BND UK EVENTS - 2007
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ENGLAND
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LEEDS - Free Music Festival
24th Nov aimed at Leeds students but open to public. The Free Festival is a side project designed to attract a wide number of people to the idea of Buy Nothing Day who would normally shy away from environmental campaigns. There will be 12 musical acts, a performance poet, free food and activities all held in the upstairs room of a well known pub opposite the university. The idea is that people will enjoy and remember the event and perhaps consider having a less consumer-crazy Christmas.
Contact: Sophie Payling 07828 969 618

LONDON
We will be filming the event for our new eco video website www.eco-tube.com which launches the same week – we hope to get some news programmes to feature the film. Probably we will do the zombie mask concept – plus a checkout blockade!

I now have over 20 people already committed and my target is 50 plus.

Any interested parties please email chris@conscience-uk.com

LONDON - Got a sofa you no longer want? Looking for a wardrobe? Want to swap spare spoons for a new necklace?
Then come along to a free Give or Take Day at the Orchard Estate Community Hall, Broadmead Rd, Woodford Green on Saturday, November 24th between 12 and 3pm.

The Give or Take Day, organised by Forest Recycling Project in partnership with Redbridge Council, is a community waste exchange event – a chance for you to get rid of furniture and bric-a-brac you don’t need and to pick up something you do need. And it is all free.

The event provides an opportunity to reduce waste by reusing furniture instead of throwing it away. This saves on landfill space and reduces fly tipping, and also contributes towards saving valuable resources. It also offers people on low incomes the chance to pick up furniture and other household items they may need.

The Forest Recycling Project is a community recycling group in Walthamstow that offers recycling advice and collections to local people and organisations.

For those unable to make it on the day, Forest Recycling Project has created an online waste exchange facility, go to www.giveortake.org

Journalists and photographers are invited to attend. For further media information contact Brian Kelly on 8539 3856.

REDDICH - FREE SHOP - Friday 23 November 2007
There will be a Free Shop stall in Redditch town centre(Worcestershire) on Friday 23rd, from 11am. See article in the Redditch Standard.

BRISTOL - Freecycle – Saturday 24 November 2007
Don't throw things away that would be useful to others - freecycle them!


BRISTOL - Freecycle – Saturday 24 November 2007
Bristol Freecycle
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BRIGHTON - Buy Nothing Day: Make Your Own Gift Workshop – Saturday 24 November 2007
Shop less – live more! Come and join us for a free, fun alternative to Christmas shopping. Get creative and learn some new skills... 11am–5pm, Sat 24 Nov 2007 at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton.

Free workshops on the day:
11.30am Paper making
Dipped and moulded candles
1pm Sewing and clothing re-design (Bring clothes to mend/revamp/freecycle)
Renewable energy toys
3pm Jewellery making
Rag rug weaving

Plus: Recycled Tetra Pac wallets, make your own Christmas cards, recipes for food gifts to take away and more...

Bring books to exchange at our Bookcrossing stall...bring something to Freecycle and browse our free shop... make some friends and come away with something unique...

Buy Nothing Day is an annual event started in 1992 as a means to highlight excessive consumerism in today’s Western culture. This event is part of an initiative to reduce consumption by Transition Brighton and Hove, a group of volunteers aiming to start a city-wide community response to the challenges of climate change and peak oil.

See more at http://www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
For more information about the day email transitionbrightonandhove@gmail.com
Invite people to this event on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5137189939

SOUTHAMPTON - The Art HOuse in Southampton are hosting a Bric-a-Brac sale

12pm - 3pm.. See pOster for details!
The Art House
81a Bedford Place
Southampton
SO15 2TF
02380 238582
email - ninathearthouse@yahoo.co.uk
Facebook- Art House

WALES
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SCOTLAND
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IRELAND
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