PC640 Festival Ideas
updated 2013
Festival Ideas UPDATE
- I searched for events happening in the UK. Music festivals are no good anymore cos most are commercial rip-offs these days ... so I looked for Science Festivals & Mind, Ideas, Brain, & thinking festivals

- Round up of UK Science, Literature & History Festivals 2012
- My other page and here (volunteering on canals etc.)
www.literaryfestivals.co.uk

-Science Festivals
Mostly listed on the British Council website, the Galilleo site is supposed to list EU science festivals - not good list really
- Jeez I just found another good list for Europ http://www.eusea.info/Events DEAD
- European Science Events, check the update file DEAD

- britishscienceassociation Use the What's On button on the home page

- British Science Festival

Skeptics Events
- @TheBrightsNet Twitter
- Sheffield Skeptics in Pub
- http://www.questival.org.uk/ august camp says young people only DEAD
- http://www.the-brights.net/

Festivals of Ideas, Mind etc.

IT/Festival della Scienza (Genoa Science Festival) 25-10-12

- Ireland Nationwide Discover Science & Engineering Week 11.11.2012 18.11.201


NEW FESTIVALS

- HowTheLightGetsIn, the philosophy and music festival at Hay on Wye May

- Looked for theatre & Drama festivals but only found finished ones in Halesworth www.hightide.org.uk/ May

ElyFestival 13-15 July looks good but virtually sold out http://www.elyfolkfestival.co.uk £75
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and Rally '12 Date: Friday 13th - Sunday 15th July 12 Location: Tolpuddle near Dorchester, Dorset - MAP Cost: weekend £25, - Sunday only free Tony Benn & his union mates pay homage to 100 years of Woodie Gutherie etc. http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/tolpuddle/2012/

- last weekend in July : Leigh on Sea free Folk festival in Essex, but there is no festival campsite

- Free Folk Festival at Tintern, Folk on the Lawn '12 Date: Friday 13th - Sunday 15th July 12 Location: Abbey Mill, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Gwent, South Wales http://www.folkonthelawn.com/
- checked it's small fest ..camping is £3 01291 689566

- Wrexham Science fest :Thursday 19 – Friday 27 July corrected date http://www.wrexhamsf.com/Whatson/ 1 or 2 free events per day
- Cardiff science Festival

- Fri-sat-Sun 20-21-22nd July : Winchester science festival ..£3 stuff, but 60% aimed at kids http://winchesterscifest.org/

Wallingford Bunkfest Start Date: 30th August 2013

- 2014 ?The Festival of the Mind will be a collaboration between the City and the University of Sheffield.

From Meetup.com

- swlhumanists.org.uk Our main discussion meetings are free and on the last Monday of the month. They're mostly, but not always, held upstairs at The Old Ship pub, King Street, Richmond. but not in July

British Humanist Association Annual General Meeting Saturday, July 14, 2012

Rescheduled: Philosophy picnic. Pre-Socratics. What have they ever done for us? Saturday, July 21, 2012 4:30 PM SELECTED BY: WILL BOUWMAN Green Park

- air2bnb.com website sells rooms in private houses instead of B&B

FESTIVAL DIRECTORIES
- I haven't found much interesting stuff mostly it's expensive music fests ..try listings town by town. Search with Science, Ideas, Thinking etc.

NEXT Europe Festivals next - to avoid all the Olympics hype I think I will leave before it starts to volunteer at some festivals in Europe

www.thefestivalcalendar.co.uk - checked focuses on big fests

festivaltransfers.com/festivals-a-z list of 50 fest on 1 page so search Ctrl-F Month name (many dead)

- http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/26/festivals-guide-2012-boutique worth checked July

http://www.summerfestivalguide.co.uk/Event_Calendar.aspx - checked July

- didn't check Europe

- http://www.ents24.com/web/festivalguide.html?tab=all check this

Another festival list

www.artsfestivals.co.uk/ didn't find much check theatre fest
list of 2011 fringes http://www.femalearts.com/node/81
World fest on FB http://www.facebook.com/pages/KadmusArts/17962154811
http://kadmusarts.com/
another good A-Z of festivals
working on worldfestivalnet.com
- http://www.femalearts.com 2011 some still exists

NOT FUNCTIONING www.festivaleye.com/ Festival Eye is the definitive list of camps, festivals & similar outdoor events in the UK and beyond. Each edition contains written and photo' reviews of many

Checking Fringes Festivals
- Ah Edinburgh Fringe destroyed itself so what about other fringes ?

- Everyday life is boring so make evryday a non regular day that's why I like to seek out festivals : the problem as is that in life 90% OF THE HAILED IS KAK ANYWAY SO I HAVE TO WADE THROUGH A LOT OF RUBBISH ..THATS WHY GETTING HOLD OF A LOT OF FREE TICKETS IS IMPORTANT

- Problem is it's never worth committing cos it's crap if it rains "So what if it rains festival"

- End July/Aug Bedford Fringe is like a mini-Edinburgh average £7.50 a production ..went thru the programme..it's mostly comedy ..and comedy died 20 years ago

- MK free fringe festival until July 29th but mostly art teacher stuff

- There's a new fringe festival in Manchester for all of July 24-7 Fringe in Manchester
- seems based around a comedy pub in Manchester some free events, some plays for £5 ...no way to steward

Buxton 4-22 July similar to Bedford a lot of £8 comedies I SHOULD HAVE APPLIED TO VOLUNTEER at a FRINGE SHOW cos the only way to guarantee seeing anything worthwhile is to get free tix for lots of shows
Buxton free shows
FREE WWW DOT - Top Hats Off A physical comedy inspired by the invention.....

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