Green Fayre at the Workhouse

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

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.

The last twenty years as a poet, singer/songwriter, comedian, and tree impressionist have established Rory Motion as one of the most popular and innovative performers on the national circuit and he will be gracing us with his presence on the Friday night of the Green Fayre. He will be joined by our resident trad musicians for a night of poetry, song and laughter.

Tickets are only £4 on the door.

There are still a small number of spaces for people to run Workshops over the weekend so if you have a particular craft or skill that you would like to share with the lovely folk that’ll be attending then please send a short proposal to info@green-fayre.org

We’re open to all sorts of suggestions but it needs to be low impact and well organised.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We have been appraoched by BBC Wales who are interested in filming at the Workhouse, culminating at the Green Fayre.. there is increasing interest in Green Lifestyles etc.. so we thought it would add something interesting to the event to allow them to film here. The only objective rreally being to raise awareness and interest in the Workhouse and the values it embodies, of community, creativity and sustainability. They are not out to catch us out or make us look stereotypical or whatever.. but have a genuine ethusiasm for what is going on here. It feels important for us here at the Workhouse to develop awareness of the project and what we are doing here.. so it feels like an important opportunnity for us.