2008 Maindee Festival

EVENTS PROGRAMME

Time

Venue

Artist / Event (click blue links for info)

12am - 1pm

See parade  route map 

Don’t miss the beautiful “wildlife” street parade

I pm

Newport Rugby Club

Parade finale, featuring Batatân and all the beautiful parade figures

1pm - 6pm

Festival Photography Exhibition

Festival Photographic exhibition – “Wildlife” See all the entries for this year’s open photography competiton. 3pm – Presentation of awards.

 

1pm - 6pm

 

Community Tent 

Relax and enjoy an afternoon of diverse local talent ranging from the amazing football skills of   Abbas Farid to the haunting beauty of Cascappella’s singing.

Our headline band, En Masse, finish the afternoon in Afro-brazillian style!

It’s a great lineup with lots to enjoy in every performance.

 

1.00pm  Parade finale and festival opening by Deputy Mayor   

1.45pm  Dhotara Shilpy Gushti - traditional Bengali folk artists

2.30pm   Abbas Farid  - UK champion football freestyler

2.55pm   Batatân - Newport’s colourful street percussion crew

3.20pm   Anish Katecha – wonderful Bollywood singer

3.50pm  Urban Circle Showcase  

4.15pm  Luke Doherty & Enzo -  blues rock guitar from young talent  

4.45pm  Cascapella - Newport community apacella choir

5.15pm  En Masse -  Six dancers + six percussionists adds up to one fantastic headline band to close this year’s Festival

 

 

2pm - 5pm

 

Rodney Youth Stage

An afternoon of the best of Newport’s young talent, hosted by the wonderful Shai.

note: as this is a young person’s stage, please do not bring any alcohol into the Hall.

 

 

2.00pm:  Riverfront Youth Dance. See the best of Newport’s street   

               Dancers presented by our Festival Choreographer: Sam Hindle

 

2.30pm:  Urban Circle Productions.  Newport’s top youth culture crew

               present Blitz Boys, UC Dancers, Kallum, Emmy, Binti, and Sly T.

 

3.30pm: Desi Swat DJ Session  Get up and move as we finishing off the

              afternoon with a session from Maindee- based DJ and percussion

              collective, the amazing Desi Swat

1pm - 6pm

Mentro Allan Site Events

Climbing Wall and a range of traditional, and not so traditional, field events to enter: Space Hopper racing, Egg and Spoon etc!

1pm - 6pm

Arts Workshop Tents

Join in our free arts and craft workshops presented by leading local artists

Go wild at the Maindee Festival - see you on Saturday!