This ten day camp provides a wonderful example of low impact community living for around 500 people. We camped in circles of about 30, each around an open hearth which provided endless cups of tea and vast pots of delicious food each day. The circle is your home base and family for the week; a place where you can chill out when not dancing, singing, being creative, having a massage or taking part in the huge range of workshops and activities on offer. The low impact facilities included sauna, hot tubs and bucket showers for deep cleansing as well as beautiful compost poo palaces. There was a very strong emphasis on reducing waste, reusing and recycling. This year we were blessed with the most glorious weather and it certainly ranked as one of the best Dance Camps I have ever been to. There was a posse of Transitoners from around the country and we enjoyed many chats in the café and the circles and even gathered for a workshop led by Chris Southall from Clacton http://www.ecodiy.org/). In the final cabaret we sang a transition song written by Julian Nangle from Transition Chichester: Here are the words and I’ll leave you to guess the tune. (Christine Way/Core Group)
Imagine there’s no oil
Not easy if you try
No oil production
See the oil men cry
Imagine all the people
Living without oil - yah ha
You may say we’re alarmist
But we’ve got to get it right
We hope some day you will join us
To see-ee-ee the oil free light
Imagine roads and airports
It isn’t hard to do
Empty and abandoned
No public transport too
Imagine all the people
Walking to their work - yah ha
You may say we’re alarmist
But we’ve got to get it right
We hope some day you will join us
To see-ee-ee the oil free light
Imagine living simply
With hammer and with nail
No need for competition
Just helping those who’re frail
Imagine all the people
Living in an oil free age yah –hoo
You may say we’re alarmist
But we’re not the only ones
There is a call for resilience
From ee-ee-ach and every one.
10 years ago
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