Here in the Head Zone you get to the heart of Big Tent with a huge range of debates, workshop, films and talks addressing some of the key issues that effect us today and in the future. Over the three days there will be keynote speakers, exhibitions, more venues than previous years, an international coffee bar to relax and discuss issues further. Our partners for 2010 include IACD, Oxfam and One Planet Food. There will be great new film content in our solar powered cinema with Take One Action and a festival bookshop with Word Power books. Our themes include Moving with Africa, Know Your Place, the Future of Food and How Did We Get Here?
Friday 23 July
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Take One Action Tent |
7pm Welcome to the Head Zone - come and collect your programme, book your place and join us for a glass of wine. 8.30pm Panel discussion with the Climate Champions Panel |
8pm Questioning Resilience with Nick Wilding, Graham Leicester and guests 9pm No Impact Man (film) with the World Development Movement. |
Saturday 24 July
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Take One Action Tent |
10am Libertad Coffee, straight from Chiapas. 11am The Ecology of Play with Pat Kane, author of the Play Ethic 12 noon Moving with Africa with Malcolm Fleming, and Adelaide Sosseh (Global Coalition Action Against Poverty). 2pm One Planet Food: Food and Farming as if people mattered - with Teresa Martinez and Kirtana Chandreasekaran who will discuss the results of the One Planet Food project's findings for the Fife region, CAP reform and their vision on the international movement for Food Sovereignty. 3pm Slow Food Scotland with Donald Reid, Craig Sams (founder of Green and Blacks) and Denise Walton (Winner Future Farmers 2009). 4pm Facing the Future: Outer Resilience and Inner Depth with Alastair McIntosh 5pm SOAPBOX Open to anyone at the festival – 12 x 5 minute slots. 6pm Crack Capitalism (Pluto Books) with John Holloway 7pm Climate Champions Panel chaired by Lesley Riddoch.
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11am Elizabeth Leighton (WWF Scotland) Low Carbon Homes – retro-fitting Scottish housing stock. 12 noon Charlie Henderson on The Janeeno Project, Malawi. 1pm Nature Writing in Scotland, discussion panel Chaired by Pat Kane, with Mandy Haggith, Gerry Loose and Jim Crumley. 2pm World in Transition, live video talk from Rob Hopkins, co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. 3pm NOURISH: Scotland's Land Use Strategy: a Manifesto for Sustainable Local Food 4pm Bill McKibben EAARTH, award winning American author launches his new book at the Big Tent (live video talk from the USA) 5pm Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathi with panel chaired by Simon Bateson, Take One Action (film) 8pm Grassroots Zimbabwe, workshop 9pm The Yes Men Fix the World (film)
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Sunday 25 July
Talk Tent |
Take One Action Tent |
10am Libertad Coffee, discussion and tasting 11am How does transport planning need to change to contribute towards meeting climate change targets? : Transport panel discussion & debate with SEStran Chair Cllr Russell Imrie & Guests . 12noon Zero Carbon Britain with Paul Allen from the Centre for Alternative Technology 2pm ‘UN talks, Big Business or Local Action - Who's Going to Save the Planet ?’ with Richard Dixon, Director WWF Scotland 4pm Paul Kingsnorth of the Dark Mountain project, in conversation. 5.30pm All Scotland National Seed Swap Event Led by Matthew Love of East Kildbride Community Trust, a seed swap from across Scotland
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10am FOOD INC (film) with Take One Action 12noon Moving with Africa - with Oxfam Scotland's Malcolm Fleming and on aid and agriculture. 1pm Gerahtu Tesfamichael, HE Ambassador of Eritrea to the UK on food security and ecology. 2pm Transition and Africa: Erasing the Global North/South Divide? Drawing in recent work in Cameroon and Fife with Justin Kenrick of the Holyrood 350 campaign and Sustainability Institute, St Andrews. 3pm Bhopal Voices - Teresa Martinez with Eurig Scandrett, editor of Bhopal Voices 4pm Moving with Africa with Betsy Reed, Director of Scottish Fair Trade Forum. 5pm Islands of Inspiration with Lesley Riddoch on Gottland, Eigg and Uto. |
Head over to the Lounge contains the Word Power Festival Bookshop, the Big Tent Cafe and is co-hosted by IACD and Transition Scotland. There will be a soft-area for toddlers and babies, stalls a more informal workspace for conversations and activist trainsing sessions. Here's what's happening:
Saturday 24th July 9am Share your dreams workshop with Emily Watts 10.45am Permaculture and Transition - conversation - how do we get the best out of what we all have to share? Open conservation with Luci Alderslowe, Sally Wilkin and Luci Ransome 1.45pm Indigenous, Native or Rootless? A conversation between Alistair McIntosh and Sulemana Abudulai. 3pm Oxfam Activist Training workshop 4.15pm The Domino Effect: turning an idea into reality - talk and discussion with Clare Carpenter. 5.30pm Re-seeding communities with Abi Morden, Urban Roots 6.30pm Transition hang out - all welcome.
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Sunday 25th July 9am Yoga/Tai Chi Workshop 10.15am Introduction to transition talk with Eva Schonveld 11.30am Visioning what could your community be like in 20 years? Workshop with Eva Schonveld 1pm Transition and culture - talk and workshop - with Justin Kendrick 2.15pm Oxfam Activist Training workshop 4.30pm Motivational interviewing for sustainability - talk and workshop - with Jamie Auldsmith and Michelle Hipwell from Transition Edinburgh South. 5.30pm Jammin' session - bring something to play or make some mouth music.
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Down in the Craft and Wood Zone there will be more inspiring speakers including Fi Martinoga (A Way of Life), Bernard Planterose (Building with timber, inhabiting the forest, re-skilling), Emma Chapman (Wild-harvesting - a time for planting?) and Pete Ritchie (Pigs in the Forest).
"This is a wonderfully warm community-based festival with great music and fantastic speakers - a tonic for the times in which we live."
Friends of the Earth Scotland
"The Big Tent is what all music festivals should be. Friendly and on a human scale. A good range of performers and a superb location."
Alastair McIntosh
"The Big Tent is like the world as it could be in microcosm - great music, great food, thoughtful and family-friendly"
Gordon Maclean, Director, An Tobar, The Tobermory Arts Centre