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The 2012 Festival

Planning for the 2012 Festival is already underway. An Event Partner meeting is being held on Thursday 8th December at 7pm. Further information and partner application forms are available here.

Streatham Festival 2011 Celebrates its 10th Year!

The festival this year attracted thousands to the Big Day Out and finished the week with a packed World Sounds Concert. The official photographs of many of the events are now online.

Streatham Festival celebrated its ten year anniversary at the beginning of July with nine days of packed programme celebrating local talent in the arts and with the over-arching theme of ‘Earth’. Kicking off the week, nearly 6,000 people visited the top of the common at the Big Day Out to listen to Merry McCloud, Soul Intent and local favorites Yaaba Funk, who really got the party started!

Have a look at the video posted on youtube to see one gentleman really enjoying the day. The stalls, food and drinks stands and the other entertainment including the art workshops, the enchanted forest, the giant pig and the pedal-powered cinema were all a big hit with our many visitors.

Other highlights of the week included open air Shakespeare in the Rookery, sublime Jazz at the Hideaway, Klesmer Klub at South London Synagogue, comedy at the Waterfront, an array of glorious classical concerts and a heritage walk to discover the unknown Streatham.

The finale, as always, was the World Sounds concert, headlined this year by the fabulous Grupo Lokito and supported by Harare. One concert-goer described the night: “It was a fantastic atmosphere in there, lots of us packed into the church to hear the concert…once the music started, within minutes everyone was up on the floor dancing…”

Chix, Chair, Streatham Festival Association comments: “The festival was a huge success, with thousands of people coming along to a wide variety of events throughout the week and enjoying all the artistic talent that Streatham has to offer. It wouldn’t be possible without the dedication and hard work of our wonderful volunteers and I would like to extend a very big thank you to all of them who gave their time and effort this year – our 10th anniversary.

Chix continues: “I am delighted to announce that we have signed up a number of residents to join our 100 Club – a hugely important part of our fundraising initiative as we look towards Streatham Festival 2012″.

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