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Regent’s Park, Camden
Exploring the green heart of London Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June 2011 Midday ‘til 7pm - Regent’s Park, Camden London's leading green event
* 2011 Programme *
welcome to the first London Green Fair. Building on the 18 year history of the Camden Green Fair, we are pleased to be able to present some fantastic education and entertainment over the course of this weekend, with the help of our sponsors, supporters, the Big Lottery fund, key contractors, area managers and huge team of volunteers. The London Green Fair is a Community Interest Company, independent from any local authority, providing a platform for all that is green and great in our city, and allowing campaigners, community groups and artists to engage with you all in a fun filled day. You will find both serious and suggestive takes on environmental issues here, from walkabout fun performances, live music and children’s craft activities to topical debates with high profile speakers, social justice and environmental campaigners. We hope you enjoy the mix.
Global/Local Live Music stage SATURDAY DJ Jon Bongly 1pm - El Crisis - A vibrant poet, musician, writer and mentor. 2.30-3.15pm - Lokandes - The crazy melodies and energy of Andean music brought up to date fused with Son, Rumba, Reggae and funky Latin rhythms.
Sinclair Eiloart - Festival Manager info@londongreenfair.org
3.45-4.30pm - Jardares Por Fuera - London’s answer to Ojos De Brujo or Chambao with their fresh blend of Rumba Flamenco, Swing, Reggae and Hip Hop - Guitar led melodies.
Safety and welfare.
5.00-5.45pm - Trans-Siberian March Band - A marching riot of colour and sound described as “The Sex Pistols of Balkan Brass”. The infectious energy of their live shows never fails to get an audience dancing.
Our festival can be a daunting place, especially for younger visitors. Should you become separated from your child(ren) please speak to our stewards or go to our Lost Children point, located at the central cross-roads, next to our information point. You will find a first aid centre there as well. Please respect the Royal Park, don't damage or climb the trees, do look after each other and, of course, help us recycle as much as possible by putting your litter in the correct bins.
6.15-7.15pm - Gypsy Hill - An authentic Balkan, Gypsy, Swing, Mediterranean act with a touch of electronic beats, scratching and uplifting bass lines, mixing flamenco, folk, African and Arabic influences into a melting pot of groovy beats.
At Legal & General we take our sustainability credentials very seriously. As a responsible property investor and developer, we believe the most valuable way of making our properties more sustainable is by changing the way we manage every single one of the properties that we own. This approach currently makes us unique in our industry, and we are proud to again support our community and the good work of the London Green Fair. As one of the world’s leading businesses tackling climate change, The Co-operative are delighted to be continuing our partnership with the London Green Fair in promoting a green and sustainable London. Make sure you come and visit The Co-operative Membership by the children’s area and find out more about what it means to be a member.
SUNDAY DJ Tofu & DJ Penny Metal 1pm - Swing Patrol - A jive-moving/swing-dancing spectacular from the masters. 2.30-3.15pm - Wara - Explosive new brand of Afro-Cuban and Latin grooves with hip-hop, funk, soul and even drum'n'bass. 3.45-4.30pm - Yaaba Funk - A mix of classic 70’s Ghanaian Hi-Life and hard-hitting funk, cut with a strong dose of ‘Afro-broken-beat’ and more than a hint of Dub. 5.00-5.45pm - Sam and the Womp - Sam and his band of Wompers perform original high energy balkan, ska, dub and rave out material with a huge WOMP of gypsy dubstep for pudding. 6.15-7.15pm - Latin Dub Sound System - Big bass lines and carnival rhythms. That moment when the music makes you lose control. The interactive vibe between band and audience: an unmissable live music experience.
Speakers Forum Programmed by TalkAction, the speakers forum is your chance to debate the issues, learn about green initiatives going on in London, listen to topical talks and join in environmental workshops.
SATURDAY
'Transforming London, transforming our planet'
Saturday in the Speakers Tent will feature four linked discussion sessions.
Children’s Area Our free entertainment, workshops and activities are sponsored by the NDTV Toyota Greenathon, raising money for solar lights for some of the poorest villages in India. Please visit their stand next to the children’s area, and get involved in this worthwhile cause. You will also find some great craft activities happening all day - provided free with the help of Wastebuster and LMB Textiles - and take part in the grand procession around site. Come and join in the music and madness! Meet at the children’s area at 4.30pm. Keep your little environmentalists entertained with: face painting - mobile making -felting - candle making - sculpture gardening - flower fairies - homeopathic workshops - storytelling - herbal walks - willow weaving - forest school activities - finger fairies - cardboard cameras - Whale of a time workshops - and loads more.
