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FRAN: (over music) Hello and welcome to On The Outside, the podcast sharing diverse views on what’s happening outdoors and this is an outdoor news roundup from March the fifth, 2023.
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00:26 So this marks the return of the mini, so it has been a long while since the last one. I'm actually just looking and we are going way back to April the 15th, 2022, so nearly a year since I managed to do one of these, but I did think that it was nice to come back to them, not only so that I can share some new stories with you to help you feel connected to the outdoor community, but also to help me feel a bit more connected to the community as well. These are some of the stories that I have found interesting over the past couple of weeks. I hope that you enjoy.
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01:09 The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival took place this weekend in Sheffield, the UK with more than a hundred films about adventure travel and extreme sports plus speakers, including previous panelists for on the outside Ft. Tam. The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival has a reputation f being a family friendly festival and it welcomes everyone, whether you're an outdoors enthusiast or you're an armchair adventurer who just loves a good story. The City of Sheffield rebranded itself a few years ago, in fact, as the outdoor city and more than a third of Sheffield lies within the Peak District National Park. The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is actually part of a weekend of outdoor events, which also includes the Climbing Works International Festival, the Magnificent Seven, which is a road cycling race, and the Howard Street Dual, which is a mountain bike race through Sheffield City Center.
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A new outdoor climbing festival for lgbtq plus climbers has been announced. Climb Out will be the UK's first queer outdoor climbing festival and will combine trad climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering with queer Joy outdoors. There will also be a series of masterclass speakers and q and a sessions in the evenings. The festival will take place from the 19th to the 21st of May in the peak district, and tickets go on sale on the 10th of March.
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02:50 The 25th of February was International Bivy Bag Day. It is a global movement with people from over 30 countries sleeping out under the stars to fundraise for the UK homelessness charity crisis created by Russ Moorehouse International Bivy Bag Day has events in America, Sweden, Canada, Slovakia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. This year's campaign also had a focus on supporting the Save Dartmoor campaign and more than 2000 people bivied around the world.
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We are cycling. UK is encouraging people to give up driving for Lent. They're asking people to avoid car travel for journeys of less than five miles for the entire period up to Easter. According to a Sustran survey, 68% of journeys made by car in the UK are under five miles. Transport is the biggest source for both air and noise pollution in the UK and the Welsh government's recent National Transport Deliver Plan suggests that if every adult in Wales with access to a car chose to replace a one car journey every week with a sustainable journey, Wales would exceed their model shift targets for the plan period. In Christian tradition, lent begins the day after pancake day and is a time for self-reflection, often giving up a luxury for the following 40 days until Easter celebrations.
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There are talks from our panelists in both London and Manchester This month. The Creating Spaces event by Patagonia takes place in Manchester this Wednesday, the 8th of March, and is a female powered panel on the intersectional outdoors for International Women's Day. The panel will be facilitated by Kendall Mountain Festival's Emily Davies and consists of Ani Barber, swimmer Eden Elgeti, downhill mountain bike, world champion, Mannon Carpenter, and Great Britain para climber Leah Volpe. And on Thursday the ninth, the Royal Geographical Society Micro Lectures takes place in London hosted by anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Anne Ohota. Geographical Journeys. Micro lectures is an annual event organized by the society's younger members Committee. Seven speakers will have just 10 minutes each to share their geographical journeys in an illustrated talk, there are two speakers podcast listeners will know well Ani Barber is talking about Hellvelyn: chronic illness in the mountains, and Frankie Dewar is talking about stories from my younger self, a 3000 kilometer cycle journey around the uk.
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The boy in the tent has gone indoors after three years of camping outside for charity. Teenager Max Woozy has spent the last three years sleeping in a tent that was gifted to him by a family friend diagnosed with terminal cancer. Max began his camp out in 2020 to raise money for North Devon Hospice, and his fundraiser has raised over 700,000 pounds directly paying for 15 full-time nurses for the hospice. We mentioned Max way back in our second episode when he reached his 500th night sleeping outside the group.
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Peaks of color released a political manifesto last month called Revolution Ecology described as the first of hopefully many political pamphlets. The manifesto proudly demands racial gendered and land justice. You can read the P D F on their website and they hope to have physical copies of the manifesto soon. The London Mountain Film Festival director Greg Hackett, has written a short essay reflecting on adventure freedom and mountain film festivals. In the essay, Greg states that the use of the word mountain in the brand was potentially misleading and perhaps something that he should explain to the audience.
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07:17 The National Outdoor Expo, Birmingham takes place later this month. The show is one of the biggest outdoor community meetups of the year. Speakers this year include the record breaking Antarctic Explorer, preta Chandy, founder of Wanderlust Women, Amira Patel, a voice from our last episode, Darren Edwards and FK is doing the rounds. He will be there as well. The event runs from the 18th to the 19th of March in Birmingham and tickets are available now. And finally, a chef who has lived outdoors is opening a shop in Herefordshire. Hugh Sawyer has spent the last six years living outside and cooking over fires and is now turning his passion for outdoor cooking into a business. The shop will sell food and other barbecue essentials for people to create their own barbecue meals in the comfort of their homes.
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08:23 That is all for today. I'd love to know your views on these episodes and you could hear yourself on a future episode of the show. Please send a video or a voice recording to me via email on the outside pod gmail.com. You can also send a written message there and I can read your thoughts out on an episode or drop me a voice note on WhatsApp at 7 8 8 3 9 0 5 3 3 6. I am the producer, editor, host of On the Outside Francesca Takis. On the Outside Artwork is created by Sophie Nolan. Music is Bass Beats by Alex Norton. If you'd like to find the links to any of today's stories, do sign up to our newsletter by heading to on the outside podcast.co.uk/newsletter. You can also read the archived previous newsletters there and thank you very much for listening.
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