2011 London Permaculture Festival – 16th July
Programme
If you are up for helping out, we’re still looking for people to help out on the day- email us at info(at)LondonPermaculture.com
Wonderful organic food served by the Nice green Café
Main Hall stalls (ground floor)
Rude vegetable sculpture competition (bring your photos or make one there)
London Permaculture Network
Permaculture Association UK
Co-ops/Home Education
Permaculture Magazine Bookstall
Bioregional
Greenpeace
London Transition Network
Project Dirt with their interactive map of London
Green Frontier
Meadow Orchard Project
A community permaculture project in Crouch End, North London, incorporating food growing, forest gardening, and conservation of a beautiful meadow grassland. We run courses, community events and arts/crafts activities too. We are doing an exciting community eco-build project over Summer/Autumn 2011 to build a straw-bale and cob hut from start to finish. Get involved to learn new skills in natural building in an inspiring natural setting.
AMURT UK
Camden Friends of the Earth
Showcasing local Friends of the Earth group activities and running our Big Energy Conversation survey to find what people think are the most important energy issues (eg peak oil, energy security, price)
St. Paul’s Steiner School
CFGN – Community Food Growers Network
Compassionate Communication for a Truly Sustainable World (NVC)
At the stall we will offer regular short sessions with small groups (max.5) and 1:1. Sessions about a) translating moralistic judgments into connection and b) the shift from power-over to power-with.
We will have books and article for people to brows and flyers that offer trainings with various NVC trainers. There will also be video’s running about Compassionate Communication.
Face Painting by Rosie Emmerson
Tea & coffee & cake : )
Homemade cakes made by the stall holders and volunteers and fairtrade tea & coffee- what could be better.
Music in the Main hall from 4.40-5.40pm
Whiskey Moon Face
Louisa Jones of Whiskey Moon Face is a girl wonder so dripping in songs that she has gathered a world of musicians around her of the highest order. All of whome live and play in that homemade handmade realm of Hackney backstreets, back pubs and gardens, filling their lives with song and surprises. a sheer delight and full of vitality. www.myspace.com/whiskeymoonface
Robin Grey
Robin has a lovely fresh approach to folk coloured in by guitar, violin and accordion. There is literature in his words and his calmly exquisite mannerisms seem to bring you back to a simpler time and place. www.robingrey.com
Closing ceremony 5.40- 6pm
with Diploma certificate presentation
Stalls Outside:
Kingston Permaculture Network
Dr. Bike from London Cycling Campaign & Camden Cyclists
Bring your bike along on the day and get a free bike safety check, and if there’s time we’ll also do minor repairs or talk you through how to do them yourself.
LCRN
OrganicLea
Edible Landscapes
Edible landscapes London is an offshoot of transition Finsbury Park that has been around for less than a year. We are propagating, growing & selling edible perennial plants right in the heart of N4. Come and find out more at our stand and pick up a few tips on how to bud graft- this, the process of making tasty new trees by inserting a bud into the stem of a host plant. http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk http://ediblelandscapeslondon.org.uk
Cider making
I will be demonstrating cider making at your show using my hydraulic fruit press and an electric 1930′s apple mill. I have been brewing my own beer and wine making for a number of years but only made my own cider for the past five years. Cider is so easy to make, I do not own a single apple tree but last year I made over 100 gallons of cider. All my apples come from various locations in woodland and on the side of the road, for the best results I mix as many varieties including crab apples together before milling. Allan Ford
Trefusis Hall (downstairs)
11.20am- Robert Hart’s Forest Gardening with Claire White & James Piers Taylor
12.40pm- Natural Beekeeping with Heidi Hermann – The Natural beekeeping Trust
1.40pm- Permaculture Association & its LAND project- Andy Goldring
2.30pm- Ecocide- Polly Higgins
Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide, barrister and international environmental lawyer proposed to the United Nations a law of Ecocide to be classed as an international law alongside Genocide as a Crime Against Peace. Ecocide is defined as the mass “damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished.” In 2008 3,000 corporations caused $2.2 trillion dollars of biodiversity ecocide; Last year the destruction of our ecosystems reached an all time high. It is a crime to destroy large tracts of our land during war, but in peace-time there is no law against it. We can halt the destruction of our lands and seas, and Polly will be talking about how this can be done both at a local level and an international level. www.pollyhiggins.com www.thisisecocide.com
3.20pm- OrganicLea’s Permaculture with Claire Joy & Ru Litherland
4.10pm – Working with schools using Permaculture to shape the future in east & southern Africa with Mugove Walter Nyika, Rescope, Malawi
Permaculture has been used by some school communities in southern Africa as a tool to change mindsets and landscapes by creating abundance using locally available, safe natural resources with minimum cost. The Rescope Programme is empowering local organizations with relevant skills to help them make the most of their work with schools. Mugove will share with you the experiences of the Rescope Programme and its partners as well as the hopes and aspirations of the people involved. www.seedingschools.org
5pm- Permaculture QuestionTime- with Andy Goldring, Graham Burnett, Clare & Ru, and Nicole
Ask our collection of Permaculture Elders the questions you’ve been dying to ask.
