The Enchanted Garden
April 14th, 2009 by sparkyThe Enchanted Garden - the festival within a festival continues to grow this year, with the addition of new stages, installations, workshops, as well as those all important massages and a car boot sale with a difference…
Set in a beautiful woodland space and placing equal emphasis on surroundings and performance, Stop the City will be the place to escape the rat race. It will feature artists, sound-based installations and visuals that lie far from mainstream life. Expect anything from found sounds, classical to minimalist electronic, perhaps with a dose of interactivity.
Calling all bands, magicians, contortionists, poets, orators and assorted musicians. The Crap Stage is offering you all the opportunity to perform at The Big Chill this year. Traditional backline and costumes will be provided, but please feel free to bring your ukulele and a sense of humour to join in.
The Buskers are returning to The Big Chill in 2009, following on from the eccentric and joyous delights of last year’s performances. SolarAid will be hooking up with The Big Chill to create this stage. SolarAid are a charity that empowers the world’s poorest communities to have access to clean, renewable power. If you want to get involved, the opening date for submissions is May 1st. See here for more info.
This year, Body and Soul has evolved into a creative haven of inspiration. Whether you wish to participate in some wild workshops such as beginners trapeze, shamanic drumming, making a pot, belly dancing, or get some hot tips on how to entrance your partner with a sensational massage, you will find so much more in Body and Soul this year. Across the site you’ll discover brand new Massage Satellite stations, pods where our delightful team of massuers will be on hand to offer you respite and help you recharge. Open till late each night, with Viva la Vida, our entertainment tent supported by Mixmaster Morris, keeping you rocking into the wee hours with an ecclectic mix of uplifting live bands and DJs.
The Art Car Boot Fair breaks out of it’s Brick Lane car park and heads to the hills of Eastnor Castle this year, shedding some of its urban pretensions on the way and taking on some more rural habits, and creating a ‘fete within festival’ between midday and 6pm each day. As well as being able to pick up an astonishing selection of exciting art works and wares, you’ll also be able to get involved in all manner of artist led frivolities, play the human fruit machine Yoo Froot!, singalong to the fabulous and famed Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club Karaoke set-up and perhaps bat a rat and waz a welly or two as well!
