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Treat yourself to a weekend riot of extraordinary storytelling: bring your tent to Embercombe's beautiful 50 acre site just a mile from Dartmoor National Park and seven miles south of Exeter or, if you're local, visit for the day.
There are just a few spaces left in one of Embercombe's two yurt villages if you would like to travel light with no camping equipment: comfortable mattress and organic bed-linen in beautiful yurts. Speak to Clare on 01647 252983 to check availability (all whole yurts have now gone).
Discounted tickets...
Book before Saturday 31 July to get a 5% discount on ticket prices. Full-time students, unemployed and pensioners get 10% and there are discounted family tickets. Only one discount applies. Children under 5 are free, 17+ pay the adult price.
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Fireside tales; indoor venues; organic home-baked food; BBQ & pizza ovens; children's activities; workshops and live music, all in a vibrant but peaceful, family-friendly atmosphere. Make it a weekend to remember: a weekend for change...
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If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.
Siberian Elder
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Stories for change explores the theme of change in our relationship with the natural world, taking inspiration from the messages embedded in ancient myths and tales about co-existence on this planet and celebrating the capacity of the old stories and songs to change lives and inspire hope. It has attracted a stellar line-up of stars from the storytelling and folk world keen to marry story and song with sustainability.
Performers in 2010 include Hugh Lupton; Jan Blake; Robin Williamson; Cat Weatherall; Rob Hopkins; Katrice Horsley; Martin Shaw; Louisa Adjoa Parker; Spindle Wayfarer; Jane Flood; Eric Maddern; Sara Hurley; Clive Fairweather; Sue Hollingsworth; Matt Harvey; Elizabeth Gorla; Michael & Wendy Dacre; Dominic Kelly; Inez Aponte; folk and bluegrass duo the Carrivick sisters; Ben and Alfie Weedon; Clive Pig; Gypsy Band: Occupants of the Hedge; Tim "Mac" Macartney; Lucy Lepchani; Fools Theatre; Playback Theatre and more! Read more >
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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A return to the popular August Bank Holiday weekend and a move to Embercombe for the seventh Festival. Embercombe, a garden to grow people, has stunning views over the moor; 30 acres of broad-leaf woodland; beautiful meadows to camp; a wild-life lake; a marquee with a solar powered stage; composting (and flush) toilets; spring water on tap; organic fruit and veg from the market garden; delicious home-baked food in Cerridwen's Kitchen; plus Pluto's pizzas from the fires of the outdoor ovens and local organic meat and vegetarian options from Beowulf's Barbecue. There will also be organic waffles and ice cream on sale; Embercombe's delicious cakes, gateaux and flapjack together with tea and coffee will be available all day and there will be a salad bar and other vegan and gluten-free options.
Embercombe runs storytelling courses throughout the year as part of it's mission to touch hearts, stimulate minds and inspire committed action for a truly sustainable world.
The Festival will have a Native American Circle of Law Children's Fire at its centre and will ask: What if we placed the Children's Fire at the centre of everything and acted so as never to harm the children? What would our future be then? Would we see ourselves as stewards of the land, the seas, the climate, protecting it for future generations? Read more >
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.
Native American saying.
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The Westcountry School of Myth will be running workshops, interviewing the big names of the storytelling world who are performing at the Festival and Martin Shaw will tell the epic European Grail myth Parsival in an all-night sitting on Saturday – a true story for change.
Rob Hopkins founder of the Transition movement will be speaking and Steph Bradley of Transition Tales will arrive at the Festival on the penultimate stop of her tour of Britain collecting and telling Transition tales. Tales to Sustain, Wildwise, Embercombe and Emerson College will all be running workshops and offering taster sessions of their courses. Plenty of chance to develop your own skills whatever your age: raft building, toy theatre, puppets, music, crafts, tractor rides, Kung Fu, T'ai Chi, film-making and more are on offer for children and young people. Read more >
Visit the Festival Blog where Festival Co-ordinator Sue Charman will be posting the latest news and information in regular updates. Use this interactive part of the website to tell us what you've liked about past Festivals, what you'd like to see at this one and to offer feedback on the website and publicity in general.
The shortest distance between a human being and the Truth is a story.
Anthony de Mello
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