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The Transition Agony Aunt responds to “where did everybody go?”

“Dear Agony Aunt. We recently held a great event, loads of people came, and there was a real buzz. The next meeting we held, where we were planning actions, hardly any new faces came. What suggestions do you have for best capturing the energy and the people at big events

Community Engagement: Sebastopol Village Building Convergence

(Reposted from Transition US). In Sebastopol, CA, organizers of the first ever Sebastopol Village Building Convergence (a working group of Transiiton Sebastopol), a 10-day Placemaking (public art, permaculture, and natural building) festival modeled after the success of City Repair in Portland, OR. Village Building Convergence organizers have been collaborating

Why should admitting to not having a TV be “dangerous”?

Few articles about the UK’s upcoming election have raised my hackles as much as an article by Stuart Heritage entitled Ed Miliband admitting to not watching TV is a big mistake. Heritage picks up on a quote in a recent interview with Ed Miliband for the Radio Times in

Anne-Marie Culhane: “Art is about magic, and it’s about change”.

One of the names that recurs throughout Lucy Neal’s Playing for Time is that of Anne-Marie Culhane. Anne-Marie is an artist living in Cornwall but just in the process of moving to Devon. Rather than trying myself to describe her and what she does, I’ll leave

South-east European Transitioners meet in Zagreb

Justi Carey and Roy Clark report on the First Meeting of the Regional Transition Group of south-east Europe – Zagreb 14-15 March 2015 As representatives of the newest Transition group in Slovenia, Dovje-Mojstrana: Zelena prihodnost (Dovje- Mojstrana: A Green Future) it felt very exciting to be setting off

Mike Thomas on Community Engagement

To open our in depth exploration of Community Engagement, one of the elements of our Support Offer, Transition Network’s Transition Initiative Support Coordinator Mike Thomas sets the scene: We are all part of a community in one way or another. Often it is our commitment to improving the community

Laughing Allowed! The Slapstick World of Neighbourhood Activism.

Republished from Building Resilient Neighbourhoods. In the fall of 2014, Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Rob Wipond and Michelle Colussi teamed up with theatre director Will Weigler and a group of citizens from Victoria West and other neighbourhoods to create and perform the comedic theatrical show, Laughing Allowed! The Slapstick World of