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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

Isabelle Frémeaux (IF) and John Jordan (JJ) are the co-founders of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.  It’s a collective which , according to Isabelle, “aims at opening spaces, real or virtual, and bringing artists and activists together to work on and co-create more creative forms of resistance and civil disobedience”

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the Earth. -Rumi Recently I was surprised to learn from Rob that the two things he’s most often asked about are Inner Transition and REconomy. Funny, isn’t it, what we

Transition Network is moving offices!  Since the organisation’s inception in 2007, it has been housed at 43 Fore Street in Totnes, in a building once described in the Sunday Telegraph as a “rickety set of rooms”.  The decision to find new premises was taken 3 years ago, but after

Lucy Neal’s ‘Playing for Time: making art as if the world mattered’ was published last week, and launched at a fantastic evening event in London.  Here’s how it is described by the publisher: This groundbreaking handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to reach

Book review: How to save our town centres: a radical agenda for the future of high streets by Julian Dobson.  Policy Press (available here).  I cannot recommend this book highly enough.  Indeed, I wish I had written it.  It is, in effect, the Transition Guide to Reclaiming Local Economies.  It