Wednesday 12 June 2013

We need your peddle power!

 
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!
 

The Somerfest Parade. 12.00pm and 4pm June 15th

We are looking for people to cycle some wonderful bikes and machines in the Somerfest parade on June 15th.
Please pass this message on to anyone you think might be interested
Somerfest is a celebration of Taunton, Somerset and green technology. The festival features parades at 12 noon and 4pm with splendid array of cycle powered vehicles , beasts and machines, banners, street bands and street performers. The parade will include a machine based on the winning design of a design competition together with vehicles seen in last year’s Para-Olympic games and Taunton’s Olympic Torch celebrations. 

 We are looking for volunteers to cycle machines and steward the procession to be available from 11am that morning. We will supply lunch in the afternoon
If you would like to get involved contact Tim Hill at milton2hill@yahoo.co.uk
Gathering between 11. and 11.30am Town bridge
 


Tomorrow at The Drawing Room, Taunton:

FULLY BOOKED!
 
 
The day will consider:
-          The history, forms and future of parades and processions
-          The potential of outdoor arts to connect us with our past, place and the seasons
-          The use of green and human-powered technologies
-          Themes, stories and images that can be used in future parades and processions
 The Endless Parade will include presentations from:
Mike Pattison and his cycle machines from the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. John Fox, founder of Welfare State International. Ali Pretty, director of Kinetika. Groups involved in Taunton’s
Olympic Torch celebrations and the Battle for the Winds projects.  Bridgwater and other Somerset Carnivals. Noeline Kavanagh director of the Galway based theatre company Macnas
The Endless Parade is a day for producers, performers and makers and anyone involved in or interested in outdoor celebratory arts and the tradition of parades. It will be held in the heart of Somerset, where parades and carnival arts have a unique and remarkable tradition.


 
 

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The Somerfest Parade. 12.00pm and 4pm June 15th
Somerfest is a celebration of Taunton, Somerset and green technology that includes an afternoon parade with splendid array of cycle powered vehicles , beasts and machines, banners, street bands and street performers.
The parade will include a machine based on the winning design of a design competition together with vehicles seen in last year’s Para-Olympic games and Taunton’s Olympic Torch celebrations. There also be performers from Fuse Performance Company, the Space and Street Linx, The Big Noise Street Band and the Trinity Primary School samba band.
Somerfest and the events supporting it have been made possible by support from Taunton Deane Borough Council, Arts Council England and Somerset County Councils Creative Industries Fund.
The event has been organised by Tim Hill, Tim helped put together the Olympic Torch celebrations and runs street band events, shows and celebrations around the country
Preceding the parade on June 13th will be a conference on parades and processions, featuring presentations from leading makers of parades from England and Ireland including Bridgwater Carnival.