Pix of Wychwood Festival -- Shops-Stalls, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 5 of 6
Tim D Jones | 10.06.2005 13:04 | Culture
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Shops - Oxfam blanket mountain A.jpg
Shops - Oxfam blanket mountain B.jpg
Shops - Oxfam blanket mountain C.jpg
Shops - self-portrait in dragon mirror.jpg
Shops - Shmangle blankets A.jpg
Shops - Shmangle blankets B.jpg
Shops - Shmangle blankets C.jpg
Shops - world music.jpg
Stalls - Bristol Stop the War.jpg
Stalls - Greenpeace A.jpg
Stalls - Greenpeace B.jpg
Stalls - Greenpeace C, Forest Crime Unit.jpg
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Two years in the organising -- by local people with a love of world music -- the whole event was a great success as far as I could tell. Mostly resembling recent WOMAD festivals in Reading, but on a smaller scale, the family-friendly atmosphere brought in everyone from 0 to 90, with a mean of maybe 35. The musical cast list was certainly extremely internationalist -- for details see
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For me, the great pleasure of festivals is getting exposed to new and exciting experiences, from a hands-on workshop to bands I've never heard of. This day's big find was musical -- a Finnish band called Värttinä
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Politically, the stalls on show were relentlessly reformist, from Bristol Stop the War, to Oxfam, via Greenpeace. But I didn't really expect anything very revolutionary, deep in the heartland of Tory rural Gloucestershire. And the most surprising delight was purely aesthetic -- magnificent, huge and surreal kites, dancing in the stiff breeze. An octopus being eyed-up by a gecko, a female scuba diver being pursued by two clown fish, a giant centipede and a multicoloured ray -- Magritte would have loved it, quit painting and taken up kite design!
If you appreciate musical culture from the world over, a laid back atmosphere and plenty to engage the senses and the mind, I recommend the Wychwood Festival. Here's hoping the organisers also rated it a sufficiently great success to make it a regular event.
In International Solidarity,
Tim D Jones
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