| January - March 2009 Working Calendar of Events from Pilot Publishing:
January 21st
Workers’ Café all day breakfast
8.00am – 4.00pm. Take a break and stop off at Energy Café for special fried egg breakfast, donations welcome!
January 24th – January 30th Under Collective Construction (winter season)
Urgent call for volunteers
To help us on site to work on making the mobile kitchen in the horse trailer (includes exterior repairs, carpentry work, plumbing and gas cooker installation and install Signage around the Park and by the roadside. We will be there every day from 10am until 5pm.
February 2nd – February 8th
Urgent call for volunteers
To help us work on the other café structures: Finishing the bender – making it cosy. finishing the tea and coffee bar – including making seating. Making Patchwork tent to fit over existing pole structure. (includes hand sewing, weaving, carpentry and ingenuity). And constructing a welcoming arch at the entrance to the site. We will be there every day from 10am until 5pm. Over this period our priorities are focusing on the above but anyone is welcome to drop by to see what’s happening, discuss ideas for Energy College, or make something on the spot for Energy Café with the materials we have on site. If you would like to volunteer some of your time and expertise, please call Pilot Publishing as soon as possible so to confirm dates. All refreshments provided. Email: pilotpublishing@googlemail.com Mobiles: 07791246022 and 07947367463 February 14th
Critical mass food search (within a 6 mile radius)
10am – 3pm. Meet at Energy café site. Bring Bike Maps provided
aim is to source as much locally grown food as possible (including wild food) gather back at site with findings to cook up a sunset dinner. February 16 – March 14th Energy College
A testing ground for off grid experiments
Four weeks of Informal workshops, demonstrations, cook ups, talks, presentations etc.
February 16 – 20th
Kids are invited to take over for half term
(Details to be confirmed) February 21st
Melting Pot Lunch Party
1pm onwards. February 22nd – March 14th
Details and schedule to be confirmed
Energy College Wish list includes:
>Beat the fuel crisis, come and make your own free electricity: from bike power, to wind, to solar experimentation.
>Design, build and test ovens and stoves for winter cooking,
>Take part in demonstrations on DIY hot water systems and central heating.
>Explore Rainwater harvesting
>Potential of willow, from coppicing, to fedging and building living structures, weaving and basketry + charcoal making and Bio char.
>Inventing shelters, finding natural ways to insulate (felting etc)
>Preparing for a café event: café furniture, outdoor stage building, skate ramp, dance floor and learning how to build a compost loo!
>Making a mobile allotment, seed saving, composting etc
>Outreach - Energy café crew offering services to local community
>Talks and presentations on food production, complimentary currency, land remediation processes, collective living, common land and future of Gunpowder Park etc…
>Plus all sorts of energizers (dawn chorus walk, jamming, Djing, foraging) and lots of cook ups! And we’re also keen to build a hot air balloon and dig a wishing well!! Does any of the above spark your imagination? Pilot Publishing are looking for proposals. Please contact them to discuss your idea. We look forward to hearing from you! March 21st (Spring Equinox- 24hour non stop)
Energy Cafe off grid Spring Banquet and other festivities including - On the stage: Live music, On the dance floor: Tango to Belly to Morris dancing. And a ‘Bike in’ cinema (programme to be announced) plus lots more!
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