Welcome to the online resource for Festival of Pastimes.

Festival of Pastimes is a project celebrating spare-time, self-organised and amateur activity. It has taken the form of events, board games, publications and this online archive and directory.
Use the menu bar on the left to navigate the site.

Festival of Pastimes events are opportunities for people to come together and talk about their spare time passions and find out about similar activity in their area. To aid discussion a giant portable shed was built by Steven Allbutt in which to display information and participants and visitors are invited to play games of Significant Pursuits.

Amateur groups and pastime societies, clubs and collectives have also been invited to present what they do. Use the menu in the top right of the screen to view documentation and information about past events.

Please get in touch to let us know if you would like to be involved in the project by adding things to the website, having an event in your town or if have any questions:

email Andy Abbott at festivalofpastimes@yahoo.com.