The communications group is a small working group comprised of people with skills relevant to the dissemination of Transition – writers, editors, event managers, performers, artists and designers. We are responsible for publicising what is going on within the initative to both Transition Norwich and to the wider public. We also take part in public debates and liase with the local media, including EDP, Future Radio and Triangle magazine.Our work falls into two main categories: written publications and events.
Blogs The two Transition Norwich blogs were launched on our first birthday party on October 4 2009. The news blog carries all the up-to-date news and reviews and appears on the website’s front page. It works like a live bulletin and reports everything that’s going on in Transition Norwich. It also forms the central section of the redesigned website, launched on March 1 2010.
The TN blog, This Low Carbon Life, is a low-carbon community blog. It’s written by Transitioners in different groups and showcases the personal lives and experiences of people in Transition. At present we take turns to post, keeping Sundays free for all contributors and past topics have included: flying, the industrial food system, Transition books, sustainable livelihoods, fashion, green building, climate change and the seasons and feedback from our various projects and groups.
TN also takes part in Transition East’s blog which showcases Transition initiatives in the Eastern Region, the Transition Network Social Reporting Project and the national newspaper, Transition Free Press.
Events The communications group have helped organise many of the events within the initative and with the wider community. Appearances have ranged from the Lord Mayor's Procession in Norwich to the Wave in London, Nicole Foss and Rob Hopkins at the United Reform Church. The communications team have set up many of the talks, films and parties held in the past four years of Transition Norwich, and have also been involved in promoting the Magdale-Augustine Street Celebration.
The Wave, London
Flowers at the Midsummer Transition Party
Contact: Charlotte Du Cann on theseakaleproject@hotmail.co.uk
Contact: Charlotte Du Cann on theseakaleproject@hotmail.co.uk
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