Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Throw your hat in the ring to make the Harringay Festival go with a swing
With a following wind, it looks like we're going to be able to build a fantastic Harringay Street Festival this September 20th. I've been insisting that as well as support from the Council and traders, a significant element should be by and of "we the people". It'll be as great as we make it.
So if you'd like to join the team, let us know. Broadly at this stage the options are to offer help:
- in the months running up to the festival in helping to get things organised.
- on the day.
- in staging or using your contacts/know-how to arrange an event/interesting stall/street act on the day.
- by arranging a satellite event on the 18th or 19th. (Events organised under the banner of the festival probably by local groups Adam Coffman has already spoken to the schools, Railway Fields and the. Salisbury who are all interested in putting on some events/entertainment. We've also got various artists/art collectives, local historians and a host of other local groups and talent.)
So, roll-up, roll-up Harringay, get your hat in the ring.
So if you'd like to join the team, let us know. Broadly at this stage the options are to offer help:
- in the months running up to the festival in helping to get things organised.
- on the day.
- in staging or using your contacts/know-how to arrange an event/interesting stall/street act on the day.
- by arranging a satellite event on the 18th or 19th. (Events organised under the banner of the festival probably by local groups Adam Coffman has already spoken to the schools, Railway Fields and the. Salisbury who are all interested in putting on some events/entertainment. We've also got various artists/art collectives, local historians and a host of other local groups and talent.)
So, roll-up, roll-up Harringay, get your hat in the ring.
Tags for Forum Posts: Harringay Festival, festival, street festival
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Permalink Reply by WightmanPaul on
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What about a "Run the Ladder" running event involving running up and down the rungs, Wightman and Green Lanes to promote Healthy Living, Pedestrian Priority, Air Quality and Road Safety. There could be age category prizes and special invitations to Councillors to participate. Oh, and I nearly forgot, to raise the question of local democracy - who does 'run the ladder'?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Great Paul - is that an offer? How about an athletic version of beating the bounds to include both the Ladder and the Gardens - symbolising unity and all that?
BTW, there's a big running event in Finsbury Park on the same day. I don't have any details. Anne Barwick might.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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See some similar suggestions in WightmanPaul's 'LADDER CAR FREE DAY' post of Oct 3 last. Runs, walks, trad. games etc.
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Permalink Reply by TTTH on
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I could help from mid August (after dissertation submission) and on the day.
I'm involved with this through work at the moment:
http://camden.gov.uk/ccm/content/leisure/news/2009/march/kilburn-sp...
Maybe it will give you some ideas and I'm also getting involved in the Kilburn Festival in July/ August.
Sorry that I am a bit over committed. These things really do take a long time to prepare, and need a lot of committment which I cannot offer this year.
But in the final run up, I'm happy to help in any way I can.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren W on
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I've not spoken to my colleagues about this at all, but HTTP Gallery may be able to both stage something on the 18th/19th and/or sell some food on the day (I know it sounds like a strange thing for a gallery to do, but we're turning the gallery into a "feral trade cafe" for the summer, so we might want to set up a satellite version at the fest.) Anyway keep us in the loop, please!
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Sounds great. So, either something for the fringe events or something for the main stage on the Street day - grand!
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I know that Adam has already spoken to the Salisbury, so you might connect with him to see what that conversation was about. At some point it would be good to get someone coordinating the music side of things. Any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by folko ono on
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Personally I think this is a wonderful idea.
Much as I love living here, one of my major criticisms of Haringey as a borough is that, particularly in terms of live music, it feels as though there is little less going on here than in, for example, our neighbouring borough of Hackney. As a musician I find this particularly frustrating, as music venues here seem few and far between - the Salisbury is the only place I would count as actually being in Harringay (and they could be making so much more of the fact that they have a music licence and big back room for putting on gigs!) but in terms of the whole borough it's pretty much just there, the Music Palace in Crouch End and Viva Viva on Hornsey High Street - there may be more I'm unaware of, of course, but if I'm correct, then three isn't very many (there is also Alexandra Palace, of course, but that doesn't count - I doubt anyone on grassroots level could get a gig there!)
I'm one of a small group of musicians living here in Harringay (in wider Haringey, I know even more). I've put the idea of this street festival to my friends and I think it's definitely something we'd be interested in being involved with.
My friend Al (in a band called Own Little World) recently put on a night at the Salisbury a couple of Saturdays ago (14th March) which I think a couple of people here were at - I've put it to them that they might like to do something like that again. And I have another friend (Rob, from Tall Stories) who runs a night called Top Tramps at Viva Viva every last Friday of the month - he might be interested in putting something on too.
So yes. I guess it's a little way off still but thought I'd pitch in with our interest!
Best of luck to everybody :)
--Helene
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Oh and I should add, although not technically 'Harringay', I am pretty good friends with the owner of Viva Viva and I'm pretty sure they would be interested in hosting related event (if Rob doesn't organise a Top Tramps night there). I guess we could always spread related fringe events over a few days, not necessarily only the 20th.
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