Monday 30 July 2012

Pictures from Eastbourne Lammas Festival 2012


Here are some photos I took at Eastbourne Lammas Festival over the weekend just gone. This festival takes place on Eastbourne seafront each summer and offers music and other entertainment as well as stalls, a beer tent and a ritual to celebrate the start of the harvest.

What I like about this festival is that it has a really friendly atmosphere and is enjoyed by pagans and non-pagans alike - parents with children, the young and the elderly. Mind you, I did overhear one witty 20-something say to her boyfriend: "This isn't so much a New Age festival as an old age festival." Well, it is Eastbourne - the town where, or so I am told, more pensioners get given Asbos than teenagers.

The photo on this post show, from the top: giant effigies of the Lord of the Wheat and the Lady of the Moon; amusing witchy mugs on the Cheeky Witch stall; beautiful garlands and wands on the Fallen Moon stall; the crowd sitting on the grass in front of the music stage; the Pentacle Drummers with Eastbourne Pier in the distance.




Links and previous related posts
http://www.cheekywitch.co.uk/
http://www.fallenmoon.co.uk/
http://www.pentacle-drummers.co.uk/
http://www.lammasfest.org/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/07/doing-your-own-thing-for-lammas.html

3 comments:

Kaz said...

Great photos! Thanks for the mention and link to my site. It was great to meet you :) This year's Lammas Festival was the best so far - I blogged about it today too! http://thedailydivination.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/daily-divination-cards-monday-30th-july.html So glad you enjoyed yourself. Brightest blessings to a Bad Witch from a Cheeky one ;)

Anonymous said...

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XAN frm forgotten

OathBoundSecrets said...

Thanks for sharing! I wish they did something like this in my town! :)