Gwybodaeth Hanfodol - CYM 2012

The LOG CABIN is WIT's Welcome and Information Point.

We meet and greet, give out maps and programmes, and point you in all the right directions. Our notice board shows what's on each day and is your place to post notices about lift-sharing or skill-sharing.

Log Cabin is also first point of contact for disabled women - we'll put you in touch with the Access Assistance. And it's the Lost Property Office too.

If you want to bring your own full copy of the essential information, print this page (icon on the right, four pages) and bring it to WIT with you.

This information will be available at the Log Cabin and in the Cafe during festival.

Thursday:

Open 10am - 4pm
Closed for two hours between 4pm & 6pm
Open 6pm - 9pm

Friday/Saturday/Sunday:

10am - 12 noon
2pm - 4pm
6pm - 9pm

Monday:

10am onwards

EMERGENCIES

First aid kits are at Log Cabin, The Cafe and in Crew Tent.  If you need First Aid please enquire at Log Cabin. If you have had First Aid training in the last 3 years, and you are willing to be available in an emergency, please sign up at Log Cabin and tell them where you are camped.

There is an emergency whistle at Log Cabin. In an emergency, use the international distress call: 6 short whistles followed by a minute's pause, and repeated. If you hear this signal and you have medical training, please go immediately to wherever the whistle is sounding from.

If your emergency involves calling an ambulance, please inform Log Cabin or Site Crew as soon as possible that an ambulance is coming, so that they can guide it in. You will need to tell the 999 operator that WIT festival location is Clwt-y-Patrwn Farm, between Llangybi and Llanfair Clydogau. Postcode is SA48 8ND and Grid reference is SN 62 52.

Medical phone numbers:

• Lampeter GP surgery 01570 422665
• Bronglais Hospital Aberystwyth (26 miles) 01970 623131
• West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen (25 miles) 01267 235151#

Rubbish and Recycling

Site Crew volunteers will be disposing of all the onsite recyclable waste after WIT (Only glass, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and drink/food cans can easily be recycled in this region). Please try to separate out these items so that they CAN be recycled.

We would be grateful if you could take responsibility for your own 'dirty' waste (landfill) & compost, and take it with you when you leave the site.  (Disposal of landfill rubbish for festival-goers could cost WIT almost £600, which we feel can be much better spent on far more exciting things.) Thanks!

Fires

Fire circles will be prepared by Site Crew, so there is no need for you to dig fire pits or light fires anywhere else. Please don't use fires to cook meat/fish. Fire extinguishers are in Big Top and Café, and there will be water butts and sand beside each campfire.

Smoking

Smoking is not allowed in any of the public tents. Please don't stand near to the entrances of tents, especially the Big Top, and allow smoke to drift in - it is a serious health hazard to some women and you will be asked to move. If you smoke elsewhere, please dispose of butts responsibly.

Seating in the Big Top

At evening Big Top events, half the audience area will remain a seated area all evening (this will be called the "safer seating area"). The other half will have chairs removed later on, to allow room for dancing.

Please check which side is which when you arrive, and, if it is crowded, give priority to disabled women for places in the safer seating area. Please do not dance in front of the safer seating area and block the view of seated women.

Volunteering

We would like to ask all festival participants to help with the running of the festival by donating a little of your time. Perhaps you could help in the kitchen for a couple of hours, move chairs around, or collate some songsheets - there are plenty of jobs! Please speak to Log Cabin team to sign up for a volunteer shift - and don't forget to turn up for the actual shift.

Hammam & hygiene

The Hammam area will provide basic hot-water washing facilities for open-air bathing (water is heated in a large pot, basically).

Campsites can easily breed nasty bugs. Please be much more careful than usual about hand-washing after using the toilet and before handling food. There is a hand-washing basin beside the café with anti-bacterial soap. Other washbasins/dish-washing areas (cold water) are found elsewhere on site.

We recommend that you think carefully before sharing instruments, especially wind instruments. If you give or receive First Aid in any incident involving blood or other body fluids, please use the latex gloves provided.

Assistance for disabled women

We have a small Access Team of volunteers.

We can take your own chair over to the Big Top in time for the event that you'd like to attend. Please let us know in advance, before the start of the event. Note that at evening Big Top events, half the audience area will remain a seated area all evening (this will be known as the "safer seating area".) The other half will have chairs removed to the side later on, to allow room for dancing. Check with us to make sure you're seated somewhere that best suits your needs throughout the evening. We expect that the SLI will be on stage in front of the safer seating side.

We also have a mobility scooter, which can be booked.

Sign language interpreters:
SLIs will be covering our evening performances

Photography

WIT organisers take photos (e.g. of workshops) for our website and archive. If you do not wish to be in a photo, please feel free to let the photographer know before she takes it, or ask her to delete it. If you're taking your own photos, please be sensitive about this.

Girlzone

(opening hours: 10.45 am - 1 pm and 2.15 pm - 4.30 pm)

Girlzone offers a safe, fun and friendly space for all girls aged between four and sixteen, with a varied programme of arts and crafts workshops. We offer the chance for girls to learn new skills, meet new friends and generally have a lot of fun. All women welcome too.

Festival Welfare

WIT aims to create a safe, supportive space for everyone to enjoy. We hope everyone will be mindful, and take part in a shared responsibility for the well-being of everyone else, particularly children and young women, and disabled and elderly women.

However, in the case of children, their mothers/guardians are the ones who are ultimately responsible for them at all times. The safe atmosphere of the Festival does not necessarily mean that children do not need to be supervised at all.

Performances after the 10 pm "watershed" may contain "adult" material. Mothers/guardians will need to decide with their older daughters about what is appropriate to attend. This is also the case with workshops, where you can ask workshop leaders can help you choose. Morning Meeting is a good time to discuss this.

We also ask everyone to be aware of the difference between public and private space. In the relaxed atmosphere of WIT, please be aware that your behaviour might affect others, and be respectful.

Get even more involved!

One of the best things about being part of WIT is the opportunity it affords for involvement. WIT is self-financing and only happens because of the devoted allegiance and generosity of a finite number of dedicated, hard-working women.

'Far-away women' can get involved in the Collective, as we have conference phone facilities. And even if you don't want to be directly involved in the organising and running of WIT, every woman who comes here has potential skills and qualities to offer.

And we want to pick your brains! We want your ideas and knowledge. Do you know about fab bands; musicians you'd like to see on stage next year and who we ought to hear about? Are you hiding your own light under a bushel? Are there workshops you'd enjoy being part of, or would like to facilitate? Can you help spread the WIT word? We want to hear from "women in tune" everywhere. Send us your ideas and suggestions; donations if you can afford them.

During the festival, make yourself known to the Log Cabin team. After the festival, contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 01570 493288.

We wish you a wonderful 2011 WIT experience!
Many Tunes, One Love - The WIT Collective

Thanks and acknowledgements:

• WIT in TOD (Todmorden) for holding a fantastic fundraising events for WIT
• Shark's Tree Nursery for firewood
• The Pink Flamingo Cooperative for their amazing fundraising
• All our fabulous performers and workshop leaders
• The generous providers and loaners of services and equipment
• Our collective of organisers, crew and volunteers who have worked their socks off night and day, week after week, in mud, in rain, up ladders, in five-hour meetings, at sewing machines and computer screens in the public library, and who are only kept going by a combination of dedication, enthusiasm and vegan ice-cream (feel free to bring them some more from the village shop)

...and last but not least, our thanks to everyone who is going to buy a ticket - without you, WIT would not be happening this year!