Coming Soon!
New Cross Documentary workshop
6-8pm, Wednesday 29th February
New Cross People’s Library, New Cross Road, London SE14 6AS
Come to the library for a drop-in workshop on what New Cross means to you. You can write, speak, draw, dance, or play music – whatever you’re most comfortable with. A camera crew will be on hand to interview you or capture your thoughts, drawings, poems and make everything into a documentary about New Cross.
Beastly Storytelling and Book-making workshops
New Cross People’s Library, New Cross Road, London SE14 6AS
Workshop dates:
- Wednesday 22nd Feb, 12am-7pm (now CANCELLED due to unexpected events – many apologies, other workshops below will be run as normal).
- Saturday 25th Feb, 11am-4pm
- Wednesday 7th March, 12am-7pm
- Saturday 10th March, 11am-4pm
This is an opportunity for the people of New Cross to tell, create and share stories of beastly times gone through. This an event for everybody, of every age, from near or afar. A long-term resident or a New Cross convert.
We will be telling our stories, illustrating and creating quality handmade books from found/recycled materials with an aim to make two copies, one to take home and one to remain in the New Cross Peoples’ Library on a dedicated New Cross Stories Shelf.
Email transitionnewcross@gmail.com for more info. These workshops are free, but please try and bring some materials to make your books with.
Film showing: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Thursday, 15th March, doors open at 7pm
New Cross People’s Library, New Cross Road, London SE14 6AS
Inspirational film about Cuba’s successful adoption of organic farming in local and urban gardens during “The Special Period”.
Free showing, donations very welcome.
A Council of All Beings
Saturday 17th March, 11am – 5pm
Telegraph Hill Centre and Telegraph Hill Lower Park
This workshop offers a way to re-connect with the natural world. Through a series of experiential exercises – both indoors and out in nature – we will explore our concern and love for the creatures who share the Earth with us. The workshop culminates in a ‘Council of All Beings’ where participants speak for the earth, the waters, the winds, and the myriad species of our world.
Free workshop, donations very welcome.
Food growing workshop
Saturday, 24th March, 11am – 4pm
New Cross People’s Library, New Cross Road, London SE14 6AS
Join workshop leaders from Transition Brixton to hear how Brixton created and developed it’s successful food growing group and community allotment initiative.
Past Events:
Dragon building workshops and parade
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, Transition Carnival Beasts artist Jessica Easter and the New Cross People’s Library are hosting two dragon building workshops on:
- Friday 20th Jan, 10am-5pm, and
- Sunday 22nd Jan, 10am-5pm
Espalier fruit tree training with The London Orchard Project and cafe Crema
Sunday Jan 22nd, Cafe Crema
Paul Ritchens, expert gardener and workshop leader will be leading a workshop as Cafe Crema planting out young apple trees on the south facing wall ready to be trained as espalier trees as the year unfolds.
A Night of the Beasts Winter Procession – Thurs 22nd Dec
Do you know of any beasts in New Cross? Real or imaginary, from the wild spaces, your garden or under the bed? Here’s some we made earlier at the Night of the Beast winter procession.
Come to New Cross Peoples’ Library and bring them to life and then parade them up to Telegraph Hill on Winter Solstice. Celebrate and mark the shortest day of the year and the returning of the sun!
Dates:
- Sunday 18th December: Build your Beast with local carnival artists
11am-5pm at the New Cross Library. We will provide basic Beast building materials but please bring your own material scraps, paint, glitter etc, and anything you want to recycle as well. - Thursday 22nd December: Parade your Beast
from 4:30pm. Starting at New Cross Library, heading over to the Telegraph Pub to Meet More Beasts, and then up to the Hill Station for mince pies and mulled wine!
This production is brought to you by Transition Town New Cross together with The Unextinction Machine.
Faith and environment exhibition
Wednesday 23rd November onwards, New Cross People’s Library
Launched to coincide with Inter Faith Week, this exhibition features words and images from people of different faiths who live in the New Cross area. Participants have been asked to think about how their faith informs how they feel about our shared environment. It’s hoped that this will be the first of many showings, with new additions and perspectives featured as it evolves in future.
Autumn orchard planting and talk at Café Crema Sunday 20th Nov
With soil and tree expert Paul Ritchens: (managing gardener for The Kings Cross skip gardens) Free, refreshments and light lunch provided. Family friendly
Telegraph Hill Harvest Festival
Sunday 2nd October, 2-4pm, Telegraph Hill Lower Park
This traditional harvest festival in Saint Catherine Hatcham Church will be accompanied by a community event in Telegraph Hill Lower Park. Featuring local food, crafts and projects.
Common Growth Community Garden Update Event
Wednesday 21st September, 7:30 -9pm, The Hill Station cafe (Kitto Road)
New Cross Community Council planning event
Wednesday 28th September, 7pm, Green Shoots, Besson Street
A meeting, organised by the NX Community Council, aimed at starting a process of getting the whole community involved in coming up with a temporary use for the large area of wasteground between Besson St and New Cross Road.
