Pollen Tribe & The Blackbird Collective presents:
WE ARE THE WATER
A Weekender Celebration for Spring Equinox & World Water Day
MARCH 20/21/22 - TOTNES CIVIC HALL
Raising funds for: Friends of the Dart
Join Pollen Tribe & Blackbird Collective for a family friendly water themed weekender event; with music, dance, spoken word and information sharing.
This is a fund raiser event for Friends of the Dart; a local not for profit organisation that are doing valuable work to protect our local river - The River Dart.
Read about their amazing work here:
https://www.friendsofthedart.org/
We have decided to create this event to support their mission. This event is to create awareness, and opportunities for networking, as well as to help raise money for doing vital water testing. The overall aim is to hold the organisations polluting the water responsible, and to align with a vision of a world where we stop the pollution of our waterways, on a global scale. Locally, we can create a protected area of nature that can be enjoyed, and bathed in safely by the thousands of people that love the river so much.
Water is literally the source of life - we must protect and respect it, for the sake of our present and future generations.
Join us for a weekend of water themed activities; both fun & educational!
SUMMARY oF EVENTS:
Friday eve: ATLANTEAN BALL
Saturday Daytime: INFO & ACTION DAY (By donation)
Saturday eve: MARTHA TILSTON & ANNA LING
Sunday morning: KIDS ACTIVITIES
Sunday afternoon: WORDS & WATER (By donation)
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY 20th MARCH
7pm-11.30pm
‘ATLANTEAN FANCY DRESS BALL’
Ancient future sounds. Ecstatic under the water dance! DJs playing uplifting world bass & electronica.
OSARA - BEN TREE -GREEN T - BUBBLES LAFAE
Calling all dancers to come and dance for the water! Mer-people, mythical beings & water creatures are all welcome!
Free Love Potion for fun costumes.
Performance, circus & surprises
Cacao & Treats
Powered by Honeyflower Soundsystem.
OSARA
Osara is a father, DJ and embodiment facilitator with Welsh, Scottish and Sámi roots. Raised on free parties in Wales, he began DJing as a teen. He uniquely braids ancient and future technologies and sound: drum, shakers and yoik-inspired vocals with organic, underground and electronic dance music. Creating transformational dance journeys that are ever responding to the spirit of time, community and place. He founded Ace Collecitv to create alcohol-free, high-production experiences that move with the seasons and weave music, movement, ritual and community. Club-level sound design is an important part of the medicine.
Osara has led Ecstatic Dances in the UK, France, Portugal, Norway and Costa Rica amongst other places. He has DJed at festivals such as Envision, Medicine, Boomtown, Lovejam, Unearthed and All About Love, as well as others.
Links
soundcloud.com/osarasound
instagram.com/osarasound
instagram.com/acecollectiv
linktr.ee/osarasound
BENJAMIN TREE
Joining us on MC duties, Benjamin Tree brings his own unique blend of old skool hip hop, movement medicine & breathwork training, combined with a grounded & playful lyrical style that will uplift your heart & inspire your mind!
https://benjamintree.org/
GREEN T
Green T is a caribbean born, South West dwelling resident DJ & creative director at Pollen Tribe & the Honeyflower Soundsystem. With a love of a swung beat, fat bass line and a sweet melody; he plays a mix of carnival, dub, world & experimental dance music.
BUBBLES LAFAE
Bubbles the Pixie has come to the human lands all the way from Faerieland. Currently living in beautiful South Devon she says that this is the closest place to Faerieland that she has found in the whole of the human world. Bubbles specialises in incredible bubble shows and super fun bubble parties and workshops. Bubbles travels all over the world bringing the best bubble entertainment and silly little pixie fun wherever she goes!
https://linktr.ee/bubblesthepixie
THE fAe TEAM: ALEXIA LOVE & CO
We are happy to welcome Alexia Love & The fAe Team who will be bringing sparkling magical surprises, and walkabout performance to the event!
SATURDAY 21st MARCH
WATER NETWORKING & INFO
10.30am-3pm
Stalls, info & networking.
You are welcomed to drop by and have a chat, learn some info; come & get to know who is working with water in your local area and beyond.
Refreshments, Tea, & Cake will be available
Hosted by: Friends of the Dart & company
(Free Entry: Donations on the door welcome)
ACOUSTIC CONCERT
7pm-11pm
with special guest:
MARTHA TILSTON
“Martha Tilston has carved her niche with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world. It is an engrossing set.. She captures both the harshness and enchantment of life, with the salt of sea air almost palpable.” - The Guardian
“Sit down with a cup of chai tea and let her silky voice wash over you.”- The Independent
We are very happy to welcome the amazing Martha Tilston to share her songs with us! Always a favourite at festivals and always a sellout when she gigs - grab your tickets early ;)
“With a pure silken voice and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Martha Tilston has developed a successful musical career with a large and loyal following worldwide.
