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Summary & a few Links for Participants in Vision Shack 10 & anyone interested
Vision Shack programs so far
1. Food Sovereignty November 2007 Interview with Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede
Dr. Olaseinde Arigbede (Seinde), inspiration for many farmers in Nigeria and co-founder of USMEFAN, participant in international farmer's fora and formerly an eminent teaching doctor and neuroscientist with Jocelyn Jones & Paul Chi of Healthy Concerts. The program concerns everything related to the World Family Group which was born of his visit, the theme of which being Food Sovereignty and Participatory Development. Good, naturally produced food is a simple, though knowledge intensive, matter, but our complex politicised world and its history of colonialism and neo-colonialism has complicated the simplest of human issues - the food we eat.
Food Sovereignty
* The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food.
* Food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods.
* Defending the interests and inclusion of the next generation.
* Promoting transparent trade that guarantees just income to all peoples.
* Implies new social relations free of oppression and inequality.
and Participatory Development as opposed to aid.
http://myworldfamily.org/ New World Family Website
http://www.worldfamily.ning.com Participatory group
2. Sustainable & Participatory Design and Production 7th December 2007 with Chris Rose & James Tijou
Interviews of: Chris Rose, for 14 years Course Leader for the Wood, Metals, Ceramics & Plastics design program at Brighton University and also a visiting professor at the Rhode Island school of Design (RISD) now concentrating on practise based research in the UK, USA, Nordic region & South India - key issues are looking for more sustainable relationships rather than the unsustainable mass consumer model. Now as Dean of Postgraduate Studies at RISD for the next year Chris will be monitoring interdisciplinary collaboration and research, art & science, light & sound, music & machines.
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/rose
James Tijou who began as an engineer in business, moved on to start a national fund-raising alternative, and is now running a business manufacturing wood framed windows from sustainable forests in Romania, employing local labour at a fair wage in a proper health & safety working environment - 20% of profits will be put into Romanian NGOs and with the rest he hopes to fund an advanced Internet portal which will put into practice new ways of involving people in local issues and eventually national decision making, as in the model successfully pioneered by Agusto Boal in Brazil.
http://www.prospecjoinery.co.uk
3. Ecovillages & Earthships - new ways of living 15th January 2008 with Kevan Trott & Nathaniel White
Interviews with: Kevan Trott, began work with building contractors, gained an MBA and was for 15 years a council building inspector and now a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist, involved in feasibility study for a 16 Earthship Development above Brighton Marina and in obtaining planning permission - he hopes it will go ahead if his funding group can buy the land once it is released for sale. He has finished a working Earthship in Normandy and was also involved in the latter stages of the Earthship in Stanmer Park Brighton;
http://www.earthship.co.uk/
Nathaniel White raised in Vermont, USA, left college early to work within Intentional Communities and socially responsible or green businesses, in 1997 co-founder of The Ecovillages Network of The Americas. He developed expertise in supporting personal transformation and creating high quality relationships, training for 3 years with shamans in the American south-west and 2 years with pioneering psychologists. Now completing a BA in Anthropology at Sussex, and serves others through his life-coaching consultancy Integrity Unlimited, he is also one of the organisers of a group seriously intending to create and live in an ecovillage near Brighton. He is now making his expertise in Formal Consensus Decision Making and Conflict Resolution available to groups and individuals in the wider community.
http://www.villagejourney.blogspot.com/
http://www.chaordic.org/
http://www.ecovillage.org/
http://www.sociocracy.info/
4. Transition Brighton and Hove (T.B.H.) 14th February 2008with Chris Callard and Stephen Watson
The concept of Transition Towns was examined - it is tied in with the concept of Peak Oil and the related issue of climate change - inextricably linked with the dark blood of our industrialised Northern culture, Oil, and the fact that production has, realistically, probably peaked. It gives new meaning to "over the hill" as from possibly 2005 Oil production continues to increase while reserves are in decline. It has pretty much doubled (and just recently will have tripled) in price in recent years, and there is clearly worse to come. Transition Brighton and Hove, officially recognised by Brighton & Hove City Council is one of the largest and most ambitious of over 60 such projects in the UK and now internationally.
http://www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk/
http://transitionculture.org/
Once again, it is not easy to understand the concept of Transition Towns at first, and there is controversy over the idea of Peak Oil, so visit the websites listed in the links section below this box. Essentially the key word is "resilience" in the face of system failures caused by freak storms, petrol strikes, distribution problems, and the possibility of catastrophic system collapses which can deprive us not just of mass consumer products but of basic services like energy, gas and electricity, and food that is mostly not produced locally.
