Date: Friday, November 27, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:30pm
Location: YMCA ETC Shop (next to Slug and Lettuce), 4a Southchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 2NE
This is how you can support this event:
1) tell your friends about it and then bring them with you
2) forward it to your friends, Twitter it etc
3) visit the Facebook Event Page and use the “Invite People to Come” and “Share” button
4) print the poster or leaflet and put it up in a nice place at work, school, community center, church etc
Thanks for that!
Description
NB: The film contains some strong language. Because of its intense nature, breaks will be provided between the four sections.
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What A Way To Go is a critical film at a critical time in the evolution of humanity. The survival of our species, and the future of our only home is in jeopardy, and things will only get worse if we do not change the direction we are going.
Tim Bennett, writer and director says: “After long decades of activism and effort, planetary ecosystems are closer to collapse than they have ever been. I can think of three basic reasons for this. First, we have largely failed to look at the whole thing at once. Second, we’ve refrained from deeply feeling our predicament. And third, we haven’t been asking the right questions of the right people.”
“What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire is an attempt to fill in these missing pieces. By looking at as much of the whole as we can, by creating a feeling experience of that whole, and by asking the deep questions of culture, psychology and spirit that lie at the root of our situation, it is our intention that What a Way to Go will break through the denial that has us locked in inaction.”
“There is no one right way for anything to live.”
Daniel Quinn
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A number of local groups and individuals are supporting the event, in order to bring people with as wide a range of relevant interests and ideas along as possible. Descriptions of the groups are posted below:
Spiralseed
Spiralseed is an independent publishing and educational company founded in 2001. Our publications include books, pamphlets and DVDs about permaculture, veganism, human ecology and organic gardening. We also run regular Permaculture courses and workshops and offer sustainable and ecological design consultancy. More information at http://www.spiralseed.co.uk
Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis
Keith Farnish is the author of “Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis”, a book which encompasses a great deal of the narrative of What A Way To Go, and then goes on to provide a workable, if radical solution to the ecological and social crisis created by Industrial Civilisation. The book is available free online via http://www.amatterofscale.com
S E Essex Organic Gardeners
It is now recognised that, in the face of the destruction of our countryside by chemical pesticides, British wildlife finds a safe haven in our gardens. It was to encourage the development of organic, healthy, non-toxic, gardening that South East Essex Organic Gardeners was set up in 1994 and they are now a thriving group with bi-monthly meetings, a regular newsletter and visits to a wide variety of organic farms and gardens. http://www.seeog.org.uk
S E Essex Women’s Environmental Network
WEN, the only organisation in the UK working consistently for women and the environment, has a vision of a world where women are aware of their ability to change the environment for the better and actively come together to do so. We run a local community food-growing project in Leigh and are in the process of setting up a personal carbon-counting group. http://www.seewen.org.uk
S E Essex Friends of the Earth
We campaign on local, national and global environmental issues in Southend, Rochford and Castle Point. Our main focus is climate change – we are calling on Southend Council to reduce borough-wide CO2 emissions by 40% by 2020 as part of Friends of the Earth’s national “Get Serious about CO2“ campaign and are working with SAEN (saen.org.uk) to prevent the expansion of Southend Airport. http://www.seefoe.org.uk
Southend in Transition
Southend in Transition is a group of positive, solution focused local residents who are aware of the challenges of climate change and the end of cheap oil. They ask the questions “How is Southend-on-Sea going to feed itself, where is the energy going to come from, how are we going to heat our homes and get to work?” when oil prices shoot up again and climate change hits in. http://www.southendintransition.org.uk
Healthy Life Essex
A community interest company providing the web-based resource http://www.healthylifeessex.co.uk. Lots of information for anyone interested in leading a more natural, happier, healthier, greener lifestyle. Subjects covered include environmental issues, gardening, countryside, wildlife, complementary therapies and much more. Lots of interesting articles, events, and a lively blog.
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