She has played on some of the world’s most prestigious stages and festivals, recorded and released several critically acclaimed albums, gained a nomination for BBC best newcomer, appeared as a guest vocalist for Zero 7, toured internationally and worked with the some of the world’s most inspiring musicians.
The past few years have seen Martha venture in to the world of film making, gaining nominations for best arts film for The Clifftop Sessions and recently releasing her first feature film (with an accompanying Soundtrack Album) - The Tape - which is garnering much praise and excitement.”
https://www.marthatilston.co.uk/
supported by:
ANNA LING
“’Mesmerising” - BBC Introducing
“Anna pushes the edges of contemporary folk and creates music which offers something beyond some of the safer more conventional albums which have appeared this year." - Fatea
Welcoming enchanting local songstress Anna Ling in support.
Anna Ling is a Devon-based singer, composer and producer making DIY mythopoetic alt-folk from a yurt near the River Dart. Her music weaves layered vocal harmony through playful rhythm, and raw, emotionally resonant songwriting.
https://www.annaling.co.uk/
SUNDAY 22nd MARCH
WORLD WATER DAY
Celebrating World Water Day! We thought this to be a good day good to focus on activities for the kids; as they ultimately will inherit the future.
More info here on World Water Day:
https://www.unwater.org/our-work/world-water-day
KIDS STORYTELLING, CRAFTS, & FANCY DRESS AQUATIC DISCO DANCE
10am-2pm
with:
CALLITHUMP & THE fAe TEAM
10am-12.30pm: Water themed stories for kids with the amazing RIVKA & co from CALLITHUMP! Complimentary crafts with Alice & friends.
12.30-2pm: ‘THE fAe TEAM’ will finish the kids session off with an AQUATIC DISCO DANCE - FANCY DRESS!!
Fancy dress is encouraged! Mermaids & Mer-people, Sharks, Whales, Crabs, Seals, Lizards, Fish, Octopus, or any other water creatures you can think of; even ones from your imagination.
Face Painting available
Refreshments, Teas, & Cake served downstairs in the bar area
-INTERVAL-
WORDS & WATER
3pm-6pm
(Entry free/by donation; arrive from 2.30pm onwards)
Join us for the closing of the weekends activities; a Sunday afternoon spoken word & performance session.
AMBA - Water inspired performance piece
ALICE TO - Dance Performance
Multidisciplanary artist Alice To weaves a dynamic tapestry across the mediums of visual art, poetry, and dance performance. As a mixed-race Chinese woman, her work explores the intricacies of identity and ancestral rememberance. Informed by her Butoh practice (a Japanese theatre & dance form), Alice is interested in communing with the underworld, intending to draw light & reflection from her shadow side. Her inspiration over the past year has revolved around the cycles of life/death/life; assesing the nature of compost & decay; the place from which all life is born.
WOWJOYWOW
WOWJOYWOW is a Totnes afro-cuban inspired supergroup, founded by George Burns and Elio Warwick from Totnes Latin Band: Los Costureros. After selling out the Great Hall at Dartington on their debut album gig with Los Costureros, George and Elio decided to create a new project together inspired by travels to Morocco and Senegal.
A fusion of Funk, Cuban, Brazilian, Mali, Ghanian & Moroccon music: WOWJOYWOW takes you on a journey of original compositions “from heartneat to heartbeat” celebrating the joy of life with trance-inducing kora & guitar melodies, four part vocal harmonies, solid bass lines, and irresisible rhythms.
Closing words from HANNA PEARSON, from Friends of the Dart, who will be sharing her thoughts & more information about the project.
Refreshments, Teas, & Cake served downstairs in the bar area.
TICKETS
RASING FUNDS for FRIENDS OF THE DART
We are aiming to raise awareness & money for Friends of the Dart, whilst also making this as affordable as possible; early bird deals will be in abundance!
The Saturday info action day, and the Sunday afternoon ‘Words & Water’ will be free/by donation - please just turn up on the day, and donate money on the door.
SUMMARY:
Friday eve: ATLANTEAN BALL
Saturday Daytime: INFO & ACTION DAY (By donation)
Saturday eve: MARTHA TILSTON & ANNA LING
Sunday morning: KIDS ACTIVITIES
Sunday afternoon: WORDS & WATER (By donation)
Please note:
-We are unable to process refunds
-This is a family friendly event
-Children must be supervised at all times
-Advance purchase of tickets is recommended
Thanks for your support! See you at the event.
Pollen Tribe:
https://pollentribe.com/
& The Blackbird Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/theblackbirdcollective/
in support of Friends of the Dart:
https://www.friendsofthedart.org/
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