Appearances, Events and Presentations
Bristol’s Big Green Week 2012
Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th June.
The UK’s world class festival of big green ideas, art and culture
that informs and inspires. See the future with new eyes, a more
beautiful, more sociable and more prosperous way of life. It will attract
visitors to the city, educating and entertaining the participants, cementing
Bristol’s reputation as the UK’s leading green city and the place in the UK
for sustainable living, the latest green ideas and the best green jobs.
Jonathon Porritt will be chairing the week alongside a great list of eminent speakers. Visit the website to see updated news items, festival programme and the latest speaker line-up. Below is a snippet of what you can expect to see:
- • A series of high profile inspirational talks/lectures by globally famous speakers;
- • A host of ‘ideas sessions’ across the week, run through the Festival of Ideas, Bristol Green Talks, TEDx, etc;
- • A cultural programme with the main theatre, art galleries and cinema all running environmental programmes.
- • Two weekends of great family events, including the Festival of Nature – Europe’s largest free natural history festival.
- • Some ‘seeing is believing’ and participation elements, visiting the inspiring green projects in and around Bristol.
- • An engaging series of events for leading businesses, with national and international profile speakers, run through IMS, LCSW, LEP, etc.
- • A job’s fair for green, environmental and related jobs
- • A fringe, with around 50 smaller seminars, events, think-ins etc organised independently.
- • Street art, exhibitions, green technology displays and redesigned public spaces on the route around the main venues.