BuddhaField
Buddhafield Festival 2008 - July 16th - 20th
The Dance of the Elements
Buddhism - Ritual - Meditation - Yoga - Tai Chi - Healing Area - Kids Area - Cafes - Workshops - Debates - Music - Dance - Crafts
No Alcohol, No Drugs, No Dogs
Please respect our heartfelt intention to create a drug and alcohol-free space for the flourishing of clear and radiant awareness.
Ticket numbers are limited, book early to avoid disappointment.
Day passes may be available on the gate for £10 on Sunday subject to available site capacity, day passes will not be available in advance.
Buddhafield Festival 2008 Booking Here
Subject to Licence and Conditions, The Buddhafield Festival is a charity fund raising event for FWBO (Buddhafield) Reg. Charity No. 1108826.
Contrary to rumour, there are still plenty of tickets. The festival will be taking place on a beautiful new site a few miles from the old one, secluded and peaceful, away from roads, with coppice woodland, and plenty of space.
The site has good public transport links; nearest train and coach stations are in Taunton (direct trains from many towns); there are a couple of local buses each day from Taunton direct to the site. There are also special festival mini-buses going direct to the site and back from Bristol, Brighton and London.
A sneak preview of some of this year's programme (all included in the ticket price!!):
Kids Area; AMAZING and varied range of activities for kids - trampolines, dressing up, carnival processing, crafts, bushcraft and nature awareness, storytelling, toddlers' space, daily theatre extravaganza; Teens Space.
Bands: Gadjo Club (superb Gypsy Balkan Jazz); Seize the Day (protest folk stalwarts); Green Angels (upbeat Breton dance); Vogue Gyratory (Brighton faves, 7 piece funk-reggae); Manjinga 7; Toggy Mess (upbeat Irish folk); Manos Puestas (super-spicy flamenco jazz);
Poetry: Inter-Ference; open mike poetry evening; Poetry slam;
Mr Be, mime, clown and acro, family show
'The Big Q' play written specially for Buddhafield! Stilted butterfly walkabout; Marionettas giant puppets;
Dharma Parlour, talks and discussions on Buddhism, speakers from the Western Buddhist Order and other traditions, including Christopher Titmuss. Meditation teaching from Paramananda and others. Ceremonies and devotional practice.
Masses of great yoga, Tai Chi and Chi Gung. Healing Area, great range of alternative therapies, pay by donation.
A variety of fantastic DJs, including Matt Black of Coldcut (Thurs pm)
Cinema: great programme of alternative films.
Workshops including: Ecstatic Dance with Jewls; 5 Rhythms with Jo Hardy; Brazilian Forro; Indian Classical Dance with yoga/visualisation; Shamanic Trance Dance with Zilia; many more dance workshops; 'Soulful Singing'; 'Voice as Sacred Instrument'; Tibetan singing bowls; Tin whistle, bodhran, drumming; daily Buddhafield Community Rhythm event; 'Work that Reconnects'; Transition Towns; big debate on Climate; Palestine Peace Campaign; Non-violent Communication; Skilful Flirting; Heart-to-Heart tantric workshops; Green babycare on a budget; Shamanic Journeying from Northern Drum;
Wildheart Medicine Wheel Space; Dzogchen and Big Mind teachings; bushcraft; tracking; fire making; Sky gazing meditation.
'Artery'; carnival costume from found natural materials; creativity and poetry-writing;
12 Step Dome; Women's Space; Land and Permaculture; Radical Midwives Space for pregnant women and new mothers; Queer Spirit Space; Network of Engaged Buddhists; Crafts Area
Saunas including Lost Horizon, featuring chillout space and cabaret
Wood-fired showers; compost toilets; all power on site from the sun and wind.
Ticket numbers are limited, book early to avoid disappointment.
Day passes may be available on the gate for £10 on Sunday subject to available site capacity, day passes will not be available in advance.
Buddhafield Festival 2008 Booking Here
Subject to Licence and Conditions, The Buddhafield Festival is a charity fund raising event for FWBO (Buddhafield) Reg. Charity No. 1108826.
If you can offer someone a lift to the festival or need one please post your offers/requests Here.
Enquiries:
If you wish to perform,
lead a workshop
help steward the event,
work on the site crew,
work in the kids area,
or
provide healing
or just help us make the festival happen
contact us Here.
For Any General Enquiries About the Festival in 2008 or beyond
or phone +44 (0)1647 24539
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in the future please let us know here.
Visit our Archives for reviews and pictures
from previous Buddhafield Festivals.
Reviews of the 2007 Buddhafield Festival
'Buddhafield is as close... so far... as you are likely to come to a perfect community of beings living and celebrating the way we all know we should be. We all know how and at Buddhafield we are reminded of that. No drugs and drink leave the air and the smiles as clear as crystal. .... Its small, its pretty, its clean..... Thank you Buddhafield, from the bottom of my heart for giving me this gem again. I could carry on with more descriptions of how the magic in this field left me gleaming and in awe but it's not needed, just go.'
John Chas-Wright.
'A magic place, only a few fields, has the feel of a post-cataclysm community of survivors, living in harmony with nature..... No drugs, no dogs... but a lot a lot of love. Loving interactions, very loving and not sleezy.... Buddhafield is such an invitation to play, dress up, dance until you sweat so much you want to take off your clothes...'
Celine Smith.
Full Reviews from Festival Eye Magazine 2008