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Community Festivals and Carnivals
Emsworth Festival Markets
The Emsworth Food Festival has been recently redesigned to
reflect it's growing popularity. It has transformed from three
days of a weekend in September each year to the Emsworth Festival
Markets - four smaller events throughout the year. The
festival markets will have up to 40 stalls selling goods in South
Street car park.
The first festival market is on Sunday 14th December
2009 and will have a Christmas theme.
For further details
please click here for the Emsworth Festival
Markets website.
Havant Literary Festival
Friday 25th September until Sunday 4th October
The 2009 Havant Literary Festival will feature amongst others
Fay Weldon, Maggie Gee, Stella Duffy, Louis de Bernieres & the
Antonius Players, Simon Brett, Ira Lightman, Michael McCarthy, Ian
Whybrow, Sandra Horn, Lucy Beresford, Sally Nicholls and Joseph
Delaney.
There will be theatre, talks, signings, street players, a book
sale, workshops, poetry, children’s events, a water walk, A book
Fair, exhibitions, a ghost walk and Shedman, the poet in a shed and
so much more!!
Visit the official Festival website
for full programme, artists and venues >> (external
site)
Tickets from Havant Arts Centre tel: 023 9247 2700 www.havantartscentre.co.uk
Hayling Island Carnival
An annual charity event each August organised by the Lions
Club since 1953. The day includes Stalls, Arena Events, Baby
Show, Dog Show, Children’s Fancy Dress, Races and Games, Float
Procession and Firework Display. For further information
please contact Marilyn Skennerton on 023 9246 2858 or
click here to visit the Hayling Island
Carnival website.
Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival
This annual event transforms Hayling Island during
festival fortnight in August. Scarecrow Festivals are held in
a number of small towns and villages across the UK and are a fun
way to involve the community and also to provide some stimulus to
local tourism.
The Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival was set up to provide
more activities which could involve all sections of the community,
followings an assessment by the Hayling Market Town Initiative
(known as Hayling’s BEST) and was recently nominated for a
South-East region Market Town Awards.
Leigh Park Carnival
Leigh Park Carnival is an annual community event
held on Stockheath Common. It starts with a street procession
which travels through Leigh Park to Stockheath Common where there
are community stalls and entertainment. Leigh Park's carnival
was revived in 2003 after a break of 28 years, to bring together a
wide range of ages and different groups on the park
Come look and see, make and do - nothing is
more inspiring than meeting the people who make the work!
This borough wide celebration of visual arts, crafts and
creativity and celebration of local talent is features the work of
artists and craftmakers living or working in the borough.
The May Days Arts Trail is an annual visual arts open studios
event that will take place in artists' homes, studios and community
venues across the Borough between 8th - 23rd May 2010, over three
weekends.
Sat 8 - Sun 9 May
(Emsworth)
Sat 15- Sun 16 May (Hayling
Island)
Sat 22- Sun 23 May (Havant, Leigh
Park and Waterlooville)
Entries for the May Days Arts Trail 2010 are now closed. If
you are interested in participating in May Days Art Trail 2010
please email
art@havant.gov.uk or call 023
9244 6421
Please note: The Emsworth Museum exhibition runs from Saturday
1 May to Monday 31 May, museum opening times are Saturdays and Bank
Holidays 10.30am-4.30pm and Sundays 2.30pm–4.30pm except on Sunday
9 May when the museum will be open 10-30am-4.30pm.
Staunton Live!
Havant Borough Council has worked in partnership with Staunton
Country Park for several years to produce Staunton Live! - an
annual summer programme of free family music events in Leigh Park
Gardens. This event combines the beautiful setting of Leigh
Park Gardens, with a great line up of live musical talent, face
painting, a barbecue and refreshments
This year saw Staunton Live! 2008 go out in style, with great
music from The Indigo Pilots, Saturday Night Beaver and Chinese
Elvis. The Mayor of Havant raised the Olympic flag in celebration
of the handover of the Olympics from Beijing and Horizon Leisure
Trust was there to promote sport and leisure facilities in the
borough.
The Waterlooville Music Festival 2009 takes place from Saturday
13th to Sunday 21st June 2009. The festival is organised by St
George's Church to increase the profile of the town. This will be
the fourth season of the Waterlooville Music Festival and with its
growing reputation undoubtedly this year will see another exciting
and varied programme of music. Please click here to
view the 2009 programme.
Daytime events are free, and evening events are £5, with tickets
available for purchase on http://www.stgeorgesnews.org/wmfboxoffice.
The 2008 June festival aimed to increase the profile of
music in the town, promote St. George's Church as a place for the
whole community, celebrate local talent and bring together
a variety of musical styles and performances.