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Under 12s are free but must be accompanied. Please note that parking tickets are charged £10 per spare seat on arrival.
This year festival tickets are NOT included in the price. Prices start from £150 – email paul@redkiteyurts.com to book!
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!
The project is funded by a Make:IT:Happen fund Award from AmbITion Scotland disbursing devolved National Lottery funds from Creative Scotland.
And a magical form will appear.
*DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 28th JUNE 5PM*
Please read the following carefully and send your application the the relevant email address.
DTRH seeks enthusiastic, friendly and energetic volunteers to be part of our Volunteer Team August 2013. The volunteer crew is absolutely fundamental to the success of the festival, ensuring that festival goers and artists have a positive experience. As part of the volunteer team you will work in close contact with the DTRH staff and be part of a group of other dedicated volunteers. You will gain insight into how music festivals operate and have the opportunity to develop new skills that could benefit your future professional development. You will be expected to work hard but also meet like-minded people and have fun!
Set up / Take Down Crew Required Mon 19 – Wed 28 Aug (excluding festival period)
Experience building
Physically fit
Experience with light machinery / hand tools
Stage building and rigging experience
To join the Set up/ Take Down Crew please download and fill out the DTRH Volunteer Application Form and send along with a 1 page CV to Rachel@dounetherabbithole.
Back of House Jobs Required Thu 22 – Mon 26 Aug
Stage runners
Traffic control
Maintenance crew
Site office stewards
Radio control
Production office runners
Security stewards
And more…
To join the Back of House team please download and fill out the DTRH Volunteer Application Form and send along with a 1 page CV to Jimmy@dounetherabbithole.
Front Of House Jobs Required Thu 22 – Mon 26 Aug
Bar Staff
Information tent
Merchandise
Camping check in
Band check in
And more….
To join the Front of House team please download and fillut the DTRH Volunteer Application Form and send along with a 1 page CV to Simone@dounetherabbithole.
* TERMS AND CONDITIONS *
DTRH will provide volunteers:
• One meal and refreshments per shift
• An induction on the Festival Programme
• Training and briefing sessions before you start with a chance to meet fellow volunteers and staff.
Please note; successful applicants will be invited to attend a short informal group interview. Training and induction sessions for the will take place during the weeks commencing 1st of August 2013.
Shift patterns for volunteers will vary over the Festival period. Applicants should be available for a minimum of 4 shifts during their volunteer period. Shifts will be on a rota-basis, each shift lasting approx 6 hours.
Back of House hours may vary greatly depending on the task at hand and will be managed directly by our BOH festival coordinator.
*Some positions may require a few hours overnight shifts.*
You will be expected to sign a volunteer contract with DTRH upon acceptance of your application and provide emergency contact details as well as a mobile telephone number on which we can contact you in the event of you failing to turn up for a shift.
You will also be asked to pay a £30 deposit returnable to you in full at the end of your contract with us.
If you have any other general questions about volunteering for the festival, please contact
volunteer@dounetherabbithole.
We look forward to hearing from you!
A list of some of the opportunities and requirements for this year’s festival;
If you have any other general questions about volunteering for the festival, please contact
volunteer@dounetherabbithole.co.uk
We look forward to hearing from you!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Doune The Rabbit Hole’s mission to make Scotland happier and bring art and music to everyone stretches beyond the main festival event at Cardross Estate, August 22-25 - these dates for The Music Tapes takes place at the following venues:
Saturday 22nd June – Glasgow, Nice ‘n Sleazy with Eagleowl: TICKETS HERE
Tuesday 25th June – Aberdeen, The Tunnels with Washington Irving, Autumn Hang & Daemons: TICKETS HERE
Wednesday 26th June – Inverness, Hootananny with Washington Irving & Abagail Grey: TICKETS HERE
Thursday 27th June – Edinburgh, Voodoo Rooms with Washington Irving, Panda Su & Duncan Drever: TICKETS HERE
