Category Archives: Performers

Daisy Eris Campbell

Performers, Talks and Playshops

Daisy worked alongside her father, Ken Campbell for many years, helping to create Pidgin Macbeth, (an attempt to teach the world a lingua franca via the medium of Shakespeare in Pidgin English) and The Tilly Matthews Academy of Bizarre and Adventurous Education (for performers in the business of becoming “extraordinary”) amongst many other capers.

She directed the revival production of The Warp, the world’s longest play, staged in London Bridge arches amidst a festival of Seekers; co-conceived and ran The Questival, a successful festival of future consciousness; wrote and directed a collection of short plays, including The Girl with the Global Brain, and The Big Q; and has an MA in Production and an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology.

Her anarchic children’s play, School Journey to the Centre of the Earth was performed as part of the National Theatre Connections programme twice, as well as being performed around the world. She compiled and co-directed, along with Richard Eyre, Beyond Our Ken, also performed at the NT.

Daisy wrote and directed a stage adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘Cosmic Trigger’, which was shown in Liverpool and London in 2014. She also starred in the play as her mother Prunella.

http://www.cosmictriggerplay.com

Laura Fives

Co-Conspirators, DJs, Performers

Laura Fives / (Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of) The Law

Disco fledgling – wet behind the ears but learning fast. Repurposing her torchlight of reason as a lightsaber. Expert planner, organiser and bean counter revelling in the richness of the tension between hodge and podge when trying to organise chaos.. or, as Lord Fnord so beautifully put it, trying to herd Schroedinger’s cats. Lover of philosophical debate, loud music and dancing until the sun comes up. Also been known to DJ once in a while.

Say hi… law@festival23.org.uk

The Buddhist Punk aka Lord Fnord XXIII

Co-Conspirators, Spoken word
Buddhist Punk

Tim Holmes is a walking talking contradiction; my goddess can he talk. He’s also a poet, for the last seventeen years he’s travelled in the guise of the Buddhist Punk. Having produced a one man show: The Sub Verse Meditations of a Buddhist Punk, performed at literary & music festivals (Off the Shelf, Ledbury, Shambala, Wychwood) and opened for artists such as American polit punks Anti Flag and the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, his preferred approach is now guerrilla performance; unsolicited renditions to unsuspecting audiences, outside the party, ideally by the fireside.

lordfnordxxiii@festival23.org.uk

Newton’s First Law of Poetry

As gravity takes hold once more
And every action reacts with its equal and opposite number
I awake from my slumber and type
That which is captive attempts to break free
That which is free I attempt to capture on the page
From then to now. The why? The how?
And every thing has an equal and opposite everything
A body will remain still unless acted upon by an external force
Or of course, an internal force
My art beats
I ‘m moved from within
I’ve destroyed a blank page
And created a work of heart.

Dave Lee

Co-Conspirators, Performers, Talks and Playshops
Dave Lee

Dave Lee is a Chaos magician, breathwork coach and writer with a fund of bizarre experiences. He has spent decades researching effective techniques for undoing our conditioning and changing our realities, including Chaos Magic, entheogens and energy-body alchemy. He is a qualified breathwork coach and a leading light in the Chaos Magic organization the Illuminates Of Thanateros.
Dave has run workshops on magic since 1993, in UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Spain and Holland. He also provides online magical training – visit his websitehttp://www.chaotopia.co.uk/ or email info@chaotopia.co.uk for details of courses and free webinars.
Dave’s writings have appeared in more occult and underground magazines than he cares to remember and he was one of the early editors of Chaos International magazine. His non-fiction books include: Chaotopia!, The Wealth Magic Workbook, Bright From the Well, Connect Your Breath and Magical Incenses. He is currently completing his ground-breaking book, ‘Life-Force: Adventures in Breathwork and Energy Magic’. Details of his books can be found on his website.
Experiences that are too weird to fit into his non-fiction get used to create the other realities he writes about- see his novel The Road to Thule and forthcoming novel The Cull. His fiction is featured on a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/KingdomOfWessex?ref=hl
You can find his blog at http://chaotopia-dave.blogspot.com, and follow @dleeahp on Twitter.