These photographs were taken at the Green Festival this summer in Newcastle. The Newcastle Community Green Festival is the UK’s biggest free community environmental festival and a celebration of the environment, arts, music and more, beginning in 1990. The festival strives to raise awareness for environmental issues. Over the years the festival has grown into a flagship environmental event in the region. In 2006 the festival became entirely powered by renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, pedal and bio-fuel power. They also aim to recycle 100% of the waste created through the festival.
I had a fantastic day when I went to the Green Festival, set in Leazes park in the centre of Newcastle, the festival is spread out around a small lake. There was so much to do, live music, book stalls, vegetarian and vegan food stalls, art tents etc.
In one corner of the park there was a tree, a wish tree. Where people were writing their wishes on pieces of cloth and tying them to the tree. I found it really interesting reading people’s wishes and the whole thing quite magical.
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I liked the fact of the wish tree, think that you can do a music video for environmental cause such as global warming perhaps. And show different people wishes on the trees.
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