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THE MEADOWS FEST - The Forest Stage
2 days of dancing, sunshine, music, DJs, wonderment, real ale, second hand tat stores, dalmatians and fun.
starring…
SAT 5th
the forest choir
william douglas and the house of la
lipsync for a lullaby
austin george and the set up
earl grey and the loose leaves
DJs jiggery fuckery
SAT night at the ROXY (after party from 8pm - 1am!)
Mayhew
Lipsync for a Lullaby
and more TBC
SUN 6th
Hailey Beavis and Friends
Billy Liar
Cheif Redbeard, Boorbolito and the White Lightning Dog
Super Adventure Club
Black Diamond Express
DJs Popscure and Le Vangelis
She’koyokh
Wed, 26th May - 9pm
BYOB
Exhilarating Eastern European Jewish and Balkan music by London’s award winning klezmer ensemble
“Too often do we hear adjectives like fabulous, magnificent, incredible and fantastic applied to the undeserving. For once, these superlatives could be valid and truthful in conjunction with She’koyokh.”
Gordon Lewin, Clarinet and Saxophone Society
“To say that She’koyokh’s performance was accomplished would be a gross understatement.”
Oxford Times
The Earth Lounge
Thu, May 20th
7pm-close
Global funk grooves
Deep, cultural vibes, both ambient and funky
Live acoustic musical performance from Warmheart and whoever decides to join him on the night spontaneously
She’Koyokh - Wed 26th May, at 9pm.
Award-winning klezmer ensemble performing Ashkenazi Jewish, Eastern European, Balkan and Turkish folk music
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Symbiosis - an event for the international year of biodiversity
Start Time: Thursday, 20 May 2010 at 15:00 End Time: Friday, 21 May 2010 at 00:00 Location: The forest Cafe, Upstairs HallA one day festival celebrating the year of biodiversity with both workshops, talks, screenings and live performance. A big mix of things to do and to take active part of. Be there the whole day or only for an hour. Hope to see you there, here is the programme:
Wild Plant Walk with Elie
RSVP - jouseman24@hotmail.com
starting at the forest cafe, the group will walk around nearbly wild spaces, learning and gathering, then going back to the cafe to make some tea with the findings!
Meet in forest cafe for 3pm - finished by 4.30…
All day : Plasticine to make animals and creatures
Talks:
Ali Murfitt - “Permaculture - working with nature” … 4.30 - 5.00
Roland Playle - “Symbiogenesis; how things come together in evolution” - 5.00 - 5.30
Humphrey Wood - “plants and pollinators; interactions that shape evolution” … 5.30 - 6.00
Adpal: Rockin’ around the world (and the ethics of the gem industry)
6 - 6.30… give adam a bell 3 days before….
Probolosis - video, 15 minutes - biological dance performance
Roger Downie. “The Decline of the Frog; why, and what can be done?”
Time: 45 minutes, with questions and answers… 6.45 - 7.30
….half hour break for dinner…..
Evolution with Imagination; a reading of science-based creative writing
8 - 8.30
Film - David Attenborough - “Working Together”… all about symbiosis. 8.30 - 9.30
9.30 - 10.15ish … Open Mic: songs and stories featuring animals / plants / animal sounds….. come along and bring your own! or RSVP jouseman24@hotmail.com
Ram - beatboxing with animal sounds.
10.15 - 11
choir performances (not yet confirmed, but fingers crossed will happen)
visuals in background - earth / baraka
11 - 12 … Ceilidh of all animals … facepainters will be there to paint you as your favourite animal …. then dance like a wilkd thing. Please bring donations for the facepainters and ceilidh band
Live at the Forest Cafe
Saturday, May 22nd, 9pm BYOB
All the way from Love Street, the indie Italian band cooks with music
THE GOLDEN HOUR!
May 19th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free! (byob)
Act I:
Chloe Morrish — releasing her new chapbook!
My Kappa Roots — tender and touching, but you are not allowed to touch him.
Act II:
TRIO VERSO: poetry & jazz-inflected soundscapes from Brian Johnstone, Richard Ingham & Louise Major
Act III:
Rapunzel Wizard – long haired poems ready to tangle!
Pockets – the uke bastard lights it up.
