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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

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

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

When I was a child there was an extraordinary show on the TV called Jeux Sans Frontières! (Games without borders!). In the early days of the European Union it brought together people from different countries to compete in ridiculous physical games involving huge inflatable cartoon characters, and a lot of

The final in our series of five ‘Transition Roadshows’ took place in Berkhamsted, joinly organised by Transition Town Berkhamsted, Transition in Kings, Haddenham in Transition, Tring in Transition, Transition Milton Keynes and others.  I have to confess that prior to going I didn’t know that much about Berkhamsted other

Ruth Ben Tovim is the creative director of Encounters Arts.  As a professional artist and consultant, she has used the transformational power of the arts to work with thousands of people over the last 20 years. She is one of the stars of Lucy Neal’s new book ‘Playing for