SATURDAY
May 1st

Other Roadside Attractions:

Rainbow Cafe * Est. 1973 : 6:30pm on * Pepper Boys and more..

HEMP Party Bar
and POLITE BUREAU – Fair Dinkum stand up voters can register here to join the HEMP Party!

The recently renovated H*E*M*P*Bar (and web camera) will be “Demonstrating” a wide selection of highly delicious and nutritious (zero THC) Hemp Foods during the MardiGrass. Hemp Burgers, Hemp Cakes, Hemp Cookies and Chocolate Hemp Truffles. We will also be offering all varieties of hot and cold coffee, tea and chai as well as local Love cordial.

As we all know, thousands and thousands of people are come to a MardiGrass and the H*E*M*P*Bar can only seat 42.0 people comfortably at any one time, so wearing a festival support bracelet will be a must.

HEMP Breakfast:9.30 till 10.30
Midday * Pot Poetry
HEMP Lunch 12.30 till 2.30
HEMP Dinner 6.30 till 8.30
Coffee and hemp cake and other nibblies the rest of the time.

8.30 till late * The H*E*M*P*Bar will be hosting a W.A.N party, where the focus is to be on uploading images and other information to youtubes, facebooks and other networks, bring your laptop, mobile phone and camera…..

4:00 pm * Church of The Holy Smoke Mass Baptism with Her Holiness The Goddess

The ‘Goddess’ will be inducting novitiates into the Church Of The HolySmoke with the Pork Fork and ignition of a US$100 note, as we all burn together sacred herb. NimbinHempBar.com

4:20 pm * The Global Marijuana March Where well over 1 million cannabis law reform activists in nearly 300 cities around the globe will be protesting. In Nimbin we will aim to break the world record for the most joints ever lit at once in the same place at the same time.
Peoples in Peace Park will have already prepared “joints” of many herbs, and will arrive outside the Embassy in time for the arrival of the Kombi Konvoy. If you want to bring a smokable “joint”, you can. After the last Kombi has passed we will light up, and produce as much smoke as possible for the cameras recording the event.
Viva la Fume!

6:00 pm * HEMP Party Members meet 6:00 pm each evening in the HEMP BAR.

4:20pm KOMBI KONVOY arrives in Nimbin, having wended its way from Byron Bay, via Lismore. Sponsored by Rvbyesque – Could people in the crowd please refrain from jumping on the back bumpers of Kombis as they pass through town, as it can damage the vehicles. Pliz sho’ respekt bro’.

Nimbin Community Centre
* MardiGrass Market Stage * Family Friendly * Cranking music all weekend:
MC Bo Kaan

Saturday May 1st

10 am * Janaka
11 am * Jade Supernova
12 am * Kaptan Reefer and the Konescrapers
1 pm * Spencer.E.Rogans Sensory Explosion
2 pm * Dr Baz and Mr Slyde
3 pm * April Maze
4 pm * Ephemeris
5 pm * Celestino
6 pm * Alice Blue
7 pm * Imandan
8 pm * Diana Anaid
9 pm * Grasshopper

Pot Art – entries can be left or sent to the HEMP Embassy from April First

Nimbin Hotel: Food, drink, and live entertainment.
1:30pm The Aurora Jane Band
7:30pm Tijuana Cartel

Birth & Beyond * * The Nimbin Environment Centre is running MardiGrass Movies and a Chill Space in Birth and Beyond all weekend. The Hemp Solution (If you miss the World Premiere), past MardiGrass Movies, Cheech and Chong, Environmental Films and more. Soup and Chai available. Armband entry or Donation

6:50pm * Launch of John Jiggen’s film – The Killer Cop and the Murder of Don McKay

Mingle Park * DRY CAMP * Behind the Museum..armband entry or $5 ..Music and comedy from midday Saturday with”Yarndi Yarns’, hosted by Goori and other Grandmothers and Grandfathers who are unafraid to tell their stories of why yarndi is good for them and prohibition is not.

Songs, storytelling and poetry all day into the evening. Guests confirmed include Sean Choolburra, Bart Willoughby, Louis Burdette, Quandamooka, Monkey and the Fish Band, Guriabu, Manju, Bib, Spooki, Jiggi Verandah Band, Future Roots, Paranoia Club …..and more to come.

11.00am JAG BBQ
12.00pm Opening Ceremony
1.00pm Nick
1.30pm Spooki
2.30pm Sean Choolburra
4.00pm (Kombi Konvoy and Global light up on main street)
5.00pm Guitar Joe
6.00pm Kaliba
7.00pm Monkey & the Fish Band
8.00pm Quandamooka
9.30pm “Experience”…Manju-electric guitar, Louis Burdette-drums, Greg-bass

Bush Theatre * Eight Bands from 6pm* armband entry or $5 ………Booze Hag, Slug, P.I.S.S., The Thundergods of the Multiverse, The Antibody, Hypernive, Tanamera, Manifest, Hyper-novae and Ephemeris

Hemp Embassy Back Veranda * Mid-day * Talk with Kog at midday on the HEMP Embassy back verandah where he will sign copies of his Golden Book on growing, or the CD, which will be showing in the Embassy and Museum all weekend.
3:00 pm * Between a Rock and a hard place. Lawful discussions with Living In Body.

The BOWLO
1:00pm at the *BOWLO* Fifth Hemplore Pro Pot Art Tattoo Show (Entrants register 10:00am to 12:45pm), featuring local band The Antibodies…

8 till 10 pm Stand Up Comedy Show ……Saturday night only… hosted by S Sorrensen & Alan Glover; with Mandy Nolan from Mullumbimby and Bob McHugh from Sydney with Nimbins very own Nick the Hippy and Sean Choolburra we hope as well. Not to be missed!

Dinner from 6:00pm, show from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, With armband: $5.00 Without armband: $10.00

SUNDAY
May 2nd

Program

• Hemp Olympix
• Peace Park
• Town Hall
• Other Roadside Attractions
• Street Parade
• RALLY for Cannabis