Celebrating South
Edinburgh
The South Edinburgh
Community
Carnival
".......a hub of
multi-cultural arts activities,
positively pulsating with new
talent......"
With live broadcasting
from the Radio Forth Roadshow and special guest appearances.
The jam packed programme
features:
Story-telling, Poetry
Reading, Theatre, Music and Song, with special guests 9-piece band
Mrigya all the way from Delhi.
Dance your socks off
in the International Dance Programme, choosing from Afro-Brazilian
Capoeira, Andalucian Flamenco, NY mambo/Salsa or Egyptian Belly Dancing.
This cracking day out
for all the family gives opportunities to participate in everything from
Hot Air Ballooning to Mrs Ben’s Dressing Up and Photography Salon for
children.
Don’t miss the Carnival
Procession,
alive with colour, excitement and rhythm, departing from
Gilmerton
Community Centre at 12:30pm.
Each year arts &
education charity out of the blue who run The Bongo Club take the fringe
to the fringes and this year is the biggest event yet.
Be There!
Saturday 11th August
2001
12 noon - 5.00pm
Gracemount H.S.
Playing Fields
 
with surprise guests
Scrapheap challenge
Indian Belly Dance
Flamenco Dance
Mambo/ Salsa Dance
Circus Skills
Kite making
Safe Play area
Dressing up
Storytelling tent
Games & races
Poetry readings
Arts & Displays
Balloons
Mini train
Bugs,
Beasties & buttercups
This
is the theme for this year’s South Edinburgh Procession which sets off
from Gilmerton Community Centre at 12.30 on Saturday 11th August.
We’ll take an easy
route along Newtoft Street to the crossroads at Captains Road and
Lasswade Road, then turn right into Lasswade Road - entering the
Carnival Ground at Kaimes Special School.
Look
out for the surprise performers along the way!
Throughout the
summer, there has been a busy arts activities programme leading up to
the Carnival and we are now in the final stages of completing all
costumes, puppets and creative characters for the colourful procession.
Pictured (left) are some of the colourful banners which will be on
display on the day.
We
would like to invite you to join in too!
Why not enter into
one of the categories below and win a prize? Just fill in the entry form
and send it back to the South Edinburgh Partnership, 13 Newtoft Street,
Edinburgh EH17 8RG by August 3rd and we’ll be in touch with more
information.
Prizes
will be awarded for the best dressed and decorated:
-
Scooter
-
Pram
-
Wheelchair
-
Bike
and
special prizes will be awarded for the:
PLEASE NOTE: there
will be no motorised vehicles in the procession other than by
arrangement with the organisers.
Good
luck, have fun and we’ll see you on the 11th!
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