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What’s On? - in association with Ecojam Good News – our local news roundup Good Natured – Darren Hall meets the lemurs of Bristol Zoo Good Food & Drink - Street Food, our Food Stamp award winners PLUS win (n)oodles of foodie goodies Good Fashion – tips on shopping – and shwopping - sustainably Good Power – we talk to Good Energy’s CEO Juliet Davenport Good Architecture – can Bristol build the best homes in the UK? Good Tech – Bristol businesses making a difference to our world The Baby Barrister – our own legal eagle on changes in the NHS Good Gear – top travel essentials Innovating the sustainable city – Peter Madden talks to Good Bristol Josh Eggleton – an interview with the Michelin-starred TV chef Good Music – Bristol’s Latin music scene PLUS the Magnus Puto BIG Green Week 2014 - environmentalist Jonathon Porritt introduces this year’s BGW Good Power 2 – get up close to a wind turbine

10 Good Bristol magazine was partly produced and paid for in Bristol Pounds. Big Green Week CIC transferred funds to The Spark, who in turn used them to pay members of staff. Those members of staff used the money

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to buy goods and services, for example lunch in No 1 Harbourside. In turn No 1 used the money to buy salad leaves from the Severn Project. The Severn Project bought seeds from a local garden centre. And so on and so forth. Research from the New

Economics Foundation indicates that a local currency will circulate 5 times before it is diverted away from the area into shareholder profits or offshore accounts, meaning that one B£ is worth £5 to the local economy. For more information go to www.bristolpound.org

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letter from the editor Hi everyone, Things are looking up for Bristol: we’ve been voted the best place to live in the UK by two different national polls. There is a new energy about the place, especially as we gear up for yet another summer of amazing festivals and events. As you will see, the second half of this magazine is also the programme for BIG Green Week 2014, Europe's biggest and best celebration of all things green. As a director of BIG Green Week I am often asked what people can do to help make Bristol a better place; people that have already taken part in the talks, experienced the fantastic food and drink at Bristol’s Biggest Market, or cycled along the Portway in Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride. Many then want to know what else they can do to and, in partnership with its sponsors, this year's BGW is going to point the way. Here are some of the simple things that you can do: 1. Take your kids on a walk and visit your local park: get them stuck into nature - for free! www.projectwildthing.com 2. Change your energy supplier: choose one that generates energy through renewables (use www.uswitch.com or other comparison sites to help you) 3. Think about how you travel: join the Sustrans Travel Challenge (www.sustrans.org.uk) 4. Look for local foods: veg boxes and the greengrocer are often cheaper than the supermarkets. 5. Check out your bank’s credentials: where is your money being invested? www.moveyourmoney.org.uk

WIN a balloon flight for two with Bristol Balloons! Ballooning is an adventure, something not to be rushed. Here’s your chance to fulfill the ambition of a lifetime while experiencing a bird’s eye view of the Bristol landscape. Where you go depends on the wind. You’ll make happy and unexpected discoveries: no two flights are the same. You can get hands-on if you wish: passengers can help lay out and launch the balloon or simply leave this to the crew. A balloon basket is brilliant for photography; bring your camera or camcorder and a spare battery! For your chance to win two adult flight vouchers for a weekday flight just answer this simple question: Which historic building near Bristol does Bristol Balloons fly from? (Find the answer at www.bristolballoons.co.uk). Champagne or juice is included, each passenger receives a commemorative flight certificate and you can order an in-flight photograph as a memento. Send your answer, on a postcard please, to Balloon Competition, Good Bristol, 86 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB. Entries must be received by July 24. To book a balloon flight go to www.bristolballoons.co.uk or call 0117 9471030. Bristol Balloons look forward to flying you!

Next year Bristol is going to be European Green Capital, so come along to BIG Green Week this summer and get a sense of what it’s all about. Take part in the Bristol action, enjoy the Bristol welcome and get a taste of the Bristol flavour. It’s a good place to be.

Darren Hall

Bristol Balloons’ standard booking and flight Terms & Conditions apply: see their website for details. Prize voucher valid for one year, not redeemable for cash. No prize alternative.

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What’s on?

Local Green Ethical

Your Good Guide to what do and see in Bristol this summer. Brought to you by Ecojam Bristol

Wallace and Gromit from the drawing board Do you miss Gromit-spotting in Bristol? Don’t worry, he’s back this summer, starring in a must-see exhibition at the M Shed. Celebrate the stories and creative talent behind Wallace & Gromit on the 25th anniversary of their first ever film release. Spark your inventive flair as you search for museum objects and marvel at instantly recognisable film sets, the actual rocket from a ‘Grand Day Out’ and a real Oscar®! Don’t leave without having your photo taken next to the comedy duo… say cheese! 24 May-7 September, M Shed Bristol Adult: £5.95, Child: £3.95, Conc: £4.95 (family tickets available too) Free days: 18 June, 16 July & 20 August (No groups on free days) www.mshed.org image: ©2014 Aardman Animations Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Made in Bristol

Summer at Leigh Woods

Give your kids happy summer memories with outdoor fun from May to September at Leigh Woods. Tick off lots of the National Trust’s ‘50 Things To Do Before You’re 11 ¾’ while you’re there, including tree climbing, cycling and holding a scary beast! Our top pick is the Family Night Walk. Discover the delights of Leigh Woods when everyone else has gone home (except the bats…)

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14 August, 8.30-10pm, Leigh Woods (£3.50) Find out more about all Leigh Woods family summer activities at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/leigh-woods

St Pauls Carnival Bristol Pound’s Go Local Challenge Love Bristol? Then put your money where your heart is this June. The challenge is on to switch £25,000 into Bristol Pounds (£B). By going local and spending £B you’ll add a spot of sunshine to your high street (no matter the weather) by ensuring that more of your money stays in our local economy. It’s easy to get involved: 1. Switch sterling to Bristol Pounds at £B cash points across the city, or use Txt2Pay with your mobile phone. 2. Say ‘hello to summer’ and spend your £B

St Pauls Carnival is a great way to immerse yourself in the Bristol community. A celebration of African Caribbean culture and heritage, this street party attracts over 100,000 people. Sound systems, food stalls and a glittering procession involving children from local schools, community groups and professional performers make this event a much-loved Bristol tradition. 5 July www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk

at local businesses throughout Bristol. Take up the Go Local Challenge! Find out more at www.bristolpound.org or tweet us @bristolpound with #golocalchallenge Ideas to get you started on the Go Local Challenge: ■ C atch a summer movie at

the Watershed ■ B IG Green Week events

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festival style at Beast Clothing or Urban Fox E at out or drink up at … just too many places to mention!

Bedminster: BS3T For Skills Bedminster Town Team has unveiled its plans for BS3T For Skills, a series of events taking place from 31st May. BS3T For Skills is a chance for businesses and individuals in Bedminster to share skills and for the public to explore the area whilst learning something new. Workshops will be held in venues around the area: offering a path for visitors and residents to jump right into and join in. Local traders will be opening their doors as part of 100 programmed events: you

Ecojam Bristol

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can learn how to make handmade glass with Bristol Blue Glass, discover traditional crafts and lost arts with the University of the 3rd Age, try your hand at graffiti with Upfest or enjoy some craft lessons with Paper Village. The week kicks off – quite literally - with Grey Pride’s Walking Football contest, sponsored by Bristol City FC Trust in partnership with LinkAge and featuring some Bristol City FC players. 31 May-7 June, venues across Bedminster www.bedminster.org.uk

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his summer Bristol will become home to the UK’s second ever Wheelchair Accessible car-club Vehicle (WAV). Co-wheels Car Club, who already run a shared-access WAV in Aberdeen, have partnered up with fellow Social Enterprise Bristol Community Transport to offer this socially inclusive service. Matt, from Co-wheels, said: “Co-wheels are delighted to be leading the way in shared access vehicles, and can’t wait to add this vehicle, in partnership with BCT, to our existing fleet of hybrid and electric Car Club cars.” To find out more about this service, and for prices and locations of all Co-wheels vehicles, please visit www.co-wheels.org.uk or email Matt on Bristol@co-wheels.org.uk

£7m of Government funding for Bristol as European Green Capital 2015

BS5 Booty

acebook never ceases to amaze us. Well, not Facebook per se, but the people that find new and amazing ways to use it for good. BS5 Booty is a Bristol group that shares free stuff via Facebook – a social media version of Freecycle if you like. There are others popping up for other postcodes around the city too. So, if you would like to save yourself a trip to the tip, have unwanted items that are too good to throw away, are bored to tears with your old video games or dvds, or even have produce you grew but can’t eat – why not join, or start, your own local sharing group? You will be delighted that what you don’t want can be given away, or swapped, and given a lovely new home! For more info search for BS5 Booty on Facebook.

he Government has announced £7m for Bristol to support its year as European Green Capital in 2015. Current plans include a schools progamme to educate children across the city about climate change, a volunteer programme, and a clean technology award. The plans also include a community catalyst fund to help support local projects, one of the most important aspects of Bristol's success in winning the award. The Bristol 2015 team are hoping to raise a total of £20m for the city to pay for a programme that will deliver behaviour change and sustainable economic investment across the city region, and to raise the profile of Bristol across the world as a leader in sustainable urban living. Go Bristol! For more information go to www.bristol2015.co.uk

Bristol plays music

e’re very happy to announce that "Bristol Plays Music" - The Nokia Mix Radio Remix Academy based at the Colston Hall is working in partnership with Good Bristol Magazine to let people know all about the great music-making opportunities Bristol has to offer. Bristol Plays Music promotes the work of the five music centres they run across the city, leads music education in our schools, develops opportunities for careers in the music industry and steers the creative development programme for 7–25 yr olds. For more information see www.bristolplaysmusic.org

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Good NATURE ✱

Good natured

Words by Darren Hall

learly the best place for

wildlife is in the wild. But the second best place for it might be the Wild Place Project run by Bristol Zoo. I say this for two reasons. Firstly, every person I have ever asked about why they are interested or concerned about the environment has said that, at some point early in their lives, they had had fantastic experiences in nature – going for walks in the woods, playing in the fields, collecting bugs, climbing trees – usually in the company of someone

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who helped them understand a bit more about what it was that they were experiencing. Secondly, there is well-documented evidence that shows that more and more children are exploring less far, less often than in ‘our day’, creating a disconnect between their urban lifestyle and natural world. Indeed, in one recent survey, 26 per cent of parents said they spend less than 30 minutes a week playing with their children outdoors. The study of 1,000 parents also revealed that 37 per cent had never taken their family out to

look at wildlife. We need to reverse this trend. So on a glorious sunny afternoon in April, Kate Willacy, PR manager at Bristol Zoo Gardens, guided me around the Zoo’s sister-site near Cribbs Causeway. Her tempting offer of a trip through the Madagascar Zone to see their newest arrival, a two-day-old baby lemur was irresistible! Kate told me that the Wild Place Project aims to provide a bridge for children and adults to take a first step into nature, encouraging them to get

outdoors. From spotting wolves in the woodland to spying the rare sheep they might have fed on, there are lots of experiences to be had. In the six months following the July 2013 launch, the new attraction saw over 30,000 visitors. The Wild Place Project offers a range of outdoor learning sessions tailored to the school curriculum. These give children the chance to get into the wild, get to grips with the natural world and enjoy learning through hands-on exploration. The classrooms are the woods and meadows, and it’s clear from Kate’s own experience that there is a huge need for it. She shakes her head as she tells me that in the first few months they had to put up signs saying it was ok to play on the fallen logs. I was impressed: visiting children are encouraged to get their hands (and feet) dirty, with as much emphasis on woodland play as seeing the animals.

The tented Discovery Camp in the ancient woodland is a base from which children hunt for mini beasts, learn about trees and flowers and discover the importance of forests as both habitats and resources. In the Wild Place Project’s outdoor Madagascan classroom, children learn about conservation and wildlife in

Madagascar before getting up close and personal with pygmy goats and those irresistible baby lemurs. Tania Dorrity, an education officer at the Wild Place Project, says: “Outdoor learning is recognised as developing self-esteem, improving health through exercise, enhancing sensory awareness and also developing personal control. In addition, children finding out about local wildlife environments right on their doorstep encourages early engagement with, and an appreciation for, the natural world. “There is normally a connection between children’s experiences and their later lives and attitudes. It is only natural to care for what you know and love. Learning about nature and climate change via the internet or books is one thing, but to come to know and love the natural world first-hand from an early age gives you much more of a motive to preserve and conserve it.” ■

Ticket Prices Adult - £7.50 Child - £6.00 Child under two - free Carer for disabled - free or you can get an annual pass! £17.00 for children and £26.00 for adults. It’s well worth going more than once! www.wildplace.org.uk

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Good FOOD

Snackin’ in the street Bristol’s

Food Scene By Shonette Laffy

here has been a street

food explosion across the UK in the past 18 months, with Bristol being right at the heart of it. It’s great to think that some of the best food in Bristol at the moment can be bought for under a tenner from street vendors; one of the few positives to have come out of the economic slump. From the growing fields of Somerset to the allotments of St Werburghs, Bristol has access to some of the best produce around, enabling us to deliver top quality food, regardless of whether it is served in a fine dining restaurant or out of a VW camper van. Bristol institutions such as the Thali Café and Grillstock started life as stalls at local festivals, and, in addition to the usual roster of outdoor events that brighten up the city every summer, 2013 saw the emergence of weekly street food events from the StrEAT Food Collective in Corn St and the nationally recognised, award-winning Bristol EATS (BEATS) in Temple Quay, bringing street food to an even wider audience. Local websites and bloggers have championed fixed trading positions for popular vendors such as burger maestros Chomp and vegan-friendly mobile caterers The Spotless Leopard, another example of how far the perception of street food has moved

on from the days of kebab vans. This customer loyalty has also created the opportunity for other outdoor traders to upgrade to permanent premises, as Bagel Boy and Falafel King have proved. Pubs across the city have also taken advantage of this exciting new food scene, with Burger Theory taking over the kitchen at The Golden Lion on Gloucester Rd, Hickory Pig bringing barbecue to The Three Tuns on St George’s Road, and Stokes Croft’s The Crofter’s Rights partnering with a different BEATS vendor each week to give regulars their own pop-up street food events, with a chance to try a variety of food, whether it be a chocolate pizza from Pizza Monkey, Asian dumplings from Dorshi, or generous mezze from Eat Like A Greek. There’s never been a better time to try global street food right here on the streets of Bristol, whatever your budget. www.bagelboy.co.uk www.bristoleats.co.uk www.burgertheory.co.uk www.chompgrill.co.uk www.dorshi.co.uk www.eat-like-a-greek.co.uk www.falafelkingbristol.com www.grillstock.co.uk www.hickorypig.com www.pizzamonkey.co.uk www.thespotlessleopard.co.uk www.thethalicafe.co.uk ■

