50th Stainsby Festival - July 20-22 2018
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=== Newsflashes for 2018 * Next year's festival, no 51, will be from the 19th to 21st July. Owing to the sad and untimely death of Ben Daglish, our webmaster (and lots more besides), tickets are not on sale yet. Watch out for announcements here and on Facebook. * Our AGM will be held at 11am on Sunday 28th October at The Twin Oaks Motel just off J29 of the M1. If you'd like to come, do email to let us know as space is limited. * One last piece of good news for someone. This year's winning **car park ticket** was number **527**. Some lucky holder wins two weekend tickets to next year's festival. Email us if you've got the winning ticket to claim your prize. * Well, the party's over. But what a party it was! See you all again next year. Same time, same place. * Weekend camping tickets are now sold out. There's no room to swing a tent peg in the camping areas but Sunday tickets still available. Roll up! Roll up! Still time to catch the fabulous fiftieth. * All tickets sales are **at the gate** ONLY - cash or card, the choice is yours. * The weather forecast is terrific. No sign of rain but temperatures a bit cooler at a very comfortable 21-25 degrees. How cool is that!? * **A quick note about tickets**: we don't do physical tickets for online bookings, this being the era of all things digital. All you'll need is your PayPal confirmation email. Just show up at the gate and we'll do the rest. If you've lost it, bulk deleted it at work the morning after, had a hard drive failure, dropped your phone in the loo, or the dog's eaten it along with your eldest's homework, don't worry! Just bring some proof of identity and we'll find you in our digital box office. Now there's slick.// * Here's some last minute additions to the line up with **Jed Grimes** now appearing Friday, **Celeste Lovick** on Saturday and **Wataplava** on Sunday. They keep coming! * **Hilary Wainwright** will be launching and talking about her new book "//A New Politics From the Left"// about radical futures. Something we've always been up for with our cooperative ideals at Stainsby. * The 2018 **Stainsby Newsletter** is out. Download it now from the foot of the page or better still sign up for all our Newsflashes ☞[[http://mad.ly/signups/81558/join|right here]]☜ * Tally Ho! Angels One-Five. The **RAF** will be doing a celebratory flypast of **Spitfires **on Sunday with a rehearsal on the Saturday to be wing tip perfect for the Sunday birthday event. * And on Saturday we'll be showing the film //"The Nature of the Beast"// about our local MP, **Dennis Skinner**. * Here we go! For the 50th we're going to be doing the best of Stainsby. We asked you who you wanted and you told us! So here they come, with the fabulous **Dizraeli** leading the field on Friday night. We've got the wonderful **George Borowski**, the tub thumping **Seize The Day** and the storming **Loscoe State Opera** on Saturday. For Sunday, there's the amazing **Martha Tilston**, the evergreen **Seeds of Evergreen** and, completely uncategorisable ** The Lost Padres** on Sunday. And no best of Stainsby would now be complete without our very own **House Band**. * The next festival is now the fabulous fiftieth. The downside? It's not until July. The upside? Tickets are already on sale. What's more they are exactly the same price as last year. Although what with the celebrations the programme is likely to be, well, absolutely fabulous! Get them in now. * What's more you can buy them in person (//by cash or cheque only//) from **PrintShack** in Chesterfield or send us your postal requests there. Last day for using this is Friday 13th July 2018. After that you'll need to turn up at the gate. *Mik Godly was our First Art artist-in-residence at the 2014 festival. His drawings and Mik's stories about how they were created are now in his online gallery. [[https://mikgodley.culturalspot.org/home#|Click here]] to see if you're in it! Better still - in a collaboration with Tomorrow's Ancestor - Mik's done an animated YouTube version [[https://www.youtube.com/embed/u0QLoqrcuyg?list=UUCIUx5_J4pTyBABiRj-z3wA| here]]. It's well worth a watch! === The Dream of Fields Appeal Stainby has the chance to secure its future permanently. The festival's future was put in doubt in 2000 when Dot Brunt, the site's owner died. Thanks to a really generous intervention by Paddy Lane who bought the house and fields, we've been able to continue running the festival for the last fourteen years. He has been realising his investment recently, putting the farm up for sale, which raised the prospect of an uncertain future once again. However he's made