More from the Extinction Rebellion Meeting - Upcoming Events

There are quite a few events coming up soon in the area, but I only took very sketchy notes, and I may have missed one or two.

There's a talk, organised by the national XR team, at Talgarth Town Hall, called Heading for Extinction on 28th February, which sounded like something well worth attending.
On 22nd February, there will be a march in London, for anyone heading down that way, and for anyone heading up to Machynlleth, there's a training weekend happening there for people who want to be involved in protests. Justin, resident Welsh speaker, had to go over to read the notes, so it was pronounced properly!
There's a meeting in Brecon on 23rd February.

Borderlines Film Festival is coming up at the end of February, from from the 28th to the 15th March, and there are several films with a climate theme being shown.
For instance, 2040 is a film showing what the future would be like if we embraced all the solutions that are available to us now, and Weathering with You is a Japanese anime film with an environmental theme.

On April 18th, there's a Green Festival at Hay School. The local XR group will have a stall.

Starting at about the same time as Hay Festival, at the end of May, is the XR national campaign "Waves". There will be several events at Hay Festival on an environmental theme, as there have been for several years already. They are also trying to make the Festival carbon neutral. Several people at the XR meeting said that they thought Peter Florence and Hay Festival would be open to talking to XR and seeing what could be achieved.
It was also said that most groups that approach the Festival want to see what they can get out of a collaboration. XR, on the other hand, would be asking what they can do to support what the Festival is already doing.
The Low Carbon Group from the Town Council will also be active in town during the Festival.

Meanwhile at the other end of town, Roger Hallam of XR has been booked to speak at How the Light Gets In, but there seems to be nothing else going on at How The Light Gets In on climate change. It would also be more difficult for local XR members to support his talk, because of the way the tickets are organised - people who go to How The Light Gets In buy a pass for the day or the weekend, whereas the Hay Festival site is free to walk around, and people can buy tickets for individual events rather than staying on site for the whole day.

Finally, on June 13th, a gig is planned at the Globe as a fund raiser for XR - details to come when I have them.