GREAT STUFF!!!
The Golden Hour: Literary Cabaret:
Join the gang from Edinburgh’s legendary Forest Cafe for a literary cabaret which has played to sold-out audiences in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is poetry and prose, original eclectic songs + plenty of surprises. It is physical and mental. It is a reading. It is a gig. It is a party.
Featuring:
Readers / Writers:
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ericka Duffy – Southern (Ontario) Gothic fiction & Poetry
Jason Morton – Shouts from the barroom floor.
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Jane Flett – winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award and seamstress of many fetching stories
Music / Song Writers:
Hailey Beavis – an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings
Jed Milroy – bouncin’ bluegrass from the banjo balladeer
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Taperecorder - weaves a shoegaze-crunk house hybrid as suited to cocooned winter days as to sweaty late-night adventuring.
(Special Guests are listed at each venue — see below!!)
DATES & Venues:
20 May — The Rude Shipyard, 89 Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield
8 - 11pm, £3 entry
With Special Guests:
Matt Clegg — beautiful poems, wonderfully restrained
Matt Black — serious, sharp, surreal, irritated and funny.
Pete David (of The Payroll Union) – The local hero shares some rustic country of his own making.
21 May - The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row Bristol
8 - 11, £3
With Special Guests:
Rachael Boast — poetry with the confident ease of a tall glass of iced-tea
David Briggs — idiosyncratic poems where clowns and teacups are lit at the edges with a gunsmoke-blue glow.
Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
22 May — REDROASTER COFFEE HOUSE, 1d St James’s Street, Brighton BN2 1RE
8 - 11pm, £3
With Special Guests:
Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
The Half Sisters — Ukulele, flute and drums combined with three point harmonies create a lush and mesmerising chorus of catchy pop hooks and adorable honesty.
+ Possible special amazing comedic guest who we can’t quite pin down but will pop like a snake in can!
23 May London —— Shhhh, Secret Special BBQ gig… Contact us for the magic venue!!!
FREE
4pm – midnight
With Special Guests
The Itinerant Poetry Librarian
Paper Cinema & many surprise friends!!!
24 May - London - Green Note -106 Parkway, Camden, London
7 - 11pm, £5
With Special Guests:
Mario Petrucci — Imaginative, sophisticated and effortlessly masterful poet.
Kirsten Irving — The editor of FuseLit brings poems of effortless and funky finery.
Sam Taradash — stories from the hard shoulder.
Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.
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Visual Amazement:
A cast of hand-drawn marionettes are magically brought to life. This is what happens at the accidental meeting of inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise lamps, the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana box.
25 May — Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne
7.30 - 11pm, £3
With Special Guests:
Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle — local heroes bring their brand of bluesy country/folk hillbilly mix of utter eccentricity
BLENDER! - next weekend, fully licenced till 1am.
Thursday - 22nd
PUNK THE FOREST
Witches’ Revenge,The BLudSLugs, The Plimtones, The Stay Gones
POLICEBOX
Paul Montague of missing cat, Black Diamond Express
Friday - 23rd
POLICEBOX
Graeme Mearns, Lipsync for a lullaby, The Byrons
JIGGERY FUCKERY
Saturday - 24th
THE BOWERY
Maybe Myrtle Turtle, The Leg and more tbc DJs Popscure et Le Vangelis
PLASTIC FORK
Firebrand Boy, The Foundling wheel, Jack&Heinrichs, fuel diva, DJ Bad Larry
25th REGGAE SUNDAY PRESENTS DUB SOUP
Starting with family friendly kiddie dancing in the afternoon and some
serious adult jiggling through the night, peppered with live music,
cooked up by you!
BOWERY at the Forest
Saturday, 24 April 2010 at 7pm, Upstairs Hall
As part of the Blender fundaiser weekend at Forest, the Bowery will be returning for one night only to take over the upstairs for an evening of hard liquor, incensed debauchery and musical mayhem.
Bring dancin shoes, high hemlines, and lipstick for kissin in.
Featuring…
Maybe Myrtle Turtle
Enfant Bastard
The Leg
…and hot DJ noises from Popscure and Vangelis
We’ve missed you, really, we have
xxx
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