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Home > Art > An eccentric weekend away with the Just So Festival

An eccentric weekend away with the Just So Festival

By Caroline King - August 6, 2013Posted in : Art, Cabaret, Cinema, Classes & Workshops, Club Night, Comedy, Dance, FEATURED-CONTENT, Festival, Food & Drink, Literature, Music, Science and Technology, Theatre

Just So Festival 2013 - Rode Hall Cheshire

Eclectic entertainment at the Just So Festival.

When: 16th – 18th August 2013

Where: Rode Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire ST7 3QP

£: Weekend tickets (including 3 nights camping) cost £95 for adults and £40 for children. Day tickets have already sold out.

What is it?

The Just So Festival is an eclectic mix of eccentricity taking families out of their day-to-day lives and inviting them to sing, dance, play, explore and discover art together in a spellbinding natural landscape.

Just So Festival 2013 - Rode Hall Cheshire

Anyone for a pillow fight?

There will be a retro disco, craft workshops, live music, circus performances and cabaret. There will be rocket workshops for budding astronauts, sandcastle competitions and a chance to learn to lasso with cowboys. You can join the fairies on a lantern parade, learn the ancient art of smoke signals and measure yourself on the festival wall. And if that’s not enough then have a pillow fight, make a Sheriff’s badge, learn some sea shanties and play a saw!

Roll up, roll up for the marvellous Mr Alexander and his Travelling Show!  A traditional variety show bringing together magic, juggling, unicycling and illusion to make  an entertaining sideshow.  Not feeling yourself?  Then head to the 1950′s ambulance to see the  Emergency Poet who will give you a private poetic health consultation and within 10 minutes prescribe you an appropriate poem, verse or lyric.  Let Pif-Paf theatre will take you on a journey in their fantastical flycycle or help Play-o-logy create a solar system.

Whatever your age or interests you are bound to find something quirky and fun to do at the Just So Festival.

More info: www.justsofestival.org.uk

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