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The Transition Agony Aunt: “Help! Our meetings are boring us to tears”…

Dear Auntie, please help. I love doing Transition, and I love the projects our group is doing, but I can’t bear our Core Group meetings. They are lacklustre, tedious and I feel myself losing the will to live in them. I would love to be able to take some

Ackroyd & Harvey on “the creative response to climate change”

Heather Ackroyd (HA) and Dan Harvey (DH) work together as Ackroyd and Harvey. Sculpture, photography, architecture, ecology and biology are some of the disciplines that intersect in their work, revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event. For over 25 years their work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries,

Seeing Transition take flight: a day in Luxembourg

I had never been to Luxembourg before. Having recently visited France and Belgium to meet Transition groups, I had just about got used to the fact that in one (I can’t remember which) people kiss on one cheek, and in the other they kiss on two cheeks, and I

Podcast: SWIMBY the Musical: an update: “you have to reach for the stars”

Today’s blog is a podcast recorded in poet Matt Harvey’s composing shed in his garden in Totnes. A few weeks ago, SWIMBY The Musical (original working title ‘Transition Town: The Musical’) raised over £10,000 in a Kickstarter appeal, and this was followed by some Arts Council funding.

Transition movement returns to its Devon roots

It has been announced that delegates from across the world will be travelling to Devon, the birthplace of the Transition movement, in September 2015. The inaugural Transition Network International Conference will be held from 18th-20th September with 350 Transition representatives from across the globe expected to be in attendance at

From the archive: Transition Town Anywhere

Here’s a piece from 2012 which is a great contribution to our Social Change and the Arts theme. We also post it in loving memory of Battersea Arts Centre, whose magical space helped to make this exercise what it was, which was damaged badly in a fire a couple

Sally Ludwig of Transition Guelph on the Transition Animal

Transition Guelph asked Sophy to help us scope out the current state of our initative and its progress toward the overall goal of growing resilience in our city. One of the tools she introduced was the Transition Animal. I believe the animal was a little dog at the time. Interestingly,