About this Event
Folk Club's Mabon Fayre
Welcome to ! A place for the lost, found, and freshly made folklore and customs of the fair isles of Albion: Éire, Cymru, Alba and England
are delighted to invite you to our first Folk Club Mabon Fayre.
Mabon is the second harvest festival and marks the Autumn Equinox. Join us in celebrating the harvest with a sports day-cum-fayre.
Learn about traditional games like welly wanging and cheese rolling, and bring us your top makes for the Best in Show competiition.
A mix of old folk customs, new silly rituals, and revivalist tales, we'll be dancing in the turning year together.
Expect welly wanging, cheese rolling, apple bobbing and more. Plus our Folk Club Best in Show competition!
Best in Show
Keen vegetable sculptor? Corn dolly fanatic? Salt bread plaiter? Apple crumble extrodinaire?
Bring us your harvest makes for a chance to win the prestigious Folk Club's Mabon Fayre Best in Show 2024
No category disallowed, no rules
Info:
Sunday 15th September
Time: 14:30 - 17:00
Location: Hilly Fields (exact location TBA)
Tickets: PWYC
We operate a sliding pay-what-you-can scale, and ask you to donate according to your income bracket. All donations go towards covering our costs (materials, prizes, transport). Suggested minimum donation £2.
Bring a blanket, bring some food, bring some mead, bring an instrument for a tune.
Folk Club |
Folk Club is a place for all the lovers of folklore. It's a place to follow the year through the seasons and customs that mark it. Most of all it's a place for us to learn the lore of the land and its traditions together, one beautiful archive image and twisting tale at a time.
Run by Eleanor Dempsey and Elizabeth Bailey
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hilly Fields, 12 Montague Avenue, London, United Kingdom
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