CARL BARAT GETS CHATTED UP AT THE EAST LULWORTH LITERARY INSTITUTE

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GAVIN TURK’S HOUSE OF FAIRY TALES

DJS

DAN GREENPEACE & JOE MUGGS

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TIMBERLAND’S EARTH KEEPERS POWER CAMP

The clock is ticking and our weekend of festi-holiday fun and games at Camp Bestival is now just a tantalising near! As the excitement builds to fever pitch at Camp Bestival HQ we have news of a special silent disco head to head, the low down on Gavin Turk’s amazing House of Fairy Tales and a litany of erudite delights at The East Lulworth Literary Institute.

Rob da Bank says: ‘2 weeks to go, 2 weeks to go! I’m getting truly excited about opening the gates and lowering the drawbridge at Camp Bestival for all you lovely folk. Have you got your medieval fancy dress packed? Aside from my first love, the music, there are so many ace parts of Camp Bestival to explore and our literary and arts line up is better than ever bolstered by the ever amazing House Of Fairy Tales. Do check it all out and discover something different!'

Deep in the Lower Kids Garden lies the East Lulworth Literary Institute an oasis of mind expanding treats for the grown-ups. From debates, to talks – including Olivia Lee chatting up erstwhile Libertine Carl Barat - to author readings and spoken word, this is THE place to catch the latest literary lovelies and inspirational ideas for living.
 
Starting bright and early on Friday morning we have a festival exclusive, the RSA Hour, with dedicated Freegan, Tristram Stuart telling us how to be less wasteful with our food. Kate Tempest will be heading up our team of talented spoken word maestro’s, hand-picked by Camp Bestival favourite Scroobius Pip, including Toby Thompson, Jodi Ann Bickley and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. The hottest authors of the moment will be reading specially chosen extracts from their latest masterpieces to whet your literary appetite, including Jon Ronson (of ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ fame), Joe Dunthorne (whose book Submarine was recently made into a brilliant film) Sam Leith and David Whitehouse. Bring a blanket and pretend it’s bedtime.

We are very excited to be welcoming the fabulous Olivia Lee, who’ll be gracing us with her interviewing genius and chatting up our favourite Libertine Carl Barat, plus another special guest not to be missed! And if that hasn’t fuelled your brain cells with enough stimuli yet, then join us with horticulture extraordinaire Diarmuid Gavin to reveal his best tricks in the trade of ‘How to be a Gardener’. 

On Saturday morning, camping buffs will be up bright and early to hear Matthew De Abaitua (editor-at-large of the Idler) reading from his acclaimed guide The Art of Camping, communities expert Henry Hemming will head up the RSA Hour to teach us how we can achieve more through cooperation. Then we can’t wait for international style icon, world class DJ, yummy mummy and lovable exaggerator Sara Cox to adorn us to her wise words of experience in the feat of keeping the many balls of life firmly in the air with her ‘How to be a mum, have a career and still find time to eat sushi’ live interview. 

Gizzi Erskine, the fabulous food writer, chef and presenter of Channel 4’s ‘Cook Yourself Thin’ will give us a host of tips on how to cook delicious grub for family and friends sustainably and cheaply with ‘How to make a meal of it’. And we are incredibly chuffed to be welcoming the one and only Simon Day from the Fast Show to read from his latest novel Comedy and Error. He enthuses “I’m really excited for my first ever Camp Bestival!” We are too! The Tate will take to the floor with their watercolour workshop, followed by a debate on the very British nature of watercolour, led by host and Cabaret Futura veteran the wonderful Richard Strange, with surprise guests. 

On Sunday morning, we start gently with some lyrical offerings from our spoken word friends Ventriloquist, Ross Sutherland, Chester P, Jam Baxter, David J, Alex Gwyther and Indigo Williams. Then Idler founder Tom Hodgkinson  will be taking to the RSA airwaves to enlighten us on how to be more capable and self-reliant in our everyday lives. Renowned graphic designer Vaughan Oliver - famed for his 4AD connections, as well as his recent designs for David Lynch’s ‘Good Day Today’ on Sunday Best – will give us his insights into ‘How To Design A Record Sleeve’. And if you are wondering ‘How To Change Your Career’ then join Howard Marks while he offers an insight into his colourful CV. From courier of illicit substances, to school teacher to drug trafficker and finally to critically acclaimed author, media personality and national treasure, he’s got more than a few useful pointers to share. 
  