5. Moving Sounds Theatre Arts Company and The Manjiga 7 March 6th 2008 with Caspar Brown, Ed Wade-Martins & Keith Ellis
My Guests were Moving Sounds Theatre & Arts Company and their Music as band The Manjiga 7 (or at least 3 of them). What can I say, they were the most delightful guests who, though dealing in the same weighty issues as we do on this show, bring a delightful lightness of touch to them through music, games, theatre and a wonderful feeling of team spirit. They work so well together they just took over the show, and I just twiddled the knobs most of the time.
Some members of Moving Sounds are involved in the World Family project both here and in Nigeria aiming to use the empowering techniques of theatre in education and the theatre of the oppressed (Agusto Boal) as part of the process, and hopefully make a documentary that will promote the successes and thus the spread of sustainable smallholder farming elsewhere.
http://www.movingsounds.org/index.php
6. Music - where is it going? 3rd April 2008 with Paul Chi, Paul Mex & Tim Scheinman
This program was transmitted on Thursday 3rd April and featured Paul Chi founder of Healthy Concerts, Paul Mex ex Punk musician and now record producer and Tim Scheinman final year student at Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) and founder of the South of England Young Musicians Union. The subject was a discussion of where music is going both locally and globally with the demise of the music business as it became in the 2nd half of the 20th Century and how it, and young musicians alike will continue into the future. It featured some great music, including a live performance from Tim and 2 other members of his band, and some very different views on music. Vision Shack is not necessarily about conclusions, more about seeing what is there, challenging it if necessary and raising awareness.
http://www.healthyconcerts.com/
http://www.myspace.com/seymamusic South of England Young Musicians Association
http://www.myspace.com/pelicanchorus
7. Women In The 21st Century 1st May 2008 with Fiona Martin, Jocelyn Jones, Sam Chara, Sue Cox & Susie Rees
My guests were Jocelyn Jones, Susie Rees, Sue Cox, Sam Chara and Fiona Martin. Sam sang a song live to a pre-recorded track about half-way through the show.
The aim of the program was to run it as a women's meeting and to avoid a male-style confrontational approach. Too often when the media introduce a topic around which conflict is possible they take the easy route of a discursive or confrontational style, but Vision Shack attempts to get more deeply into subjects than this, and this was a particularly suitable subject for allowing rather than provoking - for 'empowerment to' rather than 'power over'. I asked Jocelyn to co-host the show by getting the women to introduce themselves to each other and I kept my spoken input to the minimum. With the distance of hindsight I am now quite proud that the show was able to give women a women's voice, and it did succeed as a women's meeting.
Link to the address on Women by Victorial Covell - introduction read out program
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0307-30.htm
http://www.ms-solicitors.co.uk/
Jocelyn Jones - Lemon & Honey Club - http://www.creativehealthconnections.com/
http://www.samchara.com/
8. Ethnic Minorities in Brighton and Hove 5th June 2008 with Dominic Lafont, Mbye Baboucarr Sohna & Darren Calder
My guests this month were Mbye Baboucarr Sohna, advocate for victims of racial harassment in the City-wide Partnership Community Safety Team for Brighton and Hove City Council; Dominic Lafont who works with an organisation called MACS on behalf of asylum seekers in Brighton & Hove. He assists destitute asylum seekers most of whom are victims of torture to ensure the provision of basic social services; and Darren Calder who lives in Brighton in a relationship & parents "2.5" children. He is a Contemporary Tapestry postgraduate, has given workshops in weaving in schools and at festivals on themes relating to identity and presents a night of short films, poetry, unsigned bands and acts. In the past Darren was cultural Secretary for the Tarner World Festival and has worked with children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities for the Councils in Camden, Croydon and Brighton.
