The Women in Tune festival is a celebration of and for Women in Music. Women come not only from Wales, but also from Europe and beyond, to get together and play or listen to music.

The festival is a supportive environment where women and girls can try out their musical wings, and where more experienced musicians can come and share their talent and knowledge with others.

Music of all styles and influences are explored at the festival.

The festival is a showcase and an opportunity to teach and learn. With workshops during the day and concerts later in the evening, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

WIT is Women In Tune

• WIT is an opportunity to be part of the experience that is a women only music festival, the only one of its kind in the UK
• WIT is a celebratory, nurturing, supportive, inclusive, safe space
• WIT believes in the power of each woman and offers a unique opportunity to explore our abilities; to be courageous & reach for the sky
• WIT is life affirming & has a common purpose – to unite women in the pursuit of great music; to honour the creative, experimental spark that exists in all of us
• WIT can teach us how to play a sax, swing an axe & build things; discover new skills, find joy, be wild & sing up the Moon
• WIT recognises many of us have specific needs & makes every attempt to accommodate them ~ please feel free to enquire
• WIT is committed to giving all women & girls their own unique voice WIT is music, story, dance, poetry, workshops, performance & participation; potential, magic, empowerment & sisterhood
• WIT is everywoman

http://www.womenintune.co.uk/index.php/about-wit/what-is-the-women-in-tune-festival

Dates Friday 14 – 21 August 2015, starting and ending at noon. Seven whole IdleWIT days and nights.

This is your opportunity to socialise and do your own thing, whether it is music making, craft making, sharing your skills, walking, communing with nature, relaxing, exploring the area – doing all the things you never get time to do.

• To put on a WIT festival takes an enormous amount of time, effort and commitment of many women throughout the entire year. In 2015 the planners and other crew are hoping to spend some time having a well-deserved holiday with their WIT friends instead! So this year we are going to keep organisation and other work to the bare minimum possible – we will be booking no crew, performers etc, and all who come to the Idle WIT camp will be asked to contribute to the costs … £35 low/unwaged £50 high-waged (TBC)
• There will be a 2016 fullon WIT Festival. The organisers will be ready to prepare for this Festival renewed and refreshed, because we are having a HOLIDAY!!!

We are currently planning to have on the WIT camp site:

• Two large marquees so we can gather together
• Portable toilets
• Drinking water
• A large fire every evening (If interested in joining the team of Amazons on the WIT wooding weekend please email website@womenintune.co.uk).
• We are discussing the possibilty of having a small stage, PA gear and a setup suitable for us to have discos…
• We will probably have our beloved Hammam available with lots of lovely hot water for washing

We encourage women who come to share skills and entertainment and other fun, please organise this amongst yourselves and surprise and entertain us! Bring that guitar!

For those who do prefer to work, there may be on site projects towards future WITs like re-roofing our storage spaces, just turn up and join in if interested, materials provided (Bring your tools!)

Please come prepared to provide and cook your own food. The Post Office at Llanfair Clydogau has a wide range of Suma and other foods and in Lampeter there is a Co-Op and Healthfood store, The Mulberry Bush. There is an Organic Food Shop on the Lampeter  Industrial estate.

One of the hardest decisions about having a camp and no WIT crew is that we will not be offering Access Support and organised maintenance of pathways. We suggest that women with disabilities organise any support that they will need with their friends. If you want to bring a motorised scooter or wheelchair you can make an arrangement for these to be charged at the farm down the lane.

Festival Takedown usually takes almost a whole week! We do not intend to get out much of the WIT gear from storage in 2015 as we will have no crew to sort it and put it all back in good condition ready for festival in 2016, so please bring your own chairs etc.

At the end of every WIT Festival our aim is to leave the land as we found it so please, everyone make extra effort to leave the site as clean as we do.

http://www.womenintune.co.uk/

July 14, 2015