hesfes 2006

-> HES FES June-July 06

HESFES stands for Home Educators Seaside Festival and is mainly made up of children who don't go to school.
It's a festival all about people living their lives according to their own rules and not the ideas of others and doing what they want to do.
There is usually loads of music, crazy people, crazy activities, and plenty to see and do. There's a cabaret where anyone can go on stage and do anything. It was four hours long this year.
Bands this year included My Pet Junkie, Vector Monkey, and 100% who don't actually rhyme with the other two. Although there's now only two of them left in 100% they all played together anyway for the last night, it was wonderful! And Marco and John on their own are brilliant as it is. I felt it was a shame everything kept having to finish so early, I suppose that's the price you pay for flushing toilets, not being able to stay up all night listening to and playing live music.
The Groovy Movie tent was as abstract as ever! Where were those bicycles though? That was fun last year, cycling and watching stuff at the same time.
And I think the Under 8s Music Tent had a clientele that was perhaps 80% made up of OVER 8s, because there was not much other music going on during the day.
I loved the ducks on the lake. I also liked the beach even if it was deadly for bare feet, and a little bit quicksandy, and the sea was a weird brown colour a lot of the time, but going to sleep listening to the waves was nice.
That's probably enough rambling from me. So here are my photos that I took, for you to see!

First other people type links:

The Hesfes official site
100% website
My Pet Junkie
The hesfes section of lulie.org
A hesfes blog

And here are my pictures...all taken with my camera which is an Olympus C2 (bless) If you want to see bigger versions you can email me at ceinie@gmail.com

The main marquee and some chairs and stuff... I was a bit confused by the union jack on top, isn't hesfes meant to be a multi-cultural kind of event for people from all over the world?

A very HesFessy sunset

The big blue landmark that is the Groovy Movie marquee

A dog in the woodworking area

Crowds in the Groovy Movie solar-powered cinema

Football in the space between the marquees

Boating on the duck lake

Shooooe-laaaaace

DUCKSH

Ben's shoe getting drawn on

Leon's veggie cuisine (GO FRANCOIS!)

It was veeeeeeery hot... everyone was thirsty...including Lancelot

Awwwww

Not many under-8s today...

Wooo, glowstick: they're like currency sometimes

The world came to hesfes but his wife was too busy...

Lots of guitar playing going on...

There was a lot of circus skills, alll over the place

The crowd at the cabaret... unfortunately I forgot to take any more pictures, but there were some very good acts

A play of Sleeping Beauty that some people did

The Mighty Bass of Marco

The ... er... maggot vending machine

The incredible propulsion device that is also a musical instrument

Tony the crab

A postcard to relatives

The duck lake looking scenic

A leg of Rose

Vegan hot chocolate from Laguna Blu :D

Rose plays Marco's bass (we were all very awed by it)

aTUS!

Home education: It's not about making your children jump through hoops...

My sister Corryn models some lovely badges and things

Some small people decided to climb the rather big pole in the middle of the main marquee

Accordion...

Some drummers

Bass guitar! :D

A singing lesson

Singers making a point

A drumming lesson

Stuart tuning up during the 100% workshop

The workshop... everyone looking rather befuddled

Guitarists at the workshop

Hesfessers at the beach

Some boots that got nearly abandoned on a little concrete protrusion

Vector Monkey! I didn't get any pictures of the actual band but at the end people got up on stage and they were all singing Mardy Ben for Ben so I took a photo.