Safe In the City for hate crime in Brighton & Hove (Mbye's Work):
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1114111
The Refugee Council (Dominic's References):
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
Darren Calder's Site: http://www.myspace.com/blackchalkmusic
My live musical guest was Ian K Dell, a very talented singer/songwriter with a lyrical roots/reggae/soul feel - unfortunately he was unable to make it until the very end of the show, but as I was co-hosting Brighton Phlux with Simon Watkins you can hear Ian and another local musician in the Brighton Phlux program that immediately followed this month's Vision Shack. I often stay on and co-host with (normally) Sean Creed, but this time I thought I would upload the show so you can hear all the great music.
Find Ian K Dell at i-tunes - search "Eye K"
Black Cab Sessions with Benjamin Zephaniah on U-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIamScAmIso
Benjamin Zephaniah's Own Site:
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/content/index.php
9. Who In The World Is Rich? 3rd July 2008 with Chris Rose, Jocelyn Jones & Tom Lines
An interesting combination of views. Jocelyn had just returned from attending the smallholder farmers' Youth Forum at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife which was a great success as many young people were inspired by rather than depressed by the prospect of the future of smallholder farming - an activity normally associated with poverty. Tom Lines, who is about to publish his book "Making Poverty - A History", was able to add the depth of both his knowledge and unassuming humanity to what could be viewed as a very depressing story of rising food prices, oil, and the capitalist system which allows huge corporations to produce biofuels for cars and aeroplanes rather than food for humans and does not regulate speculation on the basic stuff of life by commodities brokers. Chris Rose brought a different perspective as an educator and researcher, and although poverty is and will continue to be a factor that plagues the disadvantaged nations at every level from food and water to health and opportunity for work and the supporting of family life he pointed the way, along with Jocelyn & Tom, to those of us who have material abundance, in highlighting the richness of working with people in an environment which educates, empowers and opens up creative possibilities. In a way that I do not wish to pre-empt there is a clue to part of the question "What Is Human Work".
www.tomlines.org.uk
Now available: /Making Poverty: A History/.
For details, go to
www.zedbooks.net/book.asp?bookdetail=4247
1. Food Sovereignty November 2007 Interview with Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede
Dr. Olaseinde Arigbede (Seinde), inspiration for many farmers in Nigeria and co-founder of USMEFAN, participant in international farmer's fora and formerly an eminent teaching doctor and neuroscientist with Jocelyn Jones & Paul Chi of Healthy Concerts. The program concerns everything related to the World Family Group which was born of his visit, the theme of which being Food Sovereignty and Participatory Development. Good, naturally produced food is a simple, though knowledge intensive, matter, but our complex politicised world and its history of colonialism and neo-colonialism has complicated the simplest of human issues - the food we eat.
Food Sovereignty
* The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food.
* Food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods.
* Defending the interests and inclusion of the next generation.
* Promoting transparent trade that guarantees just income to all peoples.
* Implies new social relations free of oppression and inequality.
and Participatory Development as opposed to aid.
http://myworldfamily.org/ New World Family Website
http://www.worldfamily.ning.com Participatory group
2. Sustainable & Participatory Design and Production 7th December 2007 with Chris Rose & James Tijou
Interviews of: Chris Rose, for 14 years Course Leader for the Wood, Metals, Ceramics & Plastics design program at Brighton University and also a visiting professor at the Rhode Island school of Design (RISD) now concentrating on practise based research in the UK, USA, Nordic region & South India - key issues are looking for more sustainable relationships rather than the unsustainable mass consumer model. Now as Dean of Postgraduate Studies at RISD for the next year Chris will be monitoring interdisciplinary collaboration and research, art & science, light & sound, music & machines.
