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Full Price Tickets: £88

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Advance Tickets: £78

Day tickets are available from £30.

Under 12s are free but must be accompanied. Please note that parking tickets are charged £10 per spare seat on arrival.

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Yurts are once again available to rent from Red Kite Yurts

This year festival tickets are NOT included in the price. Prices start from £150 – email paul@redkiteyurts.com to book!

GoCarShare

Did you know…that almost 70% of a music festival’s carbon footprint comes from audience travel alone?


Forget the generators, forget the lighting, forget the food waste, forget the recycling, forget the bands that fly from abroad and forget the portaloos because far and away the most polluting aspect of the event is how YOU chose to get there!

This mysterious wee box on the page will eventually show all the journeys of all who are travelling to the festival over the weekend of 22nd of August. So just click ADD JOURNEY and sign up to our car share scheme and help reduce the carbon footprint of Doune the Rabbit Hole by sharing your journey with someone.

DON’T BE SCARED! The people we’re asking you to car share with are the exact same people who could be sleeping in the tent next to you, the same people you’ll be dancing with and the same people in your workshop learning how to play the musical saw! They’re practically already your friends so what‘s the problem?

Whether you’re a driver or someone needing a lift please spend a few moments logging your journey and try to get/give a lift.

Remember – you get free parking if your car is full!

Strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet!

Location

Doune the Rabbit Hole 2013 is to be held at the beautiful Cardross Estate near the Lake of Menteith.

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About Us

Doune the Rabbit Hole CIC is a very, very small company with some great ideas and plans. Our overall mission is to make Scotland HAPPIER!

The plan is simple:

Doune the Rabbit Hole’s ultimate aim is to ensure there is no financial boundary to children learning creative skills in Scotland. By “creative skills” we mean skills like playing instruments, writing poetry, sculpting and anything else you can think of that might be termed “art”. We’ve noticed that there’s a bit of disparity between wealthy folks – whose kids get to go off and learn how to do all these wonderful, creative and fun things through private tuition – and those who are less well-off whose parents might not be able to afford for their children to be privately educated in all these activities.

You might say: But schools teach art and music, why would they need extra education in these areas outside of school?

We could answer this with another question: How much of school did you really enjoy? Usually the answer is “Not much” and sadly that is still the case today no matter how much teachers tell you otherwise. Children don’t tend to immediately associate their school with fun and happiness. Everything that occurs in school is labelled dull, boring and uninteresting – which art is not! The classroom environment just isn’t ideal for teaching children creative skills. The Curriculum for Excellence is all well and good and it certainly encourages music and art tuition in schools but it doesn’t seem to work as well as hoped. Kids react much better to a creative education if it occurs outside of the classroom.

We’re not just making this up!

See this Scottish Government Report on the matter www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/12/14144908/0
So, what we propose to do is to provide free creative arts education outside school for kids who can’t afford to be privately educated. Another thing it says on the above report is that the more kids are involved in creative and cultural activities (like going to gigs, poetry readings, gallery openings, reading literature etc) the more likely they are to be interested in that kind of thing when they grow up.

But why do you see creativity as so important anyway?

Being creative makes people happy and we think happiness is a good thing! There are literally hundreds of psychological and scientific papers relating creativity to happiness – here is one to be getting on with: Creativity and Happiness.

How will you do this?

We plan to promote affordable, interesting and family friendly events which are free for under 12s to attend so that they can get involved in arts and culture from an early age. Importantly, this does not mean the events are for kids – that would be defeating the point – they are for adults but are child-friendly so that children who attend them feel like adults and are not alienated. Through these events we hope to raise enough money to go towards teaching children creative skills for free.
Thanks for reading and enjoy our events! Especially our festival, of course!

Contact

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To supply visual art to the festival

Please email Dana@dounetherabbithole.co.uk

To find out about volunteering at the Festival

please email volunteer@dounetherabbithole.co.uk

If you have an enquiry about stalls or catering

please email Catherine@dounetherabbithole.co.uk.

Spoken word stage enquiries

should be addressed to Spokenword@dounetherabbithole.co.uk

For press enquiries

please email Lucy@dounetherabbithole.co.uk.

Become a Volunteer

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Just fill in the forms and we’ll get back to you.

 

 

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