Memorial Lotus burn in The Park at this year's Festival

3rd June 2022

Join us in The Park for a memorial burn on the Sunday night of this year’s Festival. The Burning Lotus has been created by Joe Rush and his team. It’s a 40ft high sculpture of a Lotus flower, constructed with salvaged wood and canvas in The Park.

During the Festival, people will be encouraged to write down memories and images of people or situations that they wish to let go of, it may be people who died in the lockdown who were not properly said goodbye to, it may be failed business projects, may even be failed marriages, but the point is that all of these things will be focused on and then placed inside the Lotus.

At midnight on Sunday of the Festival the Lotus will be ignited and while the flames roar up, the whole gear-driven inferno will be burnt to nothing and with this we will be able to let go and get some closure. A cathartic moment and one that many of us need.

Emily