Get more stories like this in your inbox by signing up for IQ Index, IQ’ s free email digest of essential live music industry news. The full programme for Timber, which runs from 6 to 8 July, will be released in early 2018. The festival will shine a spotlight on trees as a catalyst for change.” John Everitt, chief executive of the National Forest Company, adds: “Timber is both a celebration and statement of intent: a celebration of how the National Forest has transformed 200 square miles of the English Midlands, and a statement of intent to create an international movement to champion forests. “We can’t wait to welcome audiences to the first festival, which will provide incredible and transformational experiences and, we hope, fast become a solid addition to the thriving UK festival scene.” “We are thrilled to be partnering with the National Forest Company to create Timber together,” say Wild Rumpus directors Sarah Bird and Rowan Hoban in a joint statement. “We can’t wait to welcome audiences to the first festival, which will provide incredible and transformational experiences and, we hope, fast become a solid addition to the UK festival scene” It will take place at Feanedock, a 70-acre woodland site in the heart of the forest. Music-wise, there will be three main stages, complemented by a line-up featuring writers, artists, poets, philosophers, scientists and more, all of whom will “help us re-imagine what woodlands and trees mean to us, how we live in nature and will examine our relationship with the world around us”, says Wild Rumpus.Ī not-for-profit event, Timber is a festival with “sustainability at its heart”, aiming to be carbon neutral and 100% powered by renewable energy. It will be co-produced and the National Forest Company, the nonprofit that manages the 200-square-mile National Forest which straddles Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire and is the first new forest to be created in England for more than a millennium. Like Just So, Timber’s offering will include music, poetry, the arts, food and other family friendly entertainment, but with a special emphasis on “the transformative impact of forest”. wild rumpus amongst reedsway, cootcall, waveruffle, barkgangsign, trunksundials amongst Geese and Seagull echoes perfect reflections under a halfmoon and quiet blue evensong of last bell before eyeshorizon darkens and thought sinks into eyes well to fetch waters reverie into light. “Long a favorite destination for the community, and the entire Twin Cities region, this store is a favorite of authors as well.Just So Festival promoter Wild Rumpus today announced the launch of Timber, a three-day ‘forest festival’ set to debut next July in the UK’s National Forest. “This charming, unique, and magical place that specializes in children’s books is one of the best in the nation,” said Sheridan. HarperCollins rep Jennifer Sheridan, PW’s 2015 Sales Rep of the Year, nominated the store, which features children’s and YA titles along with a few books for adults. Founded by Collette Morgan and Tom Braun in 1992, the store is named for a line in Maurice Sendak’s iconic children’s picture book Where the Wild Things Are: “Let the wild rumpus start!” In 2016, Wild Rumpus was honored with the Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Award for best children’s bookstore in the country. In its announcement of the 2017 award winners, PW noted that Wild Rumpus’ 2,000-square-foot space, which customers can enter via a child-sized door, is home to a variety of adopted and rescued animals, including cats, rats, a chicken (a Bantam Japanese Silky named Neil deGrasse Tyson), a chinchilla, a tarantula, and a ferret. The orchestration calls for: percussion (vibraphone, cymbals, concert toms) piano, strings (violin and cello) brass (trombone, baritone sax) woodwinds (oboe.
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