Feel good festival in Headingley
A community which came together in adversity is to stage its eighth feel-good festival.
Celebrate Headingley was launched in 2001 as a fundraiser for a £2,500 legal bill. The pressure group Headingley Network had lost its fight against a liquor licence for the Box cafe-bar on Otley Road.
The event was a success and now is an institution and has a long programme of events planned, mainly between September 12 and 14.
Spokesman Richard Wilcocks said: "Headingley is more than just an area of houses in multiple occupation. It is a community with other dimensions."
The centre of the festival will be a barbecue at the New Headingley Club, St Michael's Road, on Sunday, September 14 from 4 to 8pm. Tickets at £4 are available from Oxfam book shop.
"This is an occasion for social networking," said Mr Wilcocks. "It is best to come around 5pm. There will be live music from the Midnight Plumbers and North Leeds Jazz Orchestra."
Tickets
Celebrations start on Thursday, September 11 (7.30 to 9.30pm) with wine tasting from around the world at the Bowery, a new cafe at the corner of Shaw Lane. Call at the cafe to book tickets at £10.
Later attractions include poetry, jazz, an art trail, deli market, brass band, cream teas, ceilidh, and sand art and henna hand painting.
The Bowery and Headingley Library will put on events for children on September 13 and 14, such as jewellery making, sculpture, face painting, Indian dancing, a Dr Who event, and arts and drumming workshops.
The Theatre of the Dales, a Headingley-based group, will perform two plays in Dagmar Wood near Hyde Park Corner, on the same weekend.
One, Duffers is about Arthur Ransome, the Headingley-born author, and the second, I Was A Stranger, is about Prince Alamayou, a young Abyssinian royal who was brought to Britain and died of pneumonia in Headingley.
An art day in Cardigan Triangle on Sunday, September 21, will round off the celebrations. Nearly 20 artists will exhibit in more than a dozen homes and venues.
Posted: Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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