “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” Chris Paradox BIG GREEN WEEK 2015 - 37
WED WEDNESDAY • JUNE 17th
LitterARTI: INNER CITY LITTER EVENT St. Augustine’s Parade 8am-6pm, FREE
Working with Bristol City Council cleaners we will be creating a sculpture made from rubbish collected over the day - a rigorous process involving volunteers and the public to assist in cleaning and sorting. Events will include street performance, exploring our relationship to waste and motivating communal action.
THE DoNation BUSINESS BREAKFAST ON BEHAVIOUR CHANGE ERM, 2nd Floor, 1 Castle Park 8.30-10am, FREE, ticket required Insights and tips from The DoNation on encouraging behaviour change on scale, particularly focused on engaging employees in sustainable actions. Will include a brief introduction to The DoNation and a case study from one of our clients.
RECYCLE AND REUSE IN EASTON Kilburn Street, Easton 8.30-10am & 3.30-6.30pm, FREE, ticket required United Communities Housing Association and Tidy BS5 are working together to tackle litter and fly tipping in Easton. This event will be a big celebration of our work with music, food and kids activities. We will also be doing a big swap of clothes, toys and bikes so have a clear out!
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FAMILY YOGA Bristol City Yoga, 16 Backfields Lane 11.30am-12.30pm, £4 An exploration of yoga postures, breathing and practices that families can share and enjoy together. A really good way to find creative, energetic and relaxing ways to spend time with babies and young children. Our teacher is highly experienced in working with postnatal and pregnant women, children of all ages and men too!
WATER’S EDGE Arup Engineering Consultants, 63 St Thomas Street 2-8pm, £6/£3 cons.
See Monday 15th for details.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
WEDNESDAY • JUNE 17th BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 3pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
GOOD PEOPLE, GOOD BUSINESS OFA Project, 48-54 West Street 5-8.30pm, FREE , ticket required Bristol is a thriving, enterprising city, but not without it’s challenges. This event shows how businesses work in partnership to create the solutions needed for a sustainable future, whether it’s building a local food system, providing community-scale healthcare, managing our resources or generating clean energy locally. The event focuses on the people behind these businesses, why they do what they do, how they got there & what they’ve learned along the way.
FLEXIFEAST No. 1 Harbourside, Canon’s Road 6.30-9am, FREE, ticket required A feast of food and ideas launching Well Fed Bristol. Come and enjoy our delicious flexitarian menu, neurogastronomy, comedy, and musings on the future of food. Speakers include Understory, Friends of the Earth and local chefs discussing healthier, more sustainable and kinder diets through reducing meat and dairy consumption.
URBAN WANDERING: GREEN ROUTES (GUIDED WALK) The Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay 6-7.30pm, £6/£4 cons. Beginning on the Harbourside this guided walk, led by urban design and conservation specialist Alastair Brook, will draw on the five Bristol Green Capital themes (Food, Nature, Resources, Energy and Transport) and their relevance to the city around us, exploring ideas and projects along the route that could help make Bristol a happier, healthier, betterconnected and more resourceful city.
RIBA PRESENTS FUTURE OF THE HARBOURSIDE BOAT TOUR Meet outside The Cottage Inn, Baltic Wharf, Cumberland Road 6.15-8pm, £7 The event will start on foot with a tour of Underfall Yard by Alec French Architects. The group will then board a boat outside The Cottage Pub to continue the tour of the Harbourside, including commentary on various new developments of interest along the water’s edge. Welcome drink on board included in ticket price!
TOWARDS ONE PLANET LIVING IN BRISTOL Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay 7-9pm, FREE, ticket required Great things are happening in Bristol but we’re still a long way from happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of our one planet. Join Bioregional co-founders and local sustainability leaders to discuss how we can achieve One Planet Living in Bristol. For practitioners, activists, elected representatives and everyone else!
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THU
THURSDAY • JUNE 18th
PassivHaus THURSDAY Trinity Community Arts, Trinity Road 7.30am-6.30pm, FREE, ticket required
Organised by Bristol Certified PassivHaus Designers gcp Chartered Architects. A day focusing on all things PassivHaus including talks, site visits, an exhibition and design surgeries: an exploration of the potential a PassivHaus has to create superior living and working environments whilst saving energy. See website for more Passihaus House events.
PassivHaus IN THE CITY: IT’S NOT JUST FOR GRAND DESIGNS Trinity Community Arts, Trinity Rd 7.30-10am, FREE, ticket required This talk brings together a visionary, a contractor and client to explore delivering more PassivHaus projects in the inner city. The event will explore the limitations of developing small schemes through to large scale housing led mixed-use projects. The focus will be on delivery of more projects to the PassivHaus standard.
