A-Z OF BRITISH FOLK CUSTOMS

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/customs.php

Listing all British Folk Customs:

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Allendale Tar Barrel Carrying
Ambleside Rush-bearing
Arbor Day
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
Baddeley Cake
Bainbridge Horn Ceremony
Battle of the Flowers
Bawming the thorn
Beating the Tower Boundaries
Biddenden Dole
Blessing of the Throats
Boars Head Feast
Bridgewater Squibbing
Broughton Tin Can Band
Burning the Ashen Faggot
Burns Night
Burns Night
Chedzoy Candle Auction
Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling
Cotswold Olimpick Shin-Kicking
Denby Dale Pie
Derbyshire Well Dressing
Dicing for Bibles
Doggett's Coat and Badge Race
Durham Miners Gala
Eton Wall Game
Firing the Fenny Poppers
Footbridge Rent of one Red Rose, City of London
Gloucesters Royal Lamprey Pie Gift
Grovely Rights
Guildford's Dicey Maids
Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle-Kicking
Handsworth Longsword Dancers
Haxey Hood
Helston Floral Day Furry Dance
Hereford Boy Bishop
Highland Games
Highland Games
Highland Games
Highland Games
Hogmanay
Hogmanay
Holcombe Hill Egg Rolling
Hot Cross Buns for the Widow’s son
Hungerford Hocktide Court
Hunting the Mallard
Inspecting the Gibson Tomb
Jack Valentine
Jankyn Smith's Endowment
John Sayers Dole
Kichel throwing in Harwich
Kiplingcotes Derby
Kiplingcotes Derby
Knighthood of the Old Green
Knightlow Wroth Silver
Lady Scudamore's Pax Cakes
Laxton's Court Leet
Leighton Buzzard's Wilkes Walk
Little Edith's Treat
Magdalen College Oxford Outdoor Sermon
Marshfield Mummers
Mass for the executed Charles I
Oakham Castle Horseshoes
Old Man’s Day
Opening the Oyster Fishery
Padstow 'Obby 'Oss
Penny Loaf Day
Preston Gulid
Punkie Night
Purbeck Marblers Football Ceremony
Quinquennial Knill Dance,
Quit Rents Ceremony
Rochester Sweeps' Festival
Running Auction for White Bread Meadow
Scarborough Skipping Day
Singing from Durham Cathedral Tower
St Bartholomew's Day Bun Race
St Briavels Bread and Cheese Throwing
St Columb Hurling
Swan Upping
Swan Upping
Swan Upping
Tar Barrels and Rock Cannons of Ottery St Mary
The Bampton Morris
The Church Street Feast
The Devils Knell
The Tichborne Dole
Tom Bawcock's Eve
Tuppenny Starvers
Turning the Devil’s Stone
Tynwald Day
Up Helly Aa
Vintners' Company Procession
Wardmote of the Woodmen of Arden
Wardmote of the Woodmen of Arden
Wassailing the Tree
Weighing the Mayor
Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival
World Gurning Championships

FOUR CORNERS COMPETITION

AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF BEATRIX POTTER'S PETER RABBIT:::

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14304/14304-h/14304-h.htm

BRITISH MUSEUM - PRINT ROOMS

NAMES:::

CHARLES WILLIAMS
RICHARD BUCKNER
ETIENNNE DUPÉRAC

THE BEST NAMES:

AMBROGIO BRAMBILLA
FRIEDRICH NERLY

JAMES GILLRAY







RICHARD NEWTON







THOMAS ROWLANDSON

THE FOLK ARCHIVE

THE FOLK ARCHIVE - SET UP BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL - IS A COLLECTION OF MODERN DAY BRITISH FOLK 'ART'.

IT IS A REALLY INTERESTING DISPLAY OF THE SLIGHTLY ODD AND GROTESQUE ICONS OF MODERN CULTURE SUCH AS A POORLY PAINTED PICTURE OF PRINCESS DIANA AND A HAND MADE TATTOO GUN, MADE BY PRISONERS.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/folkarchive/folk.html

http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-aad-folk-archive.htm

"TREADING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY"


.FIND.FIND.FIND.READ.READ.READ:

Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK
by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (2005, 3rd edition, 2008)

JUXTA POSITION

THIS JUXTA POSITION BETWEEN THE OLD TRADITION AND THE MODERN WORLD IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INTERESTS ME MOST ABOUT BRITISH FOLK TRADITIONS. THE TRADITIONS THEMSELVES HAVE GOT SLIGHTLY WARPED INTO THESE ODD COSTUMES AND STRANGE ACTS WHICH MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE SENSE OF IN THE MODERN WORLD. . . . . .

PARAPHINALIA

FOLK COSTUME

FOLK FACE

B E Y E U X T A P E S T R Y

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS KEY TO THE PERSONAL PROJECT IS TO WORK IN A WAY THAT FEELS NATURAL TO YOU, AND TO ESTABLISH A REALLY GOOD + EFFECTIVE WORKING PROCESS.

PERSONALLY, THE BEYUEX TAPESTRY IS SOMETHING THAT I REFERENCE ALOT TO MYSELF WHEN THINKING ABOUT A REALLY NATURAL AND BEAUTIFUL WAY OF WORKING. IT IS TOTALLY FUNTIONAL AS A MEAN S OF TELLING THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED AND CONVEYING FACTUAL INFORMATION, BUT IT IS DONE IN A REALLY INTUATIVE WAY. THE COLOURS//TEXTURES//USE OF LINE//CHARACTERS//TYPOGRAPHY = AMAZING.

G.E.O.F.F.S (NEW) WEB SITE

http://www.zeel.co.uk/

THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

SOME AMAZING WAR PHOTOGRAPHS - ESPECIALLY OF BOMB DAMAGED ARCHITECTURE

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18333/18333-h/18333-h.htm

LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN - SCARECROW (P.P)

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE WAY I THINK ABOUT CHARACTERS, PLACES AND OVERALL MOOD OF THINGS. IT IS VERY DARK BUT AT THE SAME TIME HAS HUMOUR IN IT WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE TERRIBLE NATURE OF THE CHARACTERS. I FIND IT VERY DISTURBING BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE SENSE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAPPED THAT IT CREATES. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE WHOLE IDEA OF BRITISH TRADITION AND FOLKLORE..

WHITTLESEY STRAW BEAR FESTIVAL (P.P)

THIS IS THE FESTIVAL I FOUND WHEN RESEARCHING THE PENNY DREADFUL PROJECT. I FIND THE IDEA OF A MAN DRESSED UP IN GIANT STRAW COSTUME WICH IS LATER BURNT A BIT TERRIFYING. THIS LOCALISED FOLK LORE IS EXACTLY WHAT I AM INTERESTED IN - SCARY RITUALS THAT HAVE BEEN CONTINUED BECAUSE OF THEIR ONCE SYMBOLIC VALUE BUT WHICH NOW JUST SEEM A LITTLE BIT SINISTER AND OUT OF CONTEXT.

I THINK THIS IS PARTICULARLY SCARY, BECAUSE ALTHOUGH YOU KNOW THERE ISN'T STILL SOMEBODY INSIDE IT, YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK BUT WHAT IF THERE IS AND ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING AND PLAYING MUSIC ETC WHILE SOMEONE INSIDE IS BEING BURNT ALIVE......



THE WHITTLESEY STRAW BEAR IN ACTION-----((I LIKE THE WAY THE MUSIC PLAYED AT THE BURNING OF THE BEAR IS THE SAME AS THE MUSIC PLAYED AS IT WALKS ABOUT. THIS GIVES IT A MACABRE TIMELESS FEEL - AND ADDS TO THE SENSE OF FEAR THAT THE PERSON COULD STILL BE INSIDE IT WHEN IT IS SET ALIGHT....

*PLANS*PLANS*PLANS*

PERSONAL PROJECT:::::

BRITISH FOLKLORE/RITUALS

REFERNCE - PENNY DREADFUL.BEAR PROJECT

PROFESSOR RONALD HUTTON - BRITISH RITUALS EXPERT (RE-WATCH VICTORIAN FARM BBC 2)

LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN

MID SOMMER MURDERS VILLAGE

FACE PAINT
COSTUMES
CELEBRATIONS
PEOPLE
RITUALS/RITUALISTIC BEHAVIOUR
FLAGS
COLOURS
SYMBOLS
IDOLS

COMPETITION:::::

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A PHOTOGRAPHER/FILM MAKER CALLED

KEITH LOUTIT

WHO USES A SPECIAL FILM TECHNIQUE CALLED TILT SHIFT THAT MAKES REAL SCENES LOOK LIKE THEY ARE MODEL RAILWAY SCENES. REALLY GREAT.

BLOG BLOG BLOG

http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

INTERESTING LOOKING BLOG WITH LOTS OF INTERESTING LOOKING LINKS...........

FOUR CORNERS BOOK COMPETITION

FOUR CORNERS BOOKS WEBSITE:

http://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk


PETER'S INFORMATION:

Have a think about a book which is 'out of copyright'.
Their rule-of-thumb is that the writer has to have died
70+ years ago.Note that it's looking for innovative,
non-traditional approaches to illustration. But also
note that drawing's frequency in a lots of contemporary
work through into art so don't feel like you have to do
something whizzy. It's more the intensity, the concept,
the attitude and relation to the text (I think)

DEADLINE:

APRIL 10TH 2009

EXIBITION AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM (MAY)

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/garden_and_cosmos.aspx