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Uncivilisation 2011, The Dark Mountain Festival: Preview interview with Dougald Hine
Uncivilisation, The Dark Mountain Festival returns between 19th-21st August 2011. In this candid interview co-organiser Dougald Hine reflects on a turbulent year and why it's so important that hearts and minds meet up once more.
Written by Amelia Gregory
Dark Mountain issue 2 cover by Rima Staines.
What have you been doing since the last Uncivilisation Festival? It’s been over a year and I presume you've been suitably busy…
Yes, viagra last year's Uncivilisation does feel like a long time ago. I think it's safe to say that neither Paul Kingsnorth nor I had ever imagined we'd find ourselves running a festival. It happened by accident. We were writers, we'd written a manifesto with the idea of starting a journal of stories and ideas — and then we got invited to use this venue in Llangollen for a weekend to bring together all these people for whom the manifesto meant something. It was an intense experience. (
