Timetable for the BIG Trial on Marine Ecocide
Details for the BIG Trial on Marine Ecocide taking place on Friday 15th June have just been released. In this major event of Bristol Big Green Week 2012, Her Majesty’s Government stands accused of...
View ArticleA Poem by the Audience of Matt Harvey’s ‘Wondermentalist’
Chickens The Poem Early morning racket-makers; assistants to Victoria sponge cake bakers Feathered friends; egg inventors; poule or poulet…? Fair feathered, fine-fleshed barbecue fodder, Feathered,...
View ArticleA Review of Tuesday’s Events
We’re almost halfway through BIG Green Week! Before we get started on Wednesday’s packed programme, let’s take a look back to what happened on Tuesday. Lots more early risers turned up to The Morning...
View ArticleA Look Back to Wednesday…
George Ferguson We hope you enjoyed Wednesday at BIG Green Week as much as we did! Yesterday morning, George Ferguson, architect, mayoral candidate and founder of the Tobacco Factory spoke about...
View ArticleThursday’s BIG Green Events Reviewed
Thursday of BIG Green Week has been packed full of great events. The day got off to an interesting and innovative start, with Mohammed Saddiq discussing surprising methods of energy generation at the...
View ArticleA BIG Green Review of Friday’s Events
BIG Green Week is drawing to a close as we head into the weekend. But what a brilliant week! Friday was the day of our BIG Ecocide Trial, with Polly Higgins considering whether marine fisheries are...
View ArticleA Look Back to Saturday at BIG Green Week…
Good morning! It’s the final day of BIG Green Week – we’ll be sad to see it go. Saturday was another fabulous day! The main event, Bristol Festival of Nature, celebrated the natural world with...
View ArticleThanks to our artists and web team
Natalie Hughes - one of the team of Bristol artists helping BIG Green Week As BIG Green Week 2012 draws to a close, we just wanted to give a special shout out to the Bristol artists and web team of...
View ArticleA Tribute to all our wonderful Volunteers
Jane Alesworth (1946-2012) stewarding at BIG Green Week BIG Green Week festival co-curators, Paul Rainger and Darren Hall, would like to say a massive personal ’thank you’ to all the wonderful interns...
View ArticleJune 2013 BIG Green Week dates confirmed
Get it in your diary now! Organisers of BIG Green Week, the UK’s international festival of environmental ideas, art and culture, have confirmed that the nine day festival will be back in Bristol from...
View ArticleHelp BIG Green Week save carbon in 2013
Here at BIG Green Week we’re committed to saving 10,000kg of CO2 before the festival starts again in June – that’s the equivalent of the average UK citizen’s entire annual carbon emissions – and now is...
View ArticleBIG 2013 Festival Fringe opens with new Award
Environmental groups across the UK are being challenged to run an event in the ’BIG Green Fringe’, which will run for the whole nine days of Bristol’s BIG Green Week Festival from 15th to 23rd June...
View Article2012 Festival
Watch 2012 Festival again on BIG Green Week TV If, like us, you just can’t wait for the BIG 2013 festival on 15th to 23rd June, watch Tall Order Film’s 3 min promo animation here. Or see some of the...
View ArticleDo Something
How much CO2 can we save between now and Big Green Week 2013? BIG Green Week have teamed up with DoNation to measure CO2 savings in Bristol. Unlike most other charitable causes, the environment needs...
View Article2013 Programme
<h2>Dates for 2013 Festival Confirmed</h2> Get it in your diary now! Organisers of BIG Green Week, the UK’s international festival of environmental ideas, art and culture, have confirmed...
View ArticleHappy New Year from all at BIG Green Week!
Watch 2012 Festival again on BIG Green Week TV If, like us, you just can’t wait for the BIG 2013 festival on 15th to 23rd June, watch Tall Order Film’s 3 min promo animation. Or see some of the...
View ArticleJune 2013 Big Green Week Dates Confirmed
Get it in your diary now! Organisers of BIG Green Week, the UK’s international festival of environmental ideas, art and culture, have confirmed that the nine day festival will be back in Bristol from...
View ArticleSpeaker news and two competitions to enter
2013 festival guests look set to include TV presenters, scientist Alice Roberts and architect George Clarke. Radio 4 Saturday Live poet Susan Richardson and comedian Tony Hawks. Jonathon Porritt,...
View ArticleRegistration for Fringe Events opens
Registration for Fringe event organisers opens online today here and will close on 18th March. Bristol’s BIG Green Week Festival is the UK’s annual festival of environmental ideas, art and culture, and...
View ArticleWe’re off! Grab your early bird discount NOW before they all go…
This week we unveil our new look website ready for the 2013 BIG Green Week Festival Programme coming your way over the next few weeks. We think it’s lovely! Tell us what you think on our Facebook or...
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