Coed Ffest 2023 – Premiere

Ediculture is hosting a premiere festival at the beautiful Coed Hills to raise money for local food growing projects and Trees of Hope Zimbabwe!

We will be celebrating connection to the Land, through land based living skills, educational workshops, live music and performance, food and well-being.

16th – 18th of June 2023…Summer Solstice!

Please check out the Coedffest website – https://coedffest.org

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We are so excited to be bringing you this unique gathering!
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With Land based living skills, Awesome Music acts, Delicious local Food and Healing arts at the heart of this solstice gathering, we feel it will be a reunion of a sorts for those who know Coed well, and an awesome opportuinty for those new to Coed to see the full spectrum of what Coed truly has to offer.

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Land wise, we are pioneers in the UK movement, having established permaculture gardens free to explore at your leisure.

Richard Wright, Mycology expert, will be here to answer all your questions about the magical world of mushrooms.

Charly Marchant will be screening here pioneering films on woodlands across the UK. (a pocket full of acorns)

Stephen Watts will be touring you around the 14 year established forest garden, explaining what forest gardens are and what benefits they can bring, and will be joined by others to share knowledge of local herbalism.

Ben Spice will be sharing his unbelievable passion for foraging and wild food, and no doubt giving you increadible unforgetable tastes!

We intend to serve you home grown Food from our very own gardens, through our on-site caterers, so you can taste the land you will be dancing on!

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whilst this is essentially an organically home-grown-back-to-the-land kind of gathering demonstrating sustainable land based living, we are also bringing you the worlds of healing, well-being and live music. At Coed community we want to transform peoples lives long term.

We will be bringing you musical performances from:

Owen Shiers and band
Aleh Ferreira and band
Nancy Acroyd band
Susie Roe and band
Dan’s People
Micheal Stanton
Bella Jazz
Surprised Guests (not a typo!)
Tom Veck
Ailsa Mair Hughes
Cicilia Ndlovu

And Specific Land based performance from Fay Burnett and friends.

The workshops on offer are:

Singing with Sophia Zoe Efthimiou
Bangra dancing with Judge (J9)
Zimbabwean Dance with Denise Rowe
Embodied Movement with Denise Rowe
Ecstatic dance with Sea Gypsee
Hatha Yoga with Iona Hannagan Lewis
Kundalini Yoga with Ali
Morning Qi Gong with Emma and Pete
Sound Baths with Carolyn
Family Constelation therapy with Richard buckworth and Daf st Clair
Past life regression with Gareth Jones

Plenty of opportunities for Kids:

Story tellers with stories from around the world, Woodland workshops with Bushcraft from our own trained bushcraft expert, Knife wittling skills, lantern making and parade, Macrame workshops, and face-painting!

Also Talks about:

The history of Coed and
Sustainable land based living: our lessons living in community.

Please visit our website to explore more:
https://coedffest.org

Food wise –

We will be serving you home-grown food from our very own gardens, through our on-site caterers, so you can taste the land you will be dancing on!

Remember to bring your wits for our talks, plates for the food, cups which we will fill with our home made beverages, and wellies in case the weather takes a turn for the worse, and share with us a garden of delightful offerings!