MAKE IT HAPPEN Event  Friday 7th March, 8pm - Great Poets, Music and Speakers.
Ashburton Town Hall.
Helping turn Seale-Hayne into the UK's first dedicated Climate Change Solutions Centre,
a wonderful night for the community to share in this vision! 

The Speakers include The Founder of the Transistion Town movement, Rob Hopkins.
What do we do when we learn that the 'black gold' will soon start running out?
Do we grab a gun and head for the hills, or do we redouble our efforts to build strong,
resilient communities and economies that are not dependent on fossil fuels?
Rob Hopkins is at the forefront of the latter approach. Originally a permaculture teacher,
Rob began tackling peak oil by coordinating an energy descent action plan with his
students for Kinsale,
the town in Ireland where he was living and teaching. The resulting document received a
huge amount of interest from around the world and has since given rise to the Transition
Towns movement - a rapidly spreading, community-led approach to peak oil planning,
which is currently being implemented at a village, town and even city level.
Rob also writes a popular and solutions-based peak oil blog called Transition Culture.

Leighton King the Project Co-ordinator in this bid to turn Seale-Hayne in to a Climate
Change Solutions Centre. A founder member of Bovey Climate Action and is head of
the Defined Projects Group, including the development of Community Power Networks 
and working with the engineering group Arup with the Bovey Power Company.
They planning to power Bovey Tracey with methane recovered from landfill sites. 
Leighton was also the first American to receive a Queen's Award for Technological
Achievement. He will give a you background to the bid and what we hope to achieve.

All the Artists performing on the night work relates to issues of climate change
and the plight of life on earth.

The fabulous folk band SEIZE THE DAY  headline the night featuring songs from many
albums including their latest THE TIDE IS TURNING. “We believe in the fundamental
goodness of all people. We want to empower that goodness by singing the songs that
inspire us to break free of the corporate reality and create the world we really want,” says
Theo. “Right now, that means taking personal responsibility for climate change and forcing
change at a national and global level, as well as making our own lives more sustainable. 
"The musical voice of the environmental movement"...Satish Kumar 
"Sheer enthusiasm, commitment, versatility and talent - wonderful to listen to,
even better to watch. An experience not to be missed. If you want to be invigorated,
enlivened and entertained - don't waste this opportunity - Seize The Day!"

Karen Eberhardt-Shelton will be reading from her new book 
A WOMEN’S GUIDE TO SAVING THE WORLD being launched the next day
International Womens Day; and includes contributions from Anna Roddick,
Caroline Lucas, Shannon Smy, 83 women in total. In fact three on the women in the
book will be onstage that night, and more in the crowd.  
"We men have had our turn and made a proper mess
of things. We need women to save us." Archbishop Desmond Tutu Within the pages
of thislovingly, idealistically and passionately written book lies a collection of essays:
pleas for world peace and an end to animal cruelty, calls for us to tread more lightly on
what is, after all, our only home and a finite resource, and descriptions of environmental
activism and acts of heroism the world over.
Karen herself is  life-long environmental activist, published author, poet and award
winning photgrapher with the aim of setting up an Eco-Trust for wildlife protection
and the promotion of sustainable living.

Lucy Lepchani,  is a writer and performance poet, who will be performing poems from her
new Arts Council funded CD  THE WISDOM OF THE BEES .
 
"A wonderfully accessible, life-affirming poet with great range, bold imagery, warmth
and wit. I'd recommend anyone to listen to Lucy Lepchani'  - Matt Harvey, writer & poet
 
"As good as Kipling!" Alan Titchmarsh,
 
" The destabilising mellifluousness of Lucy's tone elegantly contrasts with the insightful
candor of her poetry." Byron Vincent – slam champion & performance poet

Scott Jasper  will be performing from his forthcoming solo project ‘CLEARWATER’
A collection of brand new insightful songs, drawing on a variety of influences. 
Personal, Political and Powerful, these reflective songs represent a search for truth
within oneself and invoke a call to action in the world.  Scott works as both a solo artist
and as part of popular “mythic folk” duo ‘Dragonfly Moon’.

Joyaa's  TOO LATE TO PRAY - Climate Change album, brakes all the rules in a
protest album, with chillout moods to hard core dance, and it's sounds so commercial,
what a sin! And then there's the title, outrageous. A reluctant anarchist Victoria justs feels
that this is the only thing worth writing out. 
"Get us in the mood for a new way of living" Alex Smith Eco-shock Radio, Canada.  
She has also been busy making lots of videos including the one on the home page
of www.climatechangecentre.co.uk. In fact you'll find her involved in the core group
as well, "stirring the pot, with all she's got"

Doors open at 8pm.  Entry £7.00 low income - otherwise £9.00 and Children Free.
Refreshments Available. 
Buses return to Totnes £5 must be booked in advance.
All proceeds go to the Climate Change Solutions Fundraising Group. 
For details 01364 652043 

TO BOOK please use donate button and email your paypal receipt to
Victoria Whelan by the 6th March.
Include £5 for your Bus if coming from Totnes.

 "Make it Happen is absolutely the right message. 
Getting stuck-in is so much better for your physical and mental health than sitting
around grumpily anticipating the end of life on Earth.
The drive behind this campaign to convert Seale-Hayne into a
Climate Change Solutions Centre has that simple idea at its heart. 
So why don't you help make it happen!"  JONATHON PORRITT