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Good FOOD ✱

WIN street food prizes each

week in June - from Grillstock, Chomp and the Spotless Leopard! Week 2! Win two House Classic hamburgers from burger supremos Chomp; 100% ground beef patties in demi-brioche buns with toppings of your choice (to collect from the Chomp truck at Cathedral Walk or Temple Meads). Enter by 15th June by answering this question: Which breed of cattle do Chomp make their burgers from? You’ll find the answer at www.chompgrill.co.uk

Week 1! Win a pair of Grillstock festival weekend tickets, and join

Weeks 3 and 4! Win a £10 voucher for the Spotless Leopard

in with the Meat, Music and Mayhem at the UK's hottest BBQ festival this summer, in Bristol's Amphitheatre 7-8th June. Enter by 4th June by answering this question: Who is headlining this year’s Grillstock festival? You’ll find the answer at www.grillstock.co.uk

to spend at their mobile food van (in Clifton or Gloucester Road) on tasty vegan wraps, tarts and cakes. Enter by 29th June by answering this question: What local currency does the Spotless Leopard accept? (Find the answer at www.thespotlessleopard.co.uk ■

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WIN! Two course mezze meal for two at the Khan Cavern, Falafel King, Cotham Hill

Two Good Bristol readers can enjoy a meal for two in the intimate Khan Cavern, downstairs at Falafel King’s café/restaurant and music venue on Cotham Hill. Falafel King came on to the scene in 2000 with their city centre van - the first falafel outlet in the city and now recognised as a Bristol institution. Their bakery, Abunoor Pitta Factory, supplies fresh pitta bread daily to street food eateries, cafes and delis as well as to local events and festivals. For your chance to win a nutritious and delicious Falafel King meal for two simply answer this question: What type of dancing might you see in the Khan? You can find the answer at www.falafelkingbristol.com. Answers, on a postcard please, to Falafel Comp, Good Bristol Magazine, 86 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB. Entries must be received by July 24 ■

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Good FOOD ✱

Food Stamp Award

In each issue of Good Bristol we’ll point you in the direction of some of the best eateries around the city - offering good food, good value, good service and good, sustainable practices. In this issue our Good Bristol Food Stamp is awarded to the Cherry Duck Bistro. Harbourside bistro Cherry Duck offers an authentic taste of the South West, using ethically-sourced produce from local suppliers, including organic bakers Mark’s Bread, sustainable fishmongers Smith Fish, and Powells of Olveston who provide local meat with low food miles. The Cherry Duck recycles everything possible - avoiding landfill by recycling food waste - and takes measures to reuse items where it can, which is good

for the environment and saves money. The restaurant uses recycled napkins and offers their table water in reusable glass bottles. With views of the floating harbour, local art showcased on the walls and furniture refurbished by the team themselves, this bustling bistro offers an ideal setting for a perfect Sunday lunch, whether you choose the 36-day aged Frampton-on-Severn rib eye of beef or the date and walnut roast with all the trimmings. Finish off (if you’ve still got room!) with a rhubarb

crumble and crème patissiere or warm sticky almond cake, delicious with the accompanying Chantilly cream and almond praline. Cherry Duck’s entire sumptuously tasty menu is freshly prepared in-house, using seasonal produce and 100% organic, free-range meat and dairy. The friendly staff will make you feel welcome and ensure that a great eating experience is had by all. A La Carte: £16-£22.50; Sunday lunch: £12.50-£15.95 www.cherryduckbistro.co.uk ■

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Good FOOD ✱

From farmyard to graveyard !

Surprising spots for good food and drink

sunny day in Bristol: happy

people picnic-ing in Queen Square or supping a pint by the harbour. Of all the good things in life, eating and drinking outdoors must be high on the list. But Bristol is a place that likes to do things a bit differently. Our city takes European café society and raises the bar, with alternative alfresco dining. If you know where to look there are some surprising spots where you can enjoy those rare glimpses of British sunshine and take cover from the summer wind and rain! Our good food and drink picks use locally-sourced food where they can and welcome the Bristol Pound: by using our local currency they’re helping to create a happy, healthy economy. www.bristolpound.org

The Lido We all need to take time out to unwind, so how does a holiday on your doorstep sound? Tucked within a courtyard of Georgian terraces, The Lido is the perfect spot to relax. After enjoying the outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna and steam room why not head to the restaurant in the original Victorian viewing gallery and treat yourself to their creative, unpretentious menu with

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its value on food provenance, or indulge in their “Birdfood” taster menu. We need to go now… Oakfield Place Clifton, Bristol BS8 2BJ www.lidobristol.com

Folk House Tucked away down a passage halfway up Park Street, the Folk House is the ideal place to catch up with friends over long lunches, afternoon tea or post-work drinks. This not-so secret spot offers more than good food and drink, with evening events from pop-up cookery demos to live music. People learn for pleasure at the Folk House, and eating in the café is a pleasure too. Lovingly prepared with thoughtfully-sourced and organic ingredients, treat yourself to one of their amazing cakes – they’re internationally renowned! 40A Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JG www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk

St Werburghs City Farm If you’ve already visited the award-winning St Werburghs City Farm Café you’ll know what we mean when we say it is akin to a magical Hobbit house where you can feast on a yummy, wholesome menu full of fair-trade, wild and local ingredients, including eggs, meat, vegetables and

salad fresh from the farm. A flavour of the country in the city, it’s perfect for all the family, with a playground, cute and cuddly critters and lots of activities throughout the year. Watercress Rd, Bristol BS2 9YJ www.swcityfarm.co.uk

Atrium Cafe at Arnos Vale Cemetery Dining in a graveyard might not at first sound very appetising but the terrace of the Atrium Café, situated in a pretty glass pavilion in Arnos Vale Cemetery, is an ideal spot for alfresco food lovers and they’ll even provide blankets if you get chilly! Why not take a leisurely stroll round this beautiful Victorian cemetery full of wildlife, with its stories and memories, before settling down for refreshments. Lunch is always fresh and seasonal, and their gooey, gluten-free brownies are rather special. Enjoy. Bath Road, Bristol BS4 3EW The Atrium is run by Bristol-based catering company Whisk: www.whisk-uk.com ■

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Good FASHION ✱

if everybody at a concert in

Testing the water

the main auditorium of the Colston Hall owned just four cotton t-shirts, we would fill to capacity the space they were sitting in with the water needed just to grow that cotton.

by Sophie Mather

s I sit on the bus travelling

into town I pass umpteen store windows screaming out SALE 50% OFF in bold red letters. This gets me thinking: given that water is likely to be our next global crisis, I wonder if we can ever expect to see, WATER 50% OFF in just those same bold red letters. Could that be possible? How much water does the clothing industry consume? We use it to grow cotton, colour the fabrics we use and then there’s that ever-hated task of washing our clothes. Discussing this with a friend recently, I started to tot up how much water we use in the production of our clothes and how to illustrate this using spaces that we are familiar with here in our city.

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If everybody at a concert in the main auditorium of the Colston Hall owned just four cotton t-shirts, we would fill to capacity the space they were sitting in with the water needed just to grow that cotton. Shocking! Can I let you into a secret? Many of our much-loved stores and brands are doing something about this by reducing their water footprints. Here in Bristol you can stroll down the street, hop on the bus to the Mall, or cruise across to Cabot’s Circus and support them. Here are some of my favourites, helping you to spend your pennies more water-wisely. ■

Much sought-after by water nerds like myself, Adidas launched Drydye™ in 2013, a new technology

that colours fabric using zero water. How cool is that? ■

Marks and Spencer and John Lewis are just two of the UK-based retailers that have agreed, through the SCAP (Sustainable Clothing Action Plan) 2020 Commitment, to reduce their water footprint 15% by 2020.

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H&M have committed to many sustainable issues and for the third year are funding some of the great work of our local water charity FRANK Water (www.frankwater.com). (Good work FRANK!) ■

The story behind Shwopping: Where do your clothes go? Frip Ethique, Senegal. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith (Oxfam)

ave you ever thought the bra at

the bottom of your draw or the jumper at the back of the wardrobe could have another life? Did you know that everything, no matter what it is or what condition it is in, could have a second life through Shwopping? Shwopping is what M&S customers are doing when they bring in their unwanted clothes to their local M&S store and we pass them on to Oxfam. Oxfam resell, reuse or recycle everything they receive. This saves any piece of clothing from ending up in landfill (and, by the way, 1453 items still find their way to landfill every minute) and raises money for people living in poverty at the same time. So far a massive 7.3 million garments have been donated, raising over £4.8 million to help Oxfam do its work helping people living in poverty. Not bad hey? But where does the jumper or the old bra go? The majority of clothes Oxfam receive can be resold in their shops up and down the country. This way Oxfam can extract most value from that piece of clothing and someone else gets to wear it straight away. What Oxfam can’t sell in its shops gets sent to WasteSaver – a unique recycling centre where

every item is sorted so that Oxfam can get the most value out of it. Some of the options include: ■ Vintage items will be put on Oxfam’s online shop or sold through Oxfam’s pop-up shops at festivals across the country ■ Summer items e.g. t-shirts, shorts and skirts will be sent to Frip Ethique, Oxfam’s social enterprise in Senegal. Local women sort and resell the products, providing them with an important economic income and raising money for Oxfam locally. Did you know that bras are one of the most popular items in Senegal? ■ Clothes that can’t be sold will be recycled. The wool or cashmere jumper can be re-spun to produce new clothes. Low grade items will be shredded and turned into loft insulation or carpet underlay, for example. Importantly, nothing goes to landfill! Did you know if you Shwopped a jacket, that could raise £20 for Oxfam, which could supply three families with food for 10 days during an emergency. If everyone in Bristol Shwopped 5 items during Bristol BIG Green Week, that would be over 2 million garments which could be worth just over a million pounds to Oxfam. Come on Bristol, dig out your unwanted clothes and let’s Shwop! ■

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Good POWER ✱

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supplier, Good Energy, is sponsoring BIG Green Week this year, so we caught up with CEO, Juliet Davenport, to find out a bit more about the company and its connection with Bristol. What’s Good Energy all about? We’re an energy supplier with a difference. Our electricity comes from local, natural sources like Bristol sunshine, wind and rain. In fact, we promise to match all the electricity our 40,000 customers use with electricity sourced purely from the awesome power of British renewables. We always have done and always will. No other energy supplier in the country can promise that. But it’s not just our energy that’s good. Our customer service is pretty good too. We’ve been voted top of the Which? customer satisfaction survey three years in a row. Our friendly team are experts in helping you save energy and cut your bills, thanks to their Energy Saving Trust-endorsed advice. Our vision is to transform the UK energy market, using renewables to make it more democratic and self-sufficient. Bristol is already playing a huge part in helping this happen.

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So what’s Bristol got to do with Good Energy? Bristol is really leading the way in the green energy revolution. We support a growing band of over 59,000 homes, small business and communities across the country who have chosen to generate their own renewable electricity, mostly using solar panels on their roofs. Around 3,500 of these are in Bristol, the highest of any city in the country. It’s this accessibility and flexibility of renewable technology that makes it a fantastic facilitator for opening up the energy market, ensuring more and more people can play a part in their energy future. By connecting more people with energy for the long-term, we believe we will all start to understand it more and use it less. And that’s better for the planet and our pockets. We are also proud to work with a number of local businesses and organisations; Alastair Sawday’s, Solarsense and the Soil Association, to name a few. Why did you choose to support BIG Green Week? BIG Green Week is all about the positive

changes we can make, together, to transform how we live, for good. Good Energy was founded over a decade ago on this very same principle. We wanted to offer people the opportunity to choose cleaner, greener electricity from sunshine, wind and rain for their homes and support renewable generators. What are you going to be doing? We’ve been involved with BIG Green Week since the beginning and are very pleased to be part of this year’s event. It really is a pioneering festival for pioneering people. We’ll be at the events over both weekends with loads of Good Energy people where hopefully customers and new customers can find out more about us. It’s going to be a ‘good’ week and we’re really looking forward to it. How can people get involved? Come along; get involved; bring a friend and get switching. We want Bristol to #switchforgood at BIG Green Week ■

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Good HOMES ✱

Can Bristol build enough ‘good’ homes? In his second article for Good Bristol architect Rob Gregory, programme manager of the Architecture Centre, reflects back on a conference which asked Can Bristol build the best homes in the UK?

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smallest unit of architectural currency yet their combined value is huge. They’re almost priceless in terms of the contribution that good homes can make to the richness of life. At a recent event organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the question Can Bristol build the best homes in the UK? was addressed by expert panellists including mayor and architect George Ferguson. Mike Roberts, managing director of HAB housing (the development company founded by TV presenter Kevin McCloud, standing for Happiness, Architecture, Beauty) started the discussion with trademark directness: “Can Bristol do it? Yes, of course. But will Bristol do it? No.” He identified the

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main issue as land: not so much a lack of it, but how sites are made available, how much they change hands for and to whom they are offered. Jackson Moulding, Bristol’s best-known self-build guru and director of social enterprise Ecomotive said that self-build or self-finish “brings people into the mix, by allowing future residents to participate in design and build.” This, he said, “leads to the making of homes, rather than just the rush to build anonymous, overpriced and low quality houses.” Then, and this is the first time that I have heard him make explicit reference to being an architect-mayor, George Ferguson reiterated his determination to make Bristol a test bed. After all, Bristol is defined by its entrepreneurial, independent and innovative spirit, and

as Moulding pointed out: “whilst some councils have to convince their citizens to be more active, in Bristol it’s the other way round.” The mayor agreed, saying that it was on the city’s many publicly-owned mini-sites that the real opportunities lay in waiting for a new approach or “pocket practices” for development.

