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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Festival Day - Perfect Day !!

 

Sunshine & 18 degrees max today. Stalls: 116. More food. More live music. Two stages. Kids crafts. Open 12 noon - 6pm.

 

9 months in the planning.

 

The people making it happen and street scene 8am Sunday 18th Sept 2011 (click on images for detail if you want);

 

[ NOTE: Now other post festival chat & photos being added as well ]

 

Rob Chau; event organiser (Harringay Traders)

 

Shef Mehmet; event organiser (Harringay Traders)

 

Andy Newman; event organiser (Garden Residents Assoc or GRA)

 

Local police

 

Veolia cleaners

 

' V ' = volunteer (ie. no pay!) Some are council employees

 

Volunteers

 

Rob Chau's sister, helping out (with list of 116 stalls). Rob's wife and son were also helping out this morning.

 

Local resident (of 35 years!) Pemberton Rd

 

Looking North (outside Railway Fields)

 

Salisbury stage; programme of events

 

Old Ale Emporium stage; programme of events

 

 

There's a 'green' angle to this year's festival (as well as food and music). Hand prints from local school children. School choir singing Salisbury stage later.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Andy Newman on September 23, 2011 at 20:53
some more
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Permalink Reply by Andy Newman on September 23, 2011 at 20:55

Here are some from the Junk Model day in the Community Garden on the Saturday Morning

that I took 

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Permalink Reply by Andy Newman on September 23, 2011 at 20:57
Junk Modeling again
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Permalink Reply by matt on September 23, 2011 at 21:15
All that effort!



Then things just fall into place;



as if by magic!

Grand job Andy
PS. Don't forget to pop up to the roof garden at NHP, if you haven't already. They always need new parents.
3dabemynv2wykPermalink Reply by 3dabemynv2wyk on September 24, 2011 at 16:43
what is NHP?
Permalink Reply by paddyk on September 24, 2011 at 17:27

 

although the idea of the street festival is good, the execution was less so, there needs to be more planning of location, set up, comprehnsive amenities , decoration, types of stalls and variety, events, chill out place, green space, basic services. basically a complete overhaul is needed,  it requires a bit more imagination

 

 

http://www.ehow.com/video_2379598_organize-community-festival.html

Permalink Reply by Salsa on September 24, 2011 at 18:52
here here! i think although it was good, it needs to develop. More seating and decorations would go a very long way. It would improve the atmosphere and overall experience. Not sure where the budget for the seating and decorations would come from though.... maybe lack of budget is why they weren't there...
Permalink Reply by Louise Nazeraj on September 25, 2011 at 8:18
I am staggered by your comments and quite how you think it's OK to post such things when so many people have worked so hard for free, to provide something wonderful for our community. Constructive feedback is of course welcomed but to say the event was poorly executed and lacked imagination is just absolute rubbish and I speak as a professional events organiser who knows just how much effort even something on a fraction of this scale takes to pull off, let alone an event that attracts 18,000 people.  (I was not involved in the delivery of this festival but would have been proud to have been). You seem to be alluding to an event of Glastonbury scale that charges hundreds of pounds entry and has been running for years.  The Harringay festival is a free community event produced on a shoestring budget that is in its second year and will no doubt grow and develop along the way with help and feedback from those that enjoyed it. 
Permalink Reply by sparkle on September 24, 2011 at 17:54
North Harringay Primary School
Permalink Reply by Liz on September 24, 2011 at 20:21
What might be useful is if examples of places where you think a street festival has been better executed rather than how to videos so that organisers can see what sort of things you have in mind, although please bear in mind, as Sally says, that everything has to be paid for and the festival is run on a shoestring budget.
Permalink Reply by paddyk on September 25, 2011 at 14:27
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on September 25, 2011 at 16:19
pk, sheep racing may be about 130 years too late for Harringay Festival. Even in Roscommon, with all hospitals closed down, a patient-on-stretcher or trolley race to Galway's UCGH might be more imaginatively up-to-date than a sheep run.

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