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Mandy Barnett: “Make, be, dance, pedal, shape the future”.

“My name’s Mandy Barnett. I’m a…now, what am I?! I used to be a designer in the cultural sector. I worked in museums for years. Then I became a manager and I’m a manager consultant now. My work is all about social impact in the cultural

Lucy Neal: Of Yeast, Seeds, Fire and Dancing.

It’s been a month since Lucy Neal’s Playing for Time was published. Here she shares what it feels like to get a book you’ve published into your hand for the first time, how it’s being received, and what ‘Flip the Kipper’ is: “A handwritten letter came

May 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

There are three big themes in the newsletter this month. Firstly there is a series of articles exploring Inner Transition and its impact on the movement; our second month of Social change and the arts has interviews with artists from the new book Playing for Time; and we explore some

Community Engagement: Den Haag in Transitie

Lynn van Leerzem shares some experiences from reaching out to new people in the ‘Celebrate Nature! A festival by and for Moerwijk’. Basically, what we did was: we (people of The Hague Transition group) used an international celebration (Fête de la Nature) as an excuse to ‘enthousiasmize’ (there should be

Filipa Pimentel on how knitting can help us connect.

A while ago I attended a meeting via Skype. It was taking place in Brussels, and featured a number of high profile people from government and from the business sector discussing resilient economies. One of the highlights of the meeting for me was the fact that Filipa Pimentel knitted throughout

1st Austrian Transition Forum: May 15th – 17th 2015, Graz, Austria.

Are you interested in and engaged with activities that aim at reductions in oil consumption and dependency within your life and your community? Then join the 1st supraregional / national gathering of Transition initiatives, CSOs and NGOs and many more to meet up and network with other like-minded people. You

“What does a successful artist look like at a time of global change?”

Sarah Woods and Fern Smith are founders of Emergence and authors of Culture Shift: how artists are responding to sustainability in Wales. Fern spent many years as artistic director of Volcano Theatre Company, an experimental theatre company. In the last 5 years she has been rethinking the role of the