New Cross Food Group launch meeting – June 21st
The Transition New Cross Food Group was launched on June 21st, 2011 at the The Hill Station cafe opposite Telegraph Hill Park, coinciding with the local Summer Solstice celebration!
Approximately 40 local residents and community activists kicked off the group by discussing how we could make food more sustainable, local, healthy and fair for all. Food producers and food distributors came togther. Representatives from New Cross Food Coop, 170 Works and Common Growth Community Garden (Sandbourne Road) shared information and ideas. Using an ‘Open Space’ format people moved between three tables to cross-pollinate ideas on three themes: food growing, food distribution and community outreach.
We heard how many residents in New Cross live in ‘food poverty’ – for many children, school meals are now their main meal of the day. With food prices predicted to rise, the benefits of local food are not simply cutting food miles and packaging but also securing food justice and better health too. We heard that fresh, healthy, cheap food is already available in New Cross – and that we need to get that message out there to everyone, as well as increase the number of food producers.
Many participants were keen to help set up a new Community Supermarket/Greengrocers. We also heard how allotments can be assisted to trade and barter surplus. The possibilities of setting up seed-swaps and a garden-share scheme were discussed and a mapping exercise has already begun!
The Food Group will meet once every two months on a Tuesday to take these ideas forward.
The next meeting is 7pm Tuesday 19 July, at The Hill Station cafe (Kitto Road by Telegraph Hill Park) SE14 5TY
Free film screening of Food Inc
FREE film screening of Food Inc at The Hill Station, Kitto Road, SE14 (underneath the Telegraph Hill Community Centre) (see map here) Friday 25 March – Doors open 7.30 Film starts 8pm
Food Inc will be shown as part of the Telegraph Hill Festival and also Climate
Week, and followed by a short discussion and introduction to local food growing & co-op groups.
An Academy Award nominee for best documentary film, this cult hit takes an unflattering look at the corporate controlled US food industry. It manages to simultaneously shock and inspire. Agri-business is currently lobbying for similar operations to start in the UK.
More info on film here: www.foodincmovie.com
Plant a bee garden at Cafe Crema
If anyone wants to get involved in planting a bee friendly garden at Café Crema and learning about how to encourage bees and other pollinators to their gardens and window boxes please get in touch with Kiri on 020 8320 2317 or 07905 961876 or email us and we’ll be in touch when we know the date of the planting.
This project is generously supported by the NDC. Thank you for caring about the bees!
Café Crema: 306 New Cross Road. London se14
Diversity and Outreach: latest Transition Training Event 6 March at Greenshoots
In a fun and focused workshop, experienced facilitator Adrian took some of the TTNX steering group members (and one new member) through a series of participative exercises designed to help us brainstorm and think creatively about how to outreach to the local community. We discussed what a diverse group actually means (a group reflecting the mix of the community it comes from) and why it is important for a group to be diverse (it’s not just the ‘right’ thing we ‘should’ be doing, it makes a group far more resilient, relevant and more likely to be sustainable and creative). The afternoon went quickly and lots of new ideas came to people about how to connect more effectively with people from the New Cross community. At least one solid proposal for an event later this year emerged from this workshop. More connections were forged in people’s minds, and Adrian encouraged everyone to fill out a ‘follow-up actions’ sheets in order to ensure these connections now take place in the real world! We also agreed that there was scope to offer more of these workshops to other transition groups as we are beginning to assemble some good experience in this area. We also suggested more psychology of change workshops, not just for people in Transition New Cross but other transition groups wider afield and possibly other bodies. Adrian will make contact with other groups directly to explore this possibility and if any groups are interested, get in touch with him on adrian@gn.apc.org
Thursday 27th Jan – Free screening of The Vanishing of the Bees
Thanks to funding from the NDC, the documentary film Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee.
View the trailer at www.vanishingbees.com
Thursday 20th January – Film screening of Gasland, plus Q&A
Transition New Cross chaired a Q&A at a film showing of Gasland, directed by Josh Fox, and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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Sunday 14th Novemberat Green Shoots Community Garden
TNX organised “Veg Out” a work day at Green Shoots, combined with a film showing of HOME in the evening. TO be repeated!
Sunday 19th September at Green Shoots Community Garden
TNX hosted an” upcycling” workshop (upcycling – making old clothes new again) for all ages and offered a chance to get to know the garden and those who use it better.
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Calling all Permaculturalists, Transitioners and Visionaries of a sustainable future.
London Permaculture Festival 2011- are looking for representatives from London’s Transition initiatives and other London green groups to join the steering group, which will plan and commission next year’s event.
We’re starting early, so we can really make the festival as dynamic and inclusive as possible.
Come along to the meeting to offer your expertise and support, and please let others know who may be interested. Last year’s event was a roaring success, attracting a capacity house of over 900 people.
Next year promises to be even better. Be a part of building a positive, sustainable vision for London. Everyone welcome.
Our first meeting is on Tuesday, 14th December at 7-9pm
(or come at 6pm and bring some food to share).
Cecil Sharp House,
2 Regents Park Rd
London
NW1 7AY
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