King Mojo Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Peace in the Park - The Ponderosa, Sheffield, Saturday 6th June This year’s Peace in the Park festival is set to be the biggest and best ever! In 2009, Peace in the Park, one of Sheffield’s most inclusive festivals, returns to The Ponderosa Park, (aka Crookesmoor East Recreation Ground) - a beautifully landscaped venue in the Netherthorpe/Upperthorpe area. The festival started as a positive peace protest in 2003, at Devonshire Green, and has been growing ever since, with an estimated 8000-10000 attending in 2008. Peace in the Park is a FREE community festival, which aims to promote peace and understanding through artistic, musical and vocal expression, bringing together communities to deliver a message of peace through creative action. Peace in the Park is here to please, so expect an explosion of music styles from Sheffield and beyond brought to you from two live stages, a mobile open mic stage, community stage and DJs. Expect world music, reggae, dub and dubstep, hip-hop, Hi-life, jazz, funk, acoustic and much more besides, plus cabaret, magic and other showcases from the Electric Carousel Circus area, a special tea tent playing old classics, and more! There will be a kids area, a range of healers and alternative therapists offering their skills, stalls selling their weird and wonderful goods, international food, campaign stalls, exhibitions… could you possibly want anything more?! All this action is for a great cause too. Money raised from the event will go to one local cause (NOMAD - Homeless Advice and Support Unit, which is an independent organisation which offers advice, support and practical help to homeless or inadequately housed people, or those in housing need) and one international cause (Village Aid - an international development charity supporting a number of projects in West Africa). We hope to beat last year’s amazing total of £3000, which was shared between Art in the Park, Chernobyl Childrens Centre, and Ben’s Centre. The festival is funded by money raised in advance, and we rely on volunteers and donations to make this event happen so if people feel they could help then please contact peaceinthepark@googlemail.co.uk Visit our website: http://www.peaceinthepark.org.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyranna Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I'll see if I can pop down there later today; the weather is looking a little better, but I guess it will be wet underfoot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angyl Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I wouldn't mind it so much, but does the bass have to be so loud that we can hear it up here on Roebuck Road? It's been like this all day and the music is loud enough to be heard over my own music and television indoors with the windows closed. I dread to think how annoying it is to those people in the houses and flats overlooking the festival. It seems quite inconsiderate and hardly 'peaceful' as the name of the event might suggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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