Festival Activities
Buddhafield Festival: Wednesday 14 – Sunday 18 July 2010 | Buy tickets
All programme information is illustrative only, based on activities at last year’s event
You can obtain a sense for the kinds of activities at last year’s Festival by downloading a copy of the 2009 Buddhafield Festival programme.
Festival Info
The Festival Info Point has up-to-date programme boards for all activities during the event. It is located in the Long Field, in the centre of the festival, opposite the Buddhafield Café
Children's Activities
Kids Area provided by Majical Youth (see their website and Facebook page). Varied range of activities for kids, including trampolines, dressing up, carnival processions, daily theatre extravaganza, crafts, bushcraft and nature awareness, storytelling, toddlers and Teens spaces.
Spaces
Women’s Space
This space welcomes all women for tea, camping, fireside chat, workshops, morning meditation, personal yoga practice and more tea.
Queer Dome
Offering a safe, welcoming place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people and their friends. Daily heart circles and tea parties, music and conversation by the fire, workshops.
Wild Heart Mandala
With Tigers Nest, Trackways and Spirit Horse. From Dzogchen to nature awareness, Epic Storytelling, divine poetry and enlightenment intensives we provide an opportunity to rest in your natural state and learn new skills with a deep appreciation of this moment and the beauty of nature, right here, right Now!
Social Change
A space to meet people engaged in social action, resistance and renewal, through campaigns, protests, and the creation of social alternatives.
Our 2010 programme is still being finalized, but the 2009 Festival included:
- Climate Change trainings with George Marshall of the Climate Outreach Information Network.
- Eco-Paganism with Adrian Harris.
- How to Decommission Arms Factories with Schnews.
- Low Carbon Lifestyles by Mukti Mitchell, teacher and writer, who in 2007 sailed around Britain in his zero-emission microyacht to promote low carbon living.
- Nine Miles: Two Winters of Anti-Road Protest with Jim Hindle.
- Skills for Building and Maintaining Sustainable Communities (Sangha). Exploring some of the tools and skills (e.g. listening, questioning, participatory decision making) that can support the effectiveness and well-being of our community. Kathryn Tulip, Seeds for Change.
- Co-operative Living and Working. Based on honesty, openness, equality, social responsibility and caring for others, cooperatives are ideal structures for those wanting to together take control of their housing, work, education and finances. Find out how to set up and fund them. Kathryn Tulip, Seeds for Change.
- Solution to the Pollution with Nicola Peel
- Visions of a World at Peace with Daniel Harris. Connect to the things that we truly want in our lives with body, heart and soul and begin to bring them to reality.
Arts & Crafts
- Art for All — space for all ages to come and do your own thing, with materials (oil, pastel, crayons, chalk, pens, collage) and encouragement from Arty Steve and crew.
- Book-binding made simple, with Nina.
- Make your own postcard from recycled materials — draw, paint or collage and send Buddhafield’s love into the world. Becks will take our creations by bike at the end of each day to the postbox.
- “Using beauty to find truth” workshop for adults, based on psychotherapy and archetypal wisdom. With Fairy Tess.
- Wild Arts with Myriam. Family Environmental art workshops.
- Chalk and Charcoal. Interactive, open-to-all, chalk carving workshop. All day, everyday.
Round and about
- Beaker People and their bread oven (adapted from traditional cob design)
- Games for adults outside on the Long Field
- Elements and Spirit Ritual Dance of Life (Native American inspired) plus body heart and spirit warm-up with Sky, mornings, outside — Ritual Space, Long Field.
- Walkabouts — Marionettas / The Rainbow Collective (giant puppets)
- Healing Earth. Vision quests and shamanic jorneying.
