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I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
During April and May, the Transition Tales team from Transition Town Totnes worked with all the Year 7 students at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes. The workshops comprised 3 sessions, the first about peak oil, climate change, and how oil dependent their lives are, the second was about story-telling and role play, and in the third, the students became the newsreaders on Totnes TV in 2030, broadcasting to a successfully powered-down Totnes. The actual process has already been documented here at Transition Culture, but we are delighted to finally be able to show you the final films.
They were premiered on Thursday night at a big event at the school, attended by students, teachers, parents and governors, and are no doubt currently being pasted onto Bebo sites across South Devon. This first film is a compilation of some of the best bits (the first bit gets climate change a bit confused though!)
Albert Bates pointed this out to me, and here in Transition Towers it has had us all giggling most of the afternoon…. very good… . It tends to start automatically though, so here is the direct link to it, rather than you getting fed up with Teutonic rantings every time you open Transition Culture…
I am really thrilled about announcing a new initiative by the Transition Network. We have some funding to make a film about Transition, and after much contemplation, we have come up with a way to make it which we think best reflects the Transition ethos.
I guess this links back to the recent discussions around whether Transition projects should campaign against stuff or now, but I have been very impressed with the work that Transition Leicester have been doing recently. Faced with a proposal to build one of the government’s controversial ‘Eco-Towns’ on the edge of the city, rather than joining the uproar of protests, Transition Leicester responded with an alternative, a mixture of less housing and more food production. You can read their excellent report here, and see a piece from the local TV news below.
There are some events that arise out of this Transition phenomenon that really take one’s breath away, and which embody the idea that in doing this work we are doing something historic, something that will be celebrated by future generations. I had the enormous honour of attending Tuesday night’s launch of the Lewes Pound, an evening that I think I and many of those who were there will remember for many years to come.
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