Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Festival - First of Many More to Come
Councillor Canver, Chair of the Green Lanes Strategy Group, sent a message round to local groups last night welcoming their role in making the festival a success and looking to a future where the festival is a feature of Harringay's year:
"The festival showed what a fantastic community spirit there is in Harringay Green Lanes and it is a true testament to what can be achieved when everyone works together. This type of event has been much sought after in the local community and it was a great tribute to everyone involved that it was such a success. I hope that this is the first of many more to come!", wrote Cllr Canver.
Cllr. Canver also offered her thanks to the residents' groups, traders, staff, other councillors and the police for their time and effort in making the festival such a success.
"The festival showed what a fantastic community spirit there is in Harringay Green Lanes and it is a true testament to what can be achieved when everyone works together. This type of event has been much sought after in the local community and it was a great tribute to everyone involved that it was such a success. I hope that this is the first of many more to come!", wrote Cllr Canver.
Cllr. Canver also offered her thanks to the residents' groups, traders, staff, other councillors and the police for their time and effort in making the festival such a success.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I hope her pot noodles were still hot when she eventually got somewhere she could sit down and eat them. Probably in Newington Green Lanes...
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I think this is a very hopeful message (despite some earlier politician- & HOL-baiting gibes from the sideline!) so I hope all the critically-positive feedback will strengthen Nilgun's resolve.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Sorry to be a party pooper but I thought the festival was a lot of fuss about nothing. I would rather have had something in the park with a bit more pleasant surroundings and somewhere to sit. Sitting on the dirty road eating a kebab is hardly an INternational Culinary experience to be remembered. It was not international really and mostly just stalls with tins and jars of food you could buy in the shops any old time. there was not much to see at all. Ok there was a good bit of music and dancing but.... I went along with a friend and we decided to go home to eat after all. we could sit down and it would be clean so I made something myself. There could have been some street cleaning I mean washing beforehand plus some of that fake grass stuff with chairs for people to eat and more in the way of international food. But really a better venue is the park. All that disruption for a few stalls selling cans was just not worth it in my opinion.
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The road closed off apparently cost 30K Is your priceless < 30K? Having said that, I loved the road being full of people and entertainers (who were really good BTW).
There were NO good stalls. Name one you thought was good. You're not allowed to say that the GRA tent was a stall.
As Ruth said, if you wanted to eat your "food" from the "food" festival you had to walk around with it (something I don't do out of principle) or go home.
Maybe Alan's not right but an alien looking down from outer space would agree with him - it looked like a cynical money making exercise, not an opportunity to showcase Harringay.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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There were loads of good stalls, some information and community groups. There was at least six or seven good food stalls who had made an effort. Lack of seating was a problem.
If you want bourgeois olives and fine wines, go to a random celebrity restaurant where you can quaff.
This is Harringay, not Hampstead Heath and it's not some middle class enclave where we crave posh nosh. This area is hugely diverse and that will always be represented by the stalls there, even when they fine tune it there will still be a variety of kebabs, shock horror it's a Turkish/Cypriot dish! The festivals should represent the folk of Harringay and it did to a certain degree.
Sure there are improvements to be made but please don't push for some poncy festival which omits most of the residents.
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Of course it takes a toff to stick up for all the pathetic middle class people.
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I apologise to all the middle classes who were offended by my comments. There's nout wrong with having some posh nosh, just remember that Harringay is what it is. I get slightly annoyed when people keep wanting to change it into something it isn't.
It just so happens the people belittling the festival are from that economic group.
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Touche!
What is wrong with getting the basics right if you're having a party? Clean the house first. If you're putting on food get some paper plates etc and somewhere to sit. Are you saying that these are middle class values? I don't think so.
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I think the basics were there and it was a roaring success, this isn't Ascot, this is Harringay. They will learn and next year I am sure there will be improvements.
The streets were cleaned first, sure there wasn't Axeminster down but this is a road and shopping area which traffics thousands of cars and people every hour, there's very little you can do about that.
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We had a stilt walker telling filthy jokes. He was awesome but I bet he wouldn't be welcome in Stokey.
Clean, somewhere to sit and eat, an air of effort on the part of the stall holders... I'm not asking for Ascot (straw man Birdy, you bad).
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Hi Ben- yes being able to walk down the street for a few hours was excellent. But I think there needs to be a big rethink about next year, if there is to be one. Granted the first time its happened but I think it did raise issues about how multicultural is Harringay? Yes, lots of different communities but the separation between them is apparent as Alan says about the exclusivity of the Turkish cevents outside Yasars. Which, whilst I am at it, raises issues about how it is that Turkish restaurants and other shops are able to advertise for staff soley in Turkish with no translation in English? surely this is breaking the law. Often I feel that we are living in separate worlds and this isnt good for anyone. I think there needs to be more of a real coming together of communities and a token food festival is a start perhaps but something more serious required. Diversity should not be division but I feel we have more of the latter at the moment.
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I am asking that they put some effort in. I'm never going to be able to dispel the image from my mind of the three guys selling pot-noodles and red bull.
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