2005 maindee festival
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Parade |
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12.00pm Parade starts from Maindee Primary / VIPs assemble at Community House 12.30pm Parade into Llanwern Street and Marlborough Road, VIPs join parade at end of Eton Road 12.45pm Into Harrow Road, back onto Corporation Road & down Grafton Road into Rugby Club (1pm) 1.10pm Festival opening at Information Tent / Arena by John Griffiths AM |
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Festival Site Programme |
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Unison World Tent Top right hand end of the site Sit down and enjoy an afternoon of world music Co-ordinator: Becky Wilson |
1-6pm Spiral Brothers World DJs & festival dressers.1.30pm Dhotara Shilpy Gushti Bangladeshi folk, featuring Rumena 2.45pm Balkanatics East European wedding brass and percussion masters 4pm Grassroots Theatre Theatre for development from Bulawayo. 5pm Mabon Welsh Celtic folk supremos |
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Art Grafitti |
2pm onwards urban art by Cruel Vapours |
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Club Clwb Large tent on corner of bowling green Co-ordinator: Liz Driscoll |
1pm 1.25pm Riverfront Youth Theatre 1.30pm 2pm Dolman Youth Theatre present " Whose Line is it anyway"2pm 2.35pm Duffryn Singers and MCs 2.45pm 3pm Alway Crew Singers and MCs 3.10pm 3.30pm Bboy Breakdancers (Rivercrew, H2O, Uprock) 3.30pm 4pm DJ Workshop led by DJ Andre 4.pm - 6pm Reggae, Garage and Hiphop DJ sets |
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Arena In front of workshop tents and info tent. Informal arena space. Co-ordinator: Bob Pontin |
1.10pm Festival Opening (John Griffiths AM)1.20pm Newport Brass Band 2pm Jawahir Newport-based tribal dance group 2.30 Tug-of-War 3pm Newport Sea Cadets 3.30pm American Football demonstration 4pm Chip pan fire safety demonstration By South Wales Fire Service 4.30pm Marcus presents Marcus Monkey street stunts and martial arts |
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Faces of the Festival Photographer: Rhys Webber |
1.30pm onwards in the Yurt: 2006 will be the 10th festival. To help celebrate this and to document this years event , Rhys Webber is photographing "faces of the festival" all afternoon based in the yurt by info tent. |
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Dance 2005 In Rodney Hall. Co-ordinator: Sam Hindle |
2pm 4.30pm - Dance performances by: Riverfront Youth, Moorland Cheerleaders, Dennis Breakers, Amanda Ellis Newport Centre Street Dance, Kazs DD, St Julians Dance, Kwan Breakdancers, Bettws YG J-Lo |
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Tipi Storytelling Encourage children to ask Richard to tell them a story |
2pm onwards Find Richard Berry for a story. Richard will be based in the Tipi. He will be telling stories all afternoon to anyone who comes in and sits down.This is a quiet and friendly event, that will suit younger children, and all people who like stories. |
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Workshops Most held in the workshop tent, opposite the info tent Co-ordinator: John Hallam |
2.30pm - West African percussion workshop led by Mundaa Sam3.15pm - Community circus workshop led by Sideshow Hogi 4pm - Balkan / jazz brass and percussion workshop led by Balkantics 4.45pm - Dance and movement workout led by Sam Hindle (in Rodney Hall) |
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Evening Elements at Newport City Live Arena |
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There are free tickets for volunteers, performers etc & £2 discount chitties for all on site. Encourage general sales on site (from info tent) Co-ordinator: Aled Singleton |
NCLA Clarence Place; 7.30pm 2am; Tickets £7 (£5 conc) 8pm : Grassroots Theatre stage performance9pm: Fashion show by Naz Syed 10pm: Mabon 11.15pm: Secret Garden until 2am plus circus, festival fallout and mystery band |
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Dance Grassroots Parade Balkanatics Evening Gig Dhotara Shilpy Gushti Mabon Workshops Stalls