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Pix of Kingston Green Fair – Sideshows-Transport, Mon 30 May 05 - Set 5 of 5

Tim D Jones | 02.06.2005 14:31 | Culture | London

Pictures of Bank Holiday Monday's sunny and satisfying Kingston Green Fair.

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For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

Setting - sunny riverside
Setting - sunny riverside

Sideshow - punk puppetry A
Sideshow - punk puppetry A

Sideshow - punk puppetry B
Sideshow - punk puppetry B

Sideshow - Surrey Strings + Abbey Music School
Sideshow - Surrey Strings + Abbey Music School

Stalls - Destroy the DSEi arms fair
Stalls - Destroy the DSEi arms fair

Stalls - face painting A
Stalls - face painting A

Stalls - face painting B
Stalls - face painting B

Stalls - Friends of the Earth
Stalls - Friends of the Earth

Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND A
Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND A

Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND B
Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND B

Stalls - London Rising Tide
Stalls - London Rising Tide

Stalls - Organic Delivery Company
Stalls - Organic Delivery Company

Stalls - School Students Against War
Stalls - School Students Against War

Stalls - Woodcraft Folk
Stalls - Woodcraft Folk

Transport - electric go-cart
Transport - electric go-cart

Transport - EVT Trike electric scooter
Transport - EVT Trike electric scooter

Transport - Fat Fella Bio-Diesel
Transport - Fat Fella Bio-Diesel

Transport - ravishing rickshaw A
Transport - ravishing rickshaw A

Transport - ravishing rickshaw B
Transport - ravishing rickshaw B

Transport - ravishing rickshaw C
Transport - ravishing rickshaw C


Despite the train to Kingston getting drummed upon by torrential heavy rain, and my having to buy fresh batteries for my new juice-hungry camera, the Kingston Green Fair 2005 turned into a grand day out. I knew that some clownbattants from CIRCA – the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army – would be clowning around in civvies; but what came as a lovely surprise was my friend Myriam, enjoying the warm sunshine on the grass before the World Music Stage. And she was there to perform on vocals with Pete Ardron's Orchid-Star, of whom I took many photo's (not all shown here).

Politically, the bias of the stalls on show was well toward woolly-minded liberal reformism, with a couple of honourable exceptions: London Rising Tide and Destroy DSEi. And it was good to see such radicals getting the message about global climate chaos and arms trading across, alongside green transport and energy folks, during what was targeted as a family-friendly day trip outing.

This was only my second time at the KGF, and I hope to make it a personal regular annual event. If you could do with some rest and relaxation in a stress-free festival atmosphere, not unlike the Green Field at the Glastonbury Festival in scale and feel, I commend the KGF to you.

In International Solidarity,

Tim D Jones

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