HAPPY CAMPING

At Mannifest we want to create a real sense of community – and what better way to do that than to spend three days camping with all your friends and family. Not only will this give a family vibe to the festival but it is also better for the environment! So come on Friday, park in the free car park at Glen Lough and set up camp in the Mannifest campsite and spend the whole weekend with us.

KIDS AREA

Arts and craft

Susan Quilliam and her angelic team will be creating a warm, friendly and most importantly fun! Fun! Fun! Arts and crafts area. Kids will be free to stick, paint, make and create all day long. The festival site will then be decorated with the children’s wondrous pieces of art.

Circus

The Play People’s Circus Space will be at Mannifest for the whole weekend. They will be showing off their spectacular circus skills and teaching workshops in mind-boggling things such as juggling, hula hooping, Diablo, poi, tightrope-walking and plate spinning. Make sure you get a chance to go on the fabulously, magical Rinky Dink Rainbow bike and don’t miss The PlayPeople’s awesome daytime and fire shows! 

HEALING

Mannifest will have a serene healing area where festival-goers will be able to sample the delights of treatments such as massage, reiki, reflexology, tarot readings and more.

Shaman Tony Samara will be giving satsang in the healing area. He will explain in a direct and simple way that everyone can understand, how each individual can practically integrate greater acceptance, peace and joy into their daily lives.

For more information

www.tonysamara.org / info@tonysamara.org

POLICY/ Ethos

Mannifest aims to be a creative, environmentally aware, ethical and family-friendly festival.  At this year’s event we have endeavoured to include something for everyone on the island – from a fantastic medley of music, loads of kids activities, circus performance, poetry, talks, healing  and good food.

Mannifest is now in its second year. It started small and has now grown bigger. With your support we want to make Mannifest an integral part of Isle of Man culture, providing an annual platform for local artists, musicians and performers – A festival where we gather to dance, sing, play, learn and connect.

The Play People

The Play People have many artists and performers but the two founders are Michael Bell and Joanna Taylor.

Mike is from the Isle of Man where as Jo was brought up England way. They met on the 31st of December 2007. At a festival in New Zealand.

Previously they had both been travelling for quite a few years, Jo getting by from teaching Yoga and doing Massage, Mike from playing music and doing circusy stuff.
As Mike had been performing and doing this stuff on the Island for a couple of years all it took was Jo's way with words (she used to be a journalist) to come up with The Play People.

Our popular circus workshops can run from 30 minutes to day long sessions. Your children will get to learn all the circus arts; Including Hula Hooping, Poi, Juggling, Balancing, Plate Spinning and Diablo. On the longer workshops they will learn safely the art of clowning, slapstick and comedy. 

They will be challenged in a positive, safe environment to learn new skills and find new aspects of themselves. With the outcome hopefully of them carrying on with some of the circus skills as they are widely known to help improve the mind and boost confidence.

"The Play People were a positive influence on all the kids that took part in the circus workshop. They came away excited and with few new skills. They made my son Bens day special" Beth (Happy Mom)

www.theplaypeople.com

Walk on water with our waterzorbs!

Referred to by many as the human hamster ball on water and sometimes as waterwalkerz,

waterzorbs must be amongst the most fun activities you can take part in on water without actually getting wet! It takes a little time to master but with some practice you will be able to stand and walk - or even dash - on water for 50m or more!

You can also do tricks - rolls, spins, flips and tumbles.

New for 2010

Bodyzorbing is bound to be amongst the most talked about entertainments of this year.

Bodyzorbing is physical, exhilarating, and enormous fun for children and adults alike. The user slides into a harness in the middle of a 1.25m diameter inflatable ball or bodyzorb (we carry smaller sizes for children) and can then safely collide with other users, roll, fall, headstand, battle and bounce without risk of injury - great exercise, energetic and vastly entertaining!

www.thezorbzone.co.uk