Carnival’s Procession is back! Come and join in on 1st July.
Here’s how:
Carnival workshops for 2007 are now in full swing. There are lots of open workshops for the Procession to drop in to – come along and help celebrate our themes of fire, 1,000 years of arrivals to Oxfordshire and commemorating the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
1,000 years of Oxfordshire at the Scrapstore…
Be inspired to make a ‘wearable’ plane, train or boat to show how you might have arrived to Oxfordshire! The Orinoco Scrap Store, Peat Moors off the Slade www.oxorinoco.org 761113
Saturday 23rd June 11-4 drop in workshop,
Sunday 24th Orinoco open for ideas and scrap;
Saturday 30th June 11-4 drop in workshop. FREE.
Procession Puppets!
The newly created Barracks Lane Garden will be opening its’ doors, where Cath Connolly will help make huge figures for the procession! Sign posted from Barracks lane (top of Kenilworth Avenue, off Cowley Road)
DATE: Saturday 23rd June 10.30am - 1pm or 2pm – 4pm Drop ins. FREE
The Procession will leave the Plain at noon, setting a trail along the Cowley Road to SS Mary & John Churchyard.
It starts at the Plain end of the Cowley Road at 12 noon. It takes one hour to process and finishes at the large church called SS Mary and John opposite Divinity Road. It will turn into Leopold Street, so everyone can drop their costumes and instruments and then move away in a one way flow along Green Street back to the Carnival.
It would be really nice for the look of the Procession if the families from the drop-in workshops who made crowns could be immediately behind East Oxford Primary School, as they will also look similar. This will be towards the end of the line up, and will be signed on the street in a traffic cone, so please look out for that and assemble there in your costume. Remember to wear red, orange or yellow as fire colours!
If you went to the Orinoco workshop, look out for a signed traffic cone with “Orinoco Scrapstore Families” on it and that’s your slot – hopefully you will be nice and obvious from your costume and a steward will help you if you have difficulty.
The church grounds have a large stone memorial and this is a handy meeting point for families.
To book your place, and for more information on the procession and workshops contact Henrietta Gill henriettagill@yahoo.co.uk or phone 01865 200 780. Support your local school and come and watch at 12.
COWLEY ROAD CARNIVAL : JULY 1ST 12-6pm 2007
Oxfordshire’s largest community event!
1 comment:
Fantastic to hear the Carnival is coming. Best day out in the County - bring it on!
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