The radiant, rapid tongued Laura Dockrill will be reading from her new book ‘Echoes and Mistakes in the Background’, followed by corduroyed comedy genius Marcus Brigstocke sharing some thoughts of epic proportions from his latest book ‘God Collar’. And as if that isn’t enough learned fun to be had, take a long leisurely look around the walls of our cosy little literary hole and you’ll see a selection of the Tate Britain’s Watercolour show adorning the walls! So make sure you check out the East Lulworth Literary Institute for a deluge of enlightening delights. 

The delightful House of Fairy Tales camp will this year take you on a journey right back to medieval life! There will be tasks, challenges and fun galore for all you young explorers, putting you in the role of our Dark Ages ancestors and giving you a taste of our colourful British past. House of Fairy Tales will be looking at the way we ate, how we socialised and how we styled it out back in the long-lost day. We’ll be learning tricks and tips of how to be sustainable and economical in our lives today, by looking at the way our great great grandpeople did it back then. With hand-crafts, woodcrafts, music and nature tasks to get stuck into, plus oodles of fab entertainment, come and lose yourself in our magical land of bygone. When you arrive, grab your passport from Passport Control before heading down to the Apothecary Garden to forage amongst the weird and wonderful plants that our ancestors used for medicines and cooking. Look out for the mouse house! Then pop into The Grange, the magical travelling ‘mansion’. Plus The House of Fairy Tales Main Stage will showcase an array of young talent including HoFT house-band The Ice Cold Idiots and Teenbop. 

In Victorinox Craft Camp you’ll find a camouflage illusionist who’ll captivate you with woodcraft and natural survival skills. Then you stop off at Clay Mountain, a magical tower of storytelling on a miniature scale. In Marie Curie's Laboratory, you can learn about chemistry and physics before stopping in on Heath Robinson’s Workshop to play surreal games with your imagination and pretend to be a mad inventor! Find out what dreams are for in Dreams & nightmares where you can explore your subconscious in drawings, images and films. Make yourself a monster in Steve Monster while learning about living close to nature and join House of Fairy Tales’ resident orchestra Minds Ear to learn how to play music in Chopin Salon.

You can get your face decorated in the painted faces caravan Navarac, turn up the volume in the Noisy Toys tent and use recycled materials to invent mad new instruments that can be played by spoons and forks and parts of the body! And don’t miss Dr Watsons Vintage Amusements, a miniature magical handmade fairground complete with coconut shy and a merry-go-round. If all the exploratory fun makes you hungry, there’s Kenwood Giants Kitchen to explore! A marriage of theatre and food, this kitchen is straight from an ogre’s fairytale. Plus there’s ice cream and mayhem to be had at the Ali Van Sideshow or enjoy a milkshake and a brownie at the beautiful 1970's Solarium.

There’s storytelling, fairy tales, folklore and fantasy at Ursula Soothtell’s Story Cavern, drama, costume and life on the Stage with Lord Whitney's Players, politics, protest and active citizenship from the denizens of Fairy Tales with RAX Toolkit and exotic travel and rare ices from Marco Polo at the Hokey Pokey Ice Cream Parlour. Sensory Solutions has witchcraft and wizardry with plants and herbs, Okido has science a for the under 7’s, plus there’s Fairy Tales, food and fantasy with Bluebeards Barbeque and you can unlock the time space continuum in the Labyrinth. 

At the heart of HoFT this is our Fairy Tale publishing house where you can make fanzines and write stories galore! And don’t miss out on all the medals and badges to be collected along the way to remind you of the brilliant time you had in our Fairy Tale corner of Camp Bestival 2011. We can’t wait to see you! 

Two of the DJing world’s most respected spinners Dan Greenpeace and Joe Muggs will be going head to head for a Family and Kids Silent Disco on Saturday evening. Giants in the worlds of hip hop, dubstep and leftfield beats the prospect of Dan and Joe vying to win over the crowd whilst trawling through their incredible record collections is a mouth-watering one to say the least!  We can’t wait.

Timberland will also be joining us at Lulworth Castle with their Earthkeepers Power Camp. An interactive experience that give you the chance of a free hot drink by running for six minutes on the log roll powering the kettle or if you fancy a free smoothie you can hop on a bike and blend it yourself via the pedal power you create! Plus there are free to use mobile charging points, all helped by solar panels, an open air seating area that will have a unique vista of the festival landscape and there will be free handheld windmills made from wildflower seeded paper and biodegradable sticks to take away and plant when you get home.

With all the best music, arts, entertainment and everything in between remember to check www.campbestival.net for full details and the most up-to-the-minute news.

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