Pix of Kingston Green Fair (S) – Sideshows-Transport, Mon 30 May 05 - Set 5 of 6

Tim D Jones | 03.06.2005 10:39 | Culture | London

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

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Setting - sunny riverside

Sideshow - punk puppetry A

Sideshow - punk puppetry B

Sideshow - Surrey Strings + Abbey Music School

Stalls - Destroy the DSEi arms fair

Stalls - face painting A

Stalls - face painting B

Stalls - Friends of the Earth

Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND A

Stalls - Kingston Peace Council/CND B

Stalls - London Rising Tide

Stalls - Organic Delivery Company

Stalls - School Students Against War

Stalls - Woodcraft Folk

Transport - electric go-cart

Transport - EVT Trike electric scooter

Transport - Fat Fella Bio-Diesel

Transport - ravishing rickshaw A

Transport - ravishing rickshaw B

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

http://kingstongreenfair.org.uk turned into a grand day out. I knew that some clownbattants from CIRCA – the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

http://www.clownarmy.org – 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

http://www.peteardron.com/orchidstar, 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

http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk and Destroy DSEi

http://www.dsei.org. 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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