The EFDDS
Session 1 - 'The leading edge' This session will hear from three of the most inspiring and innovative community-based projects in London, on food, energy and waste. Session 2 - 'Reaching new audiences' As well as innovating, the green movement needs to broaden its' appeal. This session will introduce and discuss different ways in which this is being done here in London. Session 3 - 'Innovation for sustainability' London has many innovators and new projects. In this session we look at how they got started and discuss what is needed to flourish. Session 4 - 'Making it all happen How do we turn the good new practice into common practice? Speakers from London-wide agencies will talk with local projects about creating long-term sustainable change in our city. At 5.15pm we welcome Lucy Siegle from the Observer newspaper.
THE EFDSS (English folk dance and song society) present
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Caller - Jane Pfaff Musicians - Jemery Monson and Ruth Rose with the Thursday Night Band
Caller - Jane Pfaff Musicians - Jeremy Monson with the Black Pig Band
1.00pm - Maypole 1.45pm - Clog dancing display 2.00pm - Family Dancing 2.30pm - C# Minor’s Morris display 2.40pm - Family Dancing 3.10pm - Clog dancing display 3.20pm - C# Minor’s Morris display 3.40pm - Morris workshop 4.10pm - Singing – Emma Tubman 4.20pm - Maypole
1.00pm - Maypole 1.30pm - Family Dancing 2.00pm - Story-telling with Debs 2.20pm - Family Dancing 2.50pm - Morris jigs 3.00pm - Story-telling with Debs 3.20pm - Family Dancing 3.45pm - Contemporary dance display 4.00pm - Story-telling with Debs 4.20pm - Maypole
SUNDAY 1.00pm-1.50pm - Individual speakers: from a line up including representatives from Cutting the Carbon, Great Freedom, and Population Matters. 1.50pm-2.35pm - 'Environmental Sustainability in the Workplace' workshop, focusing on how one can work in a sustainable London. 2.35pm-2.55pm - Martin Kiszko green poetry performance, author of 'Green Poems for a Blue Planet' with Nick Park. 2.55pm-3.40pm - 'Communicating Renewable Energy' workshop, aiming to give an understanding of the key systems and future direction of renewable energy 3.40pm-4.00pm - Danny Chivers green poetry performance, author of “Climate Change: The Science, The Solutions, The Way Forward”, researcher, & Oxford Slam Poetry Champion. 4.00pm-5.30pm - Headline panel discussion entitled 'sustainability and the city'. Panellists include former Mayor of London and current mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone, Green Party London Assembly member and mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, and Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA.
SUNDAY Ethical Fashion Catwalk Tent 12.00pm-2.00pm Connection with Clothes by Here Today Here Tomorrow www.heretodayheretomorrowblog.wordpress.com ‘Connecting with Clothes’ is an opportunity to share unique stories about special garments over a cup of tea. It is the chance to take the time to reflect on exactly why particular pieces of clothing are special. Through storytelling we hope to reveal the many aspects that contribute to making the relationship with a garment a lasting one. We hope this will encourage an awareness, which will ultimately contribute to a shift in the way clothes are made, bought, used and cared for.
Ethical Fashion Area Workshop Tent
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Sewing Skills Workshop Karen and Rahima from Funfashionistas. Learn how to design and construct truly original garments with anything from newspaper to a dress made out of sweets! Bring along anything you would like to use in this fabulous project that will teach the skills to start building a wardrobe of unique clothes made by you. Wool Workshop Zoe Fletcher http://www.zoegracefletcher.com - learn a new skill, brush up on rusty skills, relax and experiment with two needles, a ball of yarn and your imagination -interactive workshops for all ages - make pom-pom's in fabulous colours, finger knit a cute bracelet or pick up some sticks and get yourself ready for making Winter warmers... Upcycle-Fashion Workshops Julia Roebuck http://www.upcycle-fashion.com Taking unwanted clothing and turning it into new and treasured garments. By teaching sewing and embellishment techniques you will be encouraged to look at clothing in a different way. You can choose from our selection of donated garments or bring along a garment that is in need of upcycling. Suitable for all ages and sewing standards. Up-Cycle craft workshop Danielle and Sarah from MA Fashion and the Environment at the London College of Fashion. Flourish: Fashion Redressed will allow adults and children to cut, stitch, glue and sew scraps and trash into cherished and crafted belongings. Come join us to make something new and fun! Screen Printing Workshop Ed from Mabboo http://mabboo.com Simple screens printing workshop, illustrating the printing process used to print T-shirts. Using water based inks. Also Panda face painting, with some information about the state of Panda's in the wild.
