Aims & objectives

Transition Town Totnes is the UK's first town exploring how to prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. The TTT position is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable that the present.

Within this the arts can have an extensive role to play, in allowing temporary spaces, time and practical projects to explore, engage, experience, enthuse and empower. The arts can allow us all to evolve the new paradigms for thinking, feeling, relating; creating and living as part of a community facing challenges together.

Transition Town Totnes Arts Group, TTTAG, strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun.

Aims
• Explore and expand our own practices
• Encourage and support the TTT community
• Engage the rest of the local community

Contact

TTTAG has a programme of publicly advertised monthly events, and a bi-monthly in-house planning & discussion meeting. Details are available on the Arts meetings & events page and on the main TTT calendar.

To join the TTTAG mailing list, contact Jan O'Highway, the ARTS facilitator, at information@janohighway.com or thearts.totnes@transitionnetwork.org

Sub group: Sustainable Makers

Past Events (awaiting updates)

Transforming the Future: A design perspective
Monday 30th March to Saturday 4th April 2009
Sustainable design workshop with:
Partners: Transition Town Totnes (TTT), Glasgow School of Art, HDK Gothenburg, Les Atelier Paris, University of Plymouth, Dartington College of Arts
Projects: Sustainable Makers and ReFurnish
Visit www.transformingthefuture.wordpress.com
Link www.totnes.transitionnetwork.org/node/1723

Lynne Hull, eco artist,
Talk: Environmental Art from Lascaux to Last Week,
Wednesday 4th June 2008, Schumacher Collage, 8pm, £4, (£3 concessions) and
Masterclass: Walking the Talk: Art and ecology projects in Totnes, what next..? Sunday 8th June, 10 – 3pm, Bogan House, Totnes, £30 (£25 concessions)

Greenhouse Britain Talk and Workshop with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, 29th February 2008

Arts Open WORK Space 24th February 2007

Propellor, a local theatre group presentation 24th January 2007

The Arts Group Meeting Two 21 November 2006

Getting started The ARTS Launch 9th November 2006