The Green Gathering

[elfweirdigan]

There's a new website, not fully populated yet but giving a pretty good glimpse of a revamped, back-to-its-roots Green Gathering.

If you remember the Big Green Gathering of old, you want to get a ticket for this.

If you've only ever been to arena festivals with loads of rules and over-priced consumables... you really want to get a ticket for this!

Earlybird tickets are only £70 (until they run out). www.greengathering.org.uk

For an authentic, uncommercial festival with ethics that go beyond base hedonism: The Green Gathering, powered by wind and sun, is where it's at.

[5co77ie]

news about this here:

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/13/131114c.shtml

[elfweirdigan]

Thanks 'ed'. Well impressed with how quickly efestivals updated the Green Gathering info when asked (and that's not just a schmooze!)

Best admit my bias - I'm now involved in Green Gathering production. We're updating all our publicity around about now and have been slogging over the new website the last few weeks.

It does feel like GG is on the up again, and with a few of the smaller, rootsier festivals taking a year off this year - it's a grand chance to check us out without being disloyal to your fave events

[elfweirdigan]

Woohooo!! The Green Gathering just won The Spark magazine Family Award!

We were singled out for being a family-friendly festival, and for "creating a space where activists can play, bond and share skills, thus making the world a better place".

Come, see for yourself. We've released a second batch of earlybird tickets - get in quick to grab one of these.

Check us out http://www.greengathering.org.uk/

[elfweirdigan]

Order Green Gathering tickets today, Valentine's Day, and claim a Valentine Special: a free copy of Seize The Day‘s new CD Standing Strong.

Ticket info and ordering

To catch up on Green Gathering news and flavour, check the Newsletter Archives:

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Line up released so far is just a taster...

Edited February 14, 2014 by elfweirdigan

[elfweirdigan]

Latest on the line-up:

3 Daft Monkeys, Billy Rowan (aka Undercover Hippy), Rory McLeod, Hattie Hatstar... joining Seize The Day, Tarantism, Nik Turner, Pikey Beatz and loads more, announced and yet-to-be-announced.

Also speakers, workshops and tons of interactive stuff.

Main news right now is: There's just a few days left to buy £80 tickets; on April 1st the price is rising... so get in now, don't be an April Fool.

www.greengathering.org.uk

[elfweirdigan]

More ticketing options now:

You can still buy via the Green Gathering e-Ticket Shop (BACS or cheque, £90 for an advance adult ticket), OR for a quicker, slicker credit or debit card purchase, pay a little more and go through the fab, independent, totally lovely Bristol Ticket Shop.

Back to our Roots, Beyond Hedonism, Creating Alternatives, Powered by Wind Sun & People. Join Us.

www.greengathering.org.uk

(This is Steve's caravan. He lived in it on the lawn outside the uni where he was doing a degree in art. Him living in it, while decorating it, was his final assessment installation. He passed. Now he takes it to festies. He's always at The Green Gathering. His caravan's always a work-in-progress. Iconic.)

[elfweirdigan]

There's a competition, pair of GG tickets up for grabs

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/thegreengathering/2014/competition1.shtml

[xrayspecs]

Anyone going?

[elfweirdigan]

Here's the latest from The Green Gathering, held 31st July-3 August near Chepstow (Welsh borders, just 18 miles from Bristol):

It's MORE than just another party!!!!

TICKETS

Our advance adult tickets are just £90, youth tickets £50 and children under 11 go free.

Yes, prices are lower than they were this time last year! We listened to feedback, we know times are tough, so we’ve taken a gamble, reducing the ticket price to encourage and enable more people to come.

Prices will be higher on the gate; so buy now, buy now! Cheapest by BACS or cheque via our website; you can also buy with debit or credit card from Bristol Ticket Shop (a bit more expensive but quicker).

AWARD-WINNING

We won The Spark Family Award!!!

We were singled out in The Spark, the UK’s biggest alternative magazine, for being family-friendly and “creating a space where activists can play, bond and share skills, thus making the world a better place.”

