Wednesday 13 August 2008

GreenStock08

GreenStock08, sponsored by Toyota Dingles is a climate change festival at Heigham Park, Norwich with music, art, food, drink and children's entertainment.

On the Main Stage sponsored by Cut your Carbon we have music from: a local string quartet; Folk from Andrew Kircham and Misto; Brazilian music from Rabo de Foguete; Cuban music from Guateque; pop from Sargasso Trio and country fusion from The Vagaband. Local poets will read in between the bands.

At 1pm we will stage the Climate Change Question with Councillors Andrew Little (Conservative, Leader of Norwich Conservatives); Brian Morrey (Labour, Deputy Leader of Norwich City Council); April Pond (Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Broadland); Adrian Ramsey (Green Party candidate for Norwich South Constituency, Leader of the Greens at Norwich City Council) - demand answers from them...

Booja Booja are sponsoring the Children's marquee The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts will be offering a Childrens arts workshop between 2-5pm; face painting; yoga; early years music, photography and theatre.

Do skipping with Skip Hop, yoga and shiatsu in the Health Marquee. Participate in the Speakers Corner with Gardners question time, Nutrition Q & A with Glenn Matten, discuss preparing for life without oil with Transition Norwich or ask a question about recycling.

Perhaps you just want to soak up the atmosphere and eat some organic and locally sourced food and drink some carbon neutral beer at the Food & Drink zone sponsored by Adnams.

Stalls include: City Car Club; Cut Your Carbon ; Norwich Friends of the Earth; Energy Saving Trust; Ecotricity; Norfolk Solar; Recycle for Norwich;

Don't forget our GreenStock08 Competition. Five prizes: a First Class Family Return ticket to London; three £50 off vouchers towards a booking of a country cottage in Mundesley and one £50 gift voucher for The Green Grocers. Look on www.beachcottagenorfolk.co.uk/ , see the customer feedback and tell us who does Mr B from London feel like he is turning into? (TIP: you'll need to look beyond the front page) If you think you know, email us at eat@thegreengrocers.co.uk . Winners will be announced one week after GreenStock08 on Sunday 30th August.

GreenStock is a not-for-profit event for the local community. Any surplus will be reinvested into the following year's event. NORCA and The Green Grocers would like to thank all those individuals, bands, charities and firms that have made this event possible.