Events

Local & Live Revived – Nature Talks

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The dates for the final events in the Local and Live festival: a celebration of local creativity funded by the Arts Council and produced in partnership between Shoreham Wordfest and Ropetackle Arts Centre have been announced.

The events include two talks by the Sussex Wildlife  Trust:

Rewilding the Seas – Henri Brocklehurst SWT – Tuesday 25 May 7.30pm

https://www.shorehamwordfest.com/events/rewilding-the-seas-henri-brocklehurst-sussex-wildlife-trust/

What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? – Dr. Tony Whitbread SWT – Thursday 3 June 7.30pm

https://www.shorehamwordfest.com/events/what-have-plants-ever-done-for-us-dr-tony-whitbread-sussex-wildlife-trust/

Tickets cost £10 for each event.

For more information: www.shorehamwordfest.com

Green Tides – Wildflower Trail 

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The local forum and partnership for Friends groups and environmental volunteers, Green Tides (now also a CIC), is excited to launch the Wildflower Trail.

The idea, first conceived of by a new volunteer during the glorious spring of our first lockdown, has been made real. The Wildflower Trail maps a variety of sites across our area who have wildflower spaces already. We are now busy making special school packs, with seeds for planting and information about the flowers and insects who will benefit.

If you want your school to bee involved (sorry, couldn’t resist), please get in touch with Chris at [email protected].

Visit the website here: https://www.thewildflowertrail.org/

Transition Summit Catch-up!

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We hope that those of you who took part in the Transition Networks What Next? Summit found it really inspiring.

2,000 community activists came together across 3 weeks, to listen to over 70 speakers and take part in a mesmerising multiplicity of conversations about positive changes in our communities.

The What Next? Summit aimed to connect up people within and between movements and organisation, to provide inspiration and deep reflective thinking from a diversity of perspectives, to highlight some big picture thinking that enables people to see their role and the role of others in creating change, and to empower people to self-organise and create impactful change.

Transition Bounce Forward hosted nearly 50 events over 3 weeks, exploring climate change, social justice, community organising, collective imagination, and much much more.

If you missed any of the sessions and would like to catch up you can do so via the Transition Bounce Forward YouTube playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzYHfM4__lhlSHeoZiRxcsOnRSBcs0ie6

Green Books: Investing to save the planet

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The next Green Books talk from Greening Steyning, on Thursday 1st April, is focusing on a really important topic – how we use our savings and investments to help the planet, rather than trashing it.

Financial Times journalist Alice Ross will be talking about her new book on “Investing to Save the Planet”.

It’s on Thursday 1st April from 7.30-8.30pm.

For tickets see:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-books-alice-ross-investing-to-save-the-planet-tickets-143075535779

Wonder of Nature – Series of Talks & Walks

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The wonderful and inspirational Nicola Peel has announced that she will be holding a series of online talks and a guided walk round the beautiful Pulborough Brooks in the coming months.

Events include:

Nature as Teacher – Nature has the answers we just have to ask the right questions – Thursday 1st April – Tickets

What are we investing our money in – Part of the Horsham Climate Café – Saturday 3rd April – Tickets

Solutions in the Amazon – A day in the life of a Solutionist – Tuesday 4th May – Tickets

This is What Biodiversity Looks Like! – A photographic journey into the world of biodiversity – Tuesday 1st June – Tickets

Biomimicry Nature Walk – RSPB Pulborough, West Sussex – Sunday June 27th – Tickets

For more information about Nicola see:

www.nicolapeel.com

https://eyesofgaia.com/

 

Fairtrade Fortnight Festival

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If you missed any of the festivities, dozens of Choose the world you want festival events are still available to watch via the Fairtrade Foundation website here: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want/

Although the Choose the world you want festival may now be over, efforts to Choose the world we want certainly are not, so please keep standing with farmers facing a climate crisis.

Major international climate conferences are coming to the UK this year, and you can help convince world leaders to listen to the people already facing the worst of the climate crisis – the farmers and workers whom we may have met throughout Fairtrade Fortnight. Ideas from Fairtrade on how to do this are coming soon but in the meantime, do check out the Fairtrade and Climate Justice campaign page for more ways you can get involved: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-and-climate-justice/

 

One Week To Go! Transition Network’s What Next?

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There’s less than 1 week to go to the What Next? Summit and boy is it going to be an amazing 3 weeks, so we hope you have signed up already!

We have announced a lot of inspiring new speakers and workshops over the last couple of weeks, including Kate Raworth, Mia Birdsong and Andrew Simms and sessions on using technology for good, reimagining food systems, creating livelihoods in the green economy and exploring how environmentalism and social justice intersect. More announcements to come!

The Summit is going to be jam packed with inspiring provocations, networking, skillsharing and more and with over 800 people already signed up, we know it’s going to be an event you don’t want to miss. We have all been living through such difficult times recently, that we hope it will be a time and space where you can come and connect with like-minded people and feel less alone in the struggles and work that you are doing right now.

Take a look at the timetable and sign up to attend events as they are announced!

https://transition-bounceforward.org/what-next-summit/

 

The Kinder Living Home Show Online Event

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The Kinder Living Home Show is normally an in person event, but this year the team are instead hosting a three day event online on the 5th, 6th & 7th March.

They have invited the businesses, charities and local organisations who normally showcase their products, services and activities at the live show and there will be advice, tips, videos to watch, things to download and some very special Zoom events you can join in. Check out their Facebook page for the full timetable of events: https://www.facebook.com/events/3553021954734496

You’ll need a ticket to join the Zoom sessions, which are free of charge, so check the tickets links on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kinder-living-18550069854

 

Green Books – Gardening to save the planet

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For their second Green Books event, Greening Steyning have invited wildlife guru Dave Goulson to talk about his latest bestseller “The Garden Jungle or, Gardening to Save the Planet.”

The book is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom we live cheek-by-jowl and of the myriad ways that we can encourage them to thrive. Dave Goulson is great speaker, and has been described as “the kind of humorous, knowledgeable and bubblingly enthusiastic teacher anyone would want.”

It’s on Thursday 4th March from 7.30-8.30pm. You can either book a free ticket or choose to make a small donation (minimum £1) to cover costs and help support the work of Greening Steyning. Sign up via Eventbrite.

And in case you missed out on seeing Greening Steyning’s excellent Green Books with Charles Dowding on ‘No Dig Gardening’, it is now available to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bc0uUmeI-I&feature=youtu.be

Horsham Climate Café – Sat 6th March

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On Sat 6th March at 2-3.30pm, the Horsham Climate Café will host an online talk about the Worthing & Adur Councils Climate Assembly.

The assembly culminated from Worthing & Adur Councils declaration of a climate emergency in July 2019, followed in March 2020 by the Zero 2030 conference c0-organised with Transition Town Worthing and Worthing Climate Action, and attended by about 300 local residents and representatives from local businesses, community and civic groups. This ground-breaking approach and event resulted in a GOLD Award at the CPRE Sussex Countryside Awards in 2020. Worthing & Adur Councils aim to achieve zero carbon energy use within the council estate by 2030 and within Adur and Worthing by 2050.

Council Officers, Amy Newnham & Chloe Clarke will be sharing their personal experiences as some of the key organisers of the Climate Assembly, the selection process, timescales, which speakers most impacted them and why, what the councils learnt and the final recommendations. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite 

For more info on the Horsham Climate Café: https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/horsham-climate-cafe/