Big Tent is best known for our vibrant programme of talks, musicians and activities that engage heads, hearts and hands. This year we’re planning a great festival of the land and of the good life that can be enjoyed by all, even at a time of cuts and austerity.
Land, life and livelihoods; Craft, culture and community; Wood, wealth and well being; Heritage, hardship and hope; Soul, soil and silence; Energy, ecology and equity; Food, farming and the future; People, places and potential; and Money, money, money – Does it make the world go round?
Think Global, Act Local will be a strong theme, following the focus on Rio +20 in June and we’ll be celebrating the Year of the Cooperative. Full line up to be announced in April. Watch this space… (and remember to subscribe to our mailing list to be sent the full programme when it is unveiled).
Whether you’re 6 or 66, there will be lots to do at Big Tent 2012 – from building dens, enjoying a clachan of huts to a taste of forest gardening. Indeed Big Tent is joining with Reforesting Scotland and others to create Scotland’s first festival of huts and hutting as part of our involvement in A Thousand Huts campaign. Finally if you’d like to get directly involved with the team who have already begun to build and grow Big Tent 2012 or have sound and inspiring proposals to bring to it, just let us know. No promises, limited cash but open to big and sustainable ideas that might enhance life on earth…
Music programme’s already announced, but it’s only the backdrop! And remember to bring your banjo, fiddle or tin-whistle…as Big Tent is all about building a movement for change – and all movements need good music…