The Freedom To Party

The Right To Celebrate Life!

The early pagans would be turning in their grave if they found out how difficult it is for a group of people to gather under the great outdoor sky and celebrate in unison.  Putting on an event in modern day Britain involves months of organising, ticking loads of health and safety boxes and producing mountains of bureaucratic paperwork.  There are some sensible precautions that the powers-that-be demand and some that are just downright ridiculous.

Festivals are becoming increasingly commercial and starting to imitate orthodox life with excessive advertising and branding, mindless consumerism and a distinct lack of interaction- unless based on a monetary basis.  We want to encourage people to be responsible for themselves and each other and not be present purely to consume but to actively participate.  The concept that the activities and entertainment provided by the ‘festival goers' as being just as important, if not more so, than the entertainment we provide is crucial to the core of Shambala's nature.

Festivals should be an alternative vision of society.  They should be utopian- places where interacting with fellow humans isn't a hassle but a pleasure.  A shopping free zone, a neighborhood with no closed doors where the people in the tent next to your's share their breakfast.

If you want to stay up all night and see in the dawn chorus without funny looks from passers by then do it.  If you want to paint your face blue and sing songs from Mary Poppins then why the devil not?