Help us make our festival fun for all (From Worcester News)

Help us make our festival fun for all

4:50pm Tuesday 9th March 2010 in

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PREPARATIONS have already begun for a Worcester community’s second festival.

Organisers are looking to make this year’s St Peter’s Festival even more of a success than last October’s event.

They are hoping to get more people involved in the planning of this year’s festival, which has been provisionally booked for the first weekend of October half-term.

“This meeting is hot on the heels of what I thought was a pretty successful 2009 festival,” said the Rev Duncan Ballard, who, along with Bob Jenkins, Paul Sutton, Martin Hodson and Max Allsup, organised the extravaganza. “We are trying to put on the second of what now is a tradition.”

The meeting at St Peter’s Village Hall was the first step in making this year’s event much more of a community effort.

By holding consultations this early, they hope the festival will be a showcase for local people, their talents and their interests.

“We’d like to make the festival very different in many ways,” said Mr Sutton.

“We were always very much of the view that we wanted it to be as inclusive as possible. Inevitably with a first run it was driven by a few individuals.

“We want to try to make the structure of the festival much more open this year. We are very aware that we, as a group, are very blokeish and that’s not always a good thing.”

Ideas already being mooted for the festival include ballroom dancing, children’s and adults’ choirs and a twist on last year’s lantern parade.

“I hope it will repeat the spectacular success of 2009 and give the people of St Peter’s lots of exciting ways to share their skills and enjoy the arts,” said Mr Sutton.

People interested in getting involved should contact Paul Sutton on 01905 855436.