Thankyou to everyone for all your love, hard work and encouragement over the past few months to make the first 'Save the Faeries' event in Perth such a massive success. The day was overwhelmingly perfect, in everyway. The festival was on the 18th May, I'm sorry for my delay in sharing the news but I have been recovering out in the forest!!
All the faerie volunteers looked amazing in their faerie abd pixie outfits. They brought so much enthusiasm and charisma to the day and managed to keep up the energy until we all packed up and dragged our glitter bombed selves away. City Farm was the perfect venue, the roving baby chickens set the stage for an earthy educational day. Early in the morning the stalls set up among the gardens, the faerie chill out zone was bombed with colour and the faerie craft tables brought out their bits to make all kinds of wonderful wands and creations.
From 11am the faeries started rolling through the front gate, creating havoc and excitement for everyone. Before we knew it, it had past 12, leaving us to wonder where the first band were. Suddenly out of no where came the beat of drums and the horns of unusual instrument, out of the garden depths walked red and black creatures shocking everyone with their crazy instruments made from junk they had found at the side of the road, rocking our hearts with the calls to environmental awareness and making our feet tap to their rythmytic sound. The day rolled over to 1 and the faeries jumped on stage for some wiggle and shaking, butterfly racing and wish making. As the faeries pulled back the bellydancers took to the stage and shimmied the crowd into amazement.
From the stalls, greenpeace, the wilderness society, Anti-Nuclear and Friends of Australian Rock Art were filling petitions and spreading their word to a new crowd of eager listeners. The Earth shine Chai store sold out of cup cake treats and the organic vegie burgers filled stomachs with their tantalizing tastes until they sold out too. Proud mama faerie sold her lucky dips and watched over the launch of 'The Return to Faerie,' book sales. Around the corner the faeries led children down the stepping stones to blow their wishes into the well of wishes, Faerie Chaley and Clover told stories of looking after the environment and the friends from faerie land... and in the background Dekka played into our hearts with his drums, didge and harmonica.
Just when it couldn't get any better, Exodus Musica stepped up to the stage and brought down the house with their Sudanese music and dancing. Suddenly it was all for the dance. The crowd joined in for a kangaroo jumping train and even the gruffest of souls couldn't help but look up in delight at the beaming band. To finish off the day we hula hooped to the sound of Funkaleroos and it was at last time to pack up.
Turns out we had 800 people through the gate, and the faeries raise $2580 to City Farm Project which will go towards continual running of the education centre, and seeding trees for Men of the Trees program. The day was truly perfect. City Farm asked us back again... so fold up your wings and be ready Perth for another faerie fest in one years time!!!!
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