As a reminder of this experience all participants will receive a special ‘connecting with clothes’ label, which can be attached to your garment. You will even learn how to sew on a button! *Don’t forget to bring along a garment and its story to share with the group. Grand Swap Shop 2.30pm-4.30pm After a massive success of last year we will be running a grand Swap Shop again - this is the fun new way to revamp your wardrobe; search your wardrobe for garments you never wear, bring them along and swap them for ones you will wear and love! Remember to bring garment/s that are worth swapping that someone else would desire, you will be given tokens that rate the garment’s quality to ensure a fare swap. Ethical Fashion Show Sunday 5.00pm The Fashion show will be exhibiting ethical and sustainable brands/designers such as: Komodo, Skunk Funk, Misericordia, Sika, Mabboo, Here Today Here Tomorrow, Zoe Fletcher, Julia Roebuck, Ivan Dauriz, Spankt Vintage...and more. Ending with The Kids Fashion Show by The Eco and Creative Art Kids Group from Croydon Community www.ecocreativeart.co.uk wearing outfits they have made out of recycled material in their craft workshops with Soraia Waterhouse!
The LCRN Skills Market London Community Resource Network (LCRN) is a charitable social enterprise supporting organisations and communities working to manage resources sustainably. LCRN are proud to present the 'Skills Market' tent, where people get skills not stuff! Come along for exciting drop-in workshops and learn how to: make beautiful compost with Doctor Compost, fold Japanese furoshiki, make kites from plastic bags with WasteAM, sew brooches and mend with TRAID, and make a lamp from recycled phone chargers with Arcola Theatre.
The London Permaculture Network aims to inspire Londoners to be creative in their responses to current social & environmental issues and connect with other like-minded and mainstream groups, projects & events.
SUNDAY Workshop marquee 1pm - Empathic Communication(NVC) - Mille Baker 2pm - GM Freeze 3pm - Permaculture Association's LAND project 4pm - Food from the Sky - Azul 5pm - Food Footprints with Cinzia Sarigu 6pm - Eco-Affluence with Green Frontier - surviving peak oil
London Permaculture Permaculture can be best described as a collaborative (wiki-style) project in which people around the world collectively design solutions to the problems of building a sustainable future. Always with a local flavour, it draws from indigenous knowledge and vernacular styles as well as from current science and modern design.
SATURDAY Workshop marquee 1pm - Food Footprints with Cinzia Sarigu 2pm - Community Scale Infrastructure with United Diversity 3pm - Co-Operatives with OrganicLea 4pm - Conflict resolution tools - Ed Nelson 5pm - Eco-psycology - Elke Heyer 6pm - Ecocide with Polly Higgins Workshop dome 1pm - Why Permaculture? 2pm - Permaculture Cup of tea - Rakesh 3pm - Permaculture Around the World with Maddy Harland (Permaculture Magazine) 4pm - Permaculture's Principles of Attitude - Rakesh 5pm - LAND project - permaculture association 6pm - Empathic communication (NVC) - Mille Baker Workshop circle 1pm - London Orchard Project 2pm - Forest Gardening with Claire White (and planting at Capel Manor College) 3pm - From seed to crop - for free with Dave Hamilton 4pm - Vertical Veg - Mark 5pm - Dealing with Pests in the garden with OrganicLea 6pm - Why do we need natural beekeeping? Natural Beekeeping Trust
Workshop dome 1pm - Why Permaculture? 2pm - Permaculture's Nature Inspired principles 3pm - Permaculture's Zones & Sectors - London Permaculture Network 4pm - Permaculture of Business - Decision Lab 5pm - Permaculture Forest Gardening - London Permaculture Network 6pm - How to change the world - John-Paul Flinthoff Workshop circle 1pm - Transition Leytonstone Poets 2pm - Herb Walk - Christopher Hedley 3pm - Using the web to snowball off-site green learning - Project Dirt 4pm - Dealing with Pests in the Garden - OrganicLea 5pm - Vertical Veg - Mark 6pm - Bird Watching walk In the Permaculture Marquee - London Permaculture Network - Permaculture Association UK - Project Dirt - Green Frontier - Low-impact dwelling photography exhibition Also in the Permaculture Zone - Permaculture Magazine Bookstall - Garden Organic’s Master Gardeners - OrganicLea’s Plant stall and Gardening advice - LUSH cosmetics - Passing Clouds’ start-up environmental and social enterprise table including West Lexham People’s Café, Our Palace Art installations - Quinqux - sprouted coppiced wooden poles in a Quinqux formation - Sea Mandala - interactive design - Permaculture Principles Garden
