Screening of The Cove at the Art Rumble

Come along to the surf art rumble and watch a screening of the Cove, free entry with collections for charity .. the screening is expected to start at 6.30pm and there will be homemade food served all day.

The Surf Art Rumble is at St Merryn Village Hall, Saturday 3rd July 2010.

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Win Nat's Chicks with Sticks Protest T-shirt!

At the Surf art rumble we will be auctioning Nat's protest T'shirt that she wore in Agadir last weekend to protest outside the IWC meeting .. thats a piece of history that is!

Mustn’t grumble, it’s the art rumble in association with the surf jumble…

As far as we know this is the schedule for the day…..

Doors open 1pm and the Art Rumble commences!

There will be….

Surf Jumble

Surf Girl Magazine clothes swap shop

(Open for donations from 1pm, trading at 2.30pm)

Craft stalls;

Original Surf Boards

Lazy Waves

Eden at Tribe

Little Miss Boutique

Rosie & Gem’s Novelty Cakes

Body art

Ladies pampering massage

Creative workshops;

Badge & bunting making

Mural & cloth bag painting

Quilt making

Ding repair/glass your own fin

Special workshop with Neon’s Elsie Pinniger at 4pm

Make your own board sock/door stop/towel changer

If you want to sign up for this please contact natalievfox@hotmail.com

Food is being served courtesy of L’Aude Cuisine (Nat’s mum is coming especially from France!) and providing homemade, exiting veggie dishes. On the menu is;

Fresh veggie burger in a wholemeal bap, with salad and chilli aioli or tomato salsa

Falafel in a pitta pocket with crunchy salad and tahini cream

Oven baked wedges with spicy tomato sauce

Selection of teas

Surfers soda

Banana cake & flapjack

Food will be served until 7.30pm

From 5pm, there is a break to quickly set the hall up for….

Movies, music and more….!

5.30pm Sliding Liberia

6.30pm The Cove (with introduction from Howie Cooke)

8.00pm Charity Art Auction

8.30pm Live music with October Rocks!

9.00pm Surf bingo with prizes galore!

9.30pm More music! More fun!

Remember… all profits go to Surfers 4 Cetaceans and Ticket to Ride Foundation’s township project in South Africa… there’ll be more info about these on the day!

standing up is overrated

On the May Bank holidays a very nice chap lent us some wooden bellyboards at high tide sunset fistral and we were immediately hooked .. So we are VERY happy that the lovely Sally from Original Surfboards is going to have a stand at our surf art rumble in St Merryn on the 3rd July. Come along and pick up one of her retro bellyboards, she has all kinds of designs .. or paint/illustrate your own, she will bring some blanks along too .. seriously if you haven't tried this since you were a young'un you have forgotten HOW much fun it is ..

Sally's online shop is here: www.originalsurfboards.co.uk/originalshop.php - if you are coming and you know you would like a particular style board let Sally know and she will make sure she brings it:

For more bellyboarding inspiration check out the world belly boarding championships, held every year at Chapel Porth .. www.bellyboarding.co.uk or this fruity blog http://pronetobelly.blogspot.com/

and lets not forget our favourite ..Dot ..

News from the IWC front line!!!

Victory for whales! Yet we still have a long way to go to protect their wellbeing for the future.

My latest journey has taken me from the UK to Holland to Morocco via Germany! It was a journey well worth the amount of public transport and the destination has eliminated all doubt from my mind about taking that first step.

I arrived back in Morocco last night, and after a quick surf met up with Nori Neumman, a fellow Cetacean lover and activist who had come all the way from Portugal. We finished off the amazing banners she had started and prepared for the day ahead, not really knowing what it would bring.

The next morning we headed into Agadir early, and as we approached the conference hall plastered in posters of (ironically) beautiful, free whales I could feel a lump of emotion in my throat. I suddenly knew I was completely in the right place and time for once.
















Around 11am one of the anti-whaling NGO members informed us that the deal was indeed off, and as no arrangement could be reached in fact, nothing would change. For those that opposed the proposal to lift the ban on commercial whaling; our mission was successful and the moratorium is still firmly in place.





Tonight I meet with Howie and co. to celebrate and discuss more action whilst we’re here, in prime striking distance of the IWC. I will be putting together more information and will get it out very soon! But for now, for those of you that signed the petitions, know that this was a victory in standing united against whaling, and hopefully the stepping stone towards many more victories.



Peace and love
Natalie

prizes prizes prizes

lovely people are giving us lovely things to give away to you lovely people at the surf art rumble .. first up we would like to thank Fire Fly Tonics for giving us a 2 month supply of their great natural energising drinks.

Check out their website, we designed our own chicks with sticks firefly tonic .. www.fireflytonics.com/design_the_next_firefly/view/465/ our influences were the village fete gingham vibe and fancy dress surfing ..

If you come down to the Surf Art Rumble at St Merryn Village Hall on the 3rd July you could be in with the chance of winning a 2 months supply of Firefly Tonics!

dreamy bali video we love

Protesting, paddling and pros

One half of Chicks with Sticks is off on a mission...

First stop is Soul Surfer Foundation's annual fundraising event Paddle Round The Buoy. As an ambassador for the charity Nat is heading there to take part in the paddle again the Oxbow team and other brave entrants! Being held on International Surfing Day at Svengingan, there’s lots going on from parties to photography workshops!

