Lyme Links Christmas Lunch Thursday 13 December 2012

Lyme Links Christmas Lunch Thursday 13 December


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Youth Community Forum invitation 29 November 2012

Invitation

Northbank community garden local food celebration event 24 November 2012

celebration event

Playback Theatre "Transformation" 18 November 2012

Transformation

Lost in Transformation: A Performance by Bellingen Playback Theatre

Let’s talk about change! At times the old does not do it for us any more: we open to new possibilities, without really knowing what the outcome will be. We shave our heads  (or turn blonde), we move houses or across continents, we leave our partner, enroll in a course or change careers. Other times change happens to us: the kids move out, or we find ourselves pregnant; a loved one leaves us, or finally (finally!) we meet the love of our life; we have a stroke, or a stroke of luck.

Let’s talk about being lost and finding ourselves again. What did you use as your compass when you were high at sea, the sky was overcast and no known land was in sight?

The end of 2012 is here and our collective dreaming takes us many places. Are we peeking over the Edge of Chaos, a dangerous, unstable place, full of creative potential.

 ‘Will the world end?’ some fear. ‘The Mayans did not just run out of paper! Will it be a polar reversal, a solar flare or the impact with planet Nibiru?’. Or are we accelerating towards the brink of an evolutionary leap – a time in which we will create a new, paradigm, a more harmonious and life sustaining one?

Wherever you are at and whoever you are, you are warmly invited to come along to Bellingen Playback Theatre’s next performance and listen to our community’s stories of transformation.

Playback Theatre is a theatre of storytelling. A dynamic form of spontaneous theatre where the unexpected often happens!  At a Playback performance there is no script. Audience members tell experiences, dilemmas or events from their lives to the Playback Conductor. Actors and a musician then shape and recreate these stories, bringing them to life using the power and playfulness of improvised theatre.

Bellingen Playback Theatre is a dynamic and highly respected theatre company made up of very juicy local artists. Since its beginnings in 1989, the Bellingen Playback Theatre Company has undergone numerous transformations, hence claiming expertise on the subject of this particular performance.

When: Sunday the 18^th of November, door opens at 7. Entry $18

Where: Memorial Hall

Tea & cake available for purchase

The Rainbow Fig Tree Learning Centre need a home

The Rainbow Fig Tree Learning Community  

Can you help?

We are looking for a space to use three days per week (Wed-Fri) during school terms in 2013. 

The program is influenced by Reggio Emilia, Steiner, Ecological, democratic classroom and compassionate communication theories.  

This is for a small group of K -2 (5 -7 age group) 

 

There will be 10-15 children and 2-5 adults working together.

We are hoping to find a cabin, workshop, barn, studio or similar with toilet access somewhere near Bellingen. 

We are very happy to work to clean, fix and beautify an unused space and to take out appropriate insurance. 

We can offer a little bit of money and a whole lot of love, work and appreciation.

Bronya and John: 0439 311 884

rainbowfigtree@yahoo.com.au

Information provided by  Sonya Kumar

Claire Dunn's event recommendation up to 18 November 2012

Dear Bello mates

There is a gig coming up at number 5 next week that you don't want to miss. Some close friends of mine from Margaret River are playing on Thursday night the 15^th with the 'big gig' on Sunday evening the 18^th of November. You may have seen them on the cover of Earth Garden a few months ago, with their baby, hanging out in their self-designed uber-eco truck (veggie oil the whole way). Aside from their environmental credentials, Bec Schofield and Dave Mann are well known on the folk festival circuit for the kind of music that melts your heart.

Their bio reads:

A powerful alchemy took place when Bec and Dave met in the northern territory a few years back. Simply said, these two were meant to sing together. Their unique voices, in harmony meld like a soothing velvet drink for the soul. Now, as a family they travel the country, in their eco friendly home on wheels, singing up stories that inspire a campfire in the heart. This folk/blues, featuring open-tunings, slide guitar, mandolin and bouzouki is imbedded with an easy honesty that’s infectious and intimate.

Dave's website is: http://www.davemann.com.au/Dave_Mann/Home.html

Not wanting to confuse, I also want to plug the clashing event on the 

Sunday evening the 18^th – the Bellingen Playback Theatre Company 'Lost in Transformation' gig at the Memorial Hall which will also be awesome.Take your pick, or do both. 

Love

Wren (Claire)

Solastalgia live Orians's event 13 November 2012

 Live Orion event, 13 November

You are invited you to call in to listen, too, if you like. It concerns an essay in the Nov/Dec issue on finding beauty in wrecked places and dealing with solastalgia, the lived experience of negative environmental change. 

You may have already gotten an official Orion missive about this, but if so, there's an update that Professor Glenn Albrecht will also now be joining this free phone/web discussion on Tuesday.  Glenn is professor of sustainability at Murdoch University in Perth and an environmental philosopher who pioneered the research domain of ‘psychoterratic’ or earth related mental health conditions and coined the term solastalgia.

In addition, the incomparable artist/activist Lily Yeh will be joining the dialogue along with the author of the piece, Trebbe Johnson.

All are welcome, including your colleagues and students, etc, and the call is free. Send folks here for more info and to register: 

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=gjrrc9sklx5b

"We’re confronted by ecological degradation everywhere we look these days, from clearcut forests to oceanic garbage to mountaintop removal mining scars. But is it possible to find beauty and redemption in these places? If you’re troubled by the decline of the planet, and want to learn more about the psychological impacts of its degradation, join us for a free live web event featuring Trebbe Johnson, Lily Yeh, and Glenn Albrecht."

People's Food Plan talk by Nick Rose 18 November 2012

Dear Friends,

 just letting you know about a talk at the Bellingen Community and High School Garden next Sunday at 10.30am followed by a wood-fired pizza lunch. The talk by Nick Rose of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance is on the People's Food Plan-the grass roots alternative to the national government's Food Plan. What happens in the food system is of no concern if we are never going to eat again. But if we are going to have breakfast, lunch and dinner, what happens to farmers, seeds and water matters.There will be a discussion following the talk on how we can be involved in developing and promoting the People's Food Plan. All welcome!
In case of rain we will adjourn to the Bellingen Environment Centre, Church st Lane.

Save Art in TAFE rally Coffs Harbour 14 November

SAVE CREATIVE COURSES IN

TAFE

To friends and supporters of creative industry on the mid-north coast,

The O'Farrell State Government's cuts to TAFE, beginning with withdrawal of funding for creative industry courses, (courses deemed unimportant and not leading to 'real jobs') threatens the future of emerging creative talent and creative industry in NSW. Our local TAFE in Coffs Harbour has grown to become an institution that delivers quality art education across the creative spectrum, with courses such as furniture design, fashion design, digital media, visual art and ceramics to name a few.

At the moment these courses are accessible for many on the mid north coast who couldn't afford the high fees (up to $10,000 or more) that cuts will force TAFES to implement.

It's estimated that 70% of artists in NSW train through the TAFE system. Expensive fees will leave emerging talent from high schools across the state with nowhere to go and threatens to disconnect current pathways and credit transfers to University.

Tourism on the Mid North Coast depends on our creative people who make a living, both large and small, out of their creative pursuits. TAFE fosters and encourages new talent with positive teachers who are practising makers and artists. Please forward this email to other friends and supporters of creative industry.

Please come and show your support for TAFE and TAFE students. 

SAVE ART IN TAFE RALLY

at the CHEC campus

Hogbin Drive Coffs Harbour

Wednesday 14th November

between 12 and 2 pm

speakers from 12.30