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2010-06-15
Scotland's leading green festival has now announced a fully packed programme of events for this year's massive three day showcase. This complements a brilliant music line-up featuring Rosanne Cash, King Ceosote, Brazil! Brazil!, Session A9 and a host of other great music acts from around the globe.
As well as being renowned for its fantastic music and a strong focus on global song and dance The Big Tent Festival is also recognised for its thought-provoking and inspiring green messages and family fun. Within the beautiful surroundings of the Falkland Estate, this year's festival will be tackling some of the world's biggest ethical questions through poetry, demonstrations, debates, story-telling and much more.
On opening night, Trio Verso will be performing with one of the founders of the StAnza poetry festival, providing musical improvisation to Brian Johnstone's wonderful poetry. There will also be the first chance to view the Solar Cinema offerings with the film "No Impact Man". Big Tent will then be well and truly underway with Friday night's Ceilidh for the whole family, with music provided by Fife's very own Lomond Ceilidh Band, led by Alan Small.
Visitors will be spoilt for choice on Saturday as each and every one of Big Tent's zones bustles with topical debates and poignant discussions. In the Head Zone Pat Kane will discuss the Ecology of Play and Adelaide Sosseh will lead a talk on the theme Moving with Africa. Bill McKibben will present the UK launch of his new book EAARTH via live video feed, whilst Grassroots Zimbabwe will hold a special workshop demonstration. In the Talk Tent the One Planet Food Report with Teresa Martinez and Kirtana Chandrasekaran is sure to be very insightful and in the early evening, in the Solar Cinema, there will be a chance to see Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari. Taking Root is an multi-award winning
As part of the poetry programme, Mandy Haggith, Anna Crowe and Gerry Loose and will be performing throughout the day, bringing their love of poetic verse to the inspirational landscape of Falkland Estate and Sounds of Falkland with Louise K Wilson and David Chapman will bring the unique sights and sounds of Falkland to life in an exciting audio-visual arts project.The twosome have used the area's geological and archaeological features to create temporary 'art sites' where their interpretations can be seen and heard.
Over at the Wood and Craft Zone, exhibitors will display and demonstrate all manner of wonderful crafting skills and highlights include the Woodland Orchestra led by Henry Fosbrooke. Bernard Planterose will be presenting Building with timber, inhabiting the forest, reskilling. Rick Worrell will discuss 21st century woodlands: seeding a better future.
As Sunday dawns, Big Tenters can wake up with Libertad Coffee in the Talk Tent. WWF Scotland will talk about Palm Oil and Sustainability, Lesley Riddoch will discuss Islands of Inspiration and in the Solar Cinema the day starts with a film from Take One Action called FOOD INC. The Moving with Africa theme will be further developed including debates with Oxfam, there will be presentations from Justin Kenrick of the Holyrood 350 campaign and Betsy Reed the Director of Scottish Fair Trade Forum. Mr McFall's Chamber with Victor Fillena, Cyril Garac and Valentine Martinez will be doing what they do best - wowing the crowds with the diversity and range of musical talent that reflects everything the Big Tent music festival is about.
As visitors wander amongst the many stalls and exhibits, they will also discover Roots and Flutes, the sounds and stories of some of the world's oldest instruments with Bob Pegg and talks from all the craftsmen and women as we Meet the Makers - where each exhibitor holds a short talk on their trade.
The Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) will have their own unique stand, designed and built as a practical and inspirational demonstration of local materials and focusing on the use of local, Falkland wood - which will provide the space for demonstrations, displays, discussions, slide shows and talks.The slideshow will illustrate a range of ecological design projects by SEDA members - and there will a range of materials, samples and displays of different "green" products and materials.
SEDA will hold workshop/ discussion sessions twice a day on "Greening your Home" for people who are interested in refurbishing, altering, converting or renovating their existing home to reduce their carbon footprint.
These are just a few of the high points of an extensive weekend programme full of diverse and wonderfully unique events to enlighten the hearts of anyone with a passion for green issues, global cultures and music.
Big Tent is Scotland's leading green festival and there are still massive discounts to be gained by joining the bid to reduce your carbon footprint. See the Big Tent website for the Big Green Discount!
For further information and tickets visit www.bigtentfestival.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk
