Cycling – it’s ‘green’, it’s cheap, it lets you off time at the gym and is a speedy alternative to sitting in queues of traffic in town centres in the rush hour.

Join me at Speakers’ Corner, Lichfield on Saturday 25 September at 12.00 to Celebrate Cycling, Bring your bike and bring your friends with their bikes. Speakers’ Corner is in Dam Street, by Minster Pool and is also on one Lichfield’s cycle paths, so a great place to meet!

Please spread the word!

Here’s a few dates for your diary:

25 September - A celebration of cycling
If you regularly use the cycle-paths around Lichfield District – especially the one that runs past Speakers’ Corner on Dam Street, come along for a talk on the importance of cycling and celebrate what cycling means to you. Watch this space for more news.

Saturday 16 October at 12noon – World Teachers’ Day & Universal Children’s Day.
To coincide with World Teachers’ Day and Universal Children’s Day, see and hear the views of local people, and especially students themselves, about our current education system. Watch this space for more news.

Holocaust Memorial Day & Portraits for Prosperity – October/November TBC
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, and in celebration of the exciting Portraits for Posterity exhibition, which is coming to the Cathedral, the National Memorial Arborteum and South Staffordshire College, local people will mark this momentus occassion.

More about Portraits for Posterity is a unique photographic exhibition drawn from survivors of the Holocaust living in Great Britain today. Very few survived the ghettos, extermination and labour camps of the Nazi regime. Those alive today are now elderly, but still bear witness to ‘the crime of the 20th century’. By creating images of the few survivors, the exhibit provides a permanent memorial that also commemorates the millions who perished without portraits.

This moving exhibition is coming to Lichfield District this autumn, and will be on show at the Cathedral, the National Memorial Arboretum and South Staffordshire College between 11 October and 15 November.  To find out more visit www.portraitsforposterity.com

5 minute Christmas Stories - 4th, 11th & 18th December @ 12 noon
Come along and listen to Canon Pete Wilcox from Lichfield Cathedral telling stories to open up The Christmas Story. Watch this space for more details.

Why not appear at Speakers’ Corner?

If you are hoping to hold any events at Speakers’ Corner, and want to publish details to this blog, just email elizabeth.thatcher@lichfielddc.gov.uk and we’ll check it won’t clash with any planned events we’re aware of, and then add it up for you.