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IT'S OFFICIAL! WE ARE MOVING TO ASHTON COURT!

Great news - Bristol City Council have given us the go ahead for Ashton Court so we will see 20,000 of you there to enjoy an amazing weekend!

BrisFest 2012 at Ashton Court Estate - 22nd & 23rd September, bigger and better than ever before!

This is your festival Bristol....so help us out by buying your ticket early at www.brisfest.co.uk, tickets are priced at just £30 for the weekend, or get a FREE ticket by volunteering -its your festival, get involved! Kids under 12 are free too.

The festival will feature all the stages and entertainment of BrisFest with a lively mix of local and national acts plus some crowd pleasing big names. There will be kids areas, food stalls, dance lessons, workshops, and a massive variety of music from ska and electronic to rock and folk! Everything you’d expect from a family orientated action packed festival! We’re aiming to revive the spirit of the old Ashton Court Festival, its friendly atmosphere and volunteer-led enthusiasm, but with a lot of BrisFest thrown in.

Why can't it be free? Unfortunately it’s impossible to stage a large festival for free these days, even with everyone working and performing for free. Licensing and health and safety laws have developed so that we now have to provide a basic level of infrastructure such as plenty of toilets, safety barriers, security personnel, ambulances etc and these all cost a lot of money. Even the ‘free’ events that currently happen are paid for by council taxes. But it’s not all bad; events are a lot safer than they used to be with better access, less environmental damage (from pee-ing in the woods for example) and we have all come to expect safety and protection should anything bad happen.

The festival will cost around £600,000 to stage and as we don’t receive public funding we have to raise all of this ourselves through selling sponsorship, advertising, fundraising events, trade pitches, and tickets. But by keeping the profit in the festival and everyone volunteering we keep the ticket prices as low as possible.

This is as cheap as it can be delivered for, but anyone that can’t afford it can lend a hand for free entry and kids are free.

That's right, FREE ENTRY for everyone who helps out either in advance (e.g. distributing promo) or at the event (e.g. stewarding) so hopefully most people will be able to attend that want to!

We hope you're as excited about this as we are!

BUY TICKETS:

http://www.brisfest.co.uk/tickets/

To request to perform at the event please fill in this form:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/brisfestperformersLove from the BrisFest team xxxx