Darnhill Festival

Date published: 02 July 2017

The 14th consecutive Darnhill Festival, organised by Cartwheel Arts, took place on Saturday.

Mayoress Christine Duckworth took part, and was later joined by Mayor Ian Duckworth, who had been at Cutgate Community Centre renaming ceremony.

The procession set off at 12 noon from Argyle Parade with a Samba band leading the procession, with Mayoress Christine Duckworth and past Mayor Ray Dutton acting as her escort. Oakenhoof Folk Arts were clog dancing at the end of the procession.

Mayoress Duckworth said: “The procession was really colourful and vibtrant. Congratulations to everyone who took part, thank you for all your hard work, it has got the festival off to a great start.

“The day has taken months of planning by Darnhill Festival Association and Cartwheel Arts and its wonderful to see it all come together today.”

The theme for the festival was 'Space', in honour of the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik in 1957.

Following the procession, the entertainment continued with activities for families and children from a bouncy castle and face painting to a miniature railway, charity stalls and live music.

Skylight Circus Arts demonstrated circus skills, and Link4Life ran running multi activity sessions on the kickpitch.

Other activities included drumming with Handmade Samba. Artists such as The Owl and Coconut and Ellie Paskell delivered mindful art sessions. Jodie Silverman made aliens, Adel Kay created celestial brooches, Sacha Bradbury made planets, Kate Philfin made spiders from Mars and Professor Jiggit made Space Eggs.

Darnhill Festival Parade 2017
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