11.81°C The TACMEP Celebrate! Diverse Cultures Festival takes place in Lower Castle Park, Colchester, on 3 July 2010 from 12pm until 5pm.
This free family event, now in its third year, celebrates the rich cultures and diversity of Colchester and is staged by the Tendring and Colchester Minority Ethnic Partnership (TACMEP), a unique organisation that promotes equality across the district.
The day’s celebrations will feature music, dance, visual arts, market stalls and cuisine from around the world. Workshops will also take place, featuring several of the artists performing at the event, allowing visitors to participate and learn new songs, instruments, dances and stories.
The festival will be followed by an Eastern Roots concert at Colchester Arts Centre, featuring salsa band Sexteto Café, who will promote their new release, 10 Years of Salsa. Tickets are available on 01206 500900.
Celebrate! Diverse Cultures Festival 2010 is sponsored by Explore Culture One World Festival, Essex County Council, Arts Council East and Colchester Borough Council.
Performance and Workshop Programme
Stage Programme
Aliou Diallo and Drum Kulture
Welcome by your hosts: Miss Happiness Pemiwah and Mr Malkiat Singh
DJ Carlos Mendoza
12.25pm – Jaymini Bedia and Priyanka Bedia – Liquid Dance and Tak Deem
12.35pm – ADP Theatre School (Principal Angie Diggens)
12.45pm – Still Waters Gospel Choir & Band
1.15pm – Hosts and Cllr. Paul Smith
1.20pm – Danegeld Morris Dancers from Bredfield
1.40pm – Chinese Tai Chi Fan Dance
1.45pm – Chinese Cultural Society Children’s Community School Choir
2.00pm – Grattan Puxton Speaks
2.10pm – Harmonic Voices
2.35pm – Jeffrey L. Porter, Poet
2.50pm – Mrs Thabo Gnanauthayan – Bharathanatyam
3.00pm – Lakho takah nu maru Badaloo: Mala Ben Patel, Indu Ben Brahambhatt, Ramila Ben Patel, Naina K. Patel, Naina A. Patel, Vishali Patel, Komal Patel, Dilek Ayten
3.10pm – Mrs Thabo Gnanauthayan – Bharathanatyam
3.20pm – La Roma Band
3.45pm – Anjali Pandya – Aajaa Nachleh “Let’s Dance”
3.50pm – Clarence Xue – Clarinet Solo
3.55pm – Bangladeshi Children’s Poetry Recital
4.05pm – Nepalese Cultural Dance
4.15pm – Raffle and Bob Russell MP
4.35pm – Aliou Diallo and Drum Kulture – Senegalese Drums
Workshop Tent
12.15–1.00pm – Bhangra Dance with Indi Sandhu
1.00–1.45pm – West African Drumming with Aliou Diallo, Drum Kulture
2.00–2.45pm – Indian Classical Dance with Jaymini and Priyanka Bedia
2.45–3.30pm – Morris Dance with Danegeld (by the Boating Lake)
3.30–4.15pm – Angela Dennis Singing Workshop
4.15–5.00pm – Mozambique Dance with Esmeralda Pelembe-Marsh
For further information, visit www.tacmep.org.uk
