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This weekend's fun

Posted by mellonmarshall - 18 September 2009 at 9:35pm - Comments

THis was emailed to me and I figure that it may interest some of you so here it is 

Zero Carbon Caravan and Peace One Day weekend is nearly here, and what a weekend it's going be.

Hope to see you at some of these events, and please help make them a success by circulating/telling everyone you know.  And joining the fun.

After all who'd want to miss Seize the Day?  And all our friends?

And the clothes swap, bike rides, and lots more

 Please note 2 changes from the earlier info -

Carbon Chronicles is at United Reform Church, Princes Street, Norwich, NR3 1AZ, (not Friends' Meeting House as they don't have performance license)

The contact for Sunday's Festival is now   Mark Crutchley  01603 665 745, 07722 798826

  Here's the itniary:

 Friday 18th Mark Crutchley on  Future Radio,  96.9FM  just after 10:30 with Kate Roma.

Saturday 19th

 Bike ride 

meet at Barn Road Roundabout/start of Marriotts way, 9.30am. Leader: Richard Bearman 01603 504495, 07709 034382 (on the day)
The route is to ride out to Elsing(nr Dereham) via the Marriotts Way and rural lanes and meet ZCC riders coming into Norwich from Swaffham, and ride back to Norwich with them, arriving mid afternoon.

 Carbon Chronicles   -  A Tragi-comic Opera, 7 for 7.30 

United Reform Church,  Princes’ Street, Norwich NR3 1AZ                                                   The story is about elemental beings who become part of Earth, life and fossil fuels, their exploitation by humans, and the consequent planetary crisis and climate chaos.                     Professional and local cast – which you can be part of by coming to Open Workshop 10 -4        No audition, all welcome.  Learn simple tunes and choruses, make musical instruments from recycled and 'found' materials – and decide how the story ends!                                                     Free admission, collection for Zero Carbon Caravan

To join workshop contact  Lesley Grahame 01603 920801, lesley7railway@yahoo.co.uk

Peace One Day  2-4 pm The Forum,                                                                                          Drummers, dancers, Peace walk to Freinds Meeting House for tea, poster attatched 

 

 Sunday 20th

Zero Carbon Festival

2-5 Chapelfield Gardens

Accoustic music with Seize the Day, local acts

Clothes swap - bring to your old but wearable clothes to swap with someone else's  -

Stalls - including Transition Norwich, Woodcraft Folk, Energy Saving Trust, Greenpeace

 (if you'd like to have a stall, contact lesley7railway@yahoo.co.uk , stalls cost £10, there is plenty of room to spread out) 

Monday 21st  10 - 12 UEA.     International Zero Carbon Conference linking Clive Hamilton in Australia and Fabrina Furtado in Argentina with leading climate academics from Norwich, showing that  international conferences are possible  without flying. 

Clive Hamilton is the author of ‘Growth Fetish’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CliveHamiltonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth Fetish. 

Fabrina Furtado is an economist for Jubilee South, her latest book is ‘Saving Capitalism or the Planet?’  http://www.ifiwatchnet.org/?q=en/search/node

12 LGMAC Conference Room in the Environmental Science block - find Env reception and Maria will direct you from there

12.30 - 1 pm Peace One Day vigil outside the Forum

Tuesday 22nd - cycle with Zero Carbon Caravan
start ouside the Kings Centre, King Street, time 0915 with Chris Keene. Join riders enroute to Bungay for as far as you like. Arrive in  Bungay(25mls) on car free day,. and join in celebrtaions
leader   Mark Crutchley contact  07722 798826

Look forward to seeing you
 
Lesley, Mark, Emma, Chris
Norwich's Zero Carbon Caravan Team

PS  Apolagies if you get this more than once - that's networking for you 

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