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Dear Folk,

Walking the Country as a teller of Transition Tales, Stephanie Bradley is visiting Minstead Study Centre.

She will tell tales from her travels by the firelight of the Roundhouse at 7.30pm on Friday 16th April.

To find out more follow the link http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/node/2251

Tickets are £5, to book a place please contact me.

Spring smiles

Jane Pownall
Head of Centre
Minstead Study Centre

Tel: 023 8081 3437

Steph Storytells her way around the UK

"Once, upon our times, in a town that was not too big and not too small, where a man called Rob has settled to share his vision of a transition future, there lived a storyteller who decided she wanted to create a collection of Transition Tales. To co-create these tales she would walk out of the town that was not too big and not too small, at around the time of the Spring Equinox, to visit 13 other places, use her storytelling to work with the inhabitants to create the tale of their town, village or city, neighbourhood, school, university, or estate, and return home to harvest a book of tales at the time of the Autumn Equinox."

And guess what? Steph sets out on her Uk trip on Monday 29th March and is due to visit the New Forest. Minstead Study Centre on 16th April and the Spring Fair at Lymington on 17th April, respectively! Look out for events that you can come along to, and meet Steph, and wish her luck on her travels...

Find out more about Steph's travels...

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You've seen 'The Story of Stuff', well now there's also,

The Story of BOTTLED WATER

Who would choose something less tasty, less sustainable that costs 2000 times more?

Closing our eyes and visioning what the future will be like in 20 -30 years time is a powerful and emotive tool.

Have a read of Corrina's article and find out if you would like to be somewhere similar in the future?

Dear Prime Minister,

When all flights are grounded, we will not understand. We will feel that the world as we know it is tumbling down. We will protest about the restriction of freedom and demand our right to travel where we choose. There will be petitions, maybe riots; we will not know how to contain our anger. You must be ready for this.

When the great giant chain stores clear out, we will holler for their return. We are so used to their slogans, their logos, the safe familiarity of our two-for-one offers. You must expect our fear.

When the cash machines spit out our cards, we will look at each other in panic. We have forgotten, you see, that shelter and food and warmth are our birthright. We have imagined that we must buy such things. 

When pineapples and coffee disappear from the shelves and when animal protein becomes rare, know that there will be outrage. When the private car is no more, we will hurl abuse and accuse you of dragging us back to the dark ages. 

Oh yes, we will fight and hold on, we will kick and scream. When the whole fabrication comes crashing down around us, we will ask: Why did you not see this coming? We will beg you to make it better, we will plead and bargain. We have so few models, you see, for anything other than our current reality and our safety lies with the known. So at first, we won’t like it, not one bit. Of all this you can be guaranteed.

Later, as we are forced to adapt and as we notice ourselves becoming stronger, more interesting, more skilled human beings, we will sorrow at how much we wasted - not just of our precious natural world that can never be refurbished, but how much we wasted of ourselves. How we contorted ourselves out of all proportion to fit a system which made no sense when actually it was our authentic selves and our passion that were needed.