This post is a round-up of eight imaginative projects and developments that are happening now, in Tooting and beyond. It’s a selection of what we’ve spotted in the past month. My title comes from Paul Allen of Zero Carbon Britain at the Centre for Alternative Technology, one of the contributors to Playing for Time (see below). […]
Read More →This is a reminder that Weds 8th is the April Meet & Make! Meet & Make is a monthly invitation to ”make time for making” in our busy lives. On offer this month, at no cost, is the chance to sit and relax with the restorative craft of hand sewing, using beads. You can create […]
Read More →Tooting Field Days are local safaris based in and around Tooting; a chance to get outside and play, walk or make something. We can’t promise lions and zebras but you might discover something you’ve never seen before, think something new or have a mini adventure! Tooting Field Days will happen every month on a Sunday […]
Read More →‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’. This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition. Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in […]
Read More →Our current outdoor learning project with Gatton School is to build a greenhouse in the community garden made from recycled plastic bottles (see picture below – this is what we hope the finished greenhouse will look like). The year 6 pupils come to the garden for an hour a week to work on this and […]
Read More →Good to see that there has been some debate and reflection after last week’s Electing The Future event. Low Impact’s Dave Darby in this thoughtful piece reflects on the elephant in the room – the incongruity of constant economic growth on a physically finite planet, an erroneous assumption that he feels the main political parties […]
Read More →A successful Electing the Future event was held tonight at the USSR club. Loads of interesting discussion about Tooting past, present and future with local voices including some of the parliamentary candidates standing in Tooting. Thanks to Dan Watkins, Phil Ling & Esther Obiri-Darko for attending and Fleur Anderson for standing in for an absent Sadiq Khan. […]
Read More →With the general election just around the corner, TTT is bringing local people of all ages together, along with local businesses, parliamentary candidates, scientists and artists for an open conversation about the future of our area. Electing the Future takes place next Wednesday 18th March at the United Services Club in the Balham High Rd […]
Read More →This month’s Meet & Make is a sew fest! We have makes suitable for sewbies and sewsperts. All materials, expertise and equipment is provided for free (we do collect small, donations for the venue) so you can just turn up, have a chat, sew some seams and perhaps go home with some new hairbands, or a pair […]
Read More →A group of a dozen of us from Tooting went to the Time to Act march on Saturday in London. Why march? To express yourself, to be counted, to meet friends and strangers, to witness change in the making, to represent others, simply to be there. Making and feeling the weight of your message […]
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