3-5 May 2024
A weekend festival exploring alternative folk culture through books, music and film.
NeoAncients is the second annual Subculture Music & Culture book festival, presented in collaboration with the town’s landmark Sub Rooms. For 2024 the focus is on Folk Culture and the way the traditions and customs of the past inhabit our present and inform our future.
NeoAncients, one and all, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Actors, Comedians and DJs come together to explore the space between the real and the imaginary, and how deep time is alive within each of us.
3 days of performances across the first weekend of May 2024
Expect Gruff Rhys’s Welsh whimsicality; Bridget Christie’s 21st century wise woman; Jarvis Cocker’s sonic explorations of paganism; Jeremy Deller holding forth on why Art really is Magic; Stephen Ellcock on his visual art ‘cabinets of curiosities’; Punk meets the Pagan in the work of Jamie Reid; plus Druids, folklore films such as Penda’s Fen, immersive experiences, deep listening, Morris sides, The Changes, and weird, Weird Walks.
For full details go to the official festival website.
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