The ‘The Freeconomy Feastival 2009’ begins at 11am Saturday 28th November in Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol

The Food for Free Feast: We aim to cook a delicious three course meal for 300+ people on the day, and there will be free drinks / snacks / bike smoothies constantly throughout the day. It will be on a first come / first serve basis. Even if you can't come in the evening, or are too late to get the feast, you can still come to any of the following throughout the day –

Talks (from 11am onwards):

• Mark Boyle (founder of Freeconomy) – ‘My year without Money’

• Fergus Drennan (The BBC's world famous forager) – ‘How to make use of Wild Food’

• Claire Milne (Transition Towns UK food policy advisor) – ‘Nutritious food – an opportunity for profit or a basic human right?’

• Ciaran Mundy (Transition Bristol's alternative economics advisor) – ‘Evil Roots’

• Alf Montagu (Famous Freegan!) – ‘Freegan Living’

• Sarah Cameron (Environmental Consultant) – ‘Happy Earth Living’

• Megan Orpwood-Russell (Environmental campaigner) – ‘Climate Chaos – Campaigning for Change’

Music and performance (from 4pm onwards – run off a pedal-powered sound system!)

• The Undercover Hippy

• Tom Bellamy

• Denise Rowe (from Baka Beyond) with Alex Michelsen and others

• Eirlys

• Siddy Bennett

• The Green People

Cinema (from 11am onwards)

• Money as Debt

• Earthlings

• The Transition Movie

• Age of Stupid

• The Story of Stuff

• Wake up Freak Out

• Local filmmakers including film on Eastside Roots, and stuff from Peter Lown and Ana Garrido

Holistic Therapies (from 11am onwards)

• Acupuncture

• Massage

• Energy Healing

Bookswap Bring the books you don't read anymore (not just the naff ones!) and swap them for ones you've never read!

Clothesswap Bored of your old clothes? Then bring them along and swap them for clothes you fancy! Or if they need mending, take them along to the ‘Junk to Funk’ clothes mending workshop in our ‘Creative Corner’

Freeshop Bring along useful things you don't need anymore, or just take stuff that you could use. You can even steal stuff, we couldn't care less!

a) Mark Boyle:

Phone: 0775 886 1783 or 01761 479 525

Email: mark@justfortheloveofit.org

Website: www.justfortheloveofit.org (The Freeconomy Community)

b) Fergus Drennan

Phone: 07904801047

email: ferguspd22@hotmail.com

website: http://www.wildmanwildfood.com/

c) Andy Hamilton

Phone: 07747344853

email: andy@selfsufficientish.com

website: http://www.selfsufficientish.com/