Workhouse Birthday party poster
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Workhouse Festival invites you to our 7th Birthday Party Event!
Historic Llanfyllin Workhouse will once more become alive with an extravagant camping weekend for young and old. Workhouse Festival is celebrating its 7th Birthday with a 3-day Extravaganza on the 9,10,11 July 2010.
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- Wales and Uganda flags
Dolen Ffermio Exhibition
by Cordelia Weedon & Ugandan Students Kumi
at Y Dolydd Workhouse Gallery Llanfyllin
Dolen ffermio, Farm link is about participation between Llanfyllin schools and Eastern Uganda
Weekends 5th & 6th 12th & 13th June 10.30 – 5.30
Permaculture fortnight at the Workhouse
May 15 – 29th Permaculture design Course
An intensive 2 week crash course in sustainability -many of the evening sessions are open to the public for FREE: Download the public programme here
- Permaculture Design at the Workhouse
Permaculture Season at the Workhouse
- End of Sub-urbia banner
Screening of the End of Sub-urbia, Workhouse Gallert Saturday, May 15th. 7pm
Free entry (donations accepted)
“If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.”
“How bad will it get? Put it this way. We are looking at the mother of all downsizings.”
To kick off our Permaculture fortnight at the Workhouse we are screening this thought provoking and challenging film, made in 2004 – the End of Sub Urbia. It is the elephant in the room, the looming energy crisis that will force us all to Rethink, Re evaluate and Re localise. The screeing is open to the public and there will also be a bar and cafe. 7-11. The screening will be followed by some discussion on the realities of Peak Oil. Check the Peak Oil category on this blog to read more on the subject.
- Power of Community
The Power of Community, an Introduction to Transition Towns
Friday May 21 in The Gallery Llanfyllin Workhouse, Free entry. suggested donation £2.00
Peak oil came early to Cuba, economically isolated the island state lost almost all of its oil imports when the Soviet era suddenly ended. This is the story of how they adapted to life after oil. This is a positive, informative, challenging and uplifting story. Truly thought provoking.
Followed by a presentation on Transiton Towns, an idea of how to build a relocalisation strategy and how we might plot a pathway to energy independence.
Rubbing shoulders with Death
Workhouse Gallery, Tuesday May 25th from 7pm, Free entry (£3 donation suggested)
- Tibor’s talk at the Workhouse on his astounding life after death experiences
25th May Hungarian Tibor Putnoki will visit Llanfyllin Workhouse week next month, on Tuesday 25th May to talk about how a near-death experience changed his life. He was clinically dead for nine minutes – an experience which has since allowed him to touch the lives of hundreds world –wide for more than 15 years.
Tibor Putnoki aims to inspire people around the world with his talks which are positive, uplifting and optimistic. The talk will be held in the gallery at Llanfyllin Workhouse and is open to the public for a suggested donation of £3 per person.
Doors open 7pm, talk starts 7.30pm and last approx 2 1/2 hours.
Climate Change Recalculated
- Top energy boffin, Saul Griffith
Workhouse Gallery 7pm-9pm. May 27th. Free entry
Part of the May Permaculture season at the Workhouse
With climate change on the one hand and peak oil looming on the other, it feels certain that we are going to have to have a major rethink about energy. Probably right now would be a good time to be doing that!
The world currently runs on about 16 terawatts (trillion watts) of energy, most of it burning fossil fuels. To level off at 450 ppm of carbon dioxide, [as currently advised] we will have to reduce the fossil fuel burning to 3 terawatts and produce all the rest with renewable energy, and we have to do it in 25 years or it’s too late.
Currently about half a terrawatt comes from clean hydropower and one terrawatt from clean nuclear. That leaves 11.5 terawatts to generate from new clean sources.
Could the world actually do this? and what would it actually feel like? Would our lives be recognisable to what they are now?
Saul Griffith answers these questions, in a strangely uplifting yet challenging presentation.
‘Very informative and very well presented‘
Recorded by the Long Now Foundation
This talk was given at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California on Friday January 16, 02009
An archive of past event posters and publicity. See the Photos section for pics from past events
Funkativity at the Workhouse
Mayday family fun event