Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 13th September 2026 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Now a long time Nottingham resident and social activist, Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’ comes from a free festival and traveller background. Living in old buses, trucks and caravans, he drove around the country on ‘the circuit’ with his family and friends.
Since the late 1970’s he has been photographing events and the people around him, with One Eye on the Road and always another on the response of the police.
Join us at Sumac Centre on the early evening of Saturday 7th June for a display of Tash’s photos, and a discussion with Tash about free festivals and wider issues of Policing and Protest.
This will no doubt include his activism in Nottingham from Critical Mass to Heckler & Koch, from Nottm Indymedia to the Green Festival.
There will be snacks from Veggies and a social at Sumac’s Forest Fields Social Club bar afterwards.
40 years ago, Molesworth peace camp, part of a campaign organised from Nottingham Rainbow Centre, was evicted by thousands of police and army, in one of the most expensive evictions in British history. Many of those evicted formed a ‘Peace Convoy’.
On 1st June 1985 Tash documented the prearranged police ambush of the Peace Convoy, travelling though Wiltshire for the annual Fee Festival at Stonehenge. This has been been dubbed the Battle of the Beanfield.
Five Leaves Bookshop will also be holding an illustrated talk with Alan Lodge Tash at 4.45 on Sunday 1st June.
Whilst the Sumac Centre event will travel with Tash from the 1970’s to today, the Five Leaves event focuses his lens on the 40th Anniviversary of the Battle of the Beanfield.
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Stonehenge ‘85.
Battle of the Bean Field.
A year after crushing the miners, Thatcher turned her eye to the burgeoning counter-culture, mobilising 1300 police officers in an attempt to halt the counter-cultures most significant annual event- the Stonehenge Free festival. pic.twitter.com/mXNX9wMZGY
— Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes) June 21, 2023
with stills photography by Alan Lodge ‘Tash’.
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 14th September 2025 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival was held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support was most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
Come up with plans to tackle the city’s environmental challenges and to minimise their environmental impact.
Present our perspective on plans for carbon neutral Nottingham 2028 (CN28)
We’ll decide together how to make the most of our proposals at this crucial time, in the run up to a regional mayoral election and the run up to a general election.
We’ll also give the Climate Assembly team a chance to hone their skills before the city-wide, public Climate Assembly planned for later in 2024.
We really hope that you will be happy to join us on Saturday April 20th at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX, 11-4 pm (including lunch).
We would like your group or organisation to send 1-2 delegates to the Assembly. Please could you let us know by March 1st 2024 whether you will be accepting this invitation and which people will be coming on behalf of your group or organisation (as well as their email addresses).
If you have any questions at this stage, please don’t hesitate to ask.
XR Notts Alliances team.
Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.
The Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.
Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.
Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)
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