Here is our May newsletter.
A one-stop shop for all the latest info on TK’s projects and events.
MAY FILM SHOWING
May Film Showing
May 17th 2012
‘Juliet of the Herbs’
Juliette of the Herbs is a beautifully filmed lyrical portrait of the life and work of Juliette de Bairacli Levy: world renowned herbalist, author, breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, traveller in search of herbal wisdom and the pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine.
For more than 60 years Juliette has lived with the Gypsies, nomads and peasants of the world, learning the healing arts from these peoples who live close to nature. Juliette’s well-loved and now classic herbals for animals and for children have been a vital inspiration for the present day herbal renaissance and holistic animal care community. Now 85 years of age, Juliette’s extraordinary life story is as colourful and as exciting as her tremendous wealth of herbal knowledge.
Filmed on location with Juliette and her Afghan hound in Greece, Spain, France, Portugal, Switzerland, England and America, and interwoven with Juliette’s vast collection of archival photographs, together with scenes of Gypsies dancing and Bedouins with their herds, Juliette of the Herbs is an inspiring portrait of a remarkable healer
http://www.julietteoftheherbs.com/
Doors open: 7.00pm
Films start: 7.15pm prompt
Venue: Community @ 67
(The Old Post Office), Queens Rd Shops, 67 Queens Rd, Keynsham.
Suggested donation of £3 to cover costs
FREE Refreshments & Cake !
(Running Time: 75 mins)
Food Foraging Walk and 2 Part Bushcraft Workshop
Places are limited. Please email keynshamt@yahoo.co.uk a.s.a.p in order to book your place.
Food Foraging Walk
£3 Suggested donation
Sunday 13th May
Meet @ 2.00pm. Finishes approx 3.30pm.
Meet on the corner of Walnut Close, Keynsham, BS31 2RP.
An afternoon walk to identify roots, tubors, plants, leaves, stems, nuts, berries, fruit, mushrooms and ransoms (type of wild onion). From the top of Charlton Rd and across the valley towards Queen Charlton.
2 Part Bushcraft Workshop
(You need to have completed part 1 in order to participate in part 2)
£5 per person
Part 1 – Bends and Hitches
Friday 18th May
Doors open 6.30pm for 6.45 start. Finishing approx 9.15pm.
Meeting @ Community @ 67, 67 Queens Rd, Keynsham, BS31 2NW
(Last shop in row, nr to Indian takeaway, opposite the Methodist Church)
‘A 2.5hr indoor evening preparation session to learn the 11 most practical and useful bends and hitches (knots). Including the terminology of understanding rope terms and its uses. This will include the overhand knot, fig of 8, reef knot, clove hitch, rolling hitch, round turn and two half-hitches, fishermans knot, single sheet bend, double sheet bend, timber hitch and a bowline.’
Part 2 – Bushcraft workshop in Abbots Wood
Sunday 20th May
Meet @ 1.30pm. Finishing teatime approx 6pm.
Meet @ the Holmoak Rd entrance to Abbots woods (next to the childrens park)
(Directions: Holmoak Rd Gate: Enter Holmoak Rd from Longmeadow Rd at the end closest to Charlton Rd. After turning the corner there is a set of garages to your right. The entrance to the park is at the end of the garages.)
A halfday outdoor workshop in Abbots wood; including choosing the right spot and building a basic shelter, making cordage out of bark and natural materials, using a flint lighter demo and hopefully a fire stick and fire drill/bow demo
the Good Food web-project
The Good Food Creative Web-projectIn Nov 2011 we hosted a public event ‘Who feeds Keynsham’ to explore ideas around how to make our local food systems more resilient.
Ideas collected at the event suggest that there is a need in Keynsham for:- 1) more education about the issues surrounding good food (climate change, peak oil, health, big business etc) and 2) more signposting/awareness around good foody things happening in Keynsham (e.g. locally produced food, markets, community gardens etc).
Project:
*To create an online web(site/page) etc to;
*Introduce and raise awareness of issues affecting the resilience of our food systems and pose the question ‘what is good food’?
*Celebrate and signpost to all the foody things happening in Keynsham; markets/community projects etc and have a directory of how to find good food locally.
*The web-project could be a combination of text, illustrations, poetry and video/sound interviews with local people involved in local food (such as children from Castle School’s tuck shop, Keynsham’s Girl Guides growing patch, Steve from the Severn Project and Anne Bone from the farmers market etc).
Why?:
This will hopefully make the web-project an interesting thing to read and explore. And people will feel more empowered to make their own decisions about ‘good food’ by understanding the reasons behind what makes food ‘good’ and how they can support their food systems locally in Keynsham.
Contributions needed for project;
-Illustrations
-Music
-Poetry
-Web design
-Text / writers
-Interviews with local bods involved in food, either video or just sound
This is a joint project with Keynsham’s Creative Enterprise Hub.