But how to do it? I agree with Alison Brooks, an architect who has won multiple awards for her work with speculative housing developers. As she said, firstly we must identify all Bristol’s smaller, unused parcels of land. Secondly, launch an open competition for each site that invites new, exciting, innovative

architects and engineers to design next-generation living. Thirdly, we need new models for delivery, working with the owners of the land (often, but not exclusively, the council) and financiers who are committed to long-term value rather than a quick profit. www.alisonbrooksarchitects.com www.architecturecentre.co.uk www.habhousing.co.uk www.ecomotive.org RIBA: www.architecture.com www.fm-architects.co.uk

If you would like to know more about building plans in your area, get in touch with Bristol’s Neighbourhood Planning Network. NPN groups act as a conduit for early discussions with communities, identifying local issues that affect or are affected by development proposals and advise developers on how to involve the wider community in consultation most effectively. www.bristolnpn.net ■

A new architecture and urban-design service for Bristol

n line with his commitment to make Bristol a ‘laboratory for ideas’, architect and Mayor George Ferguson has invited the Architecture Centre to work with Bristol City Council's award-winning City Design Group to establish an architecture and urban design support service for clients, communities and consultants. The Bristol City Design Group is made up of architects, urban designers, landscape architects and historic environment specialists; its contribution to shaping quality in the city goes back over 40 years. George has campaigned for better buildings and places for everyone in the city for over 18 years (with initiatives such as Young Design Champions and Spaceshaper), has been actively engaged in the South West Design Review panel and helped establish and administer the Bristol Urban Design Forum. This new initiative demonstrates George’s ambition to use this track record of engaging independent advocacy to make a difference to real projects on the ground. As BCC launches a programme to build new council houses on a number of pocket sites around the city, the new City Design Group service will begin

with a pilot - coordinated by group leader Andy Gibbins and Architecture Centre programme manager (and Good Bristol contributor) Rob Gregory - on six of these sites, currently under development as part of the first phase of the city's New Build Housing Project. Working alongside the appointed architects and BCC's delivery team, the new design service will provide what is being described as ‘clientside architectural support’, drawing in expertise in housing design, development and delivery. Local architect and award-winning house designer Tom Russell will be joined by HAB Housing’s design director Isabel Allen, with additional expertise provided by Alex Ely, co-author of the Greater London Authority’s Housing Design Standards. Collaborative and empowering, the objectives are not only to raise design standards in new-build housing on specific sites, but also to raise the council's aspirations and challenge current procurement routes in order to encourage new engagement with communities, small developers and contractors alike. www.designbristol.ning.com/profile/ citydesigngroup

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Bristol – a technology hub Scratch away the surface and you find a deep well of technological brilliance lurking within Bristol, as Caroline Macdonald discovers.

A new mode of urban transport

f you have been to Heathrow’s T5 the chances are

you have probably used one of Ultra Global PRT’s electric driverless pods. Up to 800 passengers per day use each pod, helping to reduce congestion, speed up connections and minimise transit environmental impact. Based in Aztec West, Ultra Global PRT was the brainchild of Professor Martin Lowson of Bristol University who, in 1995, sought to address the travel needs of cities, such as Bristol, with a 21st century solution. The technology uses proven ‘off-the-shelf’ automotive industrial components with batteries: the magic lies in integrating how the vehicle’s controls works with the central control software as an overall system. The result is a mode of transport that has 50 per cent CO2 savings over buses and 70 per cent over cars, with minimal noise and pollution. What's more it’s tracks, or guideways, are lightweight and can be easily retrofitted into an urban traffic system. If Bristol can’t have a tram, then perhaps a system like this could run between Temple Meads and the central bus station? ■

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espite the fall in Feed-in-Tariffs (FiTs), solar

power remains part of our energy mix. Many new-builds, both residential and commercial, are integrating solar as part of the design process, whilst retrofitting continues to upgrade existing buildings. For many householders who have solar panels installed, it’s not easy to know how much energy they are producing, using and exporting back to the grid. Clean Energy Prospector (CEPRO), a new company from Easton, has developed Simtricity, the first Ofgem-approved meter to measure self-consumption. It also incorporates wi-fi enabling links with online comparison sites and analytics tools that can help users decide whether to switch energy providers or install energy efficiency measures. Damon Rand, co-founder of CEPRO, says: “More than 500,000 homes in the UK have already installed solar with many more planned, and unsubsidised solar power is on track to be as affordable as mains electricity within just a few years. By supporting organisations and individuals from outside the solar industry to manage the rollout process and understand the benefits that come from it Simtricity is help to drive the growth of solar in the UK” ■

Water of life

ave you ever wondered how much water

goes into producing our food? A neat footprint calculator has been developed by the team at Sustain Ltd, the Baldwin Street-based sustainability company, that allows you to do just that. As yet, the cost of water is generally not taken into account when pricing food items. However, in countries where water shortage is a real problem and is sometimes seen as an alternative currency, the use of water has a significant local impact. Africa and parts of Asia (global suppliers to the food market) are now beginning to understand the demand on water as a resource. Jean-Yves Cherruault, manager at Sustain, says: “Water looks set to become the next big thing after energy supply in terms of the scarcity debate. Our clients in the food sector have found that our footprint calculator has been effective in providing information and interpretation of data about the environmental impact of water on their business.” www.cleanenergyprospector.com www.sustain.co.uk www.ultraglobalprt.com ■

If you have an interesting technology that you would like to see featured in Good Bristol, please email caroline@oggadoon.co.uk, tweet @OggaDoon or visit www.oggadoon.co.uk

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Barrister The Baby

Can you handle the truth?

The Government has just accepted the need for a statutory ‘Duty of Candour’ a legal duty for healthcare providers to be open and transparent about mistakes and errors they have made, introduced in light of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust scandal and the subsequent Francis report. Charley Pattison, Good Bristol’s ‘Baby Barrister’, reports. Day-to-day we passively enjoy legislative protection in all shapes and sizes; from the way we drive on our roads to the way we watch our television, to the shape and size of our bananas. There is no question that law permeates our society, but is it Government’s role to go beyond regulation and legislate how healthcare providers do their jobs? Robert Francis QC was commissioned to lead an inquiry examining the causes of the failings in care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust between 2005 and 2009. His report was published on 6 February 2013 and unearthed some disturbing facts. “The most basic standards of care were not observed and fundamental rights to dignity were not respected,” he stated. Patients were left unfed, dehydrated and without necessary medicines. At the time none of these catastrophic failures in healthcare were reported by Mid-Staffs, most likely to appease statistics-obsessed Health Secretaries. Francis made 290 recommendations for improvements in patient safety and reduction of risk. Amongst the recommendations was the introduction of a ‘duty of candour’. Candour is ‘the volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made’. This recommendation is very broad, particularly as a legal ‘duty of care’

between clinicians and patients already exists - i.e. a patient should receive treatment of a standard that would reasonably be expected of a competent medical practitioner (not necessarily the wisest and best, but a responsible and reasonably competent one). One might expect a responsible and reasonably competent doctor to be open and honest about mistakes or when healthcare falls below an appropriate standard. A more formal duty of openness and honesty could, however, lead to largescale changes in culture, with healthcare professionals feeling confident and comfortable to admit errors without fear of reprisal. Awareness of errors and promotion of better care could lead to higher motivation to prevent further, similar instances occurring. It is hoped that prompt apologies and explanations, with a reassurance mistakes will not reoccur, would reduce the levels of litigation. This would save the NHS huge sums of money and resources fighting protracted legal battles. Employment law could also be affected, a ‘duty of candour’ would create an environment where healthcare professionals are not seen to be whistleblowing by reporting failings, but simply adhering to the law. As with all legislation enacted by Government for the protection of the public, it is done so with good intention. However as with all good intentions, there may not always be the desired effect. Increased openness and transparency provides opportunities for adverse publicity. The media will play a large part in either engendering a culture of appreciation of healthcare services or using the truth to scaremonger the public into fear, mistrust or avoidance. Bluntly, is the public ready for the truth lurking in our healthcare system? ■

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Sue Ryder’s Dragon Boat Festival

Bringing charities together

Baltic Wharf, Sunday 14th September 2014

40 boats, 2,000 spectators Raising thousands for charity Want to get involved? Dragon Boats is open to all abilities and anyone over 16. Compete in a series of heats, lasting just a couple of minutes as you battle for the fastest time. Teams consist of 17 and it’s about teamwork and having fun!

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Good GEAR ✱

Travelling light Travel Store & Travel Clinics

t’s better to buy well and buy once, the saying

goes: sage advice indeed. The right knowledge, backed up with the correct equipment, means your trip of a lifetime can be achieved without costing the earth. We asked Nomad Travel, the Park Street store which has kitted out independent travellers with clothing, equipment, books and maps, medical supplies and vaccinations for over 20 years, to recommend some essentials for your big trip.

Power Monkey Extreme £120 The Power Monkey Extreme allows you to charge anything from a smartphone to a GPS using solar power, allowing you to stay connected by harnessing the power of the sun even when you are on the move. With the option of a 12V or USB charger and a multitude of different gadget connectors, there’s no reason to be left with a low battery.

Aqua Pure Traveller £34.99 Water is the basis of all human life: the average adult needs to drink between one and a half to two litres a day just to survive. The Aqua Pure Traveller removes viruses, bacteria and waterborne pathogens allowing you to remain hydrated wherever you go, in any conditions. This 750ml bottle fits in to any day bag with ease and can purify an average of 350 litres in its lifetime. Don’t buy bottled water - make your own!

Multi-purpose biodegradable soap £4 When trying to save space, carrying your shampoo, shower gel, washing-up liquid and clothes-wash may take up more space than you can justify. Multi-purpose biodegradable soap means you can carry one bottle instead of four! Good for the environment and good for the wallet, this is an essential part of any good washkit.

Moon Cup £18 Ever wondered what female adventurers do when it’s that ‘time of the month’? The Mooncup is a reusable menstrual cup, made of soft medical grade silicone. It’s a fantastic product for use when taking part in all outdoor activities. Great for women with sensitive skin, it’s latex-free, contains no dyes, toxins or bleaches and prevents waste: one woman uses an average of 11,000 tampons or pads in a lifetime costing around £6.80 per month. Using a Mooncup means less landfill waste and if you use it for just 10 years, it averages out at only 15p per month. It takes a little getting used to but you’ll never look back!

Travelproof Packaway Daysack £14 Don’t clog up landfill sites with plastic carrier bags; keep a reusable, compact and comfortable alternative - a handy foldaway backpack! The Packaway Daysack is designed to be worn as a lightweight backpack, owr clipped around the body as a waist pack. This versatile bit of kit is a great sustainable alternative to plastics bags. www.nomadtravel.co.uk ■

With special thanks to Sam Fisher for the reviews.

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Innovating the sustainable city

We will need to find new, more sustainable ways to live in cities. In the UK, Bristol is pioneering green city living.

Peter Madden, Chief Executive of Future Cities Catapult, talks to Good Bristol

he future of our species will be in cities.

Across the world, we are currently witnessing the biggest rural-urban migration in the history of humankind. This will bring enormous opportunities; it will also bring huge challenges and pressures. We will need to find new, more sustainable ways to live in cities. In the UK, Bristol is pioneering green city living. This will bring direct benefits to the residents here in terms of better quality of life. And at the same time, it will open up opportunities for the businesses based in the city. The organisation I run, the Future Cities Catapult, is a new urban innovation centre. Based in London, and supported by the UK Government, our role is to bring together cities, universities and businesses, in collaboration, to meet the needs of cities. Given the scale of urban challenges in the UK and across the world, I believe that we can develop solutions that help our businesses grow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in architecture, engineering, building and information technology â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and, at the same time, make cities better places. And by taking a lead in the UK, Bristol is positioning itself well to provide services to cities across the world. As well as having strengths in sustainability, Bristol boasts a strong information technology sector. We can harness this technology to help us meet city challenges. By end of this decade 26 billion devices will be on the Internet of Things. All these devices, in our phones, our objects, our buildings, mean we are creating ever more data.

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Of all the data ever created in history, anywhere, 90% was generated in the last two years! All this data is like a new raw material with which we can innovate. It can help us to understand how cities function, in all their complexity, and help us make them better places to live. There are lots of opportunities to innovate ready to be exploited. If we know how resources flow and how infrastructure is used, we can be more efficient in the way we use and re-use materials; designing services, systems and products that are fit-for-purpose and built for recovery. Given that we have clouds of data, there is a great opportunity to analyse systemic city problems, make connections to reveal deep-rooted issues, and to avoid creating long-tem problems. If we put citizens at the heart of innovation, we can provide platforms for participation, engagement and collaboration. As individuals we have unprecedented access to technology: there are now more mobile phones than there are toilets on planet earth. Now is the time to act for the future city that we want; we can put the smart citizen at the heart of designing the smart city. These are the kinds of issues my organisation, Future Cities Catapult, is working on. Our vision is a world where every city has the products, services and expertise it requires to integrate its systems and future-proof itself, for the benefit of its citizens, economy and environment â&#x2013; www.futurecities.catapult.org.uk

Josh Eggleton, Local food hero Chef Josh Eggleton and his sister Holly took over the Pony & Trap, in Chew Valley, in 2009. Since then Gordon Ramsay’s former protégé has won accolades a-plenty, including a prestigious Michelin star, and launched Bristol’s annual pop-up restaurant festival Eat Drink Bristol Fashion. GB: This year has been really exciting for the Pony & Trap, with your triple win at the Gastropub Awards and for you personally with your appearance on the BBC’s Great British Menu. How are you feeling right now? JE: The Gastropub awards were an amazing start to the year: climbing nine places to now be ranked 3rd best Gastropub in the UK was great for the whole team. For me though, the highlight of the awards was Holly winning Frontof-House Manager of the Year. This was a well-deserved achievement for her: it’s a real partnership between the front and back-of-house teams. I was so fixed on her winning that I forgot about my own nomination! Being part of the Great British Menu was a really great experience, although the filming week was full-on. It was shot back in October 2013 and with months between filming and the programme being aired I tried to forget about having to watch myself. Spending time with Dominic and Emily from my group was great too: now we're cooking at each other’s restaurants in three Great British Menu-themed evenings. What are your plans for the rest of the year? Big things! First up we have Eat Drink Bristol Fashion (May 1 – 18), the pop-up restaurant and food festival I co-founded. This year we pushed hard to get a variety of South West chefs involved, including Nathan Outlaw, Jack Stein and Paul Ainsworth to name just a few. The lineup really demonstrates what a

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great food culture we have in the South West. Back at the Pony & Trap we have lots of plans for the garden. I want to be able to use as much home-grown produce as I can in the dishes we serve. Sourcing our food locally and knowing where it has come from is very important to me, and is all part of our ‘field to fork’ ethos. We’re planting an orchard that will supply us with apples, pears and lots of different fruits, and we have plans for beehives too. Development-wise, later this year we are going to start building work on the Pony & Trap to improve both the back and front-of-house facilities.

Looking at the bigger picture, we want to keep growing the Pony & Trap while maintaining our links with trusted suppliers like the Community Farm just up the road. What makes the Pony & Trap so special? We are a family-run pub that puts great emphasis on simplicity and offering a big welcome. All our ingredients are sourced as locally as possible, from suppliers around the Chew Valley and South West areas. With all our dishes we create, we give them a little twist so not everything will be quite like you might have thought. It's a team effort with every member of staff being as passionate about what we do as Holly and I. What do you love about Bristol? I grew up in Whitchurch and took a bus out to Chew Valley every day for school, so I have lived here my whole life. This city has so much to offer; with people from different walks of life in Totterdown, where I live now, to the Harbourside which is great for a walk and a bacon sandwich at The Buttery. I love the food culture that Bristol has. We have some great chefs in and around the city with a restaurant scene that keeps on growing and growing.

