This year’s green arts festival was another joyful event based on last year’s great success. It included outdoor stalls and children’s activities, crafts, music, drumming, an outdoor hive and willow sculptor, and many indoor stalls and presentations from green organisations and artists.
Bridging the gap on the car park was the fabulous Bogtastic van and the weather was largely fine, despite a short cloudburst in the middle of the day – thank God for gazebos!
It was never going to attract the vast numbers of last year, given the fabulous weather then, our recent emergence from strict Covid rules, and a dearth of competing events and activities. However, we admit we should probably have focussed more on better publicity and communications, which are now at the top of our agenda for next year.
Nevertheless, everyone who came found it an enjoyable, interesting and successful event:
“Music tent was great. My highlight was when the first downpour arrived and the drummers kept us and our fellow 'shelterers' going solidly through the drips.”
“Wish I'd had more time at each stall and in each tent to see more detail. Lots of lovely skills on show.”
Perhaps the most useful feedback was from the young people who participated at the Hands up for the Earth stall, where visitors, regardless of age, were asked to draw round their hands and either draw or write a message within it of what mattered to them about the Earth and what they would like to say to others, especially people in power. Our youngest participant, Lily, aged 2, wanted us to "save Animals" For more details of these, see our website article Hands up for the Earth.