Category: Festivals
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Bon Om Touk – Traditional racing boats
Late November is the season of ‘Bon Om Touk’ in Cambodia when the Khmer celebrate the end of monsoon season and the change in the flow of the great Mekong river. Traditional wooden racing boats are re-painted and taken to the local rivers to race. Banned in Phnom Penh in recent years after a bridge…
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Happy Vaisakhi
I went for a walk with my friends little boy who we commonly know as Pobbins yesterday. We weren’t expecting to be enveloped in the crowds of Southampton’s Sikh community who were celebrating Vaisakhi. An ancient northern Indian harvest festival that also celebrates the ‘oneness of all’ within the Sikh tradition; drummers, dancers, singers and…
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Fields of Bliss…
Sorry dear blog, it’s been too long, I got lost in the fields of the ‘shire there a while, come see… Blissfields 2011
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Moments of joy
There is a freedom in the summer, as the corn fields call us home, to chase fireflies and fancies, moments of joy…
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Pulse ~ a festival for the heart
I had such a wonderful response to my recent blog about the Secret Garden Party festival I thought I should treat you to some more festival wild things that are we humble humans in full summer bloom in thanks for your kind words! Pulse Festival grew from a little idea to raise some cash for…