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Good MUSIC ✱

Bristol’s Got

Love for Latin A cross the city, in bars and

restaurants, pubs and clubs, a new, sultry style of folk music is sweeping into Bristol's nightlife. Some call it Tropical, some call it Latin, call it whatever you want, all we know is that it's downright contagious! At Left Bank's Tropical Roots night, Bristol band Balaila La Cumbia can regularly be found dancing up a storm. For the uninitiated, 'cumbia' music originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region with strong Spanish and African influences, and by George does it get you moving! Pounding live percussion, dense double-bass and a horn section funkier than Prince partying on down in Brazil, this is the sound of South America like you've never heard it before, but once you do, you won't want to stop moving. Good Bristol caught up with Spanishrooted funky rumba-folk alchemists The Vamos! Band, at their regular Latin-Folk venue No.1 Harbourside. When asked why they think Bristol is such a fine place for introducing new styles, irrepressibly joyful frontman Carlos Terres said: "People have come to Bristol from all these different places, they gotta find their way to have fun, y'know? Everyone brings their own style. When we sing in

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Spanish, audiences still get the whole love-vibe thing we give. People like to get crazy!" Perhaps the finest example of cross-cultural pollination this side of Havana, Bristol-based Aji Pati have been honing their unique mix of cumbia, dub, salsa, bolero and bambuco for years. If that sounds like a heady combination, believe us it is! Boasting band members from Cuba, Colombia, Australia and England, their music takes it's cues straight from the heart of Latin American folklore, beating out heavy grooves that seem made to fill Bristol's unabating appetite for dancing. Deep on the dancefloor of Plantation on Gloucester Rd, bodies slide and sway and hips roll to the breezy Latin grooves while Aji Pati fills the venue. Not content just to settle for a 'good' gig, utterly magnetic front-woman Indira Roman summons up spirits of amor, coaxing people in, then whipping the crowd into a climactic sway of lovers rock, converting a few more to the beat of Latin blasting out across Bristol.

www.bailalacumbia.co.uk www.thevamosband.com You’ll find Aji Pati’s next gig, as well as other vibrant music events, at www.plantationrestaurant.biz ■

Deva Premal and Miten

With millions of albums sold Deva Premal and Miten have introduced the power of ancient Sanskrit mantras to the West while adding a modern twist. Playing at the Pavilion, Bath, Deva (a classically-trained musician and singer) and Miten, who has toured with Lou Reed and Fleetwood Mac, have released a string of acclaimed albums and their live concerts have covered venues from yoga studios to cathedrals and music festivals around the world. Their latest album, Mantras for Life, designed for daily mantra meditation practice, is available now. 7.30pm, June 7, The Pavilion, Bath. Tickets from £25. www.seedidea.net ■

Good MUSIC ✱

The Return of The Magnus Puto The Bristol-based hip-hop/ska sextet primed to take their energy worldwide.

elding ska, electro,

hip-hop and indie sounds into a defiantly danceable concoction, The Magnus Puto have achieved big things in their time as a band. After only a few local gigs the band were invited to share a stage with Plan B at the Pilton Party, the annual post-Glastonbury megaevent held by Michael Eavis. Having achieved so much so quickly, Good Bristol caught up with Patrick, Andy, Chris and Pat to find out what's next. Tell us about where you grew up and how it influenced you? Andy: None of us are from Bristol originally, we came to here for Uni in 2007 and there was just such an energy on the live scene! Even in the smaller gigs around the city people were just going all out for it. Chris: I came to Bristol and just realised I wanted to party harder, which I think has influenced us all a little bit. Patrick: There are so many good gigs,

posters up everywhere, you can't get away from what's happening. Do you think we're seeing a bit of Ska over-saturation occurring in Bristol now? Andy: I have felt like that at times, but I think it's all good. There seem to be different waves of music that go through Bristol, you can kind of latch on to each and ride it as you please. Patrick: I do sometimes feel, though, that bands in Bristol are too focused on pleasing the crowd; making this big party. Sometimes bands just need to regroup and focus on the sound they want, then see if people want to hear it. Chris: You run the risk of trying to please the crowd you think exists. We've seen a lot of new-school ska bands smashing it on the festival scene lately, do you think there is an identifiable ‘Bristol Sound’ getting out there? Pat: The cool thing is that it doesn't feel like people are trying to copy old ska;

bands are always striving to create new versions of the sound. All the bands you'll find here have a bit of gypsy, funk, hip-hop or some other influence in there. I think the competition in Bristol really pushes you harder. Andy: We have been wary of shutting ourselves into this scene and almost being locked out from the rest of the country. It's quite an easy thing to do when this is such a special place. The job now is to take the ‘Bristol Sound’ everywhere else! Having just stormed an extensive UK tour with their incendiary beats, it seems unlikely that these rabble-rousers are getting locked down anytime soon. Catch The Magnus Puto on the festival circuit this summer at Download, Boomtown and more. Their new 5-track EP, Gettin' Trouble, is available now.

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Courses— Retreats—Summer Schools—Venue Hire

Sustainability Summer School Monday 11-Thursday 14 August Polly Higgins, Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney and Jamie Catto ACTION for the EARTH Polly Higgins is a lawyer who loves the Earth and believes that when love and law are brought together, we are free to create from a place of peace. Polly is an award-winning author and Chair of the Eradicating Ecocide Global Initiative. She speaks on many platforms across the world and was named one of the “Top 10 Visionaries of the World.” (The Ecologist) BUILDING the NEW from Inspiration, Authenticity and Wholeness Tim ‘Mac’Macartney, social entrepreneur and founder of Embercombe, offers an inspirational approach to leadership and seeks to inspire committed action for a sustainable world. Jamie Catto of Faithless is the creative catalyst, producer and director behind the global philosophy and music project 1 Giant Leap and is now running personal development workshops. Residential single £375; shared £325 per person; non-res £260 with meals 3days & 3 nights

www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk

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Rest-ival Summer Retreat Monday 18— Thursday 21 August

Do you long to slow down? Daily mindfulness practice, time outdoors in nature, delicious food, relaxation, yoga, taijiwuxigong will help you have a rest during the busy summertime. £390 / £340 / £275

Creative Arts Summer School 19-27 July

Just what it says on the packet! Loads of variety. Residential and nonresidential options. Please ring for costs

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Failand Training NATURE BASED PRACTICE & ECOPSYCHOLOGY

Learning that connects Introductory days ■ Weekends ■ 1 year/2 years certificate in Ecopsychology ■

This training will be of benefit to people working in nature or wanting to work in nature with individuals or groups. Including counsellors, psychotherapists, youth workers, mental health workers, teachers & health care professionals, or for anyone curious about their own relationship to nature.

The discovery of one’s place with the earth.

The course runs on the outskirts of Bristol For details please see our website www.failandtraining.com or contact Rhonda Brandrick on 0744 304 6189

Back to the future?

A letter from Jonathon Porritt, author, green champion and founder of Forum for the Future, introducing the BIG Green Week 2014 programme.

he way we deal with bad

news about the environment is pretty astonishing. A blaze of short-lived publicity, followed by total silence. That’s what happened most recently with the latest Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change back in April. Its account of the likely impacts of accelerating climate change on societies all around the world couldn’t really have been grimmer. The media picked it up, ran with it for a day (with the usual quota of head-in-the-sand denialism), and then promptly dropped it. Amazingly for us in the South West, they couldn’t even be bothered to make the connection with the appalling floods we had earlier in the year. Yet that’s what the big debate about ‘adapting’ to climate change is all about: even those politicians who agree that disasters of this kind are increasingly the result of man-made

climate change, they seem to think that all we need to do is to get better at adapting to it! Tell that to the hundreds of people on the Somerset Levels still profoundly affected by the floods. The truth is we just don’t know how to cope with the likely horrors of accelerating climate change. The implications are so huge, for us as individuals and for society as a whole, that we lapse back into a state of disempowered inertia. And that’s why I wrote The World We Made. Its starting point is very different, written through the words of a 50-year-old teacher looking back from 2050 to tell the story of how we got from a pretty bad place today to a pretty good place in 2050. It’s not science fiction, and it’s not some crazy utopian tract that simply ignores the harsh realities of the state of the world today. But it is very upbeat, celebrating both the astonishing power

of new technology, and the abiding resilience and determination of billions of people to help make a better world. And Bristol is one of those cities that really could turn that kind of 2050 vision into reality. The FutureBristol website reveals a number of fascinating scenarios for the city – possible futures, if you like – with a very strong emphasis on the role of individuals and communities in making good things happen. BIG Green Week 2014 will play host to an amazing array of individuals and community leaders engaged in that kind of work – providing a whole series of inspiring signposts to the kind of genuinely sustainable future that is still available to us. If we get a move on! ■

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Good POWER ✱

Wind power in action

ind power is now making an extremely significant contribution to UK energy supply. In December last year, wind power contributed an amazing 10% of the country’s demand.

And Bristol is doing its bit. Looking from the M5 flyover by the Portway you can see a cluster of incredibly elegant turbines, their blades effortlessly gliding through the air to produce electricity. Four of the turbines within that cluster - on the grounds of Wessex Water’s sewage plant - belong to Triodos Renewables – one of the companies in Bristol’s burgeoning renewable energy community.

A Bristol-based renewable energy company Based in Deanery Road, Bristol, Triodos Renewables is a green power pioneer and has been generating renewable energy since 1995. The company owns and operates renewable energy sites across the UK using wind and hydro-power to provide electricity to the national grid. Their wind farms are sensitively sited and often are situated, like the Avonmouth turbines, on industrial and brownfield sites. In 2013, their sites generated 113,345MWh: that’s enough clean green energy to power 26,846 homes. The site at Avonmouth began generating in November 2013, becoming the company’s tenth operational wind power site. So far this year, the green energy company has already acquired two new wind farms in Cambridgeshire.

Wind turbine open day And now you have the opportunity to get up close to a turbine. As a warm-up to this year’s BIG Green Week, Triodos Renewables is inviting families to join them at Avonmouth for a fun day out. This is your chance to see the machines in action and learn about how the wind provides us with energy. The open day, on Saturday June 7 (10am - 1pm), includes an official opening by Bristol’s Mayor, George Ferguson, tours around the site and educational activities for children based on science and energy. The local wildlife team will also be on hand to answer questions about the on-site nature reserve. You can register to attend by visiting www.triodos.co.uk/avonmouth

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You can be a part of it Over 5,000 shareholders co-own Triodos Renewables and you could become one of them. Investment starts at just a few hundred pounds, making it accessible for as many people as possible to take a rewarding stake in the UK’s renewable future. Shareholders enjoy the benefits of holding a direct stake in renewable energy projects, and the feel-good factor of the ethical impact of their financial decision. And each time they pass Avonmouth and see that cluster of wind turbines they get a very visible reminder of how their investment is contributing to a more sustainable future. For more information about how to invest, visit www.triodosrenewables.co.uk

0845 456 1640 goodenergy.co.uk

THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ENVIRONMENT IDEAS, ART & CULTURE

T ES BIGGVER! NTS E 0 EVE R OVE

2014 PROGRAMME 14TH -22nd JUNE

Smart Living: healthier, happier, better off!

INTRODUCTION by Alastair Sawday, Festival Chair 2014 & 2015

estivals are a fine way for a community to come together around a common interest. Bristol’s BIG Green Week is a good example of a great swathe of a city’s inhabitants coalescing around one very BIG idea: Bristol as European Green Capital city. The award is for 2015, won by a wide coalition of community groups, businesses and Bristol City Council – all putting their shoulders to the green wheel. We are proud of the award, and of our determination to become a city with a better-than-average chance of weathering the worst that climate change can throw at us. But that’s next year! BIG Green Week 2014 ranges across disciplines and enthusiasms - educating, celebrating, discussing, challenging and having fun. It has ambitious plans for a long and exciting future. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet others, re-ignite your commitments, re-boot your determination to change any bad habits and help others do so too. Cities matter, and can set examples to others. Bristol is inspired by the far-sighted intelligence of other European cities and learns from them. But we have hundreds of uniquely Bristolian initiatives to display and celebrate – and BIG Green Week is the annual chance to do that. Come and join us! Alastair Sawday, www.sawdays.co.uk

CONTENTS Get involved! Join in with BIG Green Week ................................................. 3 Big Green Treasure Hunt and Do Something!............................................ 4 Pre-Festival Events....................................................................................................... 5 Get Growing Trail.......................................................................................................... 7 BIG Beautiful World Weekend............................................................................... 8 Saturday 14 June .............................................................................................. 10-12 Sunday 15 June.......................................................................................................... 13 Monday 16 June ....................................................................................................... 14

Tuesday 17 June ........................................................................................................ 15 Wednesday 18 June ............................................................................................... 18 Thursday 19 June ............................................................................................. 19-20 Friday 20 June ................................................................................................... 22-23 Saturday 21 June .............................................................................................. 24-26 Sunday 22 June ................................................................................................. 27-28 Post-Festival Events & Ticket information................................................... 32 Directions to BIG Green Week sites................................................................ 33

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art & FAShIon

ComEdy

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

fOod & Markets

Talks & DebATes

THEATRE & Poetry

Music

PRE/POST fesTival EveNTs

Walks & tours

OTHER EveNTs

TicketEd EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

BIG GREEN WEEK

Films

Family EveNTs

photo: Emma Alesworth

2014 SPONSORS A BIG thank you to BIG Green Week’s Smart Living Sponsors:

Our Sustainable Cities Partner:

Our Event Sponsors:

And our Festival Supporters:

And our Media Partners:

BGW Pop-up Information Hub

he BIG Green Week 2014 HQ and Information Hub will be popping-up in an eco shepherd’s hut outside the Arnolfini, alongside the Embercombe Dutch barge. This will be open daily, 10am-5pm, from 14–22 June for any help and advice you may need, or just come down and say hello. Enjoy some food and drink from the Arnolfini Café and enjoy a range of small-scale events happening throughout BIG Green Week around the hut and barge.

Join the BIG Conversation

Get all the latest news and views online Web: www.biggreenweek.com Twitter: @biggreenweek or #bgw Facebook: Big Green Week Free wi-fi is available at many event venues and cafes.

Box Office

Over half of BIG Green Week’s 150 events are free. Where tickets are required, bookings can be made through www.biggreenweek.com We strive to be a paperless ticket event. If you need help buying tickets, or want to pay in Bristol Pounds, the BIG Green Week telephone box office will be open from May 13 to June 5 (Tues, Weds & Thurs only), 10am-4pm, on 0117 329 2525.

Bristol Pound payments can made using txt2pay, or tickets can be reserved for collection at the BGW Information Hub. Online ticket sales are available until an hour before the event starts. Where events are not sold out, cash-only tickets will be available on the door (Stirling or Bristol Pounds). Please note that BIG Green Week cannot refund money or exchange tickets, except in the case of a cancelled event.

