Walthamstow Garden Party 2017

Walthamstow Garden Party, is a free weekend of music, theatre, arts and crafts, food and family activities in Walthamstow’s Lloyd Park on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th July 2017.

Line-up

The festival will have two music stages will feature international and local artists.

Toots and the Maytals have been confirmed as the Saturday headliner, the Sunday headliner is still to be announced.

The other acts announced so far are: Doug Hream Blunt, The Heliocentrics, Janka Nabay, BNegão & Seletores de Frequência, DJ Katapila, Britten Sinfonia Academy, La Mambanegra, and The Ska Vengers. 

Theatre, Dance and Circus performances and workshops featuring Layla Rosa, Boy Blue Entertainment, Walthamstow Youth Circus, X7eaven Dance and MovE17

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

More info

The weekend will also feature a theatre and dance programme with performances and workshops.

The News From Nowhere stage will be paired with a huge aerial rig to host dance, circus and performance of all kinds. Local circus artist Layla Rosa curates, performs, and runs circus workshops for everyone to take part. Walthamstow Youth Circus will perform alongside professional artists and Barbican Artistic Associates and 2017 Olivier Award nominees Boy Blue Entertainment present a performance and workshop involving young people and adults from the company. X7eaven Dance showcases local youth talent and opportunities for the audience to get involved. MovE17 is working with the local community ahead of the festival to create a spectacular flash mob performance which draws on Rosas Danst Rosas, an iconic dance famously referenced in Beyonce’s Countdown music video.

The Earthly Paradise tent is the focal point for local and Barbican-based young creatives, hosting work by and for young people. Performers include Barbican Young Poets, Barbican Junior Poets, Young Songwriters, with DJ Katapila rounding off the party on Sunday night.

Create and the William Morris Gallery will return and team up again to curate The Be Magnificent Craft Trail, a family friendly workshop programme inspired by the art school curriculum taught in the Walthamstow School of Art in the1950s and 1960s, which focused on practical craft making skills. The programme is part of the summer-long event Be Magnificent: Walthamstow School of Art 1957 - 1967 and is supported by local business, The Stow Brothers. Presented both inside the Gallery and outside on the lawns, children and adults will be invited to take part in activities exploring the art of craft and try their hand at ceramics, woodwork, printmaking, textiles and more. Visitors can also purchase locally crafted items from the E17 Designers Market.

The Art For All family area will be brimming with an abundance of activities, games and pop-up entertainments, including the Mini Garden Party, family cinema, a skate jam, and a variety of hands on workshops and interactive pursuits.

Fellowship Island offers a vision of future London as seasoned urban growers, passionate food and drink producers and a host of local organisations take over the island and explore ways to cultivate a closer connection with nature and community in the city.

The Real Food Festival returns with a mouth-watering line-up of the very best independent street food traders offering freshly cooked, quality flavours from around the world, and local enterprise Wild Card Brewery will be selling a choice range of beverages at their Craft Beer Bar.

Fundraising campaign "Keep It Free" continues this year. People who enjoy the festival are invited to give what they can to help invest in local artists and organisations, and to keep the festival free for all. The money raised in 2016 supports the groups and individuals working on Fellowship Island this year.

For more information see the Barbican website.

More information will be here when available.

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