The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak OIl
This presentation is by the noted Cuban biologist and permaculturist ROBERTO PEREZ who is featured in the film.

Tuesday September 16th - 7.30 p.m. at the Cube cinema, 4 Princess Row, Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8NQ
http://www.cubecinema.com
£4/£3 Tickets on the door from 7pm or advance from The Better Food
Company, Sevier St, Bristol. Tel 0117 9351725
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This presentation is by the noted Cuban biologist and permaculturist ROBERTO PEREZ who is featured in the film. Tuesday September 16th - 7.30 p.m at the Cube cinema read full story / add a comment

Enjoyed the bookfair yesterday? Carry on the networking and chats with new friends at Kebele's weekly Sunday vegan cafe.

Food served from about 6pm until it runs out.
Kebele is at 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY read full story / add a comment

For the last year the Keble Permaculture Collective have been transforming the community orchard space at Royate Hill allotments.
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As the excitement builds in the run up to Bristol’s first anarchist bookfair in 15 years, bookfair organisers have 2 more benefit nights arranged in Bath & Bristol over the next seven days. These benefit nights allow us to raise the funds to pay for the bookfair, whilst having a good night out, ensuring there is no need for a formal entry fee at the bookfair itself. Anarchists eh, what a bunch of self-funding, self-organised idealists! read full story / add a comment

This will be the last bookfair planning meet before the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on 13 September.

We meet from 6.30pm sharp at 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JY. read full story / add a comment

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Fundraiser Vol. 4

Monday 8th September - 8pm start, 5 quid on the door
The Junction, Stokes Croft, Bristol

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Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Fundraiser Vol. 3

Friday 5th September - 8pm start, 4 quid on the door
The Porter Butt, London Road, Bath

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Despite recently signing a Community Use Agreement (CUA) that recognises free, informal use of Packers Field in Whitehall, the City Academy (in conjunction with Bristol City Council) have a submitted an application for a 6 lane artificial athletics facility with floodlights. If built, the remaining half of the field open to informal use will be lost and the CUA will be effectively meaningless. It is possible to formally object to the planning application (see below), and we are urging as many people as possible to do so. It only takes 5 minutes to object online, and the more objections received the greater the chances of stopping this development. The people of Whitehall and nearby areas have little enough green space, without it being taken away for private development.

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31st August, Eastville Park, Free Entry.
'Mela' is Punjabi for 'festival'. The Bristol Asian Mela showcases the arts, customs and food of the South Asian community. read full story / add a comment

Stapleton Road Train Station
This is a free event and all are welcome!
August 31, 2008
12:00 pm to 8:30 pm

We have live music, featuring an Afro-Celtic Ceilidh, workshops, kids
zone, plant sale, arts & craft market, bicycle powered smoothie maker,
sunflower growing awards, the famous Bristol Man-Can, massage, folk
tales, Vid Warren - the Beethoven of Beat Boxing, live Tango dance
display, live Arab-Egyptian display, yummie food & drink & much more!
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Opinion on housing in Bristol . . . read full story / add a comment

All the way from Canterbury we have the world famous Forager, Fergus Drennan (also know as *The Roadkill Chef* or *Fergus the Forager*) coming over to take Bristols Freeconomists on the forage of their life! So tell your friends!

He is teaming up for the evening with local Self-Sufficientish guru's Dave and Andy Hamilton.
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Join Chris Adams and learn how to cook your food without any need of electricity or gas, and by using only waste and recycles components. Why be reliant on the very wasteful and very polluting national grid or gas from the middle east to cook your food?! read full story / add a comment

Many people in Easton will be aware of the campaign which surrounded the closure of the Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory, the intentions of Persimmon, and the final purchase of the site by the developer Squarepeg. However, many of those who supported Squarepeg's bid to purchase the site may be unaware that their plans are not just limited to the factory site itself. The section of the cycle path next to the old Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory has now been purchased by the developer Squarepeg, who intend to build what they call "cycle houses" on the land. These houses will front onto the cycle path, and will destroy what was described by the anti-BRT campaign as “a green and tranquil linear park”. read full story / add a comment

In my local park, for some reason, workers left a huge skip filled with sludge. Not surprisingly this has become a problem. read full story / add a comment

The evening will be suitable for both beginners and experts. read full story / add a comment

With over a month to go until Bristol’s Anarchist Bookfair, we are already fully booked up with stalls & workshops.

As the current crisis of capital deepens and yet another war (Georgia/Russia) breaks out over land and energy resources, we need more than ever a serious alternative to the chaos of the present world order and the suffering it inflicts upon us. And we need to take the time to properly sit down & chat about it – as equals.
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Working meeting of the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective - the stalls & workshops are sorted but still plenty to do. If you want to help out, or find out what you can do to help between now & the bookfair on 13 September, then come along. But no timewasting please!
6.30pm at 14 Robertson Rd, Easton BS5 6JY read full story / add a comment