A BIG Thank You to our Stewards

BIG Green Week is put on by a range of partners each organising their own events, pulled together by a small team of volunteers, and overseen and looked after on the day by our fantastic stewards, all of whom are also volunteers – so please be nice to them if something hasn’t gone quite to plan. Thank you.

Special Offers

From May, some special money-saving ticket bundle offers will be available on the website, along with news of specific events with special offers. So grab yourself a special offer today at www.biggreenweek.com/tickets-and-offers Or just scan here

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Saturday 14th June

Do Something 2014: at Home and at Work!

IG Green Week is all about smart living - showcasing a happier, healthier way of life - and you can join the smart living revolution today! Just try one of our magnificent seven smart living actions at home or at work. Visit the BGW website to find out how to love your energy bills, love your old clothes and even how to use your money for good. There are ideas for smarter living at home, ideas to green our cities, and even a guide to running your own BIG Green Week events at work. So do something smart today at www.biggreenweek.com/do-something Or just scan here

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photo: Emma Alesworth

usic

WOrkshops

Poetry

preWEEK festival events 9th june BIG GREEN saturday Walks & tours

PRE/POST fesTival EveNTs

Until August 10 PRE-fesTival

Living City: Anatomy of a Green Capital

EveNTs Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm The Architecture Centre

Just as the health of individuals relies on a balance of body,l mind & spirit, the health of a city also relies on a physical, mental & social well-being. Using a ‘city as body’ analogy, this exhibition explores what is needed to make a healthy, happy city. free

OTHER EveNTs

cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera. This feature documentary takes us on an adventure across the globe, retracing the history of lost urban rivers by plunging into archival maps and going underground with clandestine explorers. ticketed £8. www.watershed.co.uk Films

Mon 2 - Mon 30 June

Family EveNTs

Friday 30 May

BIG Green Bat Walk PRE-fesTival EveNTs

8.30-10pm

(start and end times vary due to changing sunset times)

Arnos Vale Cemetery Embark on a dusk-to-dark adventure to discover the varied species of bat that roost and hunt in Arnos Vale. ticketed £8.40. www.arnosvale.org.uk

Walks & tours

PRE-fesTival

It’s back! Showcasing the work of over 30 talented artists and makers from the creative studios of Hamilton House, our Eco/Natural World themed shop will be a treasure of the upcycled and a jungle of amazing artworks... with a few interactive surprises. free

Bedminster Skills Week

10am-4pm PRE-fesTival EveNTs Various locations around Bedminster

Try something new or learn a new skill for the start of BIG Green Week. free FREe EveNTs

Sunday 1 June

Family EveNTs A Park on Park Street

Get Growing Garden Trail PRE-fesTival

See Park Street transformed into a pop-up park! With plants, artificial grass and places to relax, Park Street will be the place to be. Local traders will bring their businesses outside and live entertainment will be featured throughout the day! free Family EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Sunday 1 June

Lost Rivers PRE-fesTival EveNTs

6-7:30pm, Watershed

Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. But as

10am-5pm

EveNTs Opening times vary from site to site, see www.bristolfoodnetwork.org or Trail leaflet for full details 33 sites across, and just outside the city Bristol’s secret fruit & veg growers open their garden gates and community plots for the 4th annual Get Growing Garden Trail. Come and see what lies behind the garden walls and get inspired to get growing too. free fOod & Markets

11am-10pm, Park Street

Special EveNTs

fOod & Markets

Sat 7 & Sun 8 June

Sat 31 May-Fri 6 June

fOod & Markets

Coexist In-House ECO Pop-up Shop

EveNTs Mon-Fri 9am -9pm, Sat-Sun 9am - 5pm Hamilton House

Special EveNTs

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

TicketEd EveNTs

Family EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Saturday 7 June Music

Deva Premal & Miten + special guest Manose

7:30-10pm The Pavilion, Bath

Deva Premal & Miten, with Manose, return to the South West for the first time in five years for an unforgettable concert at the Pavilion, Bath. Deva Premal & Miten began their journey into love and music in 1990 when they met at an ashram in India. Their worldwide concerts and bestselling albums have since introduced millions in the West to the power of ancient Sanskrit mantras. ticketed £25. www.seedidea.net

FREe EveNTs Saturday 7 June PRE-fesTival

Triodos Renewables Wind Farm Open Day

EveNTs 10am-1pm Avonmouth Wind Farm

Bring the family for a free, fun and educational tour of the Triodos Renewables wind turbines at Avonmouth. You’ve seen them from the M5, now get up-close and learn how these turbines power the average annual electricity needs of 4,890 Bristol homes. This is a free event, but numbers are strictly limited: booking essential. book your free ticket at www.biggreenweek.com

Walks & tours

fOod & Markets

FREe EveNTs

Sunday 8 June

Bay of All Saints PRE-fesTival

6-7.30pm, Watershed

InEveNTs Bahia, Brazil, generations of poor families live in shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, the families risk losing their homes. This is their story. ticketed £8. www.watershed.co.uk

Thursday 12 June PRE-fesTival EveNTs

Films

Painting the Town Green : the City & the Voluntary Sector

10am-4pm, Trinity Centre

Showcasing the voluntary & community sector’s work in sustainability and plans to engage under-represented communities in Bristol Green Capital 2015. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Talks & DebATes

FREe EveNTs

Thurs 12 - Sun 22 June

(Re)Cycle Art

9.30am-6pm Room 212, Gloucester Rd. An exhibition of art, craft and gifts based on cycling, recycling and recycled cycles! Part of Glos Rd Central, Room 212 shows work by over 100 local artists. Featured artist Jenny Urquhart creates vibrant paintings and prints of Bristol, often with bikes and recycled buttons. free Family EveNTs

PRE-fesTival EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Music

BIG GREEN WEEK

One of the greenest companies in the South West Skanska is a leading project development and construction company, with specialist teams in green construction, building fit-out, facilities management and infrastructure services. Since we won the Sunday Times Greenest Company award in 2011, our green credentials have gone from strength to strength, in the South West and around the world. Working collaboratively with customers, partners and our supply chain, we make a positive difference to society.

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Get Growing Garden Trail Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 June 2014 Bristol’s secret fruit & veg growers open their garden gates and community plots for the 4th annual Get Growing Garden Trail. Come and see what lies behind the garden walls and get inspired to get growing too. For directions, details of events and activities at all the sites, or to download a Trail map: www.bristolfoodnetwork.org Andy’s Haven Nursery 10am–3pm Saturday & Sunday

J3 Get Growing Group 10am–5pm Sunday (access 24/7)

Sims Hill Shared Harvest 12–4pm Saturday

Blaise Community Garden 11am–4pm Saturday & Sunday

Lawrence Weston Community Farm 10am–4pm Saturday & Sunday

Bramble Farm Community Smallholding 11am–5pm Saturday & Sunday

Lets Grow! Community Allotment 11am–4pm Saturday

Southmead Community Fruit Garden 10am–3pm Saturday

Easton Community Allotment 11am–3pm Sunday

Metford Road Community Orchard 2–5pm Sunday

Ecohome Garden at Create 2–4pm Sat: volunteers on site (access 24/7) 10am–4pm Sat: gallery open

Patchwork Community Gardening Group Community Orchard 2–4pm Saturday (access 24/7)

Feed Bristol 12–4pm Saturday & Sunday Fishponds Community Orchard 12–5pm Sunday The Golden Hill Community Garden 11am–3pm Saturday GREENS Community Market Garden (HHEAG) 10am–3pm Saturday Grow Bristol & Severn Project (Temple Meads) 10am–12noon Saturday Horfield Organic Community Orchard 1–5pm Saturday

Stoke Lane Community Garden 12–3pm Saturday Sustainable Westbury-on-Trym 12–5pm Saturday Totterdown Sprouting 10am–2pm Saturday (access 24/7)

Perrett’s Park Edible Garden 11am–6pm Saturday (access 24/7)

Tynings Field Community Group 10am–5pm Sunday

PLANT@St Agnes Park 9am–5pm Saturday & Sunday

Tyntesfield Walled Kitchen Garden 10am–6pm Saturday & Sunday

Redland Green Allotments including orchard section 2–5pm Sunday

University of Bristol Botanic Garden 10am–4.30pm Saturday & Sunday

St George Community Garden 10am–12noon Saturday (access 24/7)

Upper Horfield Community Garden Club 11am–4pm Saturday

St Werburghs City Farm 12–4pm Saturday

Windmill Hill City Farm 12–4pm Saturday

The Severn Project (Keynsham) 11am–2pm Saturday

Woodcroft Community Orchard 10am–3pm Saturday

Explore the Trail by bike Join Life Cycle on one of their relaxed, friendly ‘led’ rides around the Trail. Life Cycle will take the effort out of planning your cycle route, so that you can concentrate on enjoying the fascinating gardens. Five rides will be on offer over the weekend, including one out to the beautiful Tyntesfield estate and some north and south Bristol routes. Children will be welcome to join the family-friendly ride. To find out more and to book your place visit: www.lifecycleuk.org.uk/getgrowing

d l r o W l u f i BIG Beaut Weekend Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June

BIG Green Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first weekend of family fun, including: Harbourside: Festival of Nature (see below)

College Green: Pukka Tea House, Colourscape installation, and more

Full Satur d Programmay e

Create Centre: The Earthed Art Weekender Bush Corner (Arnolfini): Events on Embercombe Sailing Barge

Full Sunday Programme

Share, discover and learn new skills from those that do it best. Explore the best that businesses and individuals of Bedminster have to offer this summer.

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skills@bedminster.org.uk

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he Pituitary Foundation is a national support and information organisation for pituitary patients, their families, friends and carers. They are the UK’s leading charity providing support to people affected by disorders of the pituitary gland such as Acromegaly, Cushing’s, Prolactinoma, Diabetes Insipidus and Hypopituitarism. Have you been affected by a pituitary disorder? Join the pituitary community from just £10 per year & receive many exclusive benefits today! Including: l Discounts at events and conferences l Welcome pack which includes a membership card, an edition of our members’ magazine, useful contacts and a Pituitary Foundation bookmark l Access to our online forum l Our members magazine, Pituitary Life, three times per year l Voting rights l Give us a stronger voice to raise awareness.

Telephone: 0117 370 1311 Fax: 0117 933 0910 E-mail: enquiries@pituitary.org.uk Registered Charity No: 1058968

BIG GREEN WEEK

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Green and Just? Inclusive Sustainability - because people matter

9am-5pm The Park, Knowle

How can the sustainability movement involve a wider range of people? How can we share learning across social movements? Join us at the Schumacher Institute Futures Conference 2014 to explore these questions and open up new dialogues about how sustainability action can challenge marginalisation and exclusion. ticketed: £20 Talks & DebATes

Glos Rd Central is Growing

Saturday 14 14th June June

Discover Bristol’s first SNUG home! Special EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Family EveNTs 9am-6pm, everyday to Sun 22 Glos Rd Central

Traders, community groups and local gardeners are joining forces to green up the wide pavements on the upper part of the Gloucester Road. There are plans for pop-up gardens, planters from recycled objects and general greenery to reflect the eclectic mix of independent shops at Glos Rd Central. free Walks & tours

fOod & Markets

Family EveNTs

Family fun! Come and have a go at our land crafts, green woodwork, felt making, willow work, salad gardens, cob sculptures and more. All of the materials for these crafts are sourced at Embercombe. free

Pukka Tea House

Family EveNTs

The UK’s largest free natural history event returns with an extended programme of events across the region, exciting new additions including the Explorer Dome portable planetarium, Soapbox Science and a specially created wildlife garden, alongside favourites including the BBC Natural History Unit. free Talks & DebATes

FREe EveNTs

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

fOod & Markets

Pirates of Carbon Neutral: family fun, green crafts & dress up

10am-12pm & 2-4pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Festival of Nature: Wild Weekend

Sat 10am-6pm Sun 10am-5pm, Bristol Harbourside

10am-4pm everyday

Can’t find us? Check www.ecomotive.org for clues! What is a SNUG home? Could you build one? What would it look like? Bristol’s community self-build experts Ecomotive invite you to visit their SNUG prototype – a compact and highly customisable home that opens up new opportunities for affordable, environmentally friendly and community-focused living. Open daily throughout the festival. free

fOod & Markets

Sat & Sun, 10.30am-5pm College Green

Take time out at the Pukka Tea House to discover relaxing conversation over delicious organic herbal teas that taste as good as they make you feel. free Family EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Family EveNTs 10.30am-5pm North Street

Brought to you by the North Street Traders, with over 50 stalls, live music, children’s rides and face painting. Come down and support the local traders, listen to some music in the sun and enjoy a glass of Pimms. free fOod & Markets

Family EveNTs

Sat & Sun 10.30am-6pm College Green

Colourscape returns to Bristol’s BIG Green Week for a whole weekend - remember the long queues when it popped-up for just one day last year? Colour can be seen; colour can be felt. Colour is energy. The Colourscape walk-through sculpture opens up your senses, stimulates creativity and extends your awareness of colour and sound. small entry fee applied

Music

Special EveNTs

Welcome to Green Street - the virtual home of 2015

11am-12pm, The Keith Floyd Suite To move into Green Street, residents of Greater Bristol pledge to drop their carbon usage by 2015Kg during 2015. Bristolians will get lots of help from partnership organisations and be involved at the heart of Bristol Green Capital 2015. Come along and find out more! free

Special EveNTs

North Street Summer Fair

Walks & tours

Colourscape

FREe EveNTs

Sanctuary COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Sat & Sun 11am-4pm College Green

Sanctuary is an all encompassing, multisensory insight into sanctuaries found specifically in the natural world. As part of the Sanctuary experience you are invited to listen, touch, feel and get lost in the stories in an intimate space with a small group of fellow story explorers. You will also be invited to put your hands in the earth and help to re-wild a small sanctuary on site. free but ticket required FREe EveNTs

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BIG GREEN WEEK BIG GREEN WEEK Saturday 14 June

Life Beyond Money Talks & DebATes

The Earthed Weekender Sat & Sun, 11am-5pm The CREATE Centre

Come down to the Create Centre, and get involved in workshops, talks and walks, get your hands and boots earthy, discover local wildlife, history and nature and then let your imaginations take flight! free, but ticket required Family EveNTs

FREe EveNTs

Waterside Wildlife Tour Walks & tours

Sat: 3.30-4.30pm Sun: 3-4pm Bristol Ferry Boats

Join an intriguing tour of the harbour by boat. BBC wildlife naturalist Ed Drewitt will point out all the flora around the harbour, with interesting stories of how they got there. See the vast range of waterfowl, spot the peregrine falcons and if you are lucky the harbours secret otters. ticketed: £8 Family EveNTs

