Free Party: A Folk History is a feature documentary following the birth of the free party movement in the late 80s and early 90s and the impact it's had on our present times.
The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.
“This film is a unique look at a much underrepresented moment in cultural
history, the last great unifying youth movement, before digital cameras and the internet, which really challenged the authorities, connected environmental awareness with music and questioned laws on land rights and trespass.
Thematically its incredibly prescient to
today, with new laws on trespass being proposed, illegal parties taking place post pandemic and 30 years since Castlemorton itself. I’ve got incredible access to unseen archive and grass-roots stories very seldom heard from the people who lived it.”
Join us for ‘Free Party: A Folk History’, an independent documentary of the birth of the Free Party movement.
Friday 20 February, 2026
Llangoed Village Hall
£10 ticket includes:
7:00pm - doors open
7:30pm - film ‘Free Party’
Q&A session with Harry Harrison of DiY Sound System
9:00pm - Rave party with DJ Jovious
11:30pm - end
refreshments available
bar open