A festival for the future

A weekend of Talks, Agroecology tour, Food & Drink, Art trail, Sauna, Live music, Wellbeing activities, Kids nature club & Standing stone celebration

When?
Date TBC for 2025

Where?
Lovebrook is an agroecological, community farm and a platform for transition.

Kingston near Lewes, BN7 3NT

Old story, new story
The starting point for this festival is the recognition that we are living through a time of deep and wide transition. Our current civilisation seems to be at a crossroads and is on track to either self-terminate or self-transcend. It appears it could go either way.

As we negotiate our way through the converging crises and emergencies of our time, many of us are feeling that the mainstream response is not going to cut it. But amidst the signs of collapse of our old way of life, a new story has already begun to emerge in every key area – in Education, Health, Money, Production & Consumption, Land, Digital Technology, Food and more.

Many of us are now waking to our collective powers and recognising that there is an invitation here to set our sights on something new, that we can start building a new type of society within the old. People are coming together and finding ways to provide the fundamentals of life for themselves, and judging by the work of pioneering projects, businesses and organisations that are emerging across the world, we have the possibility now to build ourselves a radically new future. One that is decentralised, purpose driven, open source, ecological and connected.

If, like us, you sense that this might be a good time to rethink everything, this festival is aimed at you. Through this day of talks, activities and experiences we hope to offer a starting point for your exploration of, and participation in whatever might be coming next.

What was the focus of talks and activities in 2024?
Is a truly regenerative, local food system possible?

What is ecological medicine?

What is a healthy human culture and how do we create it?

Is the ‘ownership’ of land just a modern fabrication?

What is the potential of new and ancient wellbeing practices for our collective health?

2024 contributors included:

Sophy Banks
Sophy was deeply involved in the Transition Network from its inception. She is now Founder and Lead Facilitator of the Healthy Human Culture movement which offers a vision for a world in which societies, communities, workplaces, families and individuals can thrive

Dr Jenny Goodman
Dr Jenny Goodman is a qualified medical doctor, author, practitioner of Ecological Medicine and has been helping people improve their health for over 20 years. She shows how our destruction of the earth’s biosphere also impacts our health, and shows us what we can do to step away from the system that is profoundly affecting our health and our futures.

Laure Hamoniau & Keivor John
Laure and Keivor’s innovative response to our failing food system was to set up My Little Farm. They have plans for a national network of community owned farms providing food sovereignty to 100,000 families in the UK. 

Pete Russell
Founder of Ooooby – Pete has 20 years experience in the food industry. His mission is to put ‘small-scale’ back at the heart of our food system. One of Ooooby’s game changing innovations is the decentralised ownership of its digital platform.

Vikki Ede
Vikki works with The People’s Food and Farming Alliance whose aim is to revolutionise how we produce food to be healthier, soil-friendly and within our local communities. The aim is to do all of this whilst eradicating our reliance on global food infrastructure, largely controlled by national and international governments and global corporate entities.

Singing Village
Join Lizzie Baker for a very special wellbeing singing circle with simple harmonies for all.

Akin
The wonderful Charlie Griffin offers you mindfulness and movement sessions in the wellbeing tent.

Dayna McCulloch
Dayna is an author and a somatic coach. Join her to find out how extraordinary, lasting change is possible when we connect to our body’s vast intelligence, and explore how practices such as this might help us navigate our way out of our current trauma culture.

Art trail
Responding to land ownership inequality in the UK, Rachael Nicholson, Melissa Pierce Murray, and Jane Sarre have created a show that is playful, interactive and thought-provoking.