The regeneration people at Innovative Enterprise Action are organising a festival for the Cally Road. Their blurb says:
"The only festival focusing on all city style arts and performances.
"Come to an unexplored area of London to hear vibrant live urban music (beat box, funky, indie, rock and anything urban), see master graffiti artists demonstrate their art and other new artists’ exhibit.
"Try different cuisines and shop around in the diverse arts and crafts stalls.
"Enjoy a great Saturday urban experience with us!"
Will do some digging and see what this is about and who they are working with locally – the Council are involved somehow. If anyone wants to take part – email here or check out the site here. Venue is TBC.
UPDATE
Thanks to Sue Cartwright for rapidly forwarding the following that she received from the organisers:
‘it seems what is going to happen is: Eastern pavements of Caledonian Road parallel to Thornhill Square and up to Huntington Street will have food and arts and crafts stalls. across the road, in Bingfield street there will be parking suspended at least partly to host the art exhibition and the music performances will be in Bingfield park with street theatre people to encourage people to move all over the place.
‘We are very interested in any band, theatre group and artist wanting to perform, exhibit, participate or help out in the festival. The idea is that the community and the businesses are hosts not guests, and the guests are the people who never think of coming to Cally but are coming for the festival.’
They are definitely looking for artists to perform. use the email contact above or check out the myspace page here .
This story has just been picked up by the Guardian and is still its story of the week.
Thought you’d like to know!
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2158083,00.html