{"id":52091,"date":"2026-05-04T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52091"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:34:14","slug":"free-party-a-folk-history-qa-at-bonington-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/52091","title":{"rendered":"Free Party- A Folk History + Q&amp;A at Bonington Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I am contributing to the Questions and Answers about the film and scene, after the showing &#8230;. please come if you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bonington theatre<br>Arnold Leisure Centre<br>High Street Arnold<br>Nottingham NG5 7EE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>7.00pm on Friday 8th May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepartydoc.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Free Party: A Folk History<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>is a major new, independently made, feature documentary following the birth of the free party movement in the late 80s and early 90s and the impact it\u2019s had on our present times. The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher\u2019s last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by&nbsp;Aaron Trinder<br>1hr 47 mins | UK 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*This screening will feature a post-screening Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-bonington wp-block-embed-the-bonington\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DZJVaLV1Xm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boningtontheatre.co.uk\/whatson-event\/free-party-a-folk-history-cert-tbc-qa\/\">Free Party- A Folk History (Cert TBC) + Q&#038;A<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Free Party- A Folk History (Cert TBC) + Q&#038;A&#8221; &#8212; The Bonington\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boningtontheatre.co.uk\/whatson-event\/free-party-a-folk-history-cert-tbc-qa\/embed\/#?secret=KZTRju2k2R#?secret=DZJVaLV1Xm\" data-secret=\"DZJVaLV1Xm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am contributing to the Questions and Answers about the film and scene, after the showing &#8230;. please come if you can. Bonington theatreArnold Leisure CentreHigh Street ArnoldNottingham NG5 7EE 7.00pm on Friday 8th May Free Party: A Folk History\u00a0is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/52091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,15,128,16,29],"class_list":["post-52091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-free","tag-nottingham","tag-party","tag-photography","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52092,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions\/52092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}