CAN YOU DIG IT? Millennium Square 10am-3pm, FREE Want to find out more about growing your own food? Learn how to get started and get stuck in with a bit of gardening in our fruit & veg beds in Millennium Square. Staff will be on hand from Almondsbury Garden Centre, At-Bristol Science Centre and Incredible Edible to answer your questions and give advice.
COMMUNITY SOLAR: HOW CAN YOU BENEFIT Conference Space, 5th floor, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 10.30am-12.30pm, FREE, ticket req.
Bristol Energy Coop has funded solar panel installations on six community buildings in the city. We’re looking to fund more, and are now recruiting additional buildings. This seminar will explain how community organisations can benefit from the scheme.
BEAT THE BOULDER: CONFIDENCE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS Knowle West Media Centre, Leinster Avenue 11am-12pm, FREE, ticket required We all carry boulders around, things we tell ourselves we ‘can’t do’. This workshop, featuring references to Indiana Jones and The Big Bang Theory, explores how we hold ourselves back and introduces practical actions to boost self confidence.
INVESTING IN THE FUTURE At-Bristol, Anchor Road 11.30-5pm, £10 (inc. lunch)
Rathbone Greenbank Investments is delighted to announce that Sir Tim Smit KBE, co-founder and Exec Vice Chair of the Eden Project, will be keynote speaker at its Investing in the Future event, taking place at the At-Bristol science centre as part of BIG Green Week. See pages 28 & 29 for more details.
ZERO CARBON BRISTOL: IS IT ACHIEVEABLE? Conference Space, 5th floor, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 2-4pm, FREE, ticket required The ground-breaking ‘Zero Carbon Britain’ research by the Centre for Alternative Technology shows how a modern society could run on zero emissions by 2030, using only current technology. Come and hear an overview of this and other low-carbon scenarios, and how we can use them to progress Bristol’s low-carbon aspirations.
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THURSDAY • JUNE 18th ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 3pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
THE BIG PICNIC for Bishopston, Cotham and Redland Schools Millennium Square 4pm, FREE Join us for Plant Swap table and food tasting plus Seed Bomb workshop from Incredible Edible Bristol, with Food for Life Partnership and the Soil Association.
LIVE EARTH : ROAD TO PARIS WITH PHARRELL WILLIAMS & AL GORE Millennium Square 5pm, FREE
FOSSIL FUELS AND THE HOLE IN YOUR INVESTMENTS Conference Space, 5th floor, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 7-9pm, FREE, ticket required Your pension fund, your bank, your favourite charity - chances are they’re invested in fossil fuels, most of which must stay in the ground to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Come and hear Bristol-based finance organisations outline how to move your money out of the problem and into the solution.
RISING WOMAN, RISING WORLD Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 7-10pm, £7/£5 cons. A taster of Rising Women, Rising World, international women’s leadership training with Karen Downes. Rising Women, Rising World offers tools for the development of inner power and the opportunity to connect with like-minded champions of change. Karen brings 30 years of leadership experience from a highly successful international career. See page 53 for more details.
We will be broadcasting the Live Earth concerts live from Millennium Square. Join us as we support Live Earth in uniting a billion voices and urge world leaders to take climate action now. Just join our Facebook event page and sign the petition! See page 9 for more details.
RIBA PRESENTS: JONATHAN BALL - ‘THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN’ St James Priory, Whitson Street 6-7.30pm, £6/£4 cons. Eden Project co-founder Jonathan Ball MBE reveals the compelling ‘The Other Side of Eden’ in the journey to create the largest greenhouses on Earth; and one Cornishman’s unflinching resolve and success in righting a public wrong, and finding that enthusiasm, brilliant ideas and promises are not always enough.
SUPPER SENSE BLIND BANQUET The Farm Café, Watercress Road, 7-10.30pm, £30 The experience will be guided by visually impaired host Andy Shipley, who will take you through the evening in a way that gives you the opportunity to appreciate food on a much richer level, whilst enjoying a much deeper quality of connection with your fellow diners. By the time you leave you may well find yourself wondering why you don’t enjoy more of your meals in this fashion, maybe even promising yourself to regularly do so. BIG GREEN WEEK 2015 - 43
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MUSIC WITH MUMMY ON THE DOWNS Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton 10-11am, £4 per child
For children from 15 months to four years old. Let’s make some melodious music in the meadow on the Downs. Create a summer wildlife crown to wear whilst we sing, dance, play the big group drum and enjoy chasing bubbles across the meadow!
MUSEUM OF WATER Bristol Lab Space, Canon’s Road 10am-6pm, FREE From toothpaste spit to 129,000 year old water from the Antarctic to tears of joy, Museum of Water is a collection of publicly donated water and accompanying stories. Friday will include some workshops for schools. Brought to you by Frank Water and ICE, the Institute of Civil Engineers.