12.15-12.45pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event. Life beyond Money takes you through Julian Freeman’s journey - part autobiographical, full of learning and pointing you towards the meaning of true wealth. Whether you read it from cover to cover or just dip in, this book will be your companion. The great news is that you are well on your way to a wonderful life..in fact you are already there! free Family EveNTs

The Big Green Victoria Park Picnic Family EveNTs

1-5pm, Windmill Hill, Bristol

It’s summer, it’s warm, it’s the BIG Green Victoria Park Picnic! Rustle up some food and drink, a rug and a parasol, and bring your family and friends to beautiful Victoria Park to enjoy some green theatre entertainment, the park’s great facilities, and the wonderful atmosphere of one big, relaxed, green community, with Inkling Productiuons and the Victoria Park Action Group. free THEATRE & Poetry

FREe EveNTs

Special EveNTs

Hamilton House Open Day 12-6pm, Hamilton House

The amazing and innovative artists and tenants of Hamilton House throw open their studio doors to the public today. Why not try a few tasters of all our regular inspiring offerings, all interspersed amongst stunning special events drawing upon the ethos of sustainability and coexistence. free

others and the greater community. We’ll guide readers through a series of journeys, each one representing major issues that we face in our quest to becoming whole and fulfilled. free Special EveNTs

EcoPods Past & Future Talks & DebATes

The EcoPod is a metaphor of the world to come. An example for everyone to explore the reality of a less wasteful world. the creators realis that it’s time to use our resources in a sustainable way. It’s time to forget the path towards growth and profit. It is time to start reducing our consumption of energy and blatant wastage of resources. It is their goal make a sustainable world for our children to live in. free FREe EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

fOod & Markets

FREe EveNTs

Soular Shack Sound Sessions

12pm & 6pm everyday BGW HQ, Bush Corner Music

Fancy a spot of live music whilst relaxing in the sun? Come on down to the BGW HQ and soak up the Soular Shack Sound Sessions everyday at 12pm and again at 6pm; bringing you a variety of music to sooth the soul and stamp the feet. free FREe EveNTs

Special EveNTs

FRANK Water: Reducing waste whilst funding international safe water projects

4.30-5pm, Embercombe’s Volharding FRANK Water launch their new stainless steel refillable water bottles - available for purchase at BiIG Green Week - and present a talk about their plastic bottle waste-reducing festival initiative FreeFill. free Special EveNTs

Special EveNTs

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

2-3pm everyday BGW HQ, Bush Corner

Talks & DebATes

BIG Green Flowers & Butterflies Tour

1.30-3pm, Arnos Vale Cemetery

Walks & tours

Discover the flora and fauna of a summer garden cemetery on this seasonal wildlife tour. Join an expert ecologist to explore the rich mosaic of habitats in the cemetery and search for the beautiful flower and butterfly species to be found in Bristol. ticketed £5

4.30-6.30pm, Arnolfini

Come to the launch of the Earth Champions Quest for Bristol and hear about the inspiring people who have extraordinary solutions to many of the challenges facing the region. Learn how you can nominate people, organisations and businesses to become the new heroes for a sustainable society. free, but ticket required Family EveNTs

Rainbow Children Talks & DebATes

A Books on the Boat event Rainbow Children is a treasure chest of stories, information and ideas that we can use to help our children access deeper levels of understanding of themselves,

FREe EveNTs

Chris Paradox

Special EveNTs

1-1.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Call to Action for Earth Champions of Bristol... nominate your unsung eco heroes

THEATRE & Poetry

5-6pm, BGW HQ, Bush Corner

Explore the Meaning of Life with your friendly neighborhood one-legged existentialist stand up beat poet & Inspiration Engineer Chris Paradox. free FREe EveNTs

BIG GREEN WEEK Saturday 14 June

Walks & tours

80 Miles Around the West - sponsored cycle tour for reforestation in Malawi

9.30am, Bristol to Devizes

A gentle two day, eighty mile sponsored cycle ride along cycle paths and canal paths from Bristol to a campsite just outside Devizes. Money raised will go towards Temwa’s reforestation programme in Malawi. Good fun, good company and good exercise for a great cause! free

Wisdom to Survive: film screening & discussion Films

7-10pm, Bristol City Yoga

Accepting the consensus that climate change has already arrived, Wisdom to Survive explores the challenging question ‘what is keeping us from action?’ Featuring thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics and spirituality, the film addresses how we can evolve in the face of climate disruption. free, but ticket required

Talks & DebATes

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BIG GREEN WEEK Saturday 14 June

Simon Watt’s Frogs & Friends ComEdy

8-9.30pm, Arnolfini

The Ugly Animal Preservation Society’s professor of comedy, Simon Watt, returns with his new show Frogs & Friends – for adults only. Frogs are brilliant, but they are dying out. Simon explores why frogs are better than most people he knows and how studying them has changed the world. Special guests include Iszi Larence. ticketed £7.50

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BIG GREEN WEEK Drawing in the Dawn Walks & tours

4am-8am, meet by Clifton Suspension Bridge, Clifton Side

This gentle, facilitated walk offers you the opportunity to walk across the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge and towards Ashton Court to ‘Draw in the Dawn’. No drawing experience necessary, just a willingness to have a go. ticketed: £5

Festival of Nature

10am-5pm, Harbourside Family EveNTs

See Saturday 14 for details.

Sunday 15 June

coming first for the South West. Since then Simon has been in constant demand on TV & radio. He runs courses on smallholding, butchery, food processing & nose-to-tail eating; works as a journalist & broadcaster and looks after countless livestock. free FREe EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

Nandita’s Dream: children who love the planet

1-1.30pm, Embercombe’s Volharding A Books on the Boat event Nandita’s Dream is an inspiring adventure story & upbeat world music CD for children about the power of dreaming and creating the world we want to share. This session will feature singing, book reading and exploring your dreams for the world free

Plant your Purpose what’s stopping you

COnfErEnces & 4.30-5pm WOrkshops Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event What is stopping you from being the change you what to see in the world? Even though many of us consciously want to create a better world, the subconscious drivers in our lives are huge and often sabotage our true desire. Plant your Purpose is a creative constellation exercise that invites you to experience your purpose, whether you know what it is or not, and explore what stops you. free Family EveNTs

Chris Paradox

5-6pm, BGW HQ, Bush Corner See Saturday 14 for details.

THEATRE & Poetry

A River Changes Course

Family EveNTs

Waterside Wildlife Tour 3-4pm, Bristol Ferry Boats

Family EveNTs

Robin Hood and his Merry Sheep: family fun, green crafts & dress up

10am-12pm & 2-4pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Colourscape

Walks & tours

See Saturday 14 for details.

Be Like Water Talks & DebATes

3.15-4.45pm BGW HQ, Bush Corner

Want to cope with anything life throws at you? Want to remain calm, collected and calibrated in any difficult situation? Want to achieve your dreams and success goals? Want to give something back to the world and its’ people? In that case, you need to… Find Your Flow and ‘Be Like Water’ free

Talks & DebATes

6-7.30pm, Watershed

Winner of the World Cinema Films Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance, this inspiring film tells the story of three families living in contemporary Cambodia as they face hard choices forced by rapid development and struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life. ticketed: £8

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10.30am-6pm, College Green Family EveNTs

See Saturday 14 for details.

Stories of the Great Turning

The Earthed Weekender 11am-5pm, The Create Centre See Saturday 14 for details.

Pigs In Clover Talks & DebATes

12.15-12.45pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event Simon Dawson gave up his job as an estate agent and moved to Exmoor with wife Debbie a decade ago. The couple appeared with Gary Rhodes and Michael Caines on the BBC’s Local Food Heroes competition,

Talks & DebATes

7.30-8.30pm Bristol Music Club

In these difficult times, we need stories that engage, enchant and inspire. Come and hear stories of how ordinary people in their everyday lives have responded to the challenges of sustainable living. From Bristol publisher Vala’s book ‘Stories of the Great Turning’, inspired by Joanna Macy. Free event, light refreshments. free, but ticket required

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BIG GREEN WEEK SUNday 15 June

BIG GREEN WEEK Run your own BIG Business Green Week Special EveNTs

9am-5pm Mon to Fri

participating businesses city-wide Join our city-wide Business Green Week! Download our brand new step-by-step guide from the festival website full of tried and tested activities to help you engage staff in your workplace during BIG Green Week. An ideal way to demonstrate your commitment to sustainability as we prepare for European Green Capital 2015. free FREe EveNTs

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

UK Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel

Saturday16 Monday 14th June June

Lets Talk Education - Embercombe style

10am-5pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Talks & DebATes

Embercombe is working with schools, colleges and universities in the southwest to deliver transformative learning experiences within current teaching and learning frameworks. Come and speak to Jo Clark, Embercombe’s head of landbased learning, about what we are doing and how this can be replicated in your place of education. free FREe EveNTs

Mon: 9am-5pm & Tues: 8.30am-2pm City Hall

COnfErEnces & 11am-2pm WOrkshops Lawrence Weston Community Farm

During this two day event, Bristol hosts 12 world experts in sustainable development tasked with the question “What role can community-led development play in unlocking access to land or financing for small-scale sustainable urban development?” The experts will tour Bristol, holding a series of workshops & interviews before offering their conclusions in an open debate. by invitation only - see 2.30pm Tuesday for public debate

Join Lawrence Weston Community Farm’s Green Woodworking group to have a go at using traditional hand tools and techniques used to make spoons and bowls. The group is open to new members if you get hooked! Suitable for adults only. Please email kerry@lwfarm.org.uk if you are planning to join in. free with registration FREe EveNTs

Netwalking for Freelancers with Tots!

10am-1pm, Ashton Court, meet in Stables courtyard

Walks & tours

This event, with freelance mum Faye Dicker, is designed for freelance mums & dads with pre-school age tots, offering the opportunity to walk & talk with others in business whilst also getting out with your pre-schooler. Join us! free, but ticket required Family EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

BIG GREEN WEEK MONday 16 June

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Innovating for Future Cities: making big green ideas a reality

12.30-1.30pm, public talk 2-5.30pm, workshop (by invitation) Arnolfini, 5th floor By 2050 two-thirds of the worlds population will be urban. Cities create great opportunities but as they grow they face challenges: cities create around 70% of the globe’s carbon emissions whilst taking up just 2% of it’s surface. Cracking sustainable urban lifestyles is a major challenge of our time. The Future Cities Catapult is a global centre of excellence on urban innovation. They unite key players in the field to find new ways of tackling city challenges, and help British businesses grow. Together we can make cities better places to live for everyone. public talk: free, but ticket required workshop: free, but by inviation only

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1-1.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event The Passivhaus Handbook, one of the first comprehensive passive house books in English, is an essential guide for everyone wanting to realise a supremely comfortable, healthy and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs. free Special EveNTs

Behind-the-Scenes Sustainability Tour

Talks & DebATes

Green Woodworking Taster Day

Talks & DebATes

Passivhaus Handbook

Walks & tours

3-4pm, At-Bristol

Discover the future of green buildings by exploring behind the scenes at one of the UK’s most advanced low-energy installations. Key to At-Bristol’s award-winning sustainability is the innovative system that regulates the environment of this iconic building. Join sustainability manager Chris Dunford for a tour of this revolutionary technology. ticketed: £5 Talks & DebATes

Blazing Tales: the River Expedition

5.30-6pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Talks & DebATes

A Books on the Boat event Storyteller, story maker and director of combined arts company Blazing Tales, Sara Hurley leads projects that encourage a sense of place and belonging through story, environmental and heritage work. The River Expedition uses a project with rurally-based, mixed-heritage families as a springboard to explore these themes. free Special EveNTs

Truth Mandala 1

6-8pm, St Stephen’s Church When we face the darkness of our time, openly & together, we tap deep reserves of strength within us. If some of the things you have heard lately about the environment have felt overwhelming, come and experience the uplifting power of the Truth Mandala for yourself. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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BIG GREEN WEEK

Saturday17 Tuesday 14th June June

Green Roots to Green Shoots: How did Bristol develop its sustainability movement?

UK Urban Land Institute: the role of community led development (a public debate)

Talks & DebATes

8-9am, The Birdcage

2.30-4.30pm, Arnolfini

Join this Net Impact Bristol event to explore how local organisations, initiatives and individuals have combined to shape the city’s environmental action. How can we learn from the past to create further sustainable change today? ticketed: £5

A panel of world experts in sustainable development will present their assessment of Bristol’s ability to work with, rather than against, the community in meeting housing needs. Followed by Q&A. Panelists will include developers, financiers and former politicians from the USA that have successfully delivered community led projects. free but ticket required

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Rest in Nature Family EveNTs

Heart of Leadership: are you a business leader who wants to make a difference?

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

10am-5pm Embercombe’s Volharding

The Heart of Leadership programme is designed for those in business who dream of becoming the leaders the world is waiting for. It is an invitation for decision-makers in leadership positions to step into their true potential. free Special EveNTs

Gamma Mindset: new leadership

1-1.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding

3-5pm, Elsie Briggs House, Westbury-on-Trym

Find sustenance in the 15th century house and cottage garden, open to relax and connect with nature. Elsie Briggs’ medieval cottage is available for the whole community to enjoy, creating a restful, welcoming space. Enjoy the garden, browse the library, have a cup of tea and explore the house. free Walks & tours

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Adapt and Thrive: the sustainable revolution

5.30-6pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Talks & DebATes

A Books on the Boat event To live well on a finite planet requires a future that is green and sustainable. This needs complex interconnected change across the economy and society, encompassing city design, energy systems, agriculture and a resurgence in community values. free

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A taster of afacilitated walk tailored to business, offering an hour’s ‘walk & talk’ exploring well-being at work, leadership & stress intervention. free, but ticket required COnfErEnces & Talks & DebATes Special EveNTs WOrkshops

Building Sustainable Cities Talks & DebATes

5.30-9pm, Watershed

By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities – almost 1 billion extra people living, learning, working and playing in urban environments. Future cities will need smart planning, different thinking and new ways of working together. Join green contractor and developer Skanska and Low Carbon South West for a thought provoking evening. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Urban Wandering: A Green Living City

6-7.30pm Starts from the Architecture Centre Walk leader Alastair Brook is joined by guests along a city centre route, exploring what is happening in Bristol to make it a happy and healthy place to be. Speakers will cover topics including architecture, food, cycling, ferries, local currency, green spaces and Bristol Green Capital. free, but ticket required

Talks & DebATes

Scandal! Earth Trashed For Empty Offices: talk & discussion

7-8.30pm, Saint Stephen’s Church

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Bristol’s Hidden Water Walks & tours

5.30-7pm, meet at Bordeaux Quay

Walks & tours

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Talks & DebATes

A Books on the Boat event A scientific breakthrough in personal change, the Gamma Brain Technique creates the peak brain state - The Gamma State - and eliminates subconscious limiting beliefs, anxiety, fear and doubt in 90 seconds! Awaken the next stage of your potential to create the future you want! free

City Business Walk: stress intervention

5.30-6.30 pm St Stephen’s Churchyard

Join Bristol Green Party’s Tony Dyer for a guided walk to discover the city centre’s watery history. Wander along the original course of the Frome and find out how the Saxon town of Brigstowe was shaped by its natural water sources. free but ticket required Talks & DebATes

Every time new buildings go up more of Earth is trashed, and yet offices are often empty for months whilst there’s an acute shortage of affordable convivial housing. What can Bristolians do about this scandal? Members of the cooperative Abolish Empty Office Blocks share their practical vision and invite discussion. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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BIG GREEN WEEK TUESday 17 June

WANTED: BIG GREEN IDEAS FOR CITIES BY 2050, 75% OF US WILL BE URBAN. CITIES MATTER.

ities provide incredible opportunities for living, working and playing. But as cities grow, they face challenges. Cities create around 70% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green houses gas emissions whilst taking up just 2% of its land mass. For future cities to thrive, there are questions we must explore: How will future citizens travel, eat and live? How will we fight crime, look after the sick and bring up our children? Will we struggle to support the aging population or will they be supporting us? How will we make our cities resilient to climate change on ever-scarcer resources? And crucially, how will city governments find, finance and support good ideas? The Future Cities Catapult is about unlocking ingenuity to face urban challenges. During Big Green Week, we are looking for small businesses and innovators in the South West alrea dy working on cities to collaborate with us in developing the solutions that cities need, now and in the future. If this sounds like you then we want to hear your ideas. Summarise your big idea in 150 words and send it to events@futurecities.catapult.org.uk by Friday 30th May. The top ideas will be invited to attend a half-day workshop at the Arnolfini in Bristol on Monday 16th June. www.futurecities.catapult.org.uk @FutureCitiesCat

COME ON BRISTOL LET’S SHWOP

DURING BRISTOL BIG GREEN WEEK Bring in your unwanted clothes to your local M&S store in Bristol and we’ll give them to Oxfam so they can be resold, reused or recycled.

