Contact Schumacher Society for event and ticket information.

Looks like this event has already ended.

Check out upcoming events by this organizer, or organize your very own event.

View upcoming events Create an event

Schumacher Centenary Festival - Bristol, October 8 & 9

Saturday, October 8, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (GMT)

Bristol, United Kingdom

Schumacher Centenary Festival - Bristol, October 8 & 9

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Friday evening - business meeting & dinner - @Bristol Science Museum
Location of dinner: @Bristol, Anchor Road, Bristol, BS1 5DB
Ended £50.00 £0.00
Friday evening - business meeting & dinner - @Bristol Science Museum: TABLE FOR 8   more info Ended £320.00 £0.00
Saturday - conference AND concert   more info Ended £45.00 £0.00
Saturday - conference and concert (members)   more info Ended £35.00 £0.00
Saturday - conference and concert (concession)   more info Ended £30.00 £0.00
Saturday - evening concert only   more info Ended £15.00 £0.00
Saturday - evening concert only (concession)   more info Ended £10.00 £0.00
Weekend ticket   more info Ended £55.00 £0.00
Weekend ticket - members   more info Ended £45.00 £0.00
Weekend ticket (concessions)   more info Ended £37.50 £0.00
Weekend ticket full-time school students under 18   more info Ended £0.00 £0.00
Weekend ticket full-time university students under 25   more info Ended £10.00 £0.00
Sunday - all day   more info Ended £15.00 £0.00
Sunday - all day (concessions)   more info Ended £10.00 £0.00
SHARE THIS EVENT

Event Details

 

E.F. Schumacher

The Schumacher Centenary Festival

A weekend - including the well-known Schumacher Lectures on the Saturday - celebrating the life and vision of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful  and pioneer of green economics.

Speakers on Saturday include:

Bill McKibben - co-founder of 350.org, author of End of Nature
Caroline Lucas - MP and leader of the Green Party
Prof. Tim Jackson - author of Prosperity Without Growth
Polly Higgins - environmental lawyer
Rob Hopkins - co-founder of the Transition Network
Satish Kumar - editor of Resurgence magazine
Peter Blom - CEO of Triodos Bank
Matt Harvey - poet

Saturday night concert: Small World - a festival of world music, featuring  Trilok Gurtu, Jamie Smith's Mabon, Seckou Keita & the Dhol Foundation


And on Sunday -

Barbara Wood - daughter, and biographer, of E.F. Schumacher

Margaret Gardner - Communications Director, Practical Action

Vandana Shiva - environmentalist and global campaigner

Homo Sapiens Report - Michael Wadleigh, Oscar winning director


Followed by a day of workshops and films at @Bristol and
The Watershed:

 

Towards a Guild of Green Economists - Molly Scott Cato;

Local & Renewable Energy – Good Energy, Solarsense & CAT

Common Cause - Tom Crompton (WWF)

The Work That Re-connects – Lisbet Michelson, Meretta Hart

Small Is..Challenge - Peace Child & Practical Action

The Bristol Pound - Dave Hunter & Ciaran Mundy

Transition and the Arts - Jan O'Highway

Towards a Smaller, Happier City - Mike Zeidler

 


Documentary Film Premieres: 
‘Future of Hope’, ‘Four Horsemen’, ‘Animate Earth’ and ‘Voices of Transition’