WELCOME to the NEW FOREST FESTIVAL at MINSTEAD 2011

WELCOME to the NEW FOREST FESTIVAL at MINSTEAD 2011 a celebration of the Forest through Music, Storytelling, Apples, Food, Crafts and more

23rd - 25th September 2011, Minstead Study Centre
Following on from our hugely successful event last year, we have an expanded programme this year. All events will be run in the Minstead Study centre, in the beautiful village of Minstead.

FRIDAY 23rd, 18.30 - 22.00 : THEATRE EVENING
Ringwood's Forest Forge Theatre Company will perform their latest production 'The World Outside ' in the Marquee.

SATURDAY 24th, 10.30 - 17.30 : APPLE DAY
In partnership with Minstead Apple Day A family activity day celebrating apples, local food, acoustic music, and storytelling with Taprisha. Tea & Coffee Café run by All Saints Church. Rounding off with the 2011 new forest festival eco-fashion show in the marquee. Bring your own apples to be juiced and/or identified!

SATURDAY 24th, 18.30 - 23.30 : LIVE MUSIC EVENING Featuring Jeremy Avis & Korasong Radio with the 2011 Festival Community Choir, Native Roses with special guest John Illsley, & exuberant nine-piece Latin-dance ensemble, Atlantico.

SUNDAY 25th, 10.30 - 18.30 : FESTIVITIES, LIVE MUSIC & MORE
A day of fun and festivities for the whole family with a full-line-up of music on the marquee stage, crafts, storytelling and local food and much more! Storytelling with Tarprisha & Pete Gritten. Music with Contraband, Shimmering Bees, Silent Jim, Mothership, Jigfoot, Ukejam, Djembabes, Chaosmia, Woodlands Village Band, Nomad & Farmageddon. Closing out with six-piece acoustic band Owl in the Sun. We are a Community Interest Company. Any profit made from ticket & food sales this year will go to Minstead Community Garden, Minstead Study Centre, New Forest Transition activities, and sponsoring music, storytelling, film, food & ecology projects in schools around the new forest. All events will be held in Minstead Study Centre, a few minutes walk from the village centre.

For more information, you can e-mail the team at: info@nffminstead.com Look forward to seeing you there!

Lymington Positive Living Group

Lymington Positive Living Group is a new group, open to everyone interested in personal development, spiritual growth and creating global harmony. We meet in the community centre every Tuesday evening from 6th September 2011, doors open 7.15pm, start 7.45pm- finish 10pm.

There will be guest speakers and occasionally a practical workshop to share inspiration and incentives that may lead you to live a healthier, more vibrant life, and perhaps even finding your bliss. It will also be a great opportunity for you to meet like-minded people, make friends and have a social get together. In essence it is the uniting of people who hold possible answers with those who have questions. Another aim of the group is to promote community living so wherever possible a local person will be the guest speaker.

Come and join us each week for an evening of enlightenment!

Jude and the team

Musical instrument / equipment sale

Time	28 August · 11:00 - 16:00
Location	The Talking Heads
Created by:	Talking Heads
For	The Talking Heads Venue
More info	SPECIAL OFFER THIS MONTH FREE TO SELLERS FREE TO BUYERS SELLERS FROM 10.30AM BUYERS FROM 11AM BAR FROM 12 NOON

Bosi and Herruad: Vikings, sex, violence and giant vultures.

