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The Trashcatchers’ Carnival takes to the streets in 4 weeks’ time. Lots happening to get ready between now and then. There are workshops in many of the schools building floats, costumes, musical instruments and head pieces. Artists will be travelling between Tooting’s 15 schools on an almost daily basis. The South London Swimming Club have […]
Read More →Come and take part in creating the Trashcatchers Carnival on Tuesday 1st June at Mushkil Aasaan, 222-222 Upper Tooting Road, 7-9pm. There will be loads of creative people giving advice and tips on how to make beautiful things from rubbish, including a bunting and a plastic cloth making workshops. We will kick start the evening […]
Read More →The government commits to 10:10: The Government Signs-up to 10:10 from 10:10 on Vimeo. while Tooting continues to commit to Carnival!
Read More →At the weekend the remarkable Steph Bradley dropped in on TTT as we checked out potential venues for our Unleashing in July. Steph, pictured above with Malsara, David & Lucy, has spent the last seven weeks walking from Transition HQ in Totnes, in, you guessed it, a pair of flip-flops! She intends to spend six […]
Read More →TTT’s Sara has been away from us since last year studying permaculture in Sweden and India. She has sent us some fascinating reflections on her experiences…. I have since the middle of October been living amongst poor farmers in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The reasons I’m here are many, and the things I’ve […]
Read More →Here we are greedily consuming the world’s resources (thanks to the artists at Portugal’s Fiesa festival for this great sand sculpture). Will our political parties do something about it? Attend the hustings and ask the local Tooting candidates before deciding where to mark your big X next Thursday. BATCA have organised hustings tomorrow at St […]
Read More →A great day was enjoyed by many just a mile down the road at the 12th Streatham Common Kite Day a few days back. Check out the massive kites! Some inspiration for the Trashcatchers’ Carnival maybe? Meanwhile the next Carnival workshop awaits this Sunday at 11 (EMAIL us if you want to be part of […]
Read More →Tuesday’s food and seed swap event attracted a good crowd and provoked a wide range of food growing discussion. Giles Read reviewed TTT’s past Foodivals, talked about plans for Foodival 2010, showed a film and gave away a collection of tools refurbished by inmates at Wandsworth Prison. The Tools Shed project takes broken tools collected […]
Read More →Just a quick reminder about next Tuesday’s Food Event and Seed Swap. After looking at last year’s Foodival there’ll be a short film on the “Story of Food” and how you can grow for this Autumn’s festival. To get everyone kick started there will be some FREE tools to give away and also a Seed […]
Read More →TTT were delighted to join in BATCA’s (the Balham and Tooting Community Association) Open Forum on the theme ‘Let’s make Tooting Better’ on 17 March at St Augustine’s Hall. As Kate Allan of BATCA reports: ‘The event drew a good crowd and generated a stream of ideas on improving Tooting. Both individuals and community organisations took […]
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