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/rose
James Tijou who began as an engineer in business, moved on to start a national fund-raising alternative, and is now running a business manufacturing wood framed windows from sustainable forests in Romania, employing local labour at a fair wage in a proper health & safety working environment - 20% of profits will be put into Romanian NGOs and with the rest he hopes to fund an advanced Internet portal which will put into practice new ways of involving people in local issues and eventually national decision making, as in the model successfully pioneered by Agusto Boal in Brazil.
http://www.prospecjoinery.co.uk
3. Ecovillages & Earthships - new ways of living 15th January 2008 with Kevan Trott & Nathaniel White
Interviews with: Kevan Trott, began work with building contractors, gained an MBA and was for 15 years a council building inspector and now a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist, involved in feasibility study for a 16 Earthship Development above Brighton Marina and in obtaining planning permission - he hopes it will go ahead if his funding group can buy the land once it is released for sale. He has finished a working Earthship in Normandy and was also involved in the latter stages of the Earthship in Stanmer Park Brighton;
http://www.earthship.co.uk/
Nathaniel White raised in Vermont, USA, left college early to work within Intentional Communities and socially responsible or green businesses, in 1997 co-founder of The Ecovillages Network of The Americas. He developed expertise in supporting personal transformation and creating high quality relationships, training for 3 years with shamans in the American south-west and 2 years with pioneering psychologists. Now completing a BA in Anthropology at Sussex, and serves others through his life-coaching consultancy Integrity Unlimited, he is also one of the organisers of a group seriously intending to create and live in an ecovillage near Brighton. He is now making his expertise in Formal Consensus Decision Making and Conflict Resolution available to groups and individuals in the wider community.
http://www.villagejourney.blogspot.com/
http://www.chaordic.org/
http://www.ecovillage.org/
http://www.sociocracy.info/
4. Transition Brighton and Hove (T.B.H.) 14th February 2008with Chris Callard and Stephen Watson
The concept of Transition Towns was examined - it is tied in with the concept of Peak Oil and the related issue of climate change - inextricably linked with the dark blood of our industrialised Northern culture, Oil, and the fact that production has, realistically, probably peaked. It gives new meaning to "over the hill" as from possibly 2005 Oil production continues to increase while reserves are in decline. It has pretty much doubled (and just recently will have tripled) in price in recent years, and there is clearly worse to come. Transition Brighton and Hove, officially recognised by Brighton & Hove City Council is one of the largest and most ambitious of over 60 such projects in the UK and now internationally.
http://www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk/
http://transitionculture.org/
Once again, it is not easy to understand the concept of Transition Towns at first, and there is controversy over the idea of Peak Oil, so visit the websites listed in the links section below this box. Essentially the key word is "resilience" in the face of system failures caused by freak storms, petrol strikes, distribution problems, and the possibility of catastrophic system collapses which can deprive us not just of mass consumer products but of basic services like energy, gas and electricity, and food that is mostly not produced locally.
5. Moving Sounds Theatre Arts Company and The Manjiga 7 March 6th 2008 with Caspar Brown, Ed Wade-Martins & Keith Ellis
My Guests were Moving Sounds Theatre & Arts Company and their Music as band The Manjiga 7 (or at least 3 of them). What can I say, they were the most delightful guests who, though dealing in the same weighty issues as we do on this show, bring a delightful lightness of touch to them through music, games, theatre and a wonderful feeling of team spirit. They work so well together they just took over the show, and I just twiddled the knobs most of the time.
Some members of Moving Sounds are involved in the World Family project both here and in Nigeria aiming to use the empowering techniques of theatre in education and the theatre of the oppressed (Agusto Boal) as part of the process, and hopefully make a documentary that will promote the successes and thus the spread of sustainable smallholder farming elsewhere.
http://www.movingsounds.org/index.php
6. Music - where is it going? 3rd April 2008 with Paul Chi, Paul Mex & Tim Scheinman
This program was transmitted on Thursday 3rd April and featured Paul Chi founder of Healthy Concerts, Paul Mex ex Punk musician and now record producer and Tim Scheinman final year student at Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) and founder of the South of England Young Musicians Union. The subject was a discussion of where music is going both locally and globally with the demise of the music business as it became in the 2nd half of the 20th Century and how it, and young musicians alike will continue into the future. It featured some great music, including a live performance from Tim and 2 other members of his band, and some very different views on music. Vision Shack is not necessarily about conclusions, more about seeing what is there, challenging it if necessary and raising awareness.
http://www.healthyconcerts.com/
http://www.myspace.com/seymamusic South of England Young Musicians Association
http://www.myspace.com/pelicanchorus
7. Women In The 21st Century 1st May 2008 with Fiona Martin, Jocelyn Jones, Sam Chara, Sue Cox & Susie Rees
My guests were Jocelyn Jones, Susie Rees, Sue Cox, Sam Chara and Fiona Martin. Sam sang a song live to a pre-recorded track about half-way through the show.
