Music
The Green Gathering was formerly known as the Big Green Gathering in the UK . It has an environmental and social justice focus. It includes talks and workshops on permaculture, politics, ecology and crafts, as well as music, spoken word and art. The first Big Green Gathering was held in 1994 and the festival is currently held in Chepstow in Monmouthshire.
Hawkwind Mission Control – legendary free festival favourites – psy-rockers.
Hippyland is really rather a strange site that mixes historic artefacts, rants and rather naïve meanderings about what being a hippy is all about.
On-line archive collection of ‘it’ magazine 1966-1994. One of the most read underground press newspapers from the UK in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Knockengorroch World Celidh began one mid-summer 1998, the year after an international ‘rainbow gathering’ took place on the land. It has grown but without losing any of our original character. It has acted as an inspiration for several other festivals in Dumfries and Galloway, and further afield.
An arts-based intentional community in Switzerland. Music, performance, sports events, installations and ‘fun’! An old foundry converted into a vibrant arts venue involving local people as well as those who are involved full-time in the Culture Factory.
A Netherlands’ freespace described as:
“LBB or Landbouwbelang was an old grain storage facility. Abandoned years ago.
Since 2002, the LBB has been squatted and turned into an autonomic freezone in Maastricht for music, arts and culture. It is a collective of spaces, entrepreneurships and creative people. It creates space for experimenting, exchanging knowledge and developing sustainable and creative lifestyle.”
At the Mushroom Farm, 70 kms from Vilnius in Lithuania. The Magick Gathering is a new psych-event with a hippy ideology. Based in 25 hectares of rural woodlands and ponds. A magick and mystical site indeed.
Very much a small acorn that being is loved and nurtured. The Mushroom Farm is set to become a venue for a variety of festivals and live events. Link to the MG facebook page.