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Tuesday 1st June 7:30pm
Free Entry
From oil dependence to local resilience, a film produced by the Transition Network. Climate change and peak oil challenge our way of life. How can we move from lives addicted to cheap oil? The Transition movement now has 7000 active villages and towns. Could Chapelhay be the next to plan an energy descent pathway to a happier, healthy future? (1 hour)
This screening is a joint venture between the Weymouth Old Town Hall and the Weymouth & Portland Transition Towns group; and is the first of three films, dealing with the issues of sustainability.
Tuesday 25th May, 7:30pm
Admission: Free
A documentary on how a whole community adapted to a low carbon life as the oil was cut off in Cuba. The positive changes that resulted from more local food production or cycling give a vision of how Chapelhay might adapt to the future.
This film screening is a joint venture between Weymouth Old Town Hall and the Weymouth and Portland Transition Towns group.
Free admission
Tuesday 18th May 7:30pm: THE AGE OF STUPID
Tuesday 25th May 7:30pm: THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
Tuesday 1st June 7:30pm: IN TRANSITION
These three film screenings are a joint venture between the Old Town Hall and the Weymouth and Portland Transition Towns group; and is the first of three films), dealing with the issues of sustainability.
THE AGE OF STUPID
Tuesday 18th May 7:30pm
Drama-documentary-animation; about the possible consequences of a warming planet. This is a hard hitting and provoking film starring Pete Postlethwaite as the curator of a museum interested in the follies and shortsightedness that lead to irreversible climate change. Jet travel, wind turbines and melting glaciers are overlapping story lines given a human face with an interesting interweaved documentary story lines. 90 mins
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The Power of Community
Tuesday 25th May 7:30pm
A documentary on how a whole community adapted to a low carbon
life as the oil was cut off in Cuba. The positive changes that resulted from more local food production or cycling give a vision of how Chapelhay might adapt to the future. 1 hour.
In Transition
Tuesday 1st June 7:30pm
From Oil dependence to local Resilience’ film produced by the Transition Network. Climate change and peak oil challenge our way of life. How can we move from lives addicted to cheap oil? The Transition movement now has
7000 active villages and towns. Could Chapelhay be the next to plan an energy descent pathway to a happier, healthy future? 1 hour.
The Battle of Weymouth took place during the English Civil War in 1645 and on Saturday 6th February 2010, between 12 noon and 4pm at the Old Town Hall in the heart of old Weymouth (behind the council offices on North Quay and opposite the Boot Inn) there will be Living History inside the hall so you can get a flavour of what life was like in those times. There will be musket firing, pike drills for the children and ‘show and tell’ history of Civil War times. Refreshments will be available. Local author, Mark Vine, will be signing copies of his book, The Crabchurch Conspiracy, the true story of the Battle of Weymouth 1645.
On the Saturday evening (6th) from 9pm, local Celtic rock band, The Dolmen, will be performing LIVE the album The Crabchurch Conspiracy, with lyrics written by Mark Vine, author of the book of the same name. Tickets are just £5 each with funds raised being donated to the Old Town Hall renovation fund.
On Sunday 7th February, a commemoration march will take place with soldiers in full 17th Century dress, starting at Sandsfoot Castle at approx 10.50am, leaving at 11.00am on a route via Old Castle Road, Belle Vue Road and to the footpath at Bincleaves that leads to Newtons Cove. From there, up behind Brewers Quay to Franchise Street at Chapelhay, down the lane beside the Chapelhay Tavern and into Chapelhay Street to arrive at the Old Town Hall at approx. 12 noon. After a commemoration at the hall, the soldiers will leave at approx. 12.30pm and march along the old High Street (behind the council offices), then into Trinity Road and along to the Old Rooms Inn by the Old Town Pump. Here will be another commemoration and then the soldiers will march into Hope Square, finishing by Brewers Quay at approx. 1.15pm.
The whole weekend is an ideal opportunity for all ages to learn about Weymouth’s local and Civil War history and is sponsored by:
Guardians of the Old Town Hall
Pike And Shot Tour & Event (PASTE)
Chapelhay Community Partnership
Chapelhay Community Partnership Arts Inclusion project
The Chapelhay Community Partnership (CCP) and Guardians of the Old Town Hall (GOTHS) are working with Weymouth and Portland Partnership and Dorset County Council to identify the needs of the local community in relation to Arts activities and events. The project began in December 2009 and will end in March 2010.
The aim of the project is to consult with the community in Weymouth and Portland, to find out what arts activities people from a wide range of backgrounds would like to see happening in their area. It is hoped that local people will be able to have some input into programming and planning in the Old Town Hall, which has recently opened as an Arts/Heritage centre. A report will be written, which will be used as a toolkit by the CCP and GOTHS to develop their audiences, and consider what new audiences need.
Two diversity consultants have been recruited to carry out the research, and will be holding four events for local people to come along and have their say. The vision behind this project is for people to feel that they ‘fit in’ and feel welcomed at the Old Town Hall and at other arts events in the area. The consultants are particularly keen to hear the views of people from minority groups, such as Black and Ethnic Minority, lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual, young people, people with disablities, people with mental health issues, substance abusers and so on – the people who don’t traditionally have a ‘voice’. If you would like to take part please contact Louisa Parker louisaparker3@hotmail.com Or Angie Ward angie.ccp@hotmail.com
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