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Here's the list of the stalls that the Green Festival have been forced to cancel under pressure from the Insurers
Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Amnesty International
Bahš’ís of Nottingham
CND, Nottingham / Stop the War Coalition
Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Nottm
Friends of the Earth, Nottingham
Global Justice Nottingham
Greenpeace, Nottingham Support Group
Keep our NHS Public (KONP)
Make Votes Matter
New Lucas Plan /Just Space
Nottingham Anti Capitalist Resistance
Nottingham Climate Assembly
Nottingham Friends of Standing Together
Nottingham Green Party
Nottingham Labour Group
Nottingham Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group
Nottingham Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
Nottingham Stand Up to Racism
Nottingham Unite Community
Nottinghamshire Trades Council (TUC)
Open Homes
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
People for Palestine
Refugee Forum, Nottm & Notts
Socialist Party, Nottm
Soka Gakkai - Nottingham (SGI-UK)
XR Extinction Rebellion
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I must say, I feel very unimpressed by this behaviour from the insurers. Is it not obvious from the start that something called a Green Fest is going to be "political"??!! eleventy!
#Nottingham #GreenFest #environment #UKPol #insurance

Didn't know about this till now!
"Nottingham Against Transphobia hold die-in in city centre"
"... to demand justice from the Labour government and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and show the general public the stark reality trans people are currently facing. ...
"The demonstration in Nottingham saw dozens of participations carry out a die-in where they lay silently on the ground as the sound of a steady heartbeat played from a loud speaker. One attendee was dressed as the Grim Reaper and wore a mask plastered with the face of prime minister Keir Starmer, standing ominously amongst the participants on the floor."
#trans #protest #Nottingham #England #UKlaw #EHRC

BiCon comes to Nottingham this Friday!
It's a masking-friendly, though not mask-required, event, in a venue which is said to be pretty good for air quality.
There's also an online-only option, which I went to myself last year when the in-person side wasn't in Nottingham. We had a nice little group being companionable on the Zoom, with some of the in-person sessions running as hybrid.
You don't have to be bi to go - just bi-friendly and trans-inclusive. Typically it does include some non-bi people who just like the vibes :-)
Sliding-scale admission prices:
- in-person weekend tickets £65 down to £20
- in-person day tickets £40 down to £10
- online weekend tickets £20 down to £4.
Venue this year is two of the buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. Nearest tram stop is High School. Nearest bus lines are brown, green, yellow, and purple.
There's usually a variety of session options in the day: some talky and some not; some bi-themed, some unrelated. In the evenings there'll be social space. Some people will go and march as a group in Notts Pride on the Saturday. I'm going to host an online pre-meet on the Wednesday evening.
Myself I've booked for the weekend, but in reality I might only make it to the online-Wednesday-pre-meet and the Friday, esp if I do go to Notts Pride on the Saturday. I might be all used up by Saturday night. (Even pre-covid I might've run out of steam by then :-) ) But if I didn't come in on the Sunday, I probably would still join in at least a little bit online.
More below on what I'm planning to contribute!
Feel free to ping me if you have questions :-)
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ

Green Fest being let down by their long-standing insurers at the last minute!!
Not cancelling the whole thing, but having to make some changes.
(the event is tomorrow as I write, Sunday 14 September 2025)
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A statement from Nottingham Green Festival:
Due to a policy change by our insurers, that we weren't informed of until now, we have had to let go of some of our planned stallholders.
This is because they won't provide the one day cover needed to any stalls promoting "political, religious or cultural issues". If we were to include these stalls, the insurance we've paid for the entire event would be invalid and we would not be covered at all. As you can imagine this isn't a risk we can take.
We considered cancelling the event, but we didn't want to let down the wonderful caterers, artists and other stall holders who've been working so hard and investing money into the event. So, we will be going ahead, but not as planned; we're doing a bit of last minute rebranding and today's [tomorrow's, but I guess when writing this statement they were imagining people seeing it tomorrow] event will now be known as a Nottingham Green Fair.
Please enjoy the amazing local entertainment, goods, and vegan food stalls here today. We will not let this dampen our spirits!
We are still in touch with the stallholders who were unfortunately turned away and we sincerely hope to be able to host an event with them again. Keep an eye on our social media and email newsletter for more information regarding this very difficult decision.
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#Nottingham #GreenFest #environment #UKPol #insurance

Hosted a BiCon pre-meet yesterday, online. Conveniently there were exactly 12 people there for most of it (not counting me), perfect for dividing into threes! I kept switching the groups so that people could meet different people.
We talked about how we'd each like BiCon to be, and how we could make it more likely to turn out that way.
Top tips: get enough sleep, eat enough food, and don't try to do everything!
Then we also talked about what contribution we might like to make - though I also said, just being there and being friendly and making BiCon more varied is a contribution in itself :-)
Several of the people who'd come along turned out to be already signed up to offer workshop sessions, so we heard a little bit about those.
Two tasks currently available if you want one are (a) keeping an eye on the Zoom setup for the hybrid events, (b) leafleting at Pride on Saturday, so that more people know about BiCon for Sunday. There's usually also opportunities to assist with being welcoming at reception.
In-person BiCon starts tomorrow, and runs Friday till Sunday. The venue is a couple of buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. I tagged along for a site visit the other day and I think it's pretty good for air quality.
Apparently about 70 people have booked so far. It's also possible to buy a ticket on the day, so that might not be the final total.
As I reminded people last night, you don't have to be bi to come to BiCon! And if you _are_ bi, you don't have to be any particular amount of bi :-)
#BiCon #Nottingham

I have plans for a few different things...
• Wednesday evening, 23 July, I'm hosting a 1-hour online thing that'll be open to whoever's already booked by then. It'll be a somewhat structured talky session on a theme of "inventing the BiCon you want", and an opportunity to meet other people who are going. Newcomers especially welcome :-)
• On the Friday morning at in-person BiCon, I'm offering a session called "Curiosity Skills". It's about which kinds of questions are genuinely "open", versus which kinds of questions allow your own assumptions and biases to sneak in! It'll be partly me explaining, and partly the chance for some little conversational experiments, to notice how the different questions work in practice.
• Subject to finding a nice quiet airy place to do it, I plan to run a mask-decoration session at some point on the Friday. I'll bring a few different kinds of masks, plus lace, beads and sequins, and some past experience of how to decorate masks without compromising the seal or the breathability. I'll invite donations for the materials. Decorate your mask for Pride! or for BiCon partying! or just because you like to :-)
• Also I will bring my badges and zines, and have them on sale!
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By the way, if you might come to the Wednesday evening online bit, let me know what time you'd like it to start, because that's a question I have open at the moment. Could be 19.00, 19.30, 20.00. For myself I don't really mind, but I'm aware that some people have teatimes or child-bedtimes that can't easily be moved.
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ

Every library is losing some opening hours.
Better than closing a whole library, but still a sad and sorry sight :-(
#Nottingham #libraries #austerity #cuts