Storrow Room (downstairs)
11.20am- Permaculture Design For Organisations – zones, sectors and links – with DecisionLab.org.uk
Where does your organisation’s energy come from? How do people get involved? How are power & collaboration arranged in your organisation? Learn to apply 3 basic tools from Permaculture to the design of resilient & thriving organisations. We have used these tools in consulting work for 15 years, but never taught them in class until now. You will have a chance to draw up and then re-design an example organisation of your choice. This approach incorporates sociocratic organisational engineering, the SADIM approach, and chaordic organisational development. For more information on some of the material that will be covered here, you may wish to read the following posts from the DecisionLab blog:
http://decisionlab.org.uk/the-growing-edge-of-organisational-democracy/
http://decisionlab.org.uk/integrity-in-organisations/
http://decisionlab.org.uk/sociocracy-permaculture/
12.40pm – Resourcing Ourselves: Ecopsychology taster workshop- Debbie Warrener
We are all fundamentally interconnected with the natural world around us – most clearly through our food and the air we breathe. However, an illusion of separation between humans and our environment predominates in Western society today. Ecopsychology provides practices and perspectives that address this and how destructive this is for both ourselves and the natural environment. Through such processes participants experience a deeper connection with themselves, each other and the wider natural world – and find themselves more fully resourced and grounded for their work.
2pm- Permaculture Future(s) with James Piers Taylor
3.20pm-CARBON CONVERSATIONS
This session gives a taste of the Carbon Conversations 6 topics: Low Carbon Futures,Energy in the Home,Travel & Transport,Food & Water and Waste & Consumption by engaging the participants in exploring the issues of climate change and carbon reduction with the aid of interactive games,guided by a team of trained facilitators.
Carbon Conversations in London are coordinated by the Carbon Literacy Forum, a social movement empowering people to learn and take action on their environmental impact, meet others to share the journey and develop communities of practice to continue our explorations together.
There will be a chance to sign up to courses starting in September around London. www.carbonliteracyforum.org
4.40pm – Green Economics
Bar (downstairs)
11.20am- Introduction to Permaculture with Rebecca Harris
12.40pm- Introduction to Permaculture
1.30pm- Eco-Affluent Convergence: How we can all survive peak oil and climate change and enjoy our future together with Green Frontier
People in the rich nations of the world must wean themselves off their fossil fuel addictions, while people in the poor nations can leapfrog these dirty technologies completely. Together we can converge at a point where everyone and our environment are better off. Come to this workshop to find out more about eco-affluent convergence. www.greenfrontier.org/eco-affluent-convergence/
2.20pm- STOP GM
3.20pm- Introduction to Permaculture with Kevin Mascarenhas
4.40pm- Turning Hostility into Collaboration (NVC) with Andy Mason & Ruud Baanders
We will explore how power and moralistic judgement play a role when dealing with sustainability issues; and how a shift from a power-over to a power-with attitude based on a framework that promotes a deep connection between human beings, where everyone’s needs matter equally. This will support you in dealing with people’s hostility to sustainability issues and for communication within the Permaculture community itself. The framework is based on the Compassionate (Nonviolent) Communication process. Andy and Ruud are both candidate certified NVC trainers with Centre for Nonviolent Communication.
Committee Room (upstairs)
11.20am-Connecting within the Community with OrganicLea
12.40pm- The Permaculture Diploma Demystified – Hannah Thorogood
Completed your Permaculture Design Certificate and want to explore the next steps in your learning journey? The Diploma is based on a 2 year self-directed (but supported) Action Learning Pathway of applied permaculture design & reflection. Want to know more? Come along and have all your questions answered!
1.20pm- Permaculture Diploma Presentation – Claire White
3.20pm- Community Scale Infrastructure with United Diversity’s Josef Davis-Coates
Josef from United Diversity will be using Vinay Gupta’s 6 Ways to die concept to talk about how we need to be responsible for our own environment and can all build community scale infrastructure. www.uniteddiversity.com
4.40pm- Dancing with Systems led by Graham Burnett (author of ‘Permaculture Beginners Guide’)
This workshop will explore “leverage points” – places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift can produce big changes. “People know intuitively where leavage points are- but often push them in the wrong direction!”- Donella Meadows, co-author of the seminal ‘Limits to Growth’. www.spiralseed.co.uk
Garden
11am –Reconnecting to the Earth Path in London with Rebecca Stewart
Honour and connect with the elements and the seasons that give us life. Directly embrace the permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. Reconnect through a seasonal earth based celebration. Affirm all you wish to harvest and capture this summer and at the festival. Come ‘Make hay while the Sun shines’!
12.10pm- From seed to crop for free with Dave Hamilton
To promote his new book Grow your food for free …well almost (Green Books 2011) money saving gardener Dave Hamilton will talk us through the process of growing vegetables for little or no money. Starting with seed saving and ending with harvesting he’ll discuss each step of the way in his knowledgeable and humorous manner. You don’t necessarily need to have an allotment or a garden to come along as Dave will talk about growing options for the gardenless gardeners- www.selfsufficientish.com
1pm- Growing Salads for the Winter Season with OrganicLea
1.50pm- Introduction to Permaculture
2.40pm- Sarah’s Secret Garden
3.30pm- tbc
4.20pm- Container growing with Vertical Veg’s Mark Riddal Smith
5.10pm- tbc
Out front
11.20am- tbc
12.10pm- Bio-Diesel with Chris Kennett
1pm- Dr Bike ‘How to…’ talk
1.50pm- LCRN
2.40pm- Tour of Cecil Sharp House
3.30pm- tbc
4.20pm- tbc
5.10pm-tbc
Kids Dome (garden)
Programme…….tbc
After festival party?
We’re thinking that if its good weather the crew etc will head up to the top of Primrose Hill (about 5mins walk) for some well earned beverages – everyone invited to come along and continue the day long into the evening.
Gratefully supported by the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society).