MUSIC & SPOKEN WORD

We’re delighted that 3 Daft Monkeys, Seize The Day, Billy Rowan (Undercover Hippy), Tarantism, Nik Turner, Pikey Beatz, RoryMcLeod, Libby Lawes and many festival-favourite and up-and-coming bands and DJs will be joining us on stage at The Green Gathering. See Line Up News for more, and check out the glorious Pikey Beatz, who have agreed to leave their northern lair in summer 2014 to treat us to their “clever rhythms and infectious beats, supporting a theatrical front line who grab the audience and involve them in their storming on-stage party!” On Solfest’s Drystone Stage in 2013, Pikey Beatz rather stole the show.

On the Raconteurs’ Stage, we’ll have Marcus Moore, previously co-ordinator of poetry at Glastonbury and Cheltenham Literature Festival. A writer, poet and radical educator, Marcus has a fascinating history and tells a right good yarn; at GG 2014 he’ll be compering a Strictly Speaking Poetry Slam. Also on this stage: Salena Godden, Pete The Temp, John Hegley, Tracey Curtis and a quixotic mix of comedians, poets, magicians, singer-songwriters, bards, poets and fools.

In the Speakers' Forum activists rub shoulders with academics, entrepreneurs and Green thinkers. Jeremy Leggett, Molly Scott Cato, Jenny Jones, Ewa Jasiewicz, Merrick Badger, Paul Mobbs and many more will debate the social and economic issues we face and how to solve them.

VENUES, WORKSHOPS & MARKETS

This year we are hosting, for the first time, an Off Grid College and Co-operators' Camp. We have new co-ordinators for the Tipi Circle and Permaculture Zone; a huge adventurous Kids' Area and activities for teens; new venues brought to us by Kaplick Solar Stage and the Dandy Lion in addition to our favourite Floating Lotus Stage; Radical Wales and other social justice groups in the Campaigns Field; a solar cinema curated by activist film-makers Radical News; an interactive Art Studio; cycling, unicycling, recycling and upcycling; a Repair Cafe and The Liberated Feast; and as usual our skilled tinkers and craftsfolk to teach you traditional skills in the Craft Area; therapists and masseurs to soothe you in the Healing Area, and fabulous Avalon Rising mystics and imagineers to entertain and delight you in and around the Faerie Glade and Stone Circle.

We're working with Camplight so you can rent a pre-pitched, upcycled tent and travel light (perhaps by bicycle or bus?); and GoCarShare, so drivers and passengers can hook up, share costs and save the planet.

The Green Gathering didn’t have to ‘go green’; we started out that way. Many festivals are power hungry, consumerist affairs… but they needn’t be. Good Energy asked us to share how events can green up their act, so one of us wrote this blog: How to power festivals using renewable energy – 7 tips for going green.

We're also in the Huffington Post, described as

"one modern festival that still holds true to those original principles of community, connection, and the celebration of pure human joy."

Edited June 12, 2014 by elfweirdigan

[The Woolly Pedlar]

I for one am really looking forward to returning to the Green Gathering after 16 years away - went to the Big Green in 1998 and am delighted to see the GG returning to its roots. As an aged festival goer - 30 years under my belt - I love the grass roots smaller festies without the corporate tosh.

These days I can be found with my Woolly Pedlar tent where I sell the upcycled woollies that I make.

http://www.thewoollypedlar.co.uk/

See you there!

[elfweirdigan]

Getting close to capacity on live-in vehicles (includes campervans and caravans), also dog tickets! Buy now to be safe...Ticket Info

Line up includes 3 Daft Monkeys, Tarantism, Kangaroo Moon, Seize the Day, Nik Turner, The Undercover Hippy, Pikey Beatz, Pagan Love Cult, The Majestic... folk, funk, reggae, punk, soul, psychedelia and ska... Also DJ Chris Tofu, Libby Lawes and more...

Plus Poetry Slam, Off Grid College,Co-ops Camp, Crafts, Gardens, Alt Tech and great kids area and teens/youth spaces.

It's all (and more) on the website: www.greengathering.org.uk

Green Gathering... it's more than just a party... it's where you party and then work out how to change the world and your life for the better...