New blog post: a selection of photos from Monday's Jack in the Green festival at Hastings

https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/hastings-jack-in-the-green-2023

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A few photos from yesterday's Jack in the Green festival in Hastings

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Hope everyone had a lovely May Day. Glad to report that Jack has been stripped here in Hastings so hopefully we’re in for a good harvest #JackInTheGreen

Jack in the Green and motorbikes on May Day in Hastings https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJuSWNuu/ #french #jackinthegreen #hastings #video #frenchtutor1066

These are pictures I took at the Jack in the Green fest, held every Beltane in Hastings. These are from 13 years ago, when I lived in London. I particularly like this portrait of the inimitable @simoncostin of the @MWM. This was a magical time and place, when I haunted folky events. It may never again be safe for me to be in crowds like this. I’m mourning that loss this Beltane. #Beltane #hastings #JackInTheGreen #Festivals #nostalgia #Pagan #MayDay #2010

Happy May Day! This is hand-pulled lino block print of the Jack-in-the-Green (or Jack o' the Green) an English folk tradition for May Day. Wearing a conical or pyramidal wicker or wooden frame covered in foliage so as to conceal the wearer, the Jack-in-the-Green leads a May Day procession, dancing often with musicians and other figures.

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All Saints Street top end filling up nicely. Assuming the Royal Box position by The Stables. #JackInTheGreen

It doesn’t matter how much time I’ve had between drumming outings that I could have used for costume creation, of course I’m running around like a blue arsed fly the day before one of our biggest events of the year trying to find where anything is and doing last minute stitching and fixing. #Hastings #JackInTheGreen #Drumming

Thinking of making the trip over to Hastings on Monday for the Jack in the Green festival. Is anyone else going to be there?

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