Timetable 11 Oct

Drop in to the CLIMATE CHANGE & ME free family festival to the events you think interest you, or stay for the whole day. Lunch will be on sale and there's free tea and coffee. Below is the programme of events from 11am - 6pm. Please note the organisers reserve the right to change this.

11 – 11.15 housekeeping, welcome songs by North London Mosque children/young people HALL
Welcome by comic writer Pete May. HALL

11.15 – 11.55 Speaker Polly Higgins (talk & questions) HALL
Time travel in Dr Who’s tardis for an overview of climate change

11.55 – 12 Facilitator introduces Islington’s Mayor HALL

12 – 1pm first adult workshops (one in each of 3 classrooms)


12 – 12.30 – Young people's performance HALL

Lunch available from 12.30 – 1.30
Lunch provided by Iraqi Women’s League TBC

1.15 – 2pm Speaker TV’s Penney Poyzer (talk and questions)
Climate change & me (including travel, energy efficiency, kitchen, food and community)

2-2.05pm Facilitator HALL

2.05 – 2.45pm Question Time with a twist. Politicians (Jeremy Corbyn MP, Cllr Katie Dawson, Cllr Greg Foxsmith - chaired by Bob Gilbert) HALL
What are you doing about climate change here in Islington?

2 – 3.50pm Come to the SWISH (posh clothes swap) hosted by Kelly Webb-Lamb (producer of The Apprentice)

2.50 – 3.50 second adult workshops

2.50 – 4.45 Creative recycling - a child focused workshop – maybe making something that could be taken away/shown off/ pester power/campaigning?? Run by Rohan Knox

2.50 – 4.45 Campaigning for kids workshop on pester power/campaigning?? TBC

2.50-4 Chance to look at stalls & ask questions
Opportunity to write pledges - what are you going to do about tackling climate change?

4-4.03 Facilitator HALL

4 – 4.40 Speaker Dilys Williams (talk & questions) HALL
What’s fashion got to do with climate change? More than you think…


4.45-5pm FACILITATOR Thank you & close with song by North London Mosque children/young people TBC, HALL

5- 6pm Cup of tea & chat
Chance to look at pledges/swap contacts. Questions for any of the workshop facilitators, questions for stall holders.


WORKSHOPS
1) How can I make my Victorian House more energy efficient?
Facilitators: Antony Melville & Sarah Harrison

2) How can I save cash and save the planet?
Facilitator: Kerry Kirwan, from the Green Living Centre

3) How can we have more fun in our street?
Facilitator: Debbie Warrener

If you have any questions please contact Nicola, 020 7704 6420

Meet Polly and Dr Who's Tardis

Polly Higgins, who lives in Islington, just can't resist taking over Dr Who's Tardis for a show and tell adventure about climate change that will have you fired up for Highbury's CLIMATE CHANGE & ME conference on Saturday 11 October. Tickets for the event are free, just turn up at 11am at Highbury Fields School, Highbury Hill. Polly will be speaking at approx 11am (please arrive in good time).

In 2005 Polly gave up life as a practising barrister, fighting other people's fights in court, to go off and fight for what she believed in - the environment. She now advises on international environmental and energy legislation, works with TREC and is a regular public speaker. Recent engagements include speaking on climate change at a rave, briefing MPs on a clever renewable energy (Concentrating Solar Power also known as CSP) and speaking at the Climate Camp which was set up near the site of E-ON's controversial proposed new coal-powered dinosaur plant at Kingsnorth, Kent this August.

Polly runs Wise Women (Women in Sustainability and the Environment) network, founded the online eco-store called The Lazy Environmentalist, and blogs on her journey to discover what we need to do to save the planet. You can read about her progress here .