We are holding an Open meeting for anyone who is interested on;
Monday 23rd April – 10.00am-11.00am – 20 Winscombe Close, BS31 2HR (there will be cake!)
If you are interested but unable to make the meeting please get in touch and we shall add you to our email list to keep you in the loop.
Satish Kumar Talks in Keynsham
For those of you not able to come to the talk with Satish Kumar here is the
from that evening.
Kindly recorded and shared by Mike Thomas of Permanent Culture Now .
Wellsway Wildflowers
The cornfield annual wildflower seeds have been sown! With the right kind of April sunshine and showers to germinate the seeds before the wind blows them away or the birds eat them we and the bees should be enjoying a lovely sight on the Wellsway Triangle this summer.
Huge thanks to everyone who has helped with this – I hope we will see lots more bee-friendly plants growing everywhere soon.
Wildflower Patch @ the Wellsway Triangle
We made a brilliant start preparing the Wellsway Triangle on Sunday. About a dozen hearty people dug up and took away more than half the turf. We were helped by some lovely people who live in a house overlooking the patch who carried bags, ferried loads to Pixash Lane with their car and trailer and brought out teas and coffees.
Some of the turf has been re-homed in people’s gardens, the rest taken to the recycling depot. We’ve left signs and bunting explaining what we are doing and during the next week we will complete the preparation by removing the rest of the turf and raking the soil. Those of us with with a little spare time in the coming week will work on the patch, culminating in a last working party next Sunday.
A huge Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on Sunday – it was wonderful to see the transformation we are making together. It was also very heartening to have the support of passersby who were interested in what we were doing as well as that of Dawn Drury and Gill Hellier from the Town Council who were both there joining in.
If you would like to help, then please go along to the patch with your spade or get in touch with TK to find out more.
The last stage will be the sowing of the wildflower seed on
Sunday 15 April - do come along.
Shelley’s Patchwork Workshop
Shelley’s Patchwork Workshops
12th Feb / 11th March / 15th April.
10.00am – 12.00pm
Shelley has been making beautiful patchwork creations for many years and has finally been persuaded to run workshops for anyone who would like to learn how to do it. Patchwork is a great example of a sustainable craft as you can use any scraps of materials to create beautiful memory quilts, bags, table runners, coasters, clothes, aprons – you name it! It is also possible to make patchwork entirely using hand stitching and therefore avoiding the need for machines and electricity.
If you would like to partake in this FREE workshop (materials not included) please email keynshamt@yahoo.co.uk to book a place and receive a list of materials you will need to bring. No previous experience necessary.
We will also be raffling off one of Shelley’s patchwork quilts at our monthly farmers market – £1 a ticket! Drawing date: April’s farmers market: 14th!
Energy Extraction in the South West – Community Info and Action Night
Energy Extraction in the South West
Community Info and Action Night
Tuesday 14th February, 7.00pm – 9.00pm
The Key Centre, Methodist Church, 1 Charlton Rd, Keynsham
There has been a lot in the news lately about the dangers of FRACKING and it is disturbing to hear it might happen in the Mendips and Keynsham. This evening is an opportunity to learn more about extreme energy extraction. We hope it will empower us as a community to use o…ur voice to challenge any action or business we feel is harmful to our communities.
The evening will start with a 20 minute film about shale gas extraction in US followed by a short presentation from the ‘Frack Off’ Network. Covering the unconventional gas extraction situation in UK (including; UK – Shale gas, Coal-bed Methane and Underground Coal Gasification).
Afterwards we will have a community led discussion about our response to extreme energy extraction.
www.frack-off.org.uk
www.keynshamt.wordpress.com
Also FREE tea/coffee and CAKE! mmmm…..
Satish Kumar – Wed 14th March
Positive Solutions for a Changing World
Satish Kumar speaks on Reverential Ecology
Satish Kumar is coming to Keynsham!
Wed 14th March
7.45pm for a 8.15pm start.
St John’s Parish Hall, 1 The Park, Keynsham, BS31 2BL.
£5.00 per person. Limited seating.
Tickets to be pre-booked by texting 07971 582332
We are thrilled to be co-hosting this talk with a collection of organisations in Keynsham including the Keynsham Fairtrade group, Churches together, Keynsham Creative Enterprise Hub and Keynsham Kind. The evening will also include a stalls from all the organisational groups, a fairtrade bar and TK cake!
Snippet taken from Resurgence article; “Satish Kumar is a former monk and long-term peace and environment activist. He has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years. He was just nine when he left his family home to join the wandering Jains and 18 when he decided he could achieve more back in the world, campaigning for land reform in India and working to turn Gandhi’s vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality.” To read more please visit this link.