Bristol Broadmead • Bristol Avonmead • Bristol Longwell Green • Cribbs Causeway Discover more at marksandspencer.com/shwop

BIG GREEN WEEK

Wednesday 18 June

Start Ups Netwalk

Tales of Our Times

Walks & tours

7-9am meet at Caffe Nero, Corn St

Whatever stage you are at in the process, this Start Up’s Netwalk will have something for you. Offering you the opportunity to ‘walk and talk’ with others in these early stages of business and providing a structure that acts like a mini business clinic. ticketed: £10 Talks & DebATes

Talks & DebATes

1.30-2pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event True stories of England in 2010, when the Transition movement was just beginning to bloom, collected on a six-month pilgrimage by the author, walking 2000 miles in a pair of old flip flops, to remind us that the stories we have been told about what we need are just that, stories. The tales, told as folklore, are positive, inspirational and the deeds easy to replicate. free Special EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

Prepare for Change Are you ready for anything?

1-5pm, Leigh Court Business Centre

Change Your World: it begins with a Journey

COnfErEnces & 10am-5pm WOrkshops Embercombe’s Volharding

The Journey is for anyone who wishes to undertake a voyage of personal exploration, for people who want to step towards their true authentic self, making a powerful contribution to the world aligned with their gifts, passion and experience. free

Join Business West and the Schumacher Institute to explore what global-scale changes may mean for your business and what actions you can take today to prepare and improve your bottom line. Business West will also present the prize for the Big Green Week Business Award. free but ticketed COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Talks & DebATes

Walks & tours

3-4pm At-Bristol

See Monday 16 for details. ticketed £10 Talks & DebATes

Finding Earth

Wed 5.30-6pm, Volharding Talks & DebATes

See Thursday 19 for details.

Talks & DebATes

RIBA Presents: Sunand Prasad on retrofit for purpose

12.30-1.30 pm, Arnolfini

At least one US Senator thinks climate change is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated. When he writes that the global warming conspiracy threatens your future, he is not talking about the risks from extreme heat, drought or flooding. Throughout history, the rejection of science has often involved a conspiratorial component. Prof. Stephen Lewandowsky reviews the evidence and explains why scientific reasoning and conspiratorial thinking are polar opposites. ticketed £7.50

6-7.30pm, St Stephen’s Church

Retrofit for Purpose explores the art and science of bringing energy efficiency to existing buildings, one of the biggest challenges facing us today. Using 11 case studies Sunand Prasad, former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, outlines a range of retrofit variables. Preceded by an historical introduction to the fascinating St Stephen’s Church. free but ticketed Special EveNTs

BIG GREEN WEEK WEDNESday 18 June

7.30-9.30pm Friends Meeting House, Redland

An illustrated talk by Tony Darpino, Frank Drake and Clive Stevens, raising your awareness of the poetic and aesthetic aspects of Bristol’s trees and showing how improving our urban tree canopy could make a significant contribution to mitigating the effects of climate change and improve public health. ticketed: £5

Behind-the-Scenes Sustainability Tour

Special EveNTs

NASA Faked the Moon Landing - therefore, (climate) science is a hoax

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Talks & DebATes

The Trees of Bristol: a beautiful solution to some ugly problems

Talks & DebATes

Make Billionaires History: an evening of sane economics

8-10pm, Arnolfini

Join comedian and Radio 4 favourite Tony Hawks as seven speakers with ten minutes each explain the financial collapse and solve the economic crisis! Hear what’s wrong with money and who killed the middle classes. Explore if we can design an economy within planetary limits with sharing and alternative currencies, before an audience Q&A asks if we really can Make Billionaires History? ticketed: £7.50

Thursday 19 June

Give Us Your Unwanted Bikes

9am-1pm Rid Store, to the side of Horfield Prison

Special EveNTs

If you have an unwanted bike lurking somewhere, let us have it. We’ll refurbish it and find it a new home - but first, we need your bikes. Also: Dr Bike will be on hand to give your bike some TLC. free FREe EveNTs

Little Green Museum Family EveNTs

10am-2pm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Come and enjoy some of the museum’s amazing wildlife collection with storytelling, real specimens, let’s pretend and green-themed games Suitable for 1-4 years, their parents and carers. free FREe EveNTs

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Businesses We Want: the role of business in a changing world

10am-12pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Imagine the society we could create if we chose to serve the well-being of people and nature first; the generation of profits second. The first would be the purpose, the second would be the means. Businesses would still thrive and compete, and shareholders would receive their rewards, yet business would become the engine that transforms our world. free

Talks & DebATes

Wed 5.30-6pm Thurs 1pm-1:30pm Embercombe’s Volharding A Books on the Boat event

Mac Macartney’s painful, illuminating, passionate, joyful and stumbling pathway towards greater authenticity and a life of meaning and purpose. Finding Earth, Finding Soul is a call to those who feel privileged to be alive in such extraordinary times to step forward and be generous with their gifts. free

2-5pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Talks & DebATes

Regen SW is a not-for-profit agency working with industry, communities and the public to overcome barriers to the development of renewables and energy efficiency. They help companies who are looking to become self sufficient in energy in order to both protect against increasing prices and cement their reputation as a responsible, sustainable business. Come and find out how you can get involved. free

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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Talks & DebATes

Achieving Excellent, Zero Carbon and Sustainable Homes: best practice design for low carbon living

5-7pm, The Station

The Green Register invites Rajeswari Raj, director of Raj Architects practice in Bristol, to share some of her recent residential projects that have achieved various sustainability standards. Raj will compare the BREEAM Ecohomes assessment method with the Code for Sustainable Homes (CfSH) together with a discussion on what makes a zero carbon building using the recently completed Severn Lodge project as an illustration. ticketed: £35 COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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Regen Business Surgeries drop-in

Finding Earth, Finding Soul - the Invisible Path to Authentic Leadership

Talks & DebATes

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The Nature of Business: redesigning for resilience

5-6pm, Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event Giles Hutchins takes us through this remarkable world of business seen through the eyes of nature. “Finally a guide to take this to the next level!”: Gunter Pauli, Founder of ZERI & The Blue Economy. free Special EveNTs

How to Promote & Resource your Community Project: an idiot’s guide

6-7.30pm, The Board Room, Wildscreen

Kickstart your community project. This talk will take you through how to use social media to your advantage, as well as how to find volunteers, make the most of funding opportunities and look for resources. This will be a chance for you to take part in an interactive workshop facilitated by Wildscreen’s in-house experts in community development and social media. free but ticket required Talks & DebATes

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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Zero Carbon Bristol: how do we get there? 7-9pm, Hamilton House

The ground-breaking Zero Carbon Britain report by the Centre for Alternative Technology describes how a modern society could be run on zero emissions by 2030, using only current technology. Come and hear Bristol Energy Coop’s overview of the research, and help develop a potential Zero Carbon Bristol plan. free Talks & DebATes

photo: Sarah Peakman

BIG GREEN WEEK

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BIG GREEN WEEK THURSday 19 June

Change Your World 7-10.30pm, Arnolfini

Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney speaks on the Land of the Living Dead, Scilla Elworthy speaks on how Peace Begins With Me; Woods Sisters Sue Charman & Sam Wernham talk about The Red Tent; Born into a Story (with Kanada Elizabeth Gorla and Jo Clarke) talk on education’s role., and Matt Harvey - poet in residence at Regen SW - performs renewable poetry, upcycling new material. ticketed: £9.50

Talks & DebATes

Films

8-11pm, The Cuban, Harbourside

Bristol Bad Film Club is screening the environmental cult film, Birdemic: Shock And Terror. Regarded as one of the worst films ever made, it tells the story of an invasion of lethal eagles. ticketed: £6

Music COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Dances of Universal Peace: connecting with nature

7.30-9.30pm, St Stephens Church COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

A chance to participate in dances and chants which celebrate and deepen our relationship with nature. There is no sense of performance, the dances are a shared experience, breathing and walking with the earth, using planting chants, and honouring the Native American tradition. free Music

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BIG GREEN WEEK THURSday 19 June

Bristol Bad Film Club Birdemic: Shock And Terror screening

Green Fire THEATRE &

8-10pm, Anglican Chapel, Arnos Vale Cemetery

Poetry Join award-winning ecopoets Helen Moore and Susan Richardson for a dynamic new show fusing performance, visuals, film, percussion and poetry. Unafraid to engage with major environmental ideas and issues, they are also lyrical, satirical and celebrate our planet. ticketed: £7.50 (includes a free glass of Barerfoot wine)

The Bridging Place: a jazz poem of city roots 8.30-11pm, Future Inn

Bristol Ecoshow and the Bristol European Jazz Ensemble present ‘The Bridging Place’, a prose poem about Brigstowe through earth, water, stone, fire and air. They re-imagine the city in order to see a future re-connected with earth. Words and music by trumpeter and Ecoshow founder David Mowat, film by James Murray White. free fOod & Markets

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BIG GREEN WEEK Reflective Walking for Leaders

7.30-9am Meet at Bordeaux Quay

Walks & tours

Friday 20 June and technology. A unique insight into what life in the future might look like. ticketed: £7.50

Many leaders have used reflective walking as an essential part of their lives; the walk introduces you to this innovative process. free but ticket required FREe EveNTs

Sathanao Trio from Tbilisi Georgia

1-2pm St Stephen’s Church

Music

Sathanao means ‘something very precious to your heart’. For the women of Sathanao from Bristol’s twin city Tbilisi this is the Georgian Polyphonic Song Tradition, a heritage almost extinct after years under the Soviet regime. The green message? Resilience means delving into our own pre-capitalist spiritual roots. Free (donation appreciated) Family EveNTs

Catalyst - are you 18-25 years old?

10am-5pm Embercombe’s Volharding COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Do you want to carve your own path and co-create the beautiful future you know is possible? Join us today to learn about Catalyst, a cutting edge leadership course for 18-25 year olds who want to push their boundaries and help shape the future. free Talks & DebATes

Paintings by Thom Gorst and Enya Lachman-Curl

Fri: 6pm-9pm, Sat & Sun: 12pm-6pm Coach House Studio and Gallery, 7 Barossa Place An exhibition of paintings by Thom Gorst and Enya Lachman-Curl whose works focus on the themes of ruination, decay, growth and entropy. free FREe EveNTs

Jonathon Porritt: the world we made Talks & DebATes

12.30-1.30pm, Arnolfini

The concept of Jonathon’s latest book, The World We Made, is simple. Writing from the viewpoint of a fictional woman in 2050, it looks back on how the world reached a more sustainable future, taking a look at diverse subjects such as energy, healthcare

BIG GREEN WEEK FRIday 20 June

Talks & DebATes

Eat.Drink.Dance Eco 5pm-12am, The Island

A social gathering, night market and immersive experience. Would you like to know how to source food knowledgeably and ethically? Eat.Drink. Dance Eco offers a platform to traders and associates that think and promote ‘green’: local, sustainable street-food traders, breweries, workshops, installations, talks, art, music and an independent market. Free, ticket required Family EveNTs

COnfErEnces & fOod & Markets WOrkshops

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Hosting Transformation - Stories from the Edge of Changemaking

Beyond Flying

1-1.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding A Books on the Boat event There are no instructions for this kind of change; no manual for transformation, no universal rules or tricks. Rather than creating a handbook, Stories from the Edge of Changemaking is a collection of personal stories which aim to inspire and encourage you to host transformation in yourself and in the world. free

Talks & DebATes

5.30-6pm Embercombes Volharding

A Books on the Boat event In 2010 Adam Weymouth walked from England to Istanbul, an eight-month journey that takes four hours by plane. The freelance writer talks about how experiencing the world at a walking pace can alter how we see our place in it, and what we might be losing as we walk less. free

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Behind-the-Scenes Sustainability Tour Walks & tours

Introduction to Frack Free Bristol

3-4pm, At-Bristol

See Monday 16 for details. ticketed: £5 Talks & DebATes

Deep Green Resistance UK 5-6pm, Hamilton House

The natural world is being destroyed by industrial civilisation. The mainstream environmental movement is not being effective at stopping or even slowing this destruction down. Deep Green Resistance is offering a new perspective and strategy on how we can resist. More info at www.deepgreenresistanceuk. wordpress.com/ free

Talks & DebATes

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Talks & DebATes

6-7pm, Hamilton House

Frack Free Bristol is a grassroots group working to secure a ban on unconventional gas extraction in the area and help other places on the frontline of fracking. This workshop is a great opportunity to find out about the inspiring community resistance that’s building around the country and to get involved. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

Films

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Truth Mandala 2

6-8pm, St Stephen’s Church COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

See Monday 16 for details.

free

Special EveNTs

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Talks & DebATes

RIBA presents Michael Pawlyn: biomimicry in architecture

Bristol, one burning imported wood, the other palm oil. Bristol is in a unique position to stall this emerging industry which exacerbates global warming, reduces biodiversity and is a danger to health. free COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

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What’s wrong with Big Biomass at Avonmouth? Talks & DebATes

7-8pm, Hamilton House

Two big industrial-scale biofuel power stations are planned for Avonmouth near

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Hawkwood at the Relaxation Centre

6-7.30pm, Bristol Folk House

Searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative – we often find nature got there first. Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architecture and previously central to the team responsible for the Eden Project, focuses on his book ‘Biomimicry in Architecture’. ticketed: £6.50

Films

COnfErEnces & WOrkshops

7-8.30pm, Relaxation Centre

Hawkwood, near Stroud, is an inspirational setting in which to relax, explore and learn: their mission is to support people to develop to their full potential, working in the arts, health & well being, and nature and sustainability. Discover more about our courses in creativity, shamanism, biodynamics and plant communication and meet Principal Alicia Carey. Register your interest at info@hawkwoodcollege.co.uk free, ticket required Special EveNTs

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2015 General Election Debate: the greenest government ever?

