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Green Spaces
Project of the Month
August 2002 - Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival. Sheffield
Contact: panni@greencityaction.co.uk
The Abbeyfield Park
Multicultural Festival was held for the
fourth year on July 7th. The event was
initiated and organised by Panni Loh of
the Green City Action. The festival was
established as a way of celebrating and
connecting people of diverse cultural
backgrounds with the environment through
the use of an inner city park. Before
this event was started, many ethnic
groups did not feel that it was their
park and did not use the park much, if at
all. Besides providing a major enjoyable
event, the use of the park by ethnic
groups has also increased.
7000 people attended to enjoy over 80
global craft and food stalls. The crowds
were entertained on a scorching hot day
by a multitude of performers and artists
with colourful dance and song.
There were 7 hours of stage entertainment
celebrating Bhangara, Irish dancing,
Chinese dancing, reggae and gospel music,
R'n'B, Spanish Salsa and Chilean
Meerenga, plus the powerful performance
of SIYAYA from Zimbabwe.
The organisers had cleverly booked a
beautiful day for the event. This added
to the enjoyment of the show gardens. The
crowd could choose to chill-out and enjoy
the live broadcast from BBC Radio
Sheffield's 'Global Beats' or take part
in the well organised Workshop
activities.
The workshops around the park got people
learning how to twisel 'poi', drumming,
dancing, anglo saxon wood turning, art
using reused material and much more.
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