Aims & objectives

Transition Town Totnes, is the UK's first town exploring how to prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. The TTT provocation is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable that the present.

Within this the arts can have an extensive role to play, in allowing temporary spaces, time and practical projects to explore, engage, experience, enthuse and empower. The arts can allow us all to evolve the new paradigms for thinking, feeling, relating; creating and living as part of a community facing challenges together.

TTT strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun.

Aims:
• Explore and expand our own practices
• Encourage and support the TTT community
• Engage the rest of the local community

Contact

The ARTS group does not currently hold regular meetings, however there are regular events and mailouts of other opportunities. Details will be available on our group's meetings & events page and on the main TTT calendar. Alternatively please email us and we'll keep you posted directly. Please contact Janey Hunt the ARTS facilitator at thearts.totnes@transitionnetwork.org.

We are looking for a new facilitator(s) to take over the ARTS group, if you are interested in getting involved in Transition Town Totnes in a very meaningful way this is your opportunity. Please email thearts.totnes@transitionnetwork.org.

Sub groups: Sustainable Makers

Links with other groups: BA):SE ARTS COLLECTIVE - who organised the Youth and Music Festival 07- See their current projects...

Planned / past events

If write-ups exist they will be linked to the respective event below.

Lynne Hull, eco artist,
Talk: Environmental Art from Lascaux to Last Week, Wednesday 4th June, Schumacher Collage, 8pm, £4, (£3 concessions) and
Masterclass: Walking the Talk: Art and ecology projects in Totnes, what next..? Sunday 8th June, 10 – 3pm, Bogan House, Totnes, £30 (£25 concessions)

Greenhouse Britain Talk and Workshop with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, 29th February 2008

Arts Open WORK Space 24th February 2007

Propellor, a local theatre group presentation 24th January 2007

The Arts Group Meeting Two 21 November 2006

Getting started The ARTS Launch 9th November 2006