WELCOME TO THE AEON FESTIVAL INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
We are purveyors of Melodramatic Popular Song and Cultural Loveliness. You can find us in deepest darkest Devon.
shoestring
Noun.
Informal- a very small amount of money: This festival is run on a shoestring.
bou·tique
Noun.
A small business offering specialized products and services: Boutique music festival.
[French, from Old French botique, small shop, from Old Provençal botica, from Latin apothca, storehouse;
*Small but perfectly formed we have created a new genre to fit in with the ever expanding festival scene in the UK. We are a 'Shoestring Boutique festival' offering a huge amount for our budget and passing the savings on to you with 3 jampacked days across the August bank holiday weekend.
Heading for its 5th year Aeon Festival will be taking place over 3 days at Shobrooke Park Estate, Crediton, Devon on the 27th-29th August 2010.
The theme for this year is Global Safari - The Big Adventure so get planning you dressing up box for the weekend. There's something for everyone whether you want to chill out by the lake with a book, listen to top class comedy and poetry, watch bands in the Amphitheatre or dance like a wild thing in our dance tent.
Our line up this year is the best yet! So come and join us in a park, under tree's, by a lake in Devon.
We have never had any form of sponsorship or corporate funding - or any additional funding for that matter, its all just blood, sweat and tears and a big dollop of love and passion!
///Check out our gallery from 2009's festival HERE with images courtesy of Stone Free Photography
Or have a peek HERE courtesy of The Unofficial Photographer.
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We like to be involved with charities and for the past couple of years have been delighted to have The Book Cycle and The Snooky Trust involved at the festival running their trade stands to raise funds for their causes. This year we welcome them both back but we are also excited to be helping raise money for a national charity as well.
We are going to be running The Guesty List system, where all our lucky people who get guest passes with performers and crew will be asked to donate up to £5 towards The Teenage Cancer Trust. If you would like to get involved click on the link below to see what other things they do. We will also be have collection buckets at the festival for this very worth while cause.
BOOK-CYCLE
Reg charity. 1127078
A revolutionary bookshop, not only can you “pay whatever you wish” for any of its books, but they use the proceeds to send free books to schools and orphanages in developing countries and as well as planting trees across the U.K.
An entirely volunteer run charity, Book-Cycle also promotes local artists, from graffiti workshops to theatrical spaces.
Recently they have managed to move from book parcels to whole containers, firstly to Mombasa, Kenya, for distribution to surrounding countries.
Their next shipment is bound for six school libraries in Ghana
Book-Cycle on facebook.