Saturday 22 May at 7:30pm: ‘Kingdom of the Heart’ storytelling with Katy
Cawkwell
Through a hole in the ground and an opening of the mind lies a land that’s
visible to those who know how to look - a restless king, an enchanted
princess, a talking horse and the youngest son of twelve.  Katy Cawkwell
binds together a couple of rare wondertales, bringing their enticing,
uncompromising worlds to life with her usual clarity of image and absorbing
narrative pace.
“A great evening.” “Beautifully and lovingly crafted.”
“That was the best twist in the tale ever!”
(Audience feedback from the first performance in London in October 2009)
Tickets £8.50 for adults; £5 for 16s and under – suitable for 12 years and
up.

How to buy tickets for storytelling events:
For ticket availability and to make a booking, please contact East Dorset
Heritage Trust on: 01202 888992.  You can pay over the phone by
credit/debit card and your tickets will be e-mailed to you (a 50p surcharge
per transaction will apply). Alternatively, once you have booked your
tickets over the phone, make a cheque payable to ‘ATC Friends Account’ and
send with a stamped addressed envelope to EDHT, Allendale House, Hanham
Road, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, BH21 1AS.

For dates of other storytelling events at the Earthouse this year please
check our website:  http://www.dorsetforyou.com/earthouse

Cycles of Life May Day Celebration

Meat Processing Open Day

Saturday, May 1, 2010 from high noon til the cinders die

Fivepenny Farm, Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset DT66DF

Join us at the processing barn at Fivepenny Farm for an event celebrating animals and the wonderful connections we have with them on the farm as well as a celebration of the products we make from their meat

Events of the day include:

A farm walk to see the new lambs, chicks, pigs, cows, geese

Chick Incubation

Butchery demonstrations of veal and pork

Sausage-making

Charcuterie and smoking demonstrations

A cook- out using our own meat products (vegetarian option)

A presentation about sustainable livestock systems by Simon Fairlie- author of the new book “Meat- The Benign Extravagance”.

Email jyoti@tlio.org.uk for directions or more information.

This event is one in a series of four open days sponsored by the Local Food Fund related to the processing activites held at our co-operative barn. We will be holding further events related to cheesemaking and herbal medicine. Visit our website: wwwpeasantevolution.co.uk 

Climate Change Speaker Training
Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS
Saturday 8th May 2010
10am – 4pm
Run by an experienced facilitator from the Climate Outreach & Information Network, this highly acclaimed one-day course is an informative and empowering session to enable those involved to gain the skills, ideas, and confidence to deliver a hard-hitting half-hour talk on climate change. Tea/coffee/squash and biscuits will be provided throughout the day.
Cost: Individuals £28, Local Authority £55, Charity £55, Business Employees £85 (concessions available). To book a place or to find out more please contact Rebecca Dobson at Vision 21.
Email: office@vision21.org.uk
Tel: 01242 224321
Website: www.vision21.org.uk

Hi All

Green drinks is back in Swanage this month at the Black Swan- it is open mic night which isn’t ideal for green drinks but it could be fun.  However we really like the black swan and unless we change the day of the month then green drinks will always coincide with open mic at this pub.

See you there

Thanks

:o)

Community Sustainable Energy Conference
not to be missed… *check out the programme*
The on-line booking form for the Community Sustainable Energy Conference is now available.
The event will take place on Saturday 17th April at the Dorford Centre, Dorchester.
A provisional programme and location map can be viewed from the booking webpage:
http://dorsetcommunityenergy.eventbrite.com/
 
This event is free.
 
The booking system has 60 places reserved for members of
community energy groups and Transition Town groups, 20 places for local
authority staff and businesses and 20 places for Councillors who are
members of the Sustainable Energy Councillors Network.

National Beanpole Week, 17 – 25 April.
 
Dorset Coppice Group are holding an open day at The Living Classroom, Bonsley Wood, Hillcombe Coppice, Durweston, off A357, Grid ref. ST 833 086 April 17th 10am – 4pm with sales of bean poles and pea sticks + green wood crafts and demonstrations.

STOP PRESS This Easter Break!     

Alice Wynn, a Storyteller from Totnes will Walk the Ways of Wessex

Listening to each place the ‘Tales of Transition’.

On 16^th April she will be at Minstead Study Centre

Do join her workshop Community Quest for 2030

From 10.00 till 1.00 to be followed by a shared lunch

Then 2.00 till 4.00 a workshop with local storytellers

Pete Gritton and Taprisha on Aboriginal Myths: Wisdom of the Ancients -

Hope for Earth’s Future.

Cost: whole day £25  r.s.v.p . Taprisha 02380 811286

Evening sharing of tales led by Alice Wynn (7.30) £5

Hi everyone,

A quick reminder that the next PEAT meeting is Wednesday 31 March @ 19.30. Venue: Antelope Inn, West St, Wareham (upstairs meeting room).

Current agenda items; core strategy (supermarkets), Purbeck schools review, wind campaign update, Portland palm oil plant update, skills training (bike maintenance, greenwoodworking, knitting, spinning, weaving), food (community farm in Purbeck, 10 reasons to shop locally, cook book, Langton allotments), Swanage to Wareham railway link, article for the new PURBECK! magazine and lots more … Not sure we will squeeze it all in! But if you have other items to add please email peatda21@googlemail.com.

See you Wednesday!

Sophie

A creative look at what happens after the bubble bursts…. ‘Requiem for Detroit’

This programme is available on BBC iPlayer for a few days. It’s worth watching as an example of a “post industrial city”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rkm3y/Requiem_for_Detroit/