"I have never surfed in the North Sea so I imagine it’s going to be an experience, but I hear the waves are pretty decent! If anyone would like to sponsor me then please… get in touch - it’d be great to get some more support behind me!"

To check out what good work Soul Surfers do, and what they will be putting the money towards visit their website

After Svengingen, She will be travelling via Gremany to Agadir, to join the demonstrations at the International Whaling Committee meeting. Nat says;

I’m currently writing an article for Surf Girl on the future of whaling, and have discovered I have very strong feelings on the subject – like a lot of people I have spoken to about it.

Japan, Iceland and Norway have put forward a proposal to lift the ban on whaling, that has currently been in place for 10 years. The decision will be made at the IWC's annual meeting where there will be conservation activists present like Greenpeace, Avaaz, Sea Shepherd and our Chicks with Sticks Art Rumble charity; Surfers4Cetaceans.

Japan has been continue to whale and fuel the industry under the banner of "scientific research", still capturing and killing thousands of minke whales each year. There are currently 84 committee members, made of countries that strongly oppose whaling like Australia and New Zealand, and others that are looking to lift the ban...

"Since the moratorium was adopted, the support for it has dropped from a 75% majority to a 50-50 split, with many of the countries initially recruited by the anti-whaling side now voting with the pro-whaling block. (A 75% majority is needed to overturn the moratorium.) Anti-whaling campaign groups and some governments claim that the Japanese Fisheries Agency has carried out a programme of "vote-buying" - i.e. offering aid to poorer countries in return for them joining the IWC and supporting Japanese positions on whaling. Japan claims, however, that this accusation itself is politically motivated because Japan's oversea aids are not only given to pro-whaling countries. Japan has given US$320 million in overseas aid to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guinea, Morocco, Panama, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis and the Solomon Islands." (Wikipedia)

Another controversial aspect of the voting is that if all the members of the EU (which includes the United Kingdom) cannot reach an agreement, then it will be exempt from voting.

Learning more about the possible outcome and concequences if the ban is lifted - which would last for 10 YEARS - has lead me to the conclusion I want to do something to help support the whales, and make a stand for them.

I visited Newquay’s Aquarium with my God-daughter Nancy at the weekend, and it really hit home how it’s up to our generation to protect and preserve our precious sea mammals in order for them to be around for the next generation to learn about.

In the same weekend, I also learn that whale meat is actually available on the black market in Hackney, East London, so it's a very real issue!

Whales are prehistoric and they are huge, it’s impossible to breed or maintain a captivity programme like an aquarium for them. Although the The human race has brought whales to the brink of extinction, thanks to the moratorium whale numbers have started to increase. Cetacean intellegance is a phenomenon, and with research techniques developing all the time we might one day find a way to live in harmony with these creatures, rather than abusing them and the oceans they reside in. The only way is to study them, and learn about them in their natural habitat. And this means an end to whaling once and for good.

Stay tuned for the news from Morocco.

Oh and guess who's coming with me? The hot pink fish, of course!

I'm aiming to get a last minute whale campaign going at the Gul night surf, if anyone's keen to join in, then drop me a line!

The Surf Art Rumble is raising money for ...

..the Ticket to Ride Foundation's work with children (particularly girls) in the township of Masiphumelele, Cape Town.

The Ticket to Ride Foundation works in the township of Masiphumelele, in the southern suburbs of Cape Town. The township is home to 30,000 people and the Foundation works providing youth upliftment programmes for the young boys and girls of the township. Focused around sports and education, the foundation arranges football, netball, arts and crafts, clean-up projects and surfing projects to occupy the downtime after the school day, when the kids would otherwise be on the street.

The Foundation cares for 70 girls. Traditionally in the Xosha culture, girls do not have the same opportunities as boys and are often called on to leave school early to focus on the household chores. The Ticket to Ride Foundation allows the girls space to breath and the freedom to express themselves and sponsors three netball teams, a bead making programme and a surfing programme.

Our Chicks with Sticks mantra is 'be free to surf'. We can see that the work of the Ticket to Ride Foundation in Masiphumelele Township is all about providing the girls with new opportunities and the money raised at the art rumble will help to provide equipment for the various projects, such as netballs and kits for the teams, paint for the ad-hoc pitch in the car park on Kolobe St, beads for the bead making scheme and transport to get the girls to the beach and surfing once a week.

The girls have sent us some of their hand made necklaces for our art auction, they are winging their way to us now and we can't wait to see them ..

can someone please invent....

...environmentally friendly, biodegradable glitter!

Island inspiration

Craft pitches are available at the Surf Art Rumble on 3rd July, St Merryn Village Hall, St Merryn, Cornwall. Just £10 per pitch which all goes to charity.. we will feature everyone that signs up here on the blog .. first up the positively dreamy jewellery and hair slides by Eden at Tribe .. http://www.edenattribe.com/

Email greenwavesproject@gmail.com to find out how you can have a pitch

Sliding Liberia

we are really stoked that we have permission to screen Sliding Liberia at the Surf Art Rumble www.slidingliberia.com

Surf Art Rumble and Jumble

The Surf Art Rumble is Coming

art in bali

some stuff that caught my eye...