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Beer Festival
The Blackawton International Festival of Wormcharming
Sun 4 May 2025
The 39th Blackawton International Festival of Wormcharming is taking place on Sunday 4th May!!
Come and join in the fun – no experience necessary. Just register your team of three (a Charmerer, a Pickerer and a Counterer) at Worm HQ (near the George Inn) before the midday deadline. There are separate categories for under 11's and adults. At just £5 per team it really is the most fun you can have on your knees in a field.
Whether you're entering a team or simply spectating, we encourage you to participate in fancy dress. There are awards for both the best dressed team and individual. The theme this year is “No theme!” So tog up in the best clobber you have – whatever you feel is fitting to celebrate the first event in three years – the more outrageous the better.
Come laden with your potions, contraptions and sense of adventure. But beware – the International Judges will ask you to sample any “magic” concoctions you're planning to pour onto your 1 yard x 1 metre Wormcharming plot!
The competition officials – Worm Master, International Judges, Official Cheat, Junior Cheats and Old Father Worm – will be on hand to ensure that things run in their usual (dis)orderly manner and will lead the customary “toast to the worm”.
Then join the samba procession and head off to the secret field to charm the worms out of the ground. Use whatever means you like but remember – no digging, forking or harmful potions. After five minutes "Worming Up" and fifteen minutes of actual Wormcharming, it's time to count the worms. Can you beat our current record (set in 1986) of 149 worms?
Other highlights of our unique, eccentric village day include a music/ beer festival and zany charity auction at the George Inn, the WI cafe and cake sale in the village hall, a fun dog show, sundry stalls, a remote controlled model car racing circuit in the village hall and a pedal powered sound system in the secret field.
Profits will be donated to Devon Air Ambulance and other local good causes.
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Sessions & Tickets
No ticket required!
This festival is unticketed, so you can just turn up on the day.
Session details coming soon!
The organiser is still finalising the programme for this festival. Check back later for information about sessions and ticketing.
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