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Originally Posted by Neil
I am interested to know how an out door music concert full of dope smoking p***heads was turned into an asian festival.
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I think it was originally called Sound but that was mainly music, then it was Party in the Park which took the music but also had the community elements - i.e. funfair, arts and crafts etc. Then it became a two day thing with a Mela on one day (aimed at Asian people) and a Party in the Park on the second day (still with music and stuff). Last year it was called a Mela and Community Festival and it was held on one day. It was really good - there was no predominance of Asian or white faces it was a really good mix of the community.
This year - and the reason I asked the question like I did - it will (if we get funding) be simply a Community Festival for the whole community.
If we get funding it will be free. The reason why it should be free is so that EVERYONE is able to attend.
The reason it costs so much is stage hire (around £1,600), toilets (around £1000), live bands (around £5000 - to get bigger names they'd cost a whole lot more), insurance, circus acts, arts and crafts workshops, marquee hire, it adds up. And yes, we do charge the funfair and the foodstalls and the climbing wall a % of their taking anyway.
As for the question about Council tax going up - that is the whole reason why we are going for EXTERNAL lottery funding and not getting any from the Council this year.
The Council have stopped the funding for ALL the festivals and yet they've still managed to put the Council tax up anyway.