A Garden Party...and everyone's invited
Saturday 09 May and Sunday 10 May 2009 11am - 5pm, Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich
The Norfolk & Norwich Festival Garden Party is a FREE two-day event at the heart of this year’s Norfolk & Norwich Children’s Festival. It is also a core part of the MG Free programme, sponsored by May Gurney.
An outdoor extravaganza packed full of free music, theatre, acrobatics and the downright bizarre, The Garden Party is for all ages and all tastes. Expect to see theatre and acrobatics to make you reel. Expect the kids to dance, make music or create something extraordinary. Expect to laugh until your belly aches.
For the weekend of the Garden Party, Chapelfield Gardens will be transformed into Festival Gardens: trees festooned with lights, market stalls selling food and drinks and Speak Easy, an outside bar for the grown-ups.
FREE EVENTS Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th 11am - 5pm
Radio Barkas An amazing mobile radio station, brought to you from the back of a ramshackle van.
Odd Enjinears – The Concert of Your Life A very personal musical concert, created especially for you.
Chapeau Magique Beautiful, unique paper making like nothing you’ve seen before
Fittings: Sputnik ‘Sputnik’ a kinetic sculpture that explores the possibilities of flesh and steel hard wired into the imagination
Variety in the Gardens The best in UK street performance come in from the cold. Think Tommy Cooper. Think end of the pier. Think bad magic, fantastic juggling and knotted hankies. We think you’ll laugh your socks off!
Bootworks: Une Boite Andalouse A five minute piece of theatre performed for an audience of one. Take a trip inside the box for a look into this mixed up surrealist world.You will have never experienced anything like this before!Watch from inside the box if you’re feeling brave.Or for those of a less daring disposition watch the crazy choreography from the outside.
Les Follies Something for the grown-ups: Antonia, la chanteuse, accompanied by La Belle Helene on accordion, will take you back to the Paris of Piaf et Greco in the naughty forties.
Disaster Band Back by popular demand, Festival favourite, Herbie Treehead returns with his madcap Disaster Band.
Pinky Umbrella Cajun, Bluegrass, Russian and French tunes to get you in the Festival mood.Feel free to chatter, dance, clap, sing, heckle or smile.