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News items SLOW FOOD TEAMS UP WITH BBC GOOD FOOD SHOWS Bursaries are available to help producers of Good, Clean and Fair food - apply now!
Slow Food UK selected Ludlow as the location for its new headquarters. The office opened for business on 4th December 2006, and Fiona Richmond, Slow Food UK Co-ordinator, returned to Britain to run it, after spending about 18 months working from the Slow Food International Offices in Bra, northern Italy, during which time she has acquired a thorugh understanding of the workings of the international organisation. The office was temporarily located in space kindly provided in South Shropshire District Council's offices - but we have now moved to our long-term office accommodation which is at the new Eco Business Park, environmentally-friendly complex on the edge of Ludlow. The opening of a national office will enable Slow Food UK to give better support to the convivia and help streamline communication and membership administration. It will also give the movement a far stronger presence and focus in the UK, enabling us to develop ongoing and new projects and to work for a high quality, responsible food culture in the UK. Not everything happens immediately though! At present Fiona, with help from a little help from Slow Food UK colleagues and volunteers, is getting the IT infrastructure organised, and planning our new streamlined membership administration facility which is now up and running. Not only that, much of her time is occupied by dealing with enquiries from the general public, the media, members and convivium leaders. We'll keep you informed of progress. |
Slow Food UK AGM The 2008 Slow Food UK AGM will take place on Saturday 26 April at the Riverside Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria, at 11.00 for 11.30 am. As well as the formal business of an AGM, there should be some interesting talks and discussions - it should be well worth the journey! Full details in the Members' Area
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OUR NEW WEB SITE We hope you like Slow Food UK's new web site. It's still being developed, and far from complete - but soon we hope to be able to bring you an up-to-date list, on this page, of all Slow Food events and activities throughout the UK. In the meantime, to find out what your local Slow Food branch is doing, contact your convivium leader - see the contact page. |
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UK Slow Food events We are hoping to be able to list all Slow Food events in the UK on this website - but please be patient, it will take some time to get this properly organised. To find out more about events in your local area, please visit your convivium's website, or contact your local convivium leader (details here).
Slow Food Brighton & Lewes members embark on fundraising tandem bike ride to the home of the international Slow Food movement in Italy
Two Slow Food Brighton & Lewes members embark on an epic tandem bike ride to raise funds for Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice, near Arundel, West Sussex. Henry Butler and Andy Martin are riding a tandem across France to Northern Italy and will begin their journey on April 25th when they set off from the English Wine Centre in Alfriston. Their final destination, Bra in Northern Italy, is the Headquarters of the Slow Food movement and Henry and Andy will be taking a selection of award winning English wines with them on their gruelling 1600 km ride to share with local producers at specially arranged head-to-head tastings along the way to promote English Wine and Slow Food AND to help them forget their saddle sores and back ache! Henry and Andy are aiming to complete the ride in 19 days which means they will need to cycle more than 100km a day and the route includes the daunting Alps. This is a tough challenge but the pair have already committed many hours of training and planning as well as the heavy financial investment to make the trip happen and they are hoping to raise as much money as possible for the Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice – the only hospice in Sussex for children, which relies on private donations for over 95% of its running costs. Individuals or companies who are interested in supporting Henry and Andy in terms of sponsorship need to jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible in order to be involved in the ongoing fundraising events which are already being planned such as a welcome home party for the saddle sore mad dogs! Brighton’s Bike Hut is already proudly sponsoring the Mad Dogs. Ben from the Bike Hut said, “It’s a great charity and a really inventive challenge. When we heard what they were doing we were keen to help out and support them. The amount of training they are doing and the number of hours they are going to spend in the saddle means they’re going to get through a lot of kit”. Andy said; “The Bike Hut has been fantastic and the kit they’ve donated is very much appreciated, especially the padded shorts! Everybody we speak to thinks it’s a great idea but the more sponsors we can get, the happier we will be.” All enquiries to: Kate Butler kate@facilitate-uk.com 07919 578161 or contact Henry Butler on 01273 698724, for a direct chat with one of the men in the saddle! For more information or to sponsor the MAD DOGS go to www.maddogsandenglishwine.com For more information about Slow Food Brighton & Lewes, contact convivium leader John Kenward 01273 476444; john.kenward@gmail.com
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Gastronomy, Politics and Citizenship Seminar, The Open University, Milton Keynes 28-29 April 2008 Food is now at the top of most political agendas. Rising rates of obesity, debates over GM food, famine and global inequality, changes in consumption patterns, and campaigns against ‘food miles’, have brought new challenges to governments and policy-makers. Jamie Oliver’s TV programmes on school dinners and factory farmed chickens have been notable public interventions, but reflect wider concerns over food which has seen the growth of new consumption movements, such as Slow Food. New academic departments and courses on gastronomy and food have been one consequence of the new interest in food. The Gastronomy, Politics and Citizenship seminar, organised through The Open University’s Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance, will bring together leading academic specialists from a range of disciplines as well as practitioners in food policy areas. It will be a unique gathering of international researchers and one of the first occasions where the argument for the teaching of gastronomy in educational curricula will be made. Among the speakers will be Nicola Perullo, Professor of Aesthetics at the new University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy (www.unisg.it) as well as colleagues from Milan University, Indiana University and universities in the UK. According to Geoff Andrews, OU Staff Tutor in Politics, the organiser of the seminar and author of a forthcoming book on the Slow Food movement, a key focus will be on the important relationship between gastronomy and citizenship. According to Dr Andrews, ‘We have to get away from this idea that gastronomy is the preserve of the elite. In fact, it concerns everything to do with the production, presentation and consumption of food, the lives of the people who work in the food industry and our desires as consumers. We now need an urgent discussion on the ways in which a gastronomic education can contribute to citizenship and this seminar will play an important part in getting the debate off the ground’. In addition to the formal proceedings, the seminar participants will eat together at a local restaurant, where they will enjoy the cooking of the celebrated local chef Grant Hawthorne. The dinner has been organised by Bedford Slow Food convivium. Geoff Andrews 00 44 7976 635489 |
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