PROPAGATE WAY GREEN BRIDGE EXHIBITION Gallery, The Island, Bridewell Street 10am-4pm, FREE Cinematic painted canvas stories, inspired by Jeff Wall’s vast light box photographs, reveal human fragility and tenacity. They recall a sense of mortality provoked by day-to-day road crossings. The pictures tell of hinterlands; spaces between destination and home, park and river, fence and foundation.
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
BEHIND THE SCENES SUSTAINABILITY TOUR At-Bristol, Anchor Road 3pm, £5/£4 cons. See Saturday 13th for more details.
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FRIDAY • JUNE 19th NEAR, FAR AND SOMEWHERE The Coach House, 7 Barossa Place 5-9pm, FREE An exhibition of paintings exploring topics of animal conservation, the natural world and its loss. This themed exhibition is inspired by nature and shows original paintings by three artists.
A GREEN & STICKY END FOR CLASS YHA, 14 Narrow Quay, Bristol, 6-8pm, FREE A talk about class in capitalism inviting participants to talk in pairs or to the whole group about their thoughts, feelings and experience. I will focus in particular on the roles of the middle class in keeping the system going and how we can transform these towards a green future.
FOREVER FISH FEAST Long Ashton Village Hall, Keedwell Hill 6.15-10.30pm, £36 Dive into a six-course fish feast, guided by Silla Bjerrum, founder and executive chef of London’s Feng Sushi chain, which has won numerous environmental awards. Silla showcases a delicious selection of planetfriendly British fish that she serves with a Japanese twist, while sharing her extensive knowledge about which fish are truly sustainable. Tickets available from www.feastwithachef.co.uk
BLACK ICE: GREENPEACE DOCUMENTARY Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft 7.30-9.30pm, FREE, ticket required When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail to protest the first ever oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean none of the 28 Greenpeace Activists and 2 journalists on board could have known what was coming. Black Ice tells the story of the Arctic 30 who faced up to 15 years in prison for a peaceful protest to protect the planet.
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THE BRISTOL GRAND PRIX 1 Unity Street 2.30-8pm, FREE
A cycle race to put Bristol on the sporting map. On June 20th, Big Green Week and Le Sportif take over the streets of Bristol in the name of inspiring people of all ages and abilities to cycle. Expect thrills and spills as riders compete to complete the 1.3km figure of eight course.
THE BRISTOL SKIPCHEN Bearpit, St James Barton Roundabout 9am-5pm, FREE We are a food waste campaign, cooking with only intercepted ‘waste’ food from our mobile kitchen (Food Rescue Ambulance) on a pay-as-you-feel basis. We will be running a series of workshops and debates about food waste, the food system and food economy.
GREEN CAPITAL: THE POWER OF MONEY FOR GOOD IN BRISTOL, EUROPE AND BEYOND The Passenger Shed, Station Approach, Temple Meads 10am-4pm, FREE, ticket required
This year’s annual Triodos meeting will celebrate our 20th anniversary in the UK and Bristol’s year as European Green Capital. Join us at Brunel’s historic passenger shed to find out more about Triodos Bank’s impact in the UK and internationally. We’ll be joined by inspiring speakers and a marketplace of some of the finest ethical and sustainable organisations around. Places are free but limited, so register now.
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: E F SCHUMACHER’S IDEAS IN THE 21ST CENTURY At-Bristol Science Centre. 10am-5pm, £35 suggested donation Join the Schumacher Circle as it celebrates E.F. Schumacher’s ideas and how they have been translated into diverse action for sustainability. Covering global poverty, economic injustice, appropriate technologies, sustainable food and transformative learning – and more! Attendees will leave motivated and inspired by ideas for developing environmental, social and economic justice! Speakers include Helen Browning of the Soil Association, Satish Kumar of Resurgence Magazine and many more! Attendees will leave motivated and inspired by ideas for developing environmental.
MUSEUM OF WATER Bristol Lab Space, Canon’s Road 10am-6pm, FREE See Friday 19th for details.
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SATURDAY • JUNE 20th ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 11am, 12.30, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. Dress up in alien costumes and follow our roboguide around the exhibition to learn about the bizarre species ‘humanity’ and the way it interacts with its planet. Maximum 20 people per tour.
CITY-WIDE LITTER PICK & CHEWING GUM AWARENESS 69 Broadmead & City-Wide 11am-5pm, FREE At 11am Broadmead BID will find itself in a sticky situation where artists and performers are exploring what your gum could become! The day will also see City Wide litter picks take place with local community get togethers. The litter-sculpture created on Weds 17th June on St Augustines Parade will be be on display in the Harbourside.
