Restival
Restival, the ultimate chill out area, returns to Bestival 2008. This year the area will be bigger and better making Restival the ultimate place for those seeking some peace and tranquillity amid the festival madness. At Restival you will find a beautifully decorated garden surrounded by exotic yurts and tipis, a cinema, an excellent 24hr cafe and lots of peaceful activities and performance to sooth and inspire. Come and join us for some serious lazy living.
The Restival garden will be a great hangout area beautifully decorated with colourful parasols, flags and murals, a perfect place to play a garden game or simply kick back and enjoy the last of the summer sun. Hammockology will be on hand with its wonderfully comfortable hammocks and there will be shaded cushion areas so you can relax, relax, relax. If you come at night the garden will be ablaze with lanterns and dazzling projections. For some serious time-out the Restival yurts will provide luxury and peace. The yurts will be opulently furnished with carpets and wall hangings from Asia and filled with masses of soft cushions. Here rest seekers will find loads of classic board games and puzzles to play, a library of inspiring books and the papers for that perfect lazy Sunday.
Restival will be run by our magnificent yurt fairies who will pamper you and keep the area clean and comfortable 24hrs a day... not a muddy boot or overflowing ashtray in site! At the fairy headquarters you will find solutions for that festival emergency, platters of fruits, glasses of squash and lots more!
If you are after some entertainment we have lots of new creative workshops to help add the wow factor to your fancy dress or bring out your inner artist. If you are peckish how about making some indulgent treats with our chefs? For the more passive festival goer there will be inspirational poetry from Hammer and Tongue where you can curl up in comfort and be transported to another world. If all this sounds too much you can simply crawl into one of our sleeping dens filled with rugs and duvets and be lulled to sleep with bed time stories.
Restival can be found on the hill next to the Heavenly Healing area – come and join us.
Restival Programme
Saturday
2pm - Open Slam Poetry, hosted by Hammer and Tongue.
Come and watch some seriously talented wordsmiths battle it out in the yurt palace.
2pm - Magnificent Masquerade Mask Making!!
Come get stuck in with glitter, feathers, sequins and all..... Create your very own fantastical mask to complement tonight's tomfoolery! Anything goes!
3pm - Hip Hat Workshop
The hugely successful “hat workshop” returns this year….it’s free, it’s creative and you’re going to look amazing!
4pm - A Tu-Tu-Riffic Afternoon At Restival
Tu tu much fun come and join just the tu-tu of us and make a magical tu- tuuty fruity for your booty ….it is tu-tu be or not tu-tu be!
Sunday
2pm - Live spoken word and performance poetry featuring:
Salena 'Saliva' Godden - Visionary poet and vocalist who has recorded with Alabama 3 and Coldcut, lead singer with Saltpeter and one of the funniest, filthiest and best spoken word performers in the UK.
Dizraeli - Decorated spoken word artist and charismatic frontman with dub-funk-hiphop band Bad Science, Dizraeli is a lyrical force to be reckoned with, full of humanity and verbal ingenuity. BBC Radio 4 UK Slam Champion, Farrago UK Slam Champion, Hammer and Tongue Slam Champion, World Slam semi-finalist etc etc.
Mark Gwynne Jones - Half-mad/half-genius, never short of brilliant. "The king of mind-altering verse" - Apples and Snakes. 'Mark Gwynne Jones is to poetry what The League of Gentlemen is to television scheduling.', The Independent.
Excentral Tempest - much touted as the freshest young female MC-poet on the scene right now, hip hop rhyme and rhythms with intelligence and awareness that make her acapella performances as commanding as her beats.
Jonny Fluffypunk - the 'pastoral nihilist', lovable hippy and snarling punk, autobiographical narrative that manages to take apart the nonsense of modern life with plenty of jokes and honest self-reflection along the way.
Angry Sam - Founder of cult live spoken word event, Brighton Hammer and Tongue, the Brighton Festival Slam Champion and the Liverpool Capital of Culture 08 Poetry Champion, sex and politics through the hard-hitting words of the poet-thug.
2pm - Magnificent Masquerade Mask Making!!
Come get stuck in with glitter, feathers, sequins and all..... Create your very own fantastical mask to complement tonight's tomfoolery! Anything goes!
3pm - Hip Hat Workshop
The hugely successful “hat workshop” returns this year….it’s free, it’s creative and you’re going to look amazing!
4pm - A Tu-Tu-Riffic Afternoon At Restival
Tu tu much fun come and join just the tu-tu of us and make a magical tu- tuuty fruity for your booty ….it is tu-tu be or not tu-tu be!
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