The next day is Cuba solidarity day garden party at the the friends meeting house with Cuban music, food & salsa 12-4pm, open to all supporters at the Friends Meeting house,clarendon st behind nottingham trent uni turn left before the cemetery via the tramline.
On saturday is the cooperative latin american day 10am-4.30 with talks on renewable energy in Peru & cooperatives in Argentina & Veneuzela also at Friends meeting house, though booking for this is us .To go to future events like this booking is essential. Cooperatives UK community fund has supported the Sumac centre, is interesting & worth getting involved with. International Cooperatives alliance are not perfect like any organisation though they have & do support transition town initiatives since their starting in Yorkshire & they readily supported the fight against fascism starting with the Spanish civil war. Sumac & other small cooperatives are affiliated to ICA & financially together we are big enough be allowed into the G8 to help make a cooperative world really happen
 http://nottscoopparty.org.uk/newsevents.html

With Viva on the same weekend & the Caribbean carnival on the forest recreation ground Nottinghamshires got a lot going for it
A true international weekend with the best of British.