NEAR, FAR AND SOMEWHERE The Coach House, 7 Barossa Place 11AM-6pm, FREE See Friday 19th for details.
HOLDING OUT FOR RAIN Saint Stephen’s Church, 21 Saint Stephen’s Avenue 12noon-12.30pm, FREE A tale of nature versus human effort. Gyroscopic’s participatory tale of nature (cool seeds underground) versus human effort (determined North Somerset farmers). An original mix of song, dance, trumpet, piano and story-telling, featuring the Great Bristol Rain Machine and a short sharp shower. For all ages, with an emphasis on primary school children. Light hearted yet soulful.
THE BIG BENEFITS OF GOING MEAT FREE TALK & COOKERY DEMO First Floor, Bordeaux Quay, V Shed, 2-4pm, FREE, ticket required An inspiring and entertaining talk on why we don’t need meat or dairy for our health or the environment, by the founder of Viva! and nutritional therapist, Juliet Gellatley (below). This will include a cookery demo of simple and delicious recipes for meat reducers by the author of the Viva! Cookbook, Jane Easton.
THE BIG GREEN GIG Greenbank Pub, 57 Bellevue Road, 8-11pm, £5 The BIG Green GIG wants to celebrate Bristol’s diverse culture, age and gender, its what makes this Green Capital programme so rich! Featuring Helele - a band inspired by the rhythms of West Africa’s Bantu forest great grooves guaranteed! Chris Paradox, your friendly neighbourhood one-legged existentialist stand-up beat poet, and Sophronie (below), an amazing young talent bringing her whole band to wow the BIG Green Week audience.
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SKY RIDE Millennium Square, Canon’s Way 11am-8pm, FREE
Sky Ride is a mass participation cycling event that takes over a city centre where cyclists of all ages and abilities can ride safely on traffic free roads. There are cycle related activities in a ‘hub’ area at the start/ finish. Sky Ride is a partnership between British Cycling and Sky. The after ride Market Place will be located on the Amphitheatre and will feature cycling related organisations as well as community based groups.
THE BRISTOL SKIPCHEN The Bearpit, St James Barton Roundabout 9am-5pm, FREE We are a food waste campaign, cooking with only intercepted ‘waste’ food from our mobile kitchen (Food Rescue Ambulance) on a pay-as-you-feel basis. We will be running a series of workshops and debates about food waste, the food system and food economy.
MUSEUM OF WATER Bristol Lab Space, Canon’s Road 10am-6pm, FREE See Friday 19th for details.
PORTWAY SUNDAY PARK Portway, between Sea Mills and Cumberland Basin 10am-9pm, FREE Enjoy the magic of the Avon Gorge free from traffic noise. Come on foot or bike, or by train to Sea Mills, bring a picnic, and explore the gorge or join one of the events on our website. There will be no fun fairs, no burger bars and no amplified music - but three miles of riverside walk, and lots of footpaths to explore up and down the gorge.
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SUNDAY • JUNE 21st GREEN POEMS FOR A BLUE PLANET: STAND UP POETRY AT PENNY BROHN Penny Brohn Cancer Care, Pill Lane 10am-4pm, £4 adults, £1 children The UK’s Green Poet, and Bristol 2015’s Poet in Residence, Martin Kiszko performs his eco-comical challenging stand-up poetry suitable for audiences aged 8 to 80! The show has been performed around the world and is based on his two funny and challenging environmental poetry books Green Poems for a Blue Planet and Verse for the Earth, both illustrated by Aardman’s Nick Park.
Montpelier Jumble Trail The streets of Montpelier 11am-5pm, FREE Join the trail, follow the map and hunt for hidden treasures. Our local community is again co-ordinating to set up stalls outside their houses, selling bric-abrac, toys, vintage clothes, cakes, street food and more. Like a car boot sale but on your street. Find the map here: http://po.st/montpelier
ALIEN TOURS! At-Bristol, Anchor Road, 11am, 12.30, 2.30 & 4pm, £5/£4 cons. Dress up in alien costumes and follow our roboguide around the exhibition to learn about the bizarre species ‘humanity’ and the way it interacts with its planet. Maximum 20 people per tour.
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TOBACCO FACTORY SUNDAY MARKET Taking place every Sunday, the market supports local independent producers, offering a wealth of local produce, with bread, cheese, fish, meat, fruit & veg, cakes, pies & hot food, plus arts and crafts, clothing, homeware, records, books, vintage and bric-a-brac.
On the first Sunday of the month, the market extends into Raleigh Road, next to the building. The market is a cornerstone of the local community and a great meeting place for family and friends, with regular kids crafts and a family friendly atmosphere.
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