Diss Community Partnership

Learn to Dance

Dancing is good for your health and makes you happy! That’s why DCP have organised a series of friendly classes where you can try out jive, ballroom, salsa and circle dances among many other styles. So far this year DCP has delivered 286 person/hours of dancing lessons!

We are taking a summer break, but members of the group will be at the Bhangra dance event at the Corn Hall in August, and we will start classes again in September. Contact us via this site or at dancingdiss@yahoo.com

Museum Projects

Diss Museum features Edwardian Childhood, Meccano For Ever and Ethel Le Neve: Murderer’s Mistress. It is open on Wed & Thurs afternoons, all day Fri & Sat and Sunday afternoons. Admission is free.

Taste of Diss

This project is supported by Diss Community Partnership and organised by a committee that overlaps the DCP Board.

From the Press Release for the project:

Building on the success of the first Taste of Diss festival of local food in 2008, we are planning another festival for 2010, over the weekend of 12th – 13th June. The theme this year is sustainable living. We are aiming to produce a high-profile social event for the whole family and to promote a socially and environmentally sound food system.

The main events will take place on Saturday 12th June in Diss Corn Hall.

From 12 – 5 pm there will be a festival with stalls featuring local food to eat there or take away and local crafts people. Try some soup, cakes, hand-made chocolates, fudge, apple juice, local beers and fruit wine, pickles, chutneys, plus organic vegetable box schemes, and various crafts.

There will be a photographic competition with the theme of food, children’s activities including cookery and competitions, and talks on allotments, bee keeping and sustainable agriculture. Entry is free.

We are producing a new booklet on Sustainable Diss 2030 specially for Taste of Diss, which will be available free at the festival. What could it be like to live in a world where fuel and resources are very scarce? The Guide will present an antidote to fears about the consequences of environmental destruction: a positive vision, in which a strong sense of local community enables people to make much more efficient use of the fuel and resources they have available.

From 5:30 – 7 pm  there will be a ‘Sustainability Supper’ for people who want to bring more sustainable food into the area and into their lives. It will include a talk by John Gummer, former Environment Secretary under John Major and now a campaigner on issues of climate change. The cost is £6, bookable in advance.

Then from 8 – 11 pm there will be a Family Music Festival with two very popular local bands: Them Harvey Boys, “a 5-piece well-strung spectacular playing folk, irish, bluegrass and rock”, supported by Cakes and Ale “warm, cool, wild and spontaneous”.

Then on Sunday 13th June there will be a family picnic on Fair Green. It will run from noon till 4 pm with am emphasis on children. Bazza Bizzarre an ex-circus clown will offer his ever popular workshop with a range of circus skills, including juggling, spinning plates and pedal wheels. The accent is on fun, but great things happen. He will follow this with a show.

Kate Jackson, (www.minimonsters.co.uk)  “an experienced zoologist and educator, with bags of enthusiasm, knowledge and a daft sense of humour” will show her extraordinary mini-monsters roadshow with all kinds of creatures that children can see and handle.

Bring your own picnic, or buy food from the Fair Green Neighbourhood Association cake and tea stall and food from a stall provided by the Cock Inn.

Allotments

DCP is actively involved in looking for space for more allotments in the town. We are also promoting a project to plant fruit trees on unused sites within Diss.