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Join the Birds Eye display at Beeston Festival
Yorkshire Life Aquatic are teaming up with Beeston Festival to create a “Birds Eye” View display using people to create giant words and patterns in the park.
We are looking for people to join in with us to make this happen at Beeston Festival on Saturday 6 June 2015 in Cross Flatts Park in Beeston. We are hoping that you can come along and bring your friends.
Who we are:
We are Yorkshire Life Aquatic (a dry land synchronised swimming team based in Yorkshire) and friends and our mission is to create with festival goers a “birds-eye’ view display to celebrate and send a hopeful message for people using words in synchronisation.
We want to spell out the words “Close the Gap’ as a message of hope for our communities. Close the gap – for the common good of every person.
For this to have the most effect we need people as many as possible, the activity is open to all ages and abilities.
We welcome everyone to join us. The highlights will be captured from above with a camera and mini helicopter device. We would like to evolve a “birds-eye message” of hope and joy to celebrate communities everywhere at Beeston Festival.
When:
We will begin assembling people at 12 and the activity starts at 1pm.
Come along and/or share this with your networks and/or invite along friends/ groups of people you work with.
Feel free to get in touch via email zoe@yorkshirelifeaquatic.co.uk or telephone Zoe on 07739 456156.
This post first appeared on South Leeds Life.
2015 programme published
The programme for the 2015 festival has been published.
Copies will be distributed via schools after half term and will be available on the day in the park.
You can download a copy here: Beeston Festival Programme 2015
Come and make some art at Beeston Festival
With less than three weeks to go to the 2015 Beeston Festival, sponsored by Unity Homes & Enterprise, everything is in place for another memorable day of fun activities, music and food.
Cross Flatts Park will be transformed on Saturday 6 June between 12-5pm. As well as the usual mix of live music, dance, sport, children’s activities, a bazaar full of stalls and a fun fair, this year’s event will have an accent on art.
British Art Show 8 is coming to Leeds in October 2015 and to celebrate the festival organisers have teamed up with a range of arts organisations to bring some fun activities to the park.
Pyramid of Arts will invite you to help them build woollen cobwebs amongst the trees; Basement Arts will be showing the short films made by Beeston residents with help from Leeds Beckett University; Andrew and Toby from East Street Arts, currently living on the Garnets, will be inviting you to help design a totem pole for the park.
Meanwhile dry land swimming team Yorkshire Life Aquatic who will help festival goers create a “birds-eye’ view display to celebrate and send a hopeful message for people using words, patterns and dry land swimming. The results will be captured on camera by a small quadricopter drone.
Staff from The Tetley art gallery will be helping festival goers create a sculpture on the day, whilst elsewhere in the park another graffiti mural will be created on the wall of the Watsonian Pavilion.
On the sporting front there will be wrestling displays and Leeds Roller Dolls. There will be plenty to get involved with from football rugby and cricket through to golf and table tennis. Or perhaps you’d like to try The Works’ BMX track, or the climbing wall?
In the Bazaar, you can browse amongst the hundred stalls offering food, plants, jewellery, bric-a-brac and information. Throw in cream teas, live music and donkey rides and it’s looking like another great day of fun.
As well as Unity Homes and Enterprise, the festival is sponsored by Leeds Federated Housing, Unison and Citu; and receives financial support from the Inner South Community Committee and from the Councillors of Beeston & Holbeck and City & Hunslet wards.
For more information go to www.beestonfestival.org.uk, www.facebook.com/beestonfestival, or follow them on Twitter @BeestonFestival.
This post first appeared on South Leeds Life.
Date set for 6th June 2015
The committee can confirm that the 2015 festival will take place on Saturday 6th June.
For a number of year’s we held the festival on the second Saturday in June, but from this year onwards it will be held on first Saturday in June. We have changed this to reduce our costs and improve the fun fair offer to festival goers.
We will be announcing details of stall booking arrangements and our first confirmed acts in the coming weeks, as well as a new look to the festival’s branding.
So watch this space!
Annual Report published
Following our Annual General Meeting last Saturday we now publish the Annual Report and Accounts for 2014.
Our officers for the next year are:
- Chair: Cllr Angela Gabriel
- Secretary: Jeremy Morton
- Treasurer: Ewan Mitchell
Download our Annual Report: BF annual report and accounts 2014
Join us for the festival AGM
Beeston Festival will hold its Annual General Meeting on Saturday 27 September at Hillside on Beeston Road, starting at 2:30pm.
As well as reviewing the last year, we will be looking at plans for the 2015 festival and considering a re-branding design makeover. Plus we’ll have tea and cake!
Why not join us?
