Summer Sundae
Summer Sundae Weekender
Not known if it will return
Size: 7,000
Location: Leicester
A message on the web site says
“Having taken a hiatus for 2013, we have worked hard on a number of different options to try and make the festival viable moving forward. Sadly we have found that running a city-centre event of this size with such an array of entertainment and professional production standards is just not possible in the current economic climate.”
Read more on the Summer Sundae web site.
Camille Augarde: “One of the cleanest, most child-friendly festivals going, the closest you’ll get to an illegal high here will be from eating too much ice-cream.”
Family and Quiet camping is available.
In 2011, the Kidzone was curated by The Spark Children’s Arts Festival and enabled the younger members of the audience to partake in Victorian games, create disguises, embark on treasure hunts, watch the ever popular old fashioned Punch and Judy show and much, much more.
www.summersundae.com
Festival Workshops – junk4funk
junk4funk makes Musical Instruments out of rubbish such as pizza boxes and plastic bottles. junk4funk runs workshops in schools and festivals across the country, and would love to be involved in more.
I had the opportunity to interview the owner/director, who wishes to bring his mix of craft, music and recycling to more music festivals. Read more…
One4Ruby – the heartmelting tale of a festival kid
www.one4ruby.com
www.one4ruby.comParent or no parent, it’s hard not to be moved by the story of Ruby Lambert.
Ruby is a little 7 year old girl in rehabilitation following a life-changing brain injury arising from her collapse from a previously-undiagnosed heart disorder at school in April 2010. Read more…
Summer Sundae Weekender
Not known if it will return
Size: 7,000
Location: Leicester
A message on the web site says
“Having taken a hiatus for 2013, we have worked hard on a number of different options to try and make the festival viable moving forward. Sadly we have found that running a city-centre event of this size with such an array of entertainment and professional production standards is just not possible in the current economic climate.”
Read more on the Summer Sundae web site.
Camille Augarde: “One of the cleanest, most child-friendly festivals going, the closest you’ll get to an illegal high here will be from eating too much ice-cream.”
Family and Quiet camping is available.
In 2011, the Kidzone was curated by The Spark Children’s Arts Festival and enabled the younger members of the audience to partake in Victorian games, create disguises, embark on treasure hunts, watch the ever popular old fashioned Punch and Judy show and much, much more.
www.summersundae.com
One4Ruby – the heartmelting tale of a festival kid
www.one4ruby.com
Parent or no parent, it’s hard not to be moved by the story of Ruby Lambert.
Ruby is a little 7 year old girl in rehabilitation following a life-changing brain injury arising from her collapse from a previously-undiagnosed heart disorder at school in April 2010. Read more…
Festival Workshops – junk4funk
junk4funk makes Musical Instruments out of rubbish such as pizza boxes and plastic bottles. junk4funk runs workshops in schools and festivals across the country, and would love to be involved in more.
I had the opportunity to interview the owner/director, who wishes to bring his mix of craft, music and recycling to more music festivals. Read more…