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Homestead Park Festival 2025 Programme

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saturday

4 activities

Gypsy Traveller Wisdoms of Earth, Craft, and Kin

An experiential space within the festival that honours the historical and ongoing natural, cultural, and spiritual relationships between Gypsy and Traveller (GT) communities and the land.

All day, Saturday 5th July

Here is Conversation

The Atchin Tan (Stopping Place)

This session invites you into the textures of Gypsy and Traveller life and land practice - through poetry, song, storytelling, and conversation.

11:00, Saturday 5th July

Here is Conversation

Proud Gypsy Traveller: Practising Kinship with Land

A celebration of traditional Gypsy Traveller crafts and tools. Meet a horse farrier, explore a Living wagon, and sing folk songs together.

13:30, Saturday 5th July

Here is Conversation

If the Gorja Act Was Gone

What if Gypsy Traveller ways of life had never been criminalised? Violet Canon reflects on what it means to live freely, outside of imposed norms and laws.

16:00, Saturday 5th July

Here is Conversation

sunday

4 activities

Gypsy Traveller Wisdoms of Earth, Craft, and Kin

An experiential space within the festival that honours the historical and ongoing natural, cultural, and spiritual relationships between Gypsy and Traveller (GT) communities and the land.

All day, Sunday 6th July

Here is Conversation

Land and Nature: A diverse cultural connection

A fireside chat with nature writer and community organiser Evie Muir. In a world where access to green space is still unequal, what does it mean for Global Majority communities to reclaim connection to the land?

11:45, Sunday 6th July

Here is Conversation

Proud Gypsy Traveller: Practising Kinship with Land

A second opportunity to experience the open engagement space, with continued focus on traditional knowledge, storytelling and relational practice

13:00, Sunday 6th July

Here is Conversation

Leaving No Trace (Taking Apart the Bender)

Take down the bender tent in a ritual of respecting the land and what it has given us.

15:00, Sunday 6th July

Here is Conversation

Areas of the Park

Here are the spaces and places you can explore at the Homestead Park Festival 2025.

Table.

Here is Action

Visit the glasshouses to get involved in making and creating and connecting to nature.

Colourful flags fluttering on a summer afternoon.

Here is Conversation

Experience diverse storytelling among the birch trees in the Upper Meadow.

Stage.

Here Is Hope

From inspirational talks to magical theatre, we gather in the Main Lawn for collective hopeful experiences.

Here is Music

Nestled in our beautiful wildflower area, we bring the Lower Meadow to life with beautiful music throughout the weekend.

Marble Run.

Here is Play

Places to play amongst the trees in the Lower Meadow.

Beautiful sunset viewed from a stage.

Here is the Future

Travel through time and step into a hopeful future through storytelling and imagination.