Here comes the Summer...
do this summer
Close your eyes and let your finger choose… Have a Big Lunch
This year’s big lunch is scheduled for on Sunday 18th July 2010. It’s a one-day get together with your neighbours. The idea began last year at The Eden project with the aim of bringing communities together. It can be anything from a simple lunch to a full-blown street party with DJs and a hog roast. You’ll enjoy it. Really. Food, music and laughter tastes, sounds and feels better with others. And you could even raise money for a local charity while you’re at it. Visit www.thebiglunch.com for more information and take a step towards finding out how many good, talented and interesting people there are in your neighbourhood who all feel the same way you do.
Dance and sing
Enrol your tot in a summer session with High-Low Quick-Slow who are
running holiday sessions at Osgodby village institute on Wednesday 4th August ( pirate themed session) and Wednesday 18th August (story book themed session) There’ll be singing, dancing and lots of fun! For more information, including times of available sessions, contact Anne 01757 611234 or Sarah 01757 707743. www. highlowquickslow.co.uk
Enjoyaball
Enjoy-a-Ball will be running Summer Camps in the holidays, so get your kids enrolled to burn off some energy. Each day the children will rotate through a programme playing sports and active games, arts and crafts and a quiet room with games and books. Camps run W/B 9th Aug, Monday, Thursday and Friday & W/B16th Aug, Monday, Thursday and Friday from 10.00am 2.00pm at a cost of £15 per day. To book contact Lesley Reid on 07789 861 108 or 08452 26 26 94 . Camps do fill up so don’t miss the boat!
Festivals - Get out your flares & paint your face - it’s festival season.
The Galtres Festival of Fun which has taken on a Wonderland theme for 2010 will be packed with amazing things to do for families and young people.
There’ll be Mad Hatter’s tea parties, a hall of looking glasses and dressing up clothes, giant toadstools and Alice and the White Rabbit will all be there for the weekend. There’ll also be more than 100 bands including The Lightning Seeds and The Beat, a huge beer and cider festival, and a feast of good local food too. The festival tales place over the bank holiday weekend 28 - 29 Aug at Crayke and tickets are on sale now. ‘We’re offering creative and learning experiences that reflect our wish to keep the family at the centre of our work,’ says organiser Liz Pocklington. ‘For the first time we are showcasing some super talented young musicians with an exciting mixed music programme that’s sure to inspire visitors to get involved – we’re especially excited about professional young musicians Junk Drums who are offering a workshop is for 8-16 year olds.
This year sees the 27th Cawood Craft Festival and promises to be the biggest and best one yet. Perfect for families, the festival showcases traditional arts and crafts including clothes, bags, jewellery, woodwork, gifts, glasswork, pictures and toys. Children can enjoy a steam train ride; donkey rides; bouncy castle; live music; punch and judy; stiltwalkers and children’s entertainer ‘Marvel the Great’. The Scarecrow trail will be back this year too so the kids can grab a village map and enjoy hunting down all the wacky scarecrows displayed around the village. There’ll be plenty of local food to tickle your taste buds with local cheeses, honey, ice-cream, meat, preserves and even traditional sweets. This year activities, stalls and events are spread wider than ever before as the Cawood Caravan Park will be taking part, hosting the brand new Antique Stall market area and offering a range of bar food, drink and live entertainment for the whole family. The weekend kicks off from Cawood Primary School at 11.30am on Saturday 28th August, with carnival band Battuta heading towards the Vicarage where the official opening takes place at 12 noon with Phil Bodmer from BBC Look North. The festival finishes on Monday 30th Aug and runs from 10.30 – 5pm each day. Adults £4 each, accompanied children under 16 go free. Car parking free. www.cawoodcraftfestival.co.uk
‘We’ve also got Bollywood dancing, a song writing workshop, storytelling, dressing up and of course you can catch Alice having tea.’ The Galtres Festival is supported by Welcome to Yorkshire - www.yorkshire.com. Tickets sold out last year and are expected to again this year, so get yours early - visit the website at www.galtresfestival.org.uk to buy online and find out programme details.
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