Last “Ideas Café” for 2009 and a Christmas Celebration.

 Hi to all Transition Newcastle supporters and interested readers. 

We wanted to remind you of the last Ideas Cafe for 2009 this coming Saturday 2:30 p.m. at Dimitri’s Cafe in Hamilton. We know it's a busy time and we know the Cafe has had a mixed reception this year (perhaps you could be part of doing it differently next year?). We will be there with bells on, celebrating a successful year of forming, storming and building a movement. It will be the last Cafe gathering until Saturday 6th February 2010.

You might have been thinking about the transition town model (and the Primer at http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionPrimer) and how we move forward. Whatever is happening on the climate change front, we still seem at the crawling stage of accepting the implications and impacts of Peak Oil scenarios for our society and culture, where only the time-frame is in question. We are about creating positive visions and solutions for the future, building our own and the community’s capacity and motivation to act, and making preparations to increase Newcastle’s resilience, so we might better face the challenges ahead, social, economic and personal.

Our last Ideas Cafe for 2009 will be an opportunity to celebrate with us, while sharing your woes, questions, reservations, hopes, solutions, “no ideas” and positive thoughts for our journey in the coming year. We are all community members in the same boat, and look forward to your company. Bring the kids and friends.

We wish you, friends and family all the best for the festive season. May it be safe and satisfying, with blessings from the transition team.

We will also have copies of the TT Handbook for sale at $30 (negotiable) - an inspirational Christmas present to generate ideas throughout 2010 and onward.

If you are coming, it would be helpful if you returned this email to us (so we can reserve some extra tables).