A Tale of Three Festivals by Julia Jones
What festival organisers do - 1. Claudia Myatt, coracle addict, Strong Winds series illustrator and part of the M Woodbridge team pretending that all she does is pose This is a what-I-did-on-my-holidays blogpost. It won't raise your consciousness, touch your heart or even help to improve your ebook sales. In September I was invited to three different festivals and I went. I didn't get paid but none of the people organising the festivals was earning anything out of them either. These were not high-profile, prestigious events. They were intended to be fun. First in the diary came Maritime Woodbridge . This is a biennial happening centered mainly around a derelict boatyard but extending some way further along the Woodbridge waterfront and into the town as well. It's intended to connect with the Heritage Open Days scheme, the weekend every year when interesting places that are not normally open invite the public in or free. In Woodbridge the main pieces of heritage a...