Spoken word SATURDAY
Exhibitors Be sure to check out our exhibitors area - by the cross-roads in the middle of the site. Rice Dream - Serving up dairy-free pancakes, cereals and smoothies, Rice Dream is a great tasting alternative - come and grab a free sample. Ecotricity - Dedicated to building new sources of renewable green energy, investing more per customer than all the other UK suppliers put together. Joju Solar - Go solar today! Save money and bring clean green renewable electricity into your home or business. StreetCar - Come and chat to us about the green alternative to owning a car, its cheap, convenient and better for you and the planet. DHL - Providing Environmental Compliance Solutions for you and your business London Wildlife Trust - Dedicated to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces, engaging London's diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, campaigning, volunteering and education. Kinetic Enterprises - Suppliers of ethical, natural and organic body care brands, herbal and dietary supplements to the Health Food Industry and Practitioners.
The BikeFest • Dr Bike - bring your bike to be fixed & oiled for free courtesy of London Borough of Camden • Cycle maintenance workshops • Slow bicycle races • Displays from UEL, London Cycling Campaign and more • Free bicycle trial - recumbents and trikes • Bicycle polo games
Bike Music Festival You can also relax in the Bike Music Festival within the Fair - showing how your pedal energy can be turned into sound energy, please take a turn to pedal so the music keeps coming...thanks to the Magnificent Revolution for their contributions to this area. Featuring bands from Klezmer, East European, Columbian and the UK - music to suit all tastes. Camden Council will be supporting residents who want to take green action such as reducing and recycling waste, reducing energy and water consumption, installing insulation and renewable energy in the home, using green and healthy forms of travel and growing your own food. Camden residents can also enter the special Camden Home Grown Zone with the opportunity to taste samples of locally grown food and to find out more about green community projects in Camden, and share any ideas on what the Council should be doing to help them go green.
If you are lucky enough to be here on Saturday, make sure you visit the Spoken Word marquee - packed to the roof with diverse rhymes and rhythms from the TW Rhino camp. (PS - if you miss it you can still catch them at the Urban Green Fair in Brockwell Park, Brixton on 4th September). Featuring 3.30-3.40 & 4.30-4.40pm - LYRICAL-FLO
1.10-1.20 & 5.00-5.10pm - STEPHANIE CHAN
2.20-2.30 & 4.40-4.50pm - TSHAKAT
12.10-12.20 & 5.20-5.30pm - LACEY NKOM ADIGWU
12.40-12.50 & 4.10-4.20pm - SHALEAH
3.00-3.10pm - EL CRISIS
1.30-1.40 & 3.50-4.00pm - UNIQ POET
12.30-12.40 & 3.40-3.50pm - JAYNE TRIMBLE
3.10-3.20pm - LIONESS CHANT
1.20-1.30 & 4.50-5.00pm - CHRIS SYRUS
2.10-2.20 & 6.10-6.20pm - KALI MAAT AMUN
4.00-4.10pm - RED NEX
1.00-1.10 & 5.20-6.00pm - KMT n THE AFRIKAN REVOLUTION Waste Management Paper Round was founded by Friends of the Earth in 1988, became independent in 2000 and has grown to become London’s leading recycling company, servicing 5,500 public and private sector businesses. We are delighted to be helping The London Green Fair with their recycling and litter collections, and hope to run a zero-to-landfill event, recycling and composting as much as possible. Please help us by putting your litter in the correct bins provided. Many thanks to our sponsors, supporters, funders and partners