a terrific decision about the sale. He's divided the property, selling the farmhouse separately and offering first refusal on the fields to the festival if he decides to sell. There's a long way to go but we've been doing very well! We need to raise yet more money to be able to offer a fair price. If we can buy the fields, we have a significantly different future for our event. A secure future, where we can plan confidently. A future where we can reduce our costs and make the festival significantly more sustainable. A future where we can hand on this event in good shape to following generations. A future that for once would be entirely in our own hands. More reasons [[http://www.ben-daglish.net/stainsby.shtml|here]] (thanks Ben) If you'd like to support us go to the [[/appeal.shtml|Appeals page]] to make a donation. Better still if you gift aid us we can claim an extra 25p from HMRC for every £1 you give us! Please, please help to secure a bright new future for your favourite festival. === Sell Off Your Old Junk Another way to support our appeal is to do a massive spring clean. Dig out all that old jun.. err, I mean treasured heirlooms and sell it off on eBay. By nominating Stainsby Folk Group as your favoured charity, any or all (we like all!) of the proceeds can be donated to the appeal via PayPalGiving. They'll even take care of the gift aiding too! Check it out [[https://charity.ebay.co.uk/search/Stainsby|here]] and bring a breath of fresh air to your garage/attic/shed/loft/expensively maintained self store unit. You know you'll feel a whole lot better for it. === Giving a bit! [[https://www.givingabit.com/communities/details/141222|{{/images/givingabit48x48.png}}]] Want to support us? Then how's about giving us a bit without it costing you a bean! Really? Yes, really! And here's how. Whenever you're shopping online, log on to [[https://www.givingabit.com/communities/details/141222|givingabit.com]] first and then buy from your usual online retailer in the usual way. The retailer then donates a percentage of your purchase price to us, without it costing you a penny!. We're registered in the name of our parent charity Stainsby Folk Group Reg no 509610. So whatever you buy online from a fridge, to your cat food, or from a holiday to a pair of thermal socks log on to givingabit.com, name us as your favourite charity and let somebody else give us a bit in return. What could be nicer?! Now, if you thought that's a nice idea, but never got round to it, how's about downloading the **ForgetMeNot** app from givingabit. Then, any google results that would make a donation will be highlighted, or, if you're in an online shop that's a givingabit partner, a drop down message will appear at the top of the screen, letting you know a donation can be created. Get the app [[https://www.givingabit.com/content/96/forgetmenot/|here]] Easy Peasy! === Friends of Stainsby Newsletter & Mailing List Want a copy of our newsletter each time it comes out? Not on the list? Sign up ☞[[http://mad.ly/signups/81558/join|right here]]☜ right now! You'll get early inside info on next year's festival and any news alerts. If you'd prefer a hard copy in the post send us an email with your address details to - **news (at) stainsbyfestival.org.uk**. Job done. === T-shirts! The **last few** Special limited edition, and dare we say Iconic, Stainsby Festival 2011 T-shirt are still available [[shop.shtml|in the shop]] - and we've reduced them to a fiver plus P&P.!!! === Facebook The Festival has its own Facebook entry and a discussion wall - Check in and check it out [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/5110505390/about/|here]] === Philosophy Walks These are part of our programme of spoken word, poetry and the relationship between memory and landscape. Our visit to the old earthworks at Stainsby, the site of the original festival from 1969 to 1974, formed part of a guided walk around this centuries old remnant of a vanished age in 2012. In 2013 we expanded the programme to include walks up to Ault Hucknall church, the burial place of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes - landscape, memory and philosophy, now that was a combination! In 2014 we explored Stainsby Common and the notion of common land and the Enclosures that ended it. Very appropriate for our fields appeal year! Last year we included the poet Longfella (akaTony Walsh) and themed the walk around the notion of "Whose Land is this Land" to coincide with the launch of Peter Hetherington's book of the same name at the festival. For those fascinated by folk memory and tales of the past, there's a blog about it [[http://earthworkblog.wordpress.com/|here]]. Feel free to join in!