Birmingham Friends of the Earth: Happily Ever Crafter – A new craft group at the FoE warehouse on Allison Street. On the 3rd Monday of the month at 6.30pm there will be a craft group that ‘will cover loads of different ways of making things over the weeks’.
The first session will be Recycled Craft! on Monday the 15th of February we will be looking at what can be made out of a juice cartons for example wallets, decorations, jewellery, baskets etc. Please bring juice cartons if you have any lying around, we have got some, but more is always better!
If you’d think you’d like to lead a work shop or request an activity, email reused.it@gmail.com
Call 0121 633 0261 for details of the Meat Free Mondays offer and reserve up to eight places – four will be free. Mention that you read about it on this blog.
Birmingham Friends of the Earth: Its a wrap, 2nd November – A round-up of what the It’s a Wrap Crafting Group got up to at the Friends of the Earth Warehouse on 2nd Nov – learning how to wrap all those Christmas goodies up nicely and ethically.
Their next Its a wrap group will be a drop in from 6.00 pm onwards on:
23rd November
14th December
Go along and learn how to make your presents look good without harming the environment.
How do vegetarians get fat? – By eating like pigs, but not pigs, in the Friends of the Earth Warehouse Cafe on Allison Street, according to Paul Fulford in the Evening Mail.
Digbeth Olympics Ridiculous River Rea Raft Race – John Mostyn, Adam Crossley and some unconvincing-sounding Welsh guy travel down the River Rea in rubber dingies and manage to emerge with all their skin intact.
Gigbeth competition – This competition for free weekend tickets is such a fantastic idea: ‘Gigbeth is looking for entrants to create their own version of The Sugarhill Gang classic ‘Rappers Delight’ and post them on a specially created You Tube page. Entrants are invited to come up with the best and most original alternative music video to the ground breaking hit, or to produce their very own recorded performance of the song.’ If like me, you just fancy giggling at the entries rather than making one, all entries will be posted on Gigbeth’s YouTube.
Pub Crawl – The Final Leg – Bull Ring and Digbeth – A guy and his camera in the Bull Ring and ‘Digbeth, dusty, dirty, noisy Digbeth’. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, his camera died as soon soon as he hit The Dubliner. This may be a good time to tell you that me and Antonio Gould are planning to do a repeat of last year’s Digbeth pub crawl for our birthdays on Saturday 10th January 2009. We plan to make it bigger, better and bloggier, photographing and twittering our locations and drunkeness levels. All are welcome, especially if you’re wearing a flat cap – stick it in your diaries!
