Big Green Week

Last year it was Good Living Week . This year it is  BIG Green Week. To see whether the name is justified, have a look at the list of events below and for all the detail and latest news go to Big Green Week’s website.

As well as all the main events there is a BIG Green fringe growing by the day and that is where your event can be part of it.  Go to the BIG Green Week site to register your event .

The Big Green Week Programme for 2012

Saturday 9 June:

Bristol’s BIG Market (in association with the Soil Association) radiating out from the famous St Nic’s covered market hall in Bristol’s old medieval centre.

Look out for the Bristol Mermaid who will be putting in an appearance at Cascade Steps at midday. She will be there to judge a kids mermaid/merman fancy dress competition – the first prize is swimming lessons from Water Babies worth £130.

Sunday 10 June:

Love Life, Love My Bike – the first-ever World Electric Bike Championships with a time trial race on Park Street in the centre of Bristol. The world’s top manufacturers, with celebrity riders, competing for the top crown for electric bikes, and electric bike ‘taster sessions’ for the public. All looked after by Robert Llewelyn (of Red Dwarf fame).

Monday 11th to Friday 15th June:

A daily stream of events, including:

7.45 – 8.45am The Morning Muse (Green Talk) Colston Hall

– an eight-minute breakfast time provocation and open discussion (also to be broadcast online).

9 – 10am Thought for the Day, Bristol Cathedral

– a chance to reflect on the spiritual side of our connections with the natural world.

10.30am – 12pm, Wonders of the Planet, at the Watershed

- a week-long film programme screening some of the BBC’s greatest hits produced by Bristol’s world famous Natural History Unit over the last 40 years.

12.30 – 1.30pm Festival of Green Ideas Colston Hall

– a lunchtime think-a-thon, with short talks followed by Q&A.

2 – 4pm Film Documentaries & panel discussion Watershed

6 – 7.30pm The BIG Green Lecture (Schumacher) Council House

- our BIG daily daddy of an event, with keynote guest speakers, with virtual link ups with speakers overseas. Plus live poetry or music. Webcast live by Bristol City Council.

8 – 10pm The BIG Green Event (various venues)

– music at St Georges, comedy at Colston Hall, poetry at the Bristol Old Vic, Green Talks at the Arnolfini.

10 – Midnight Late Lounge (various venues)

- hosted by the bar of the venue for that evening’s BIG Green Event (above). Have a drink, mingle and discuss.

Saturday 16, Sunday 17 June: the Festival of Nature

- Europe’s biggest free nature festival held in a tented village across the Bristol harbourside (with schools’ day of the Friday).

Sunday 17 June: Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride

- this annual traffic-free family ride, organised by Bristol City Council, starts and ends at the Festival of Nature giving a huge finale to BIG Green Week.

Groups interested in organising an event as part of the BIG Green Week Fringe can register online.