The aim of the program was to run it as a women's meeting and to avoid a male-style confrontational approach. Too often when the media introduce a topic around which conflict is possible they take the easy route of a discursive or confrontational style, but Vision Shack attempts to get more deeply into subjects than this, and this was a particularly suitable subject for allowing rather than provoking - for 'empowerment to' rather than 'power over'. I asked Jocelyn to co-host the show by getting the women to introduce themselves to each other and I kept my spoken input to the minimum. With the distance of hindsight I am now quite proud that the show was able to give women a women's voice, and it did succeed as a women's meeting.
Link to the address on Women by Victorial Covell - introduction read out program
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0307-30.htm
http://www.ms-solicitors.co.uk/
Jocelyn Jones - Lemon & Honey Club - http://www.creativehealthconnections.com/
http://www.samchara.com/
8. Ethnic Minorities in Brighton and Hove 5th June 2008 with Dominic Lafont, Mbye Baboucarr Sohna & Darren Calder
My guests this month were Mbye Baboucarr Sohna, advocate for victims of racial harassment in the City-wide Partnership Community Safety Team for Brighton and Hove City Council; Dominic Lafont who works with an organisation called MACS on behalf of asylum seekers in Brighton & Hove. He assists destitute asylum seekers most of whom are victims of torture to ensure the provision of basic social services; and Darren Calder who lives in Brighton in a relationship & parents "2.5" children. He is a Contemporary Tapestry postgraduate, has given workshops in weaving in schools and at festivals on themes relating to identity and presents a night of short films, poetry, unsigned bands and acts. In the past Darren was cultural Secretary for the Tarner World Festival and has worked with children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities for the Councils in Camden, Croydon and Brighton.
Safe In the City for hate crime in Brighton & Hove (Mbye's Work):
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1114111
The Refugee Council (Dominic's References):
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
Darren Calder's Site: http://www.myspace.com/blackchalkmusic
My live musical guest was Ian K Dell, a very talented singer/songwriter with a lyrical roots/reggae/soul feel - unfortunately he was unable to make it until the very end of the show, but as I was co-hosting Brighton Phlux with Simon Watkins you can hear Ian and another local musician in the Brighton Phlux program that immediately followed this month's Vision Shack. I often stay on and co-host with (normally) Sean Creed, but this time I thought I would upload the show so you can hear all the great music.
Find Ian K Dell at i-tunes - search "Eye K"
Black Cab Sessions with Benjamin Zephaniah on U-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIamScAmIso
Benjamin Zephaniah's Own Site:
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/content/index.php
9. Who In The World Is Rich? 3rd July 2008 with Chris Rose, Jocelyn Jones & Tom Lines
An interesting combination of views. Jocelyn had just returned from attending the smallholder farmers' Youth Forum at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife which was a great success as many young people were inspired by rather than depressed by the prospect of the future of smallholder farming - an activity normally associated with poverty. Tom Lines, who is about to publish his book "Making Poverty - A History", was able to add the depth of both his knowledge and unassuming humanity to what could be viewed as a very depressing story of rising food prices, oil, and the capitalist system which allows huge corporations to produce biofuels for cars and aeroplanes rather than food for humans and does not regulate speculation on the basic stuff of life by commodities brokers. Chris Rose brought a different perspective as an educator and researcher, and although poverty is and will continue to be a factor that plagues the disadvantaged nations at every level from food and water to health and opportunity for work and the supporting of family life he pointed the way, along with Jocelyn & Tom, to those of us who have material abundance, in highlighting the richness of working with people in an environment which educates, empowers and opens up creative possibilities. In a way that I do not wish to pre-empt there is a clue to part of the question "What Is Human Work".
www.tomlines.org.uk
Now available: /Making Poverty: A History/.
For details, go to
www.zedbooks.net/book.asp?bookdetail=4247
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