After months of planning, the Visions for Change 2013 event will be opening its doors to the public at 11am Saturday 27th April with participants including film director Ken Loach speaking during the day.
More than just groups with stalls, this year’s event features talks and short films, as well as the opportunity to engage with various groups active in the Bath area, find out what they are doing to make the world a better place and to get involved.
Organised by Bath People’s Assembly, the independent democratic forum that all residents of Bath are welcome to attend the meetings of, the event promises to be an exciting one, with a diverse range of groups and speakers.
From environmental groups such as Greenpeace and Green Vision, groups concerned with business and economics such as Avon Co-operative Development Agency, the Bath Oliver and Bath LETS, groups campaigning for peace and an end to poverty such as Bath StopWar Coalition.
It also includes Bath Amnesty and Bath Oxfam, groups opposing government cuts and the current handling of the economy including Bath Against Cuts, Occupy Bath, 38 Degrees and BARF, and many others, including Bath Foodcycle, New Hope and directors of radical films.
Last year’s event was a huge success – the event was packed out and many groups met each other for the first time and have since worked together more closely. It also inspired a similar event in Norwich, and an organiser from Visions for Change Norwich will be speaking at the Bath event.
This year the event will be held on two floors – on the ground floor will be stalls and a café run by South West Food Not Bombs, and in the basement will be talks, short films and a radical photography exhibition.
The event is free and is open to the public between 11am and 3pm,and is in the Friends’ Meeting House, York St., Bath, BA1 1NG. Up to date information can be found on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/158627290953876/?fref=ts
The full list of groups attending this year is as follows:
- Greenpeace
- Bath Oxfam
- Bath Against Cuts
- Bath Amnesty
- Energy Efficient Widcombe
- 38 Degrees
- BARF (Bath Anarchists)
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- Occupy Bath
- South West Against Nuclear
- Bath Stop War Coalition
- Bath Foodcycle
- Frack Free Somerset
- Bath People’s Assembly
- New Hope
- Secret City
- Bath Quakers
- Bath Friends of Palestine
- Bath Against the Badger Cull
- Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement
- Clevelands Pool Trust
- Bath Green Drinks
- Visions for Change Norwich
- Forum Bath
- Bath LETS
- Bath Oliver
- South West Food Not Bombs
- Avon Co-operative Development Agency