Talks & DebATes

7.30-9.30pm, Arnolfini

By the time BIG Green Week 2015 comes around we will have a new Government. But will it be the greenest ever? Greg Barker MP (Cons), Natalie Bennett (Green), Ed Davey MP (LibDem) & others critique the Coalition, and make their election pitch, before we hold our own environmental Question Time, with chair Jonathon Porritt. free, ticket required

Supper Sense presents: Dining in the Dark

7.30-10pm St Werburgh’s City Farm Cafe

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A fun evening of getting to know food, your taste buds and fellow guests in a completely new way. Andy Shipley, who is visually impaired, will guide our dining experience in the dark; helping us to draw upon our non-visual senses, with stimulating savouries & scintillating sweets supplied by the wonderful City Farm Café. ticketed: £30 COnfErEnces & Talks & DebATes WOrkshops

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Jack and the Beanstalk family fun, green crafts and dress up

10am-12pm & 2-4pm Embercombe’s Volharding

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Saturday 21 June

Faith in the Earth Special EveNTs

How can spiritual practice deepen people’s love for the natural world? Does religious faith provide a way of lessening or preventing destruction of the environment? Time for reflection (through words and silence) followed by conversation about how to have faith in the earth. free Walks & tours

The Big Shift

10am-6pm, Feed Bristol COnfErEnces & An inspiring and informative WOrkshops day of workshops, practical activities and discussions on how you can have a greener, more positive impact. A familyfriendly event in a relaxed atmosphere in rural Bristol for anyone wanting to do more than just change a light-bulb. Admission charge tbc Family EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

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Super Sense Family EveNTs

COnfErEnces & Walks & tours WOrkshops

BIG Chill Music Stage 12pm-6pm Outside Big Chill

Enjoy a day of family friendly music and entertainment at the Big Chill bar’s premier stage in Small Street. free Family EveNTs

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Mr Wolfs Music Stage

COnfErEnces & 10.30am-4.30pm, WOrkshops Windmill Hill City Farm

This introductory course will teach you how to make effective natural skincare products, free from nasty chemicals. Make and take home bath bombs, a facial serum, lip or cleansing balm, body butter or moisturiser. Cost covers all materials; all proceeds go to Cancer Research. ticketed: £45 fOod & Markets

11am-6pm, Old City

Over 150 fabulous stalls! See page 24 for more details. free

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Three Cane Whale celebrate the Solstice

12-2pm Music Lord Mayors Chapel, College Green

Festival favourites Three Cane Whale return for their hat-trick of sell out BIG Green Week gigs! Celebrate the summer solstice in the intimate and atmospheric Lord Mayor’s Chapel, a 13th Century ‘hidden gem’; a magical venue to enjoy this multi-instrumental acoustic trio’s delicate, cinematic, landscape inspired music. “Impressively original” says The Guardian. www.threecanewhale.com ticketed: £7.50

The Golden Lion Street Festival

Music

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Bristol’s BIG Market

12pm-6pm, Mr Wolfs

Mr Wolfs Music Stage is back again, in collaboration with the BIG Market. Come and enjoy the fun! free

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Introduction to Making Natural Skin Care

10am-12.30pm; 1-3.30pm; 4-6.30pm, Leigh Woods

Glimpse the magic that can be revealed when you let visual information take a back seat & allow other senses a chance to do their stuff. Guided by Super Sense’s tag team of visually-impaired and sighted coaches, these sessions will enable participants to discover a deeper appreciation of their natural surroundings, and their own abilities. ticketed: £12.50

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11am-12pm St Stephen’s Church

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12pm-1am, Gloucester Rd

A free day of fun for all of the community with food/clothing/accessories stalls, live music, entertainment, and much more

during the day and a stonking live show from Dub Mafia in the evening. free fOod & Markets

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Make It Festival Family EveNTs

12-4pm Knowle West Media Centre

Find out what they’re making in Knowle West and join in: laser cutting to apple pressing, recycled bags to recycled paint. Tour the straw bale Media Centre and find out about the work of KWMC, including their new apps. Buy local food and see what’s planned for the future. free FREe EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

Walks & tours

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I Love My World: the playful hands-on guide to nature connection

12.15-12.45pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event I love my World is a new guidebook to rekindle the naturally playful spirit and develop a deep connection with nature from an early age. Full of bushcraft, environmental art, nature awareness and outdoor play activities, this book will make you want to pack your bags and step out. free Special EveNTs

Artists-Connect for BIG Green Week

10am-4pm, St Stephen’s Church Artists-Connect exhibit a selection of work; an engaging collection of paintings, prints & photographs. Each artist has a distinctive point-of-view on the environments we inhabit and an equally distinctive manner of representing those views. free Family EveNTs

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The Wind Farm Game 1-5pm, M Shed

Family EveNTs How do wind farms work? Find out with a table-top strategy game and have a go at designing your own wind farm. Make your own spinning wind turbine to take home. Suitable for ages 5+. No booking required, drop in anytime. free FREe EveNTs

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Storytelling for a Greener World 1-1.30pm Talks & DebATes

Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event The what, why and how of storytelling and storywork to promote environmental mindfulness and sustainable behaviour in adults and children, written by 21 cuttingedge professionals. free

An Interactive physical theatre. Natural elements collide with human love in this tale of shipwrecked Aeneas and dancing Queen Dido. As climate warms and illusions of human mastery over destiny recede, hope remains. With storms, whales, petals, unreachable bubbles, trumpets, ethereal singing and the stomp of tiny feet. free Family EveNTs

Family EveNTs

1.30-3pm, Arnos Vale Cemetery

Explore Arnos Vale in BIG Green Week in search of summer bugs and creepy crawlies. ticketed: £5 Walks & tours

Truth Mandala 3

2-4pm, The Roundhouse See Monday 16 for details. Part of The BIG Shift. ticketed: £5

Family EveNTs

3-5pm, The Runcible Spoon

Creatively explore ways to recycle with Operation Dragon! Our Recycled Steam Train Game is made by contributing Dragons from Bristol primary schools. Our dragon headdress-making workshop is suitable for children over 3 years, however any fire-breathing high-flyers can join in. free

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Deep Water THEATRE & Poetry

3-3.30pm Saint Stephen’s Church

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FareFashion Village 3-6pm, City Hall Foyer

Come and visit the FareFashion pop-up ethical shopping village, part of the FareFashion Gala event. See below for details. free fOod & Markets

BIG GREEN WEEK SATURday 21 June

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Recycled Steam Train Game

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BIG Green Summer Insects Tour

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To Die For: is fashion wearing out the world?

4.15-4.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Talks & DebATes

A Books on the Boat event. free Special EveNTs

Journey of the Universe 5-7.30pm, Arnolfini

Screening of the Emmy award winning film - an epic story of cosmic, earth and human transformation, presented by evolutionary philosopher Brian Swimme. Followed by a discussion with the film’s cocreators Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, co-directors of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. ticketed £8.50

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FareFashion

7-11pm, City Hall Our Festival sell-out gala event is back! FareFashion is an evening of fair and local food and drink, eco-fashion, recycling and sustainability hosted by The One Show’s Lucy Siegle. See below for details. ticketed £25.00

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Day of cycling & family fun on Park Street & College Green

Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride (see below) from 8.30am

Make Sundays Special family fun from 10.30am on College Green

Electric Bike Races up Park Street at 1pm

Extreme Mountain Bike Show from 1pm on Park Street

Children’s Park Street Playground 3pm to 5pm

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Have-a-go e-Bike sessions 10.30am to 5pm on College Green

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Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride

8.30-11am Four Rides starting at staggered times Millennium Square, Harbourside Family EveNTs

Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride is ‘21’ and more popular than ever! Part of BIG Bike Day (see page 27 for more details). Free and can register online FREe EveNTs

Family EveNTs

The Grand Tour

Walks & tours Discover the thrill of the locks, bridges, fascinating architecture, rocky outcrops, wildlife and many surprise glimpses into Bristol’s industrial past - all brought to life through an informative commentary from our knowledgable skippers. ticketed £16

Pirates of the Mungbean: family fun, green crafts & dress up!

10am-12pm Embercombe’s Volharding

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Special EveNTs

Family EveNTs

Talks & DebATes

Family EveNTs

Come and enjoy a free family fun day on College Green and Park Street as part of the ‘BIG Bike Day’ finale of this year’s BIG Green Week. free FREe EveNTs

Have-a-go Electric Bikes Family EveNTs

10.30am-5.30pm City Hall Ramp, College Green

Come and have a free trial of the form of transport which is revolutionising cycling in the UK. Part of BIG Bike Day (see page 27 for more details). free FREe EveNTs

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Flatpack Democracy Talks & DebATes

12.15-12.45pm Embercombe’s Volharding

A Books on the Boat event Voting is a waste of time. Or is it? Peter Macfadyen’s book describes the extraordinary revolution in Frome’s local democracy, arguing that change can come from within. Can democracy come to a place where local & planetary needs can be expressed and acted upon? free

1-1.30pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Books on the Boats Series An inspirational global adventure: Ed Gillespie took anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world. This modern fable is about taking it slow, rediscovering hope for humanity and the planet. free

Treasure Island aboard The Matthew

Shows start at 1pm & 2.30pm THEATRE & Poetry The Matthew berth alongside M-Shed As a grand finale to the BIG Green Treasure Hunt, Marie Clifford and her crew of cut-throats from the Long John Silver Trust perform two abridged shows of Treasure Island on board The Matthew (aka the Hispaniola), on the very waters that spawned Stevenson’s literary classic. Not to be missed! ticketed: £15 Family EveNTs

Atmosphere Electric Bikes World Championships Family EveNTs

1-3pm, Park Street

Come and watch electric bikes take on the Park Street up-hill challenge for the third year running. Part of BIG Bike Day (see page 27 for more details). free

BIG GREEN WEEK SUNday 22 June

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Hunter-Gatherer Way Talks & DebATes

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Extreme Mountain Bike Show Family EveNTs

1-4pm, College Green

Five-times British & European men’s elite trials champion Danny Butler brings his amazing show back, with dancing bikes and fantastic stunts. Not to be missed!. free

2.30-3pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Books on the Boats Series Ffyona Campbell used Aboriginal logic to discover the forgotten migration route we took as hunter-gatherers in Britain. Her new book explains how that route can provide us with food without destroying anything. free FREe EveNTs

Park Street Playground 3-5pm, Park Street

Every year local children (and their parents) take over a car free Park Street and turn it into a giant playground of street games and chalk drawing. free Family EveNTs

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Pilgrimage to Nature & Meditative Taizé service

5.30-7.30pm Music Holy Trinity Church

Participate in a live experience of nature with a local pilgrimage: a walk in the village of Abbots Leigh, through Holy Trinity churchyard and nearby fields. This short journey will be followed by a creation-centred Taizé service: simple chants and time of quiet contemplation. free FREe EveNTs

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Expedition to the End of the World Music

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1.45-2.15pm Embercombe’s Volharding

Books on the Boats Series A talk by Caroline Hitchcock on her book about the community/eco self-build project in St Werburghs. free

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Talks & DebATes

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One Planet

Make Sundays Special 10.30am-5.30pm Park Street & College Green

The Yard

12.45-4pm Bristol Ferry Boats

6-7.30pm, Watershed

A real adventure film for the 21st century. A schooner packed with artists and scientists sets off for the rapidly melting massifs of North-East Greenland. An epic journey where they encounter polar bear nightmares, Stone Age playgrounds and entirely new species - and are confronted with the existential questions of life. ticketed: £8

ance Voice is a unique centre specialising in the delivery of Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) for a wide variety of marginalised groups in our society. This is provided alongside bespoke training from 1-day introductions to an accredited MA. Our dedicated team of therapists and tutors share the ethos that all movement is communication and the body holds the truth. We offer regular on-site Dance Movement Psychotherapy sessions for groups including: • addiction recovery • coping with mental health issues • elderly people • adults with learning difficulties & special needs • individual sessions tailored to meet personal needs

We offer other specialist services including: • outreach Dance Movement Psychotherapy projects • professional/clinical supervision • personalised training/workshops We also run a healthy education training programme which includes: • one-day seminars & workshops • 6-day introductory course – July and August • 20-week foundation course • an accredited Masters validated by Canterbury Christ Church University. All therapy staff are DBS checked, qualified and registered with ADMP(UK) Charity Number: 1054109

www.dancevoice.org.uk • 0117 953 2055 • contact admin@dancevoice.org.uk

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Saturday 14thEvents Post-Festival June

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Take the Treasure Island Trail’s BIG Green Treasure Hunt!

9am-9pm, Harbourside

Take your family to explore Bristol’s historic harbour, and solve the BIG Green Treasure Hunt clues, with the new free Treasure Island Trail App. See page 4 for more details. free PRE-fesTival EveNTs

Walks & tours

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Friday 27 June

Thursday 3 July

BIG Green Bat Walk 2

8.30-10pm PRE-fesTival EveNTs (start and end times for Bat Walks vary due to changing sunset times) Arnos Vale Cemetery Embark on a dusk-to-dark adventure to discover the varied species of Bat that roost and hunt in Arnos Vale. ticketed: £8.40 Walks & tours

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Formidable Vegetable Sound Machine

EveNTs 7-10pm, Baggator, All Hallows Rd

If you like your sustainability message to be a quirky mix of energy and funk then check out this award winning Australian band. Fresh from playing at Glastonbury on their European tour, they are dropping in on Bristol to spread their unique style of ecological electroswing. ticketed: £10

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ver half of BIG Green Week’s 150 events are free. Where tickets are required, all bookings can be made through our website, www.biggreenweek.com See Page 3 for full Box Office details.

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Whilst every effort is made to carry out the programme as advertised, all events may be subject to change or cancellation. For latest updates always check the BGW website. Please arrive on time for events, as late entry may be refused at some venues and events.

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