SCHEDULE
Schedule shown is as currently confirmed. Schedule or participants may be subject to change due to availability. Panels will be recorded for training and outreach purposes
THURSDAY 29th April 2021
FRIDAY 30th April 2021
SAT 1st & SUN 2nd May 2021
9:15am Pilates with Rohanna (1hr) (£5) Book your place here
11:00am Baking Vegan Cupcakes (1hr)
with Pastry Chef Giovana Temponi
To Book your place email Giovana at contact@giobakes.co.uk and quote "Big Green Festival"
You will need the following ingredients
for the carrot vegan cupcakes measured and ready to go!
- 6 cupcakes
- 120g plain flour ( can use gluten free)
- 100 g caster sugar
- 60 g vegetal milk of your choice or orange juice
- 100 g carrots
- 55g vegetable oil (sunflower/ rice/coconut)
- 1 TSP baking powder
- 1 TSP vanilla extract
12:00pm Rado's Art Class (1hr)
To Book your place email Rado at radostinaart@gmail.com and quote "Big Green Festival"
5:00pm Meditation with Greta Mattar (25mins)
A kindness, spaciousness & letting go
meditation in the Thai Buddhist
tradition
Book your place here (select the 29Apr date 17:00-17:30)
6:00pm Panel to 7:20pm:
Living In Better Harmony With Nature
What Can We do?
Speakers:
Tim Howar - Mike & the Mechanics
Vanessa Targett - The Talking Tree
Steve Ringham - Save the Oaks,
Green Party candidate Addlestone N.
Udo Kleinitz - Green Party candidate
for Englefield Green West
Book your place here
7:30pm Online Choir (to 9pm) (90mins)
A virtual choir which meets online to learn fun, well-known songs & explores how music can help us connect.
The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in hundreds of choirs up & down the country being suspended. If you are a singer in a choir and are missing your normal rehearsals or…
if you feel bored, lonely or isolated but have never sung before, why not join!
Sessions are fun, friendly, accessible and open to anybody to join who wants to develop a new hobby or have a sing.
Book your place here or here or email
hello@onlinechoir.uk for your
free taster session and quote
"Big Green Festival" (if you email)
1:00pm Recreating Islamic GEOMETRIC
Patterns with Samira Mian
Recreate some of the world's historical patterns digitally and using a compass!
Resources needed:
For activity 1: Access to this
For activity 2: 3 sheets of A4 paper, sharp pencil, ruler, compass, eraser & colouring pencil/pens. Recommendation here
To Book your place email Samira at contact@samiramian.uk
and quote "Big Green Festival"
4:30pm Panel (90mins)
Green Belt & Green Space Under
Threat: What Can We Do?
Speakers:
Richard Knox-Johnston - London
Green Belt Council
Catriona Riddell - Catriona Riddell &
Associates
Jan Doerfel - Spelthorne Green Party
Councillor for Staines, Barrister
Chris Packham: special filmed message
Chris Hyde - Green Party Candidate for
Lower Sunbury & Halliford
Book your place here
5:00pm Yoga (Regular) Shirley Lunn (75mins)
Mindful Hatha Yoga class suitable for all levels, including beginners. Yoga postures, breath work and deep relaxation. Book your place here
7:00pm Hour with Howar
Singer of Mike & the Mechanics and
musical theatre legend, singer, actor
and dancer - played recent
'Phantom of the Opera' and starred in
Chess, Rock of Ages, Rent, Les Mis &
many more, Tim Howar will be singing songs from his repertoire and answering your questions
Book your place here
9:00pm Party - Dance Time! (45mins)
DJ Udo will take participants on a mix-journey of club/party tracks
Turn up your volume and enjoy!
Book your place here
SATURDAY 1st May:
10:00am Pilates with Rohanna (1hr)
(£5) Book your place here
1:00pm Yoga with Bea of Beactive (1hr)
Bea of Beactive is an experienced personal trainer, fitness instructor & RYT 200hr registered yoga teacher. Bea is running this gentle yoga class, suitable for all abilities including beginners.
To Book your place: email Bea at beactivefitness@gmail.com for the Zoom class details & password
4:00pm Guided Mindfulness Meditation
(30mins) Shirley Lunn
Short introduction to mindfulness, to reconnect with Mother Earth.
Suitable for all levels. You can enjoy this meditation seated on a cushion, stool or chair, or even lying down. Book your place here
5:30pm 'Thirst for Justice' Documentary
and Introduction by BBC Investigative Journalist Leana
Hosea. See Trailer here (75mins)
7:00pm The Global Water Crisis (to 8:45pm)
Covering the issue of forever
chemicals, the risk posed by
chemical waste/flooding etc in
which we would also like to highlight
the case of Zane Gbangbola
Speakers:
Rob Bilott - US Attorney, inspiration
for film Dark Waters
Author of Exposure
Pedro Arrojo-Agudo - UN Special
Rapporteur on the human right
to safe drinking water and
sanitation
Leana Hosea - BBC Investigative
Journalist. 'Thirst for Justice'
Kye Gbangbola - Truth About Zane
Book your place here
SUNDAY 2nd May 2021:
11:00am Intro to Pilates with Rohanna
(30mins) FREE Class
Book your place here by selecting
2nd May date, 11:00am "Zoom Taster Session with Rohanna"
1:00pm Grease Dance Workshop with
Clinton Goldsmith (1hr)
To Book your place:
Email Clinton direct at:
clintgoldsmith@hotmail.com and quote "Big Green Festival" obtain the Zoom class codes
"I got chills, ..they're multiplying..."
How many times have you danced around the kitchen pretending you were John Travolta or Olivia Newton John? This is your chance to learn an easy and fun routine inspired by the original choreography!
Choreographer Clinton Goldsmith will teach you this fun routine having sprinkled his magic dancing in the West End (Saturday Night Fever, Phantom, The Boyfriend) to Bollywood & has worked with Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Robbie Williams and the Sugababes. He also teaches in London and has online dance courses for all.
3:00pm Mindful Hatha Yoga, Deep Relaxation
with Shirley Lunn (90mins)
Relax completely, body & mind, let go of your everyday cares and feel your deep connection to the Earth
Starting with 45 minutes of gentle Hatha yoga (suitable for all levels), followed by a guided deep relaxation. Then a beautiful soundscape! You will need a non-slip mat for yoga, and a pillow and blanket for the deep relaxation. Book your place here
5:00pm Mindful Ninja (40mins)
Mindfulness and well-being session for the whole family!
Mindful movement, awareness, breathing and mediation practice, requiring solely a sheet of plain paper and some pens or pencils.
To Book your place email Sam at
and quote "Big Green Festival"