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Carnival in the Undergrowth
At the height of summer, we gather to celebrate the earth and all its strange and wondrous inhabitants. Join us for a jam-packed day of Collective Creativity and Radical Imagination: Live Music, Cabaret, Parade, Ritual, Workshops, Puppets, and more!
This year we honour creatures that blur boundaries – mythical beasts, hybrid beings, and animals whose lives defy fixed categories and gender conventions. From fluid fishes and transmuting toads, to writhing whiptails and slime sodden snails, fungal fruiting and dancing dreambirds, intersex icons and gender revolutionaries, we take inspiration from nature’s endless imagination and the shapeshifting folklore that surrounds it. In the Undergrowth, our difference is abundance.
DRESS CODE : SUMMER SPECIES LOVERS Come adorned as your wildest self: beast, bloom, chimera, pollinator, predator, symbiote, swampling, spirit, celestial hybrid, or something entirely unnamed. Come dressed to meet your mates, to meet your ‘mate’, or to simply slay (Praying Mantis style).
Featuring electro disco queen CHEWY SHE for fans of high-energy, genre-defying live shows, hypnotic polyphony from TRYANI COLLECTIVE’s acappella sounscapes, and BAND OF BUGGARS for a theatrical bluesy, whisky-soaked sound… and many more delights from the depths of the Undergrowth! Plus Afterparty at Basement 45!
DAY TIME 12am to 10pm (Bridge Farm, Family Friendly- children under 12 come free)
✦ Live Music
✦ Cabaret
✦ Rituals
✦ Workshops
✦ DJs & Dancing
✦ Puppets and Parade
✦ Costumes, Creatures & Transformation
✦ Food by Cibomatto and Kotto Hut (Vegan and Gluten Free)
