2009
22.06

Events

Love Easton Community Cafe: Saturday 3rd October

Opens to the public for one month from Saturday 3rd October 2009 – 5 Stapleton Rd, Bristol, BS5 0QR – around the corner from the Trinity Centre.

DROP BY – Come and say hello to us throughout October
A community cafe will open at the old paint stripping shop. Come and join us for tea and cake, and tell us what you want from Easton. Be a key participant in the organically developing exhibition.

Stapleton Rd Street Fair: Saturday 3rd October

12pm- 6pm

Get in touch if you want to be involved

Live Bands, Open Mic, Live Graf Art, Circus, Food, Drink, Face Painting and much, much more

Eastside Roots Community Harvest Fete: Sunday 4th October

12.20pm- 7.30pm

At Eastside Roots Community Gardening Hub, Stapleton Road train station

This is a free event and open to all. There will be live music, storytelling, circus performance, poetry, games, workshops, talks, activities for youth & children, raffle, arts and crafts stalls, a whole food cafe and much more: please join us for a relaxing fun day for all the family.

Contact Nick Ward if you would like to be involved

email nick@eastsideroots.org.uk

Debate: Duty to Involve- What it means to community led design: Tuesday 6th October

Architecture Centre, Bristol
How much say should the public have in how their communities are developed?
http://www.theglasshouse.org.uk/event.php?pg_id=99&ev_id=24

Green Space Plan - Drop in day: Wednesday 7th October

At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road. Start time 10am – 8pm.

What do you want from your existing green spaces?/ Where would you like them? /What facilities do you need? /How do you get to the green spaces?

Come and speak to Rob McGovern

Area Green Space Plan Project Officer for Bristol City Council

‘Food Fuddle’: Thursday 8th October

At Love Easton Community Cafe, 5 Stapleton Road.

6.30pm- 8.30pm

Our ‘food fuddle’ event aims to bring the community together from different cultural backgrounds linked by a common theme of food/ drink.

Bring and share food/drink over discussions of our Love Easton regeneration programme.

Hosted by the University of Sheffield students. For more information contact us at:

email project.easton11@gmail.com

Design Workshop: Saturday 10th October

10am – 6pm – Drinks to follow

Starting at Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.Visit some of Easton’s potential development sites and share your own development ideas, with the help of architects and designers.If you are interested contact info@urbandesigntaskgroup.com £3 for a day of fun and exploration in Easton
Hosted by Departure Lounge
http://www.departure-lounge.co.uk/

One Vision for Old Market – Drop in Day: Sunday 11th October

10am – 4pm

Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.

4pm – 6.30pm

Meeting at the Trinity Centre to discuss the future of Old Market

Energy and Sustainability - Drop in Day: Thursday 15th October

10am – 6pm – At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.

Come and speak to Michael Hanson from GCP between 2.30pm – 5.30pm

http://www.gcparch.co.uk/

Housing Development - Drop in day: Tuesday 20th October

2pm – 8pm – At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.

Do you want to be involved in creating and managing affordable properties – which could involve self-build or a community garden as well?

Come and talk to Steve Bendle from Community Finance Solutions

Presentations @ 2.30 and 6.30pm

Connectivity - Drop in day: Wednesday 21st October

10am – 6pm – At Love Easton Community Café, 5 Stapleton Road.

The day will be spent focusing on issues surroundings junctions, foot paths, roads and cycle networks

Come and speak to Adrian Roper between 10am – 1pm

SUSTRANS – South West Regional director

The LoveJam: Thursday 29th October

The Love Easton Cafe, 5 Stapleton Road, BS5 0QR
For one night only, the LoveEaston Cafe presents a fundraising event with live bands. This includes funk, reggae, dub, acoustics, DJ’s, african drummings and dances.

8.30 p.m.- 2 a.m. Tickets cost £5 + free drink.

For tickets contact project.easton11@gmail.com / 07947204047

EXHIBITION: Nov 3rd – 22nd 2009

Elevating Easton: Developing the city through community consultation
Main gallery, First Floor: Architecture Centre, Bristol

Easton is a vibrant, multi-cultural, yet deprived inner city ward in Bristol. This ward has seen a high level of organic regeneration due to its proximity to the city centre, most of which has occurred in an ad-hoc manner. An influx of young professionals and creative types has been juxtaposed with a host of derelict sites and a lack of sustainable local amenities.

The Love Easton Urban Design Task Group was formed in February 2009 by a group of residents. It aims to create a strategic document for the Easton area to help transform it in a controlled manner, falling in line with the visions and aspirations of the local community and city wide policy. Their objective is to work in a small group to find pioneering and innovative ways to encourage the community to have their say and be involved in the consultation process to transform their neighbourhood.

Masters students from Sheffield University Architecture Department will lead an intensive consultation process on a 6-week visit to Bristol in the autumn. The starting point is to find out what local people think, feel and want from their neighbourhood, and new mapping techniques will be used to analyse resident responses, drawing out themes and important information missed by conventional reports.

This exhibition falls at the end of the student visit, showcasing the students’ work and the feedback from residents, opening the debate for feedback from a wider city audience. There will also be discussion around wider city planning issues and the way this currently operates within Bristol City Council.