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31 Jan 2011

Lucy Neal on Transition and the Arts

Here’s a talk given by Lucy Neal of Transition Town Tooting filmed at an event called ‘Ready to Change’ in December in Ljubljana, where she talked about Transition, the role the arts can play in it, and the work of Transition Town Tooting including last summer’s Trashcatcher’s Carnival.  Great stuff…

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26 Jan 2011

Belgian magazine ‘Imagine’ gives Transition a big splash

The Belgian magazine Imagine just published an edition with a large piece on Transition.  Imagine is a beautifully designed full-colour publication, and you can view a page-turnable online version of it here, but ideally you might support the magazine and buy either a pdf. copy or a printed copy here.  Although this will clearly be of more interest in French speaking parts of the world, even as a non-French speaker myself I found it a delight to flip through.

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25 Jan 2011

Film Review: The Farmer and the Horse

Jared Flesher’s film ‘The Farmer and the Horse’ is a joy, an absolutely fascinating immersion into the world of three people who have fallen in love with working with horses.  In a world where the production of food is hugely dependent on the availability of cheap liquid fuels and where, in the UK, the average age of farmers is 58, this film follows 3 young people trying to get into agriculture in New Jersey in the US, each of whom has a passion for working with horses.

Here’s the trailer:

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6 Jan 2011

Unleashing of the First Transition Favela with Rap and Samba

Welcome back to Transition Culture…  You’re looking well, I hope you had a good break.  We start with a warm sunny story to bring a smile on these chilly winter days, kindly penned by May East about the Unleashing, just before Christmas, of the first Transition Favela, in Brazil.

It was a sizzling Saturday morning in December when members of the low low-income Brasilândia community of 247.000 people in São Paulo, gathered with great expectancy for the official unleashing of ‘Transixion’ Brasilândia. Led by the initiating group created earlier in May by members of the Stickel Foundation, with representatives from the arts community, environmental groups, health workers, educators, local authority the first part of the morning was dedicated to celebrate a remarkable chain of achievements.

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10 Dec 2010

‘ResilientCITY’: a trailer and an interview….

A while ago I was interviewed by Gregory Greene, director of ‘The End of Suburbia’, for his upcoming film ‘ResilientCITY’.  He just posted the film’s trailer (it is still in production) and also edited bits from the interview I did with him…. so, here’s the trailer….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOJEio5NSU&feature=related

… and the interview….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8mnv8kaLI

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