A date for your diaries - the Spitalfields Green Fair is happening on Sunday the 16th of July from 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Allen Gardens (off Brick Lane) & Spitalfields City Farm - Weaver Street E2 in the Spitalfields Green quarter.
Admission is Free!
Featuring: music and dancing from around the world, acoustic yurt sustainability, biodiversity green market, organic food, fairtrade goods, stalls, rickshaw rides, street theatre and a cycling arena by Tower Hamlets Wheelers.
for more information, please ring 020 7375 0441 or download the flyer here from the alternative arts site
Sounds really interesting - but, what exactly is ‘acoustic yurt sustainability’?
A Yurt is a portable felt dwelling structure used traditionally by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. figuring out how people lived sustainably in the old days and how we can emulate that is pretty interesting and i think the yurt is held up as a good example of this sort of thing. no idea what an ‘acoustic yurt’ is - i’ve heard of it in the context of ‘music tent’ and i figure replace tent with yurt and something along those lines perhaps…
This is how to build one.
http://depts.washington.edu/reecas/outreach/nomadism/yurt/
I’ve posted about this on my blog too
Hopefully more people will turn up this year than last…
Cool, i’ve been busy stumbling upon stuff..
I would assume that “acoustic yurt sustainability” is a yurt where acoustic music will be played by acts that are into or supportive of sustainability issues.
I’ve been busy playing with SuprGlu setting up sites that regurgitate nice Green Blogs
I’ve just posted info about Indymedia’s Film Festival which starts this Friday…
I saw that - need to repost as well! Oh and apparently the welfare Minister Jim Murphy is going to be having a live webchat tomorrow so need to write about that too…! Have you seen my new theme over at the Pickled Politics site - ? Lemme know what you think! I just have to figure out a way for the links to appear and then i’m all set..Minimalism is the way forward methinks..