2007 Maindee Festival

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EVENTS PROGRAMME
Time	Venue	Artist / Event (click blue links for info)
12am - 1pm	See parade route map	The amazing Metamorphosis Street Parade
I pm	Newport Rugby Club	Parade finale, featuring Batatân and all the beautiful parade figures
1pm - 6pm	Metamorphosis tent	Festival Photographic exhibition – “Newport Metamorphosis” See the changing face of Newport at this special Festival exhibition. 3pm – Presentation by Ron McCormick.
1pm - 6pm	Unison World and Jazz Stage	1pm Newport Community Choir 1.30pm Dreamcatcher 2.15pm Dhotara Shilply Gushti 3.15pm Baghdaddies 4.30pm Newport Gospel Choir 5.00pm Wonderbrass
12pm - 6pm	Club Clwb Youth Tent	12.00pm: DJ Mike, DJ Adam and the Prince of Bhangra 1.00pm ; DJ Tension, DJ Dij and DJ Lee 2.00pm : Youth Showcase – Steet, Breaks, MCs and Vocals from Stow Hill, Maesglas, Gaer, Pill, Somerton, Ringland and St Julians. 4.00pm: DJs MCs Dance and Drumming with Desi-Swat Throughout the session there will be performances from beat box and body percussionist Kalim
2pm - 5pm	Rodney Hall (clubhouse) Riverfront Youth Dance Groups: Meets in the Arts Centre on Mondays and Thursdays. Have performed in Dancing in the Bay, Maindee and Crow Point Festivals and regularly at the Riverfront with professional companies. Kwam’s Duffryn Break Dancers : Meet on a Wednesday in Duffryn Community Centre. Have taken part in numerous festivals including Maindee and Crowpoint. They have won a number of break dancing competitions. Somerton: Meets each week. Now grown from a single “older” group to include both tots and middle groups. Have performed in festivals in Cardiff and Newport. Blitz Boys: Practices in Ringland on Tuesdays and Fridays. Competing soon in World Championships in Germany. Jade & Lauren: Originally from Gaer Youth Dance Group – now part of Riverfront Youth. attending classes twice a week and training for their Open College Network (OCN) certificates in street dance.	Dance 2007 Animateur: Sam Hindle Compere: Jools Constant "Branching out" by Red Wave Dance featuring Carl Butcher Riverfront Youth – Show me the money Riverfront Younger Youth – Gwen Stefani mix Somerton (Tots Group) Blitz Boys – Gold medal junior breakers from Ringland Riverfront Youth – Missy remix Somerton (Middle Group) Kwam Breakers – remix Jade & Lauren (duet) Somerton (Older Group) Riverfront Youth – Kaz remix Somerton (Tots Group) Riverfront Younger Youth – Aint no man Kwan Breakers – Remix 2 Somerton (Middle Group) Riverfront Youth – Rock this party Blitz Boys –more breaks from E Newport Sommerton (Older Group)
1pm - 6pm	Mentro Allen Tent	Climbing Wall and a range of traditional and not so traditional field events to enter: Space Hopper racing, Egg and Spoon etc!
1pm - 6pm	Workshop Tents	Arts and craft workshops provided by Newport Arts Development Team and presented by leading local artists

Forget the rain its gone away. Have some fun at this great free day.

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