Time	27 August · 18:30 - 22:00
Location	The Earthouse at the Ancient Technology Centre, Damerham Road, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP
Created by:	The Sting in the Tale
More info	Saturday 27th August The Earthouse presents Bosi and Herruad: Vikings, sex, violence and giant vultures. With Kate & Corwen and The Travelling Talesman ...Full of magical beasts, cunning escapes and witty seductions this dark age tale takes the king's son, Herraud and his best mate, the outcast Bosi from their childhood misadventures through family feuds, heroic quests in far flung lands, love found, lost and dramatically regained, to the final climactic sea battle. Age: Adults and children 12 years and up Time: Doors open at 6:30pm. Performance starts at 7:30pm and should finish around 10:00 pm Venue: The Earthouse at the Ancient Technology Centre, Damerham Road, Cranborne, Dorset BH21 5RP Price: £10 for adults and £5 for 12 to 16 yr olds Book: Booking necessary: please telephone East Dorset Heritage Trust for tickets and availability: 01202 888992. General enquiries:atc@dorsetcc.gov.uk www.ancienttechnologycentre.co.uk 01725 517618 There is disabled access into the Earthouse and limited seating for wheelchairs – please telephone the ATC in advance to reserve disabled parking and seating on 01725 517618 Bring a cushion to sit on, a torch and don’t forget to wrap up warmly No dogs/pet permitted. There may be a fire in the Earthouse and patrons should be aware that the air can become quite smoky at times during the evening. There will be a 30 minute interval at which time hot mulled apple juice will be served in the Longhouse.

Eastleigh Transition Network Workshops

Eastleigh Transition Network Workshops ETNet will be holding some workshops and talks that you can get involved in. Places are limited on these so please book below. Foraging and Jam Making Workshops - Come get your hands sticky! Sign up here: http://etnet.org.uk/wordpress/?p=358 Flash Foraging - A new food project that will involve us going out to spontaneously forage around the area. Sign up here: http://etnet.org.uk/wordpress/?p=306 Fungal Foraging Walk - Sunday 25th September. Sign up and more details here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1952567181 How to Make a Nest for Solitary Bees Talk - Sunday 9th October, St Denys Community Centre, 2pm. Christmas Wreath Making Workshop - Sunday 4th December. Sign up and more details here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1952683529

ETNet AGM 14th September, Wells Place, Eastleigh, 7.30pm: Come along to ETNet's Annual General Meeting for 2011 on the 14th September at Wells Place, Eastleigh, at 7.30pm. The AGM will give you the chance in getting more involved in ETNet and TCF over the coming year. A Guest Speaker will also be holding a talk at the event (details TBA). Refreshments provided

Conference: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge: Empowering Your Community  8th September, 9.30am - 3pm, at Southampton Solent University Conference Centre, Southampton, SO14 7NN:  With European governments committed to ambitious CO2 reduction targets, set against a backdrop of spending cuts and austerity measures, there are increasing calls for communities, governments and businesses to work together to make the transition to a low carbon economy.   This conference will showcase best practice examples of community engagement initiatives in the UK and across Europe and will present key recommendations for future initiatives.   We believe this event truly represents 'Transition'! This event is free to attend, however, spaces are limited. Register today to avoid disappointment http://www.environmentcentre.com/?id=34&task=View&itemid=29

Transition Southampton Events this summer

Transition Events this summer

We have some great events coming up that we hope to see you at, starting next Saturday the 20th, so get your diaries updated!

Visit to Highbridge Community Farm Eat Local meal Just Do It! film screening Harvestival Scrumping! Apple foraging and pressing Grass is Greener concert and film screening Homegrown food swap Many thanks to Polly, Cara, Alan, Greg, Megan and everyone else who have spent time planning these.  If you want to get more involved in setting up events or projects with Transition Southampton, please e-mail info@thearthousesouthampton.org

NEXT SATURDAY Highbridge Community Farm visit - Saturday August 20th

from 10am-12  (leaving earlier to travel together) A visit to the community-run farm that Eastleigh Transition Network have been running for about a year now. Members agree to give at least 10 hours a month and get a share of the produce. We have a fantastic opportunity to have a wander round the farm, see how it works, and even see their new piglets. If you are interested, please e-mail Polly at treemendous@transitionsouthampton.org by Wednesday. We are hoping to set up a lift share. We can also organise a cycle journey as well if people are interested.

Eat Local Meal - Friday September 9th

Friday September 9th, doors from 6pm, dinner at 6:30 at the Art House They had such a great time last time that they decided to do another one! Expect a lovely meal at the Art House full of local seasonal ingredients.  Dishes available will vary based on what they get from Sunnyfields, Riverford and some volunteers' gardens that week. There are going to be 25 spaces. They were fully booked last time and had to turn a few people away, so make sure you book a place! Bookings can be made by calling the Art House (023 80 238 582) or online through Eventbrite (link should be on their website soon and on our events calendar)

Green Friday Film - Just Do It - Friday September 9th

Friday September 9th, 8:30pm at the Art House A documentary about climate change activists and the "Just Do It" ethos that they share. See a trailer and more information here: http://justdoitfilm.com/ Entry by Magic Hat (by donation)

Harvestival - Sunday September 11th

Sunday September 11th from 12-4pm at Southampton Little Common (near Highfield Lane and Highfield Road) This is a gathering of Transition Southampton folks (and their friends and families) to have a picnic full of homegrown food and foraged fruit. Bring food for yourself and something to share if you'd like. Come along for a great chance to socialise with other Transition Southampton folks, and bring along friends and family that you think might want to be involved in Transition.

Scrumping! - Saturdays 17th and 24th September

Saturdays 17th and 24th September - times TBC. Led by the Urbane Forager (website here: http://urbaneforager.btck.co.uk/ with a map of local fruit) we'll be having a wander to pick several kilos of apples and then press them for making cider. Bring along some bags, and save some plastic milk containers with lids for any juice produced. This will be a fantastic event and the start of more foraged food events around Southampton. E-mail alan@wingchun.org.uk in order to be kept up to dates with times and locations from the Urbane Forager himself.

Grass is Greener - Saturday 17th September

Saturday 17th September, mid-day til evening on the site of the old Tyrrell and Green building. A fantastic event in the "cultural quarter" of Southampton. Across from the new Guildhall Square on the grass (which is greener, of course!) will be a solar powered cinema and a bike powered concert! With short environmental films being screened on the side of a building and Seize the Day (http://www.seizetheday.org/gigArchive.cfm) playing a set, it should be fantastic. Look out for more details (like more specific times!) nearer the time, but definitely save the date!

Homegrown Fruit and Veg Swap - Wednesday 28th September

Wednesday 28th September, 7:30pm at the Art House. Last year we had a great local food evening at October Books to celebrate the fact that they started selling local chutneys, jams, apple juice, and oil. We're hoping to have a similar evening at the Art House. Bring along your courgette gluts, herbs, tomatoes, homemade chutney, chicken eggs or anything else. Entry by magic hat (by donation)

Apples and Snakes presents a FREE masterclass for poets and spoken word artists, with leading practitioner Jacob Sam-La Rose.

Time	19 September · 10:00 - 17:00
Location	The Nuffield Theatre University Rd
Created by:	Pete Hunter ApplesandSnakes
More info	Applesand Snakes presents a FREE masterclass for poets and spoken word artists, with leading practitioner Jacob Sam-La Rose. This workshop will be aimed at poets and spoken word artists who are interested in developing young people’s creative writing and performance skills, with a particular view to working with the youth slam model. The workshop will be a full day, on Monday 19th September and is open to anyone based in the SOUTH EAST region. We cannot pay transport fees, but the workshop is FREE and limited to a maximum of 20 participants. A buffet lunch will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about working with young people and poetry and performance. If you are interested in signing up for the workshop day please email pete@applesandsnakes.org

Workshops coming up this summer at Butser Ancient Farm

Saturday August 20^th  -  Hedgerow Preserves

Learn the art of preserving the rich fruit of the hedgerows.  Make

something delicious to take home.  Discover different uses for free food available to all now and in the past!

Tutor:  brilliant cook and artist, Madeleine Allison                                          £50

Please note that our metalworking for teenagers workshop has been postponed until September.  This will be ideal for young people of various ages to enjoy an exciting and interesting day at the forge with our cheerful blacksmith, Fergus Milton.  Please phone for further details.

Butser Ancient Farm

Chalton Lane

Chalton

Waterlooville

Hants

PO8 OBG

Tel/Fax: 023 92 598838

www.butserancientfarm.co.uk