The dates and venue for the 2012 Peace News Summer Camp have now been set: 26 – 30 July in the beautiful grounds of Crabapple Community, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Full details – including how to book – available soon! In the meantime, please put the dates in your diary now.
Leave a Comment December 31, 2011
Please read the latest version of the details for getting to the camp. There is a new bus timetable (July 2011) and information has been added on how to make the bus journey. Directions for getting to the camp by cycle or car from Shrewsbury have also been updated. See here.
Leave a Comment July 25, 2011
The full schedule and programme for the camp, including details of all the workshops and sessions, is now available for download. See here
Leave a Comment July 25, 2011
Food bookings must be received by the evening of Monday 25th July. Sent your requirements (when you will be arriving and leaving and how many of you there are) to us here. You can pay on arrival.
Leave a Comment July 22, 2011
If you are staying overnight at the camp you should bring:
You do not need to bring plates/cutlery etc. The camp will be renewably powered and will have running water and basic washing facilities.
See you there!
July 12, 2011
In addition to all the other (particpatory) entertainment, we are really happy to announce that Seize the Day, Tracey Curtis and the Carbon Town Cryer will be playing at the camp.
Seize The Day are a radical English acoustic band with global roots. We write songs to celebrate, inspire and support the liberation of life.” www.seizetheday.org
Tracey Curtis – “contemporary singersongwriter with the ability to present the human faces behind political issues”. www.myspace.com/traceycurtis
The Carbon Town Cryer – sweet revolutionary sounds. www.myspace.com/carbontowncryer
We will also be screening Michael Chanan‘s film on the anti-cuts movement “Chronicle of Protest”, with the film-maker.
Leave a Comment May 10, 2011
FIGHTING CUTS, BUILDING COMMUNITIES
Going Viral: Growing UK Uncut
What Can People Do Where They Live To Change The World?
Taking Control: Home Education
Solidarity Forever: Unionising Migrant Workers
Kettles Are For Cuppas, Not Coppers
Airport Watch: Community and Environmentalism
Building Secure Bases For Resistance
NEW FILM Chronicle of Protest with Q&A – Michael Channan (film-maker)
PROVOKING THOUGHT
Eyewitness Afghanistan: A Radical Photographer Reports
Chomsky’s Politics
Conscious Oil: Art and Politics
Fuel on the Fire: The Hidden History of Iraq’s Oil
Piecing It Together Revisited: 35 years of feminism and nonviolence
Resistance in Harry Potter
Driven Crazy: Modern Society and Car Culture
Mental Health, Humanitarian Law and the Long-Term Effects of War
Uprooting War
It’ll Make a Man Out of You: Masculinity, Militarism, Martyrdom and All That Malarkey (Men’s Meeting)
Howard Zinn’s Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist (community performance)
ACTIVISM ACROSS MOVEMENTS
Seven Years of Resisting Militarism with Smash EDO
Building An Ambitious Peace Movement in Wales (bilingual session)
The Revolutions in Egypt and Beyond
Taking Environmental Activism To The Next Level
Mobilising Communities Against The Nuclear Menace
Ending Britain’s Dodgy Deals
We Come to Bury Trident, Not to Replace It
Frontline Nonviolence: Action in Palestine
The Biofuels Scam
Stop The Biggest Arms Fair in The World: Planning for DSEi in September
TRAINING
A Beginner’s Guide to Consensus Decision-Making
A Beginner’s Guide to Cake-Making
A Beginner’s Guide to Facilitation
How to Become a Citizen Reporter
Training for Climate Action
Advanced Facilitation
Using Indymedia
Putting Your Body Where Your Heart Is: Training for Nonviolent Direct Action
Singing politics
Advanced Consensus Decision-Making
Standing Your Ground: Public Speaking
Leave a Comment May 10, 2011
You can now pay for entrance and food at the Peace News Summer Camp online at the Peace News webshop. Please note that we don’t actually send out tickets so bring a print out of your payment email if you can.
April 19, 2011
