I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen dust - Womadelaide 2008
My first Womad experience was a memorable one.
We nearly didn’t get in as the people at the ticket office were trying to tell us that my carer with me needed to have an ‘official’ carers card! I mean what the hell. My family carers for me, they don’t get paid, and yet aren’t official’ because they don;’t have a card saying so? There was no stipulation about this when purchasing the ticket online as I did and none stipulated on the printed information booklet I had with me. In fact this seemed to be an unwritten, unstated Womad law. We refused to accept no as an answer and sulk away with $145 ticket strapped to my wrist and so after a while insisting they relented and walked us through security (who, as it happens wasn’t scanning anyone’s tickets anyway as the ’system’ was down…telling me it was!)
So once in we quickly settled into getting our bearings and found something to watch and listen to. The dust was thick and the night balmy. I met up with Mike and Mandy after a comedy of SMS message exchanges and we settled into a great night. It was a pity the day time heat was so bad it meant I couldn’t go to more, however I’ll be going next time around.
Below are a couple video clips of the fire lanterns and other pictures can be found here on my flickr account.
Dave
