Report on Leamington peace festival
jmayler | 17.06.2002 22:58
The Leamington Peace festival was a great success again this year. It is:
The Leamington Peace Festival is a free festival that aims to promote an understanding of international peace in all its aspects. It features two entertainment areas, a children's tent, a workshop tent, and over a hundred stalls representing charities, religious and philosophical groups, healers, pressure groups, craftspeople, and fair traders. The festival, which takes place in the Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa, has been running for nearly 25 years, and takes place on the weekend before the summer solstice.
We aim to promote an understanding of peace in all its aspects, including environmental harmony and living in cooperation with others: by enabling organisations and individuals to participate during the Festival weekend; by raising awareness of world and local issues; by giving individuals ways of becoming involved in the world around them; by providing an opportunity for local crafts people to demonstrate their skills and display their crafts; by promoting fair trade practices; and by encouraging local artists and entertainers to share their skills
It does exactly what it says, here is a taster of what you missed:
Marquee
Saturday June 15th
MC: Mitch
11.00 Lingo 3
11.45 Nigel Ward & Gerry Bailey
12.30 Peace talk – Palestinian Solidarity Campaign
12.35 The Notables
1.15 Overhung
2.15 Peace talk - GMOs
2.20 Journey's End
3.15 Firebrand
4.15 Peace talk - Penny Walker "Refugees"
4.20 Joe O'Donnell's Shkayla
5.15 The Fold
6.15 Souler Rhythm
7.15 Blues Rats
8.10 Jon Paul Seti Project
Sunday
11.30 Mitch Wainwright
12.15 Amaranth
1.05 Coope, Boyes & Simpson
1.00 Peace talk
“The Peace Festival – brought to you by volunteers”
– Louisa Davies and Anthony Milbourne
2.00 Firedaze
2.55 Peace talk Penny Walker – Global Issues
3.00 Blyth Power
4.00 Wish
5.00 Le Cod Afrique
all in all a fantastic event that brought the community together, and then sent them home again with a message of peace.
check their website for photo's and more details
The Leamington Peace Festival is a free festival that aims to promote an understanding of international peace in all its aspects. It features two entertainment areas, a children's tent, a workshop tent, and over a hundred stalls representing charities, religious and philosophical groups, healers, pressure groups, craftspeople, and fair traders. The festival, which takes place in the Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa, has been running for nearly 25 years, and takes place on the weekend before the summer solstice.
We aim to promote an understanding of peace in all its aspects, including environmental harmony and living in cooperation with others: by enabling organisations and individuals to participate during the Festival weekend; by raising awareness of world and local issues; by giving individuals ways of becoming involved in the world around them; by providing an opportunity for local crafts people to demonstrate their skills and display their crafts; by promoting fair trade practices; and by encouraging local artists and entertainers to share their skills
It does exactly what it says, here is a taster of what you missed:
Marquee
Saturday June 15th
MC: Mitch
11.00 Lingo 3
11.45 Nigel Ward & Gerry Bailey
12.30 Peace talk – Palestinian Solidarity Campaign
12.35 The Notables
1.15 Overhung
2.15 Peace talk - GMOs
2.20 Journey's End
3.15 Firebrand
4.15 Peace talk - Penny Walker "Refugees"
4.20 Joe O'Donnell's Shkayla
5.15 The Fold
6.15 Souler Rhythm
7.15 Blues Rats
8.10 Jon Paul Seti Project
Sunday
11.30 Mitch Wainwright
12.15 Amaranth
1.05 Coope, Boyes & Simpson
1.00 Peace talk
“The Peace Festival – brought to you by volunteers”
– Louisa Davies and Anthony Milbourne
2.00 Firedaze
2.55 Peace talk Penny Walker – Global Issues
3.00 Blyth Power
4.00 Wish
5.00 Le Cod Afrique
all in all a fantastic event that brought the community together, and then sent them home again with a message of peace.
check their website for photo's and more details
jmayler
Homepage:
www.peace festival.org.uk