We are planning to build on last year’s successful Green Fayre with a Local Produce Event for September 2010.
Local Produce, Food and Cider Fayre
with all the green crafts workshops, and activites that we all enoyed at the Green Fayre.
Family camping, music, ceilidh and cider!
Music and dancing and lots to do for the kids.
We’d just like to extend a massive thanks to everyone who came and contributed to the Green Fayre over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket, thanks to all the demonstrators/workshops and traders, all the stewards and security and all the perfomers.
The Llanfyllin Workhouse Green Fayre is a totally new event and we are so grateful for all the support and enthusiasm people brought with them. There was a beautiful energy over the weekend and a real sense of a community and hope. Please stay in touch with the Workhouse and hopefully the Green Fayre will be back and even better next year.
Here is a little taster of the kind of workshops happening on Saturday and Sunday
| Willow Weaving |
| Bird Box Making |
| Chocolate Making |
| Composting |
| Circus Skills for Adults and Children |
| Medicinal Herbs |
| Poetry Workshops |
| Carpentry |
| Singing Workshops |
| Spinning and working with wool. |
| Wine Making Workshops |
| Tools For Self Reliance |
| Welsh Trees |
| Yurt Making |
It’s now the weekend of the Green Fayre!
We’ve had to take tickets off-sale on-line now but there are still Weekend Camping and Day Tickets for Saturday and Sunday available on the gate.
Don’t forget that Rory Motion is performing tonight (Friday). Doors open at 8pm. Tickets are £4 on the door.
Hope to see you there.
Prices:
If you are just coming for the day its £10 to park the car and this includes entry for 1 adult. Extra adults are just £5 and children are FREE.
We are very excited and proud to announce that the concrete poet going by the name of Childe Roland will be performing on Saturday evening in our Performance Courtyard. He will be joined by musicians and a projection show.
We can’t think of a better way to give you an idea of what to expect than using the words of the wonderful guys at TheAbsurd.co.uk:
‘There is no sense of elitism, literary snobbery or arrogance (although he would be well within his rights to have that attitude); instead there is a feeling that you are with a man who cherishes life, who looks upon each day with wonder and at each person he meets with gleeful merriment. Once he’d taken to the stage Childe’s The Fair poem was received with roaring applause, and the end of the reading of The Verb to Be was met with raucous cheers and the demand for an encore – to which he happily obliged. This was not an audience of the literary establishment; this was a party attended by over a hundred people who were absolutely determined to have a good time. Childe’s performance was animated, dynamic and vibrant; he stole the show.’
http://www.theabsurd.co.uk/interviews/childe/int_childe.html
Where’s the sense in buying a whole new wardrobe of clothes/library of books/toys/crockery when the chances are your neighbours have plenty of these things lying around that they’re just not using and probably never will?
In the name of recycling, re-using and responsible consumer habits we are going to have a swap shop at the Green Fayre. Bring along anything that has been sitting around the house/garden/van and not being used. As long as it’s in good condition (we don’t just want a load of junk) you can swap it for something that someone else has brought along. Who knows what goodies you might be able to pick up with not a single penny changing hands.
We are pround to announce we will have our dedicated Welsh cider bar at the Green fayre.. with some of the best local cider, perry and juices available. Bill makes his cider in the heart of the Cambrian mountains at over 1000 feet above sea level near the sources of the Severn and the Wye. The sweet fresh juice is pressed in welsh oak pressess and left to ferment in in its own natural yeast. It is left to ferment for up to 18 months – producing a unique cider with an uncommonly rich depth of flavour. Contains no additives, sulphites of sugars!
As well as running an apple tree nusery Bill is also a stained glass maker and you can see some of his work at http://www.greatoakglass.co.uk/
We are thrilled to welcome tools for reliance Cymru to the Green Fayre..the organisation restore old tools and implements and makes them available to development projects across the developing world. Here’s a section from their website
Tools for Self Reliance groups collect old and unwanted hand tools; we clean, repair and sharpen them and send tool kits to grass roots community groups in 6 African countries, but mostly Tanzania at present.
TFSR Cymru is one of 70 TFSR groups in the UK, based in Crickhowell. We are a registered charity, and work towards a more equitable sharing of the world’s resources.
TFSR Cymru are a bunch of over 50 volunteers, men and women aged 14 to 81. We meet in our fully-equipped workshop where we repair and renovate hand tools in their thousands. The tools are donated by individuals, or collected by a wide variety of other organisations from across Wales. We have been fairly successful at collecting, but we still have a shortage of certain items, especially anvils and other tools for blacksmiths.
Could you work without tools? In the past 22 years we have sent over 330 tool kits (each valued at over £1,200) to craftsmen and women in rural communities of Africa. Tools mean work, and the chance to shape the future is just as important to a young person in Tanzania or Ghana as in Britain.
Volunteers are always needed to join us in Crickhowell, or at one of the 6 other TFSR groups in Wales. Men or women any age, bring along your skills, or come and learn how to handle a hammer. There’s always plenty to do from cleaning and sharpening tools, to making and packing crates. There is always somebody around to help show you what needs doing.
www.tfsrcymru.org.uk
As part of the BBC Wales Green season, there will be a film crew present at the Green Fayre event recording footage for a green lifestyles documentary. The Workhouse and project partners Sector39 are really pleased and excited to be working with Presentable TV and hope you will all be tuning in in November when it goes to air.
The Workhouse is hosting a film crew and subjects for a 10 day period and the Green Fayre will form a significant part of the back drop for the programme. We have been working closely with the editorial team to ensure the resulting 6 part series conveys an accurate picture of the Workhouse project as well as the environmental principles it embodies.
They are particularly interested in the crafts, and doing side of things, as well as some of the characters and personalities involved with the project and making it all happen and want to portray what is going on there in a positive and constructive light.
We really hope noone will be put off by their presence and assure that they have no intention other than making a genuinely interesting programme set amongst the creativity and inventiveness of the Workhouse community. If you do not want to be filmed in anyway please make your self known to us and we will be happy to ensure that you are not.
I’ve led workshops at Glastonbury Festival, The Big Green (when it happens!), Buddhafield Festival and Dance Camp Wales, as well as teaching community choirs…. the more the merrier! anynumber can attend Bee’s singing workshops… they are fun and uplifting experiences. Please